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2008 MONSU Caulfield Club

Awards for Excellence

Download the Award for Excellence 2008 Nomination Form

and the MONSU CEO's Award for Best New Talent Nomination Form here.

What are the MONSU Caulfield Club Awards for Excellence?

MONSU Caulfield 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.

For the first time ever, in 2007 there was 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. 

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 most in employees; however few graduates are able to demonstrate that they have those skills. (See also Employability Skills: Final Report)

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!

 

What are the Awards for Excellence Categories?

The following is a list of the awards and the skills that fall under each category.

Communication

Employers seek communication skills that contribute to productive and harmonious relations between employees and customers, such as:

  • 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

Employers seek teamwork skills that contribute to productive working relationships and outcomes, such as:

  • 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

Employers seek problem solving skills that contributes to productive outcomes, such as:

  • 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

 

MONSU CEO's Award for Entrepreneur of the Year

Employers seek entrepreneurial skills that contribute to innovative outcomes, such as:

  • 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

Employers seek planning and organising skills that contributes to successful long-term and short-term strategic planning, such as:

  • 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 club member satisfaction and membership growth.

Employers seek self-management skills that contribute to employee satisfaction and growth, such as:

  • 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

Employers seek people who can organise learning in ways that contribute to ongoing improvement and expansion in employees and company operations. For example:

  • 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

Employers seek people whose are able to use modern technology in ways that contribute to the effective execution of tasks, such as:

  • 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

Download the Award for Excellence 2008 Nomination Form here

 

Are there Other Awards?

YES! In 2008 we are pleased to announce two new award categories.

MONSU CEO's Award for Best New Talent

The best new talent award will be awarded to someone who:

  • is in the first or second year of studies at university
  • has joined a MONSU Affiliated club for the first time in 2008
  • has made an outstanding contribution as a volunteer at club events in 2008 (the number of hours and nature of contribution will be considered)
  • has been elected to a position of responsibility on the 2009 committee

Download the MONSU CEO's Award for Best New Talent Nomination Form here.

 

Club Mentor of the Year Award

Each year Monash University academic and administrative staff volunteer their personal time and energy to support the students who organise clubs at Monash Caulfield - in some cases this can exceed 100 hours per year.  Their assistance is vital for the success of the clubs program. 

While every mentor is highly valued and appreciated, a small prize will be awarded to the Mentor who is deemed to have made the greatest contribution to the support of their club executive members.

 

2007 Club Awards for Excellence Recipients

Supported by Monash University Caulfield Campus Management

COMMUNICATION

that contributes to productive and harmonious relations

Toi Yee Doris Ng (Doris)

Hong Kong Students Society, Publicity Officer 2007


TEAMWORK

that contributes to productive working relationships and outcomes

Nadini Christy

Monash Accounting and Computing Society, Secretary 2007

and

Yipeng Yves Huang .

Hong Kong Student Association, President 2007


PROBLEM SOLVING

that contributes to productive outcomes


Sarah Flint

Monash Marketing Students Society, President 2007



INNOVATION AND ENTERPRISE

skills that contribute to innovative outcomes


Melissa Quah

Malaysian Students Society, Activities Officer 2007


PLANNING AND ORGANISING

skills that contribute to long-term and short-term strategic planning


Balasubramanian Chidambaram (Bala)

Monash Accounting and Computing Society, Secretary 2007

and

Raymond Lim

Overseas Christian Fellowship, Vice President 2007


SELF-MANAGEMENT

that contributes to club member satisfaction and membership growth


Anna Truong

Monash Marketing Students Society, MINDS Director 2007

LEARNING

that contributes to ongoing improvement and expansion in club operations


Adrian Allen

Monash Photography Club, President 2007

Congratulations to all and thank you to everyone who made the night special