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MONSU Peninsula 2007 Club Awards for Excellence
Thanks to everyone who attended the inaugural Peninsula Awards Dinner at Daveys Restaurant on Sunday the 11th of November. It was a lovely intimate dinner with a few informal formalities :o)
Here are some photos from the evening.
Zoe Francis from the Society of Occupational Therapy (SOOT), receiving the award for Excellence Self-Management.
Clair Heath, from SOOT, receiving the award for Excellence in Teamwork
Melody Chittenden from Wildfire Rural Health Society, receiving the award for Excellence in Learning
Representatives from SOOT, Wildfire and Monash Sport.
From left to right: Michelle Huver, Claire Heath, Zoe Francis, Steven Myers, Tegwyn Bath, Catherine Gawler, Melody Chittenden, Kris McCarthy, and Jennifer Mapleston.
Zoe Francis (SOOT President 2007-2008) and Catherine Gawler (Clubs and Societies Coordinator)
If you would like to nominate someone for 2009, keep in mind the categories below and you can download a Nomination Form from this page in Semester 2, 2009.
MONSU Peninsula appreciates the many hours club committee members put in to successfully run a club. The skills and experiences gained in being on a Club committee are invaluable and will hold you in good stead when you apply for a job.
In 2004 the Australian Government released a Directions Paper on the “Development of a Strategy to Support Universal Recognition and Recording of Employability Skills” that was prepared by the Allen Consulting Group. The paper researched the skills that employers seek in employees; however few graduates are able to demonstrate that they have those skills.
For the first time ever, held an Awards Evening at the end of Semester 2. The awards were be based on the 'Employability Skills' that were found to be the most sought after by employers. Sometimes students don't realise how much they gain by being involved in running a club so hopefully this will make everyone more aware of the learning opportunities that clubs offer.
Sought after skills include:
Communication that contributes to productive and harmonious relations between employees and customers
- Listening and understanding
- Speaking clearly and directly
- Negotiating responsibly
- Writing to the needs of the audience
- Reading independently
- Empathising
- Using numeracy effectively
- Understanding the needs of internal and external customers
- Persuading effectively
- Establishing and using networks
- Sharing information
- Speaking and writing in languages other than English
Teamwork that contributes to productive working relationships and outcomes
- Working with people of different ages, gender, race, religion or political persuasion
- Working as an individual and as a member of a team
- Knowing how to define a role as part of a team
- Applying teamwork skills to a range of situations, e.g. futures planning, crisis problem solving
- Identifying the strengths of team members
- Coaching, mentoring and giving useful feedback
Problem solving that contributes to productive outcomes
- Developing creative, innovative solutions
- Developing practical solutions
- Showing independence and initiative in identifying problems and solving them
- Solving problems in teams
- Applying a range of strategies to problem solving
- Using mathematics, including budgeting and financial management, to solve problems
- Applying problem-solving strategies across a range of areas
- Testing assumptions taking the context of data and circumstances into account
- Resolving customer concerns in relation to complex project issues
Innovative and enterprise skills that contribute to innovative outcomes
- Adapting to new situations/change
- Developing a strategic, creative, long-term vision
- Being creative
- Identifying opportunities not obvious to others
- Translating ideas into action
- Generating a range of options
- Initiating innovative solutions
Planning and Organising that contribute to long-term and short-term strategic planning
- Managing time and priorities – setting timelines, coordinating tasks for self and with others
- Being Resourceful
- Taking initiative and making decisions
- Adapting resource allocations to cope with contingencies
- Establishing clear project goals and deliverables
- Allocating people and other resources to tasks
- Planning the use of resources including time management
- Participating in continuous improvement and planning processes
- Developing a vision and a proactive plan to accompany it
- Predicting – weighing up risk, evaluating alternatives and applying evaluation criteria
- Collecting, analysing and organising information
- Understanding basic business systems and their relationships
Self-management that contributes to employee satisfaction and growth
- Having a personal vision and goals
- Evaluating and monitoring own performance
- Having knowledge and confidence in own ideas and vision
- Articulating own ideas and vision
- Taking responsibility
Learning that Contributes to ongoing improvement and expansion in employs and company operations
- Managing own learning
- Contributing to the learning community in the workplace
- Using a range of mediums to learn – mentoring, peer support, networking, information technology, courses
- Applying learning to ‘technical’ issues (e.g. learning about products) and ‘people; issues (e.g. interpersonal and cultural aspects of work)
- Having enthusiasm for ongoing learning
- Being willing to learn in any setting – on and off the job
- Being open to new ideas and techniques
- Being prepared to invest time and effort in learning new skills
- Acknowledging the need to learn in order to accommodate change
Technology that contributes to effective execution of tasks
- Having a range of basic IT skills
- Applying IT as a management tool
- Using IT to organise data
- Be willing to learn new IT skills
- Having the occupational health and safety knowledge to apply technology
- Having appropriate physical capacity