Nominations for 2008 Clubs Awards for Excellence are Now Open!
Download a 2008 Nomination Form here
MONSU Caulfield Clubs and Societies 2007 Awards For Excellence Cocktail Party
16th of November 2007
Supported by Monash University Caulfield Campus Management
Congratulations to everyone who was nominated for an award!
The Nominees For Each Category Were:
COMMUNICATION that contributes to productive and harmonious relations
Toi Yee Doris Ng (Doris) - Hong Kong Students Society, Publicity Officer 2007
Truong, Minh Hung - Monash International Vietnamese Student Club, President 2007
Nguyen, Thu Hang - Monash International Vietnamese Student Club, Treasurer 2007
Toi Yee Doris Ng (Doris) receiving the Award for Excellence in Communication.
All awards were presented by Kristine Banks Smith, the President of MONSU Caulfield.
TEAMWORK that contributes to productive working relationships and outcomes
Melissa Quah - Malaysian Students Society, Activities Officer 2007
Nadini Christy - Monash Accounting and Computing Society, Secretary 2007
Nguyen, Thy Hanh - Monash International Vietnamese Student Club, Vice President (Logistics and Finance) 2007
Nguyen, Thu Hang - Monash International Vietnamese Student Club, Treasurer 2007
Yipeng Yves Huang - Honk Kong Student Association, President 2007
Nadini Christy receiving an Award for Excellence in Teamwork.
Yipeng Yves Huang receiving an Award for Excellence in Teamwork.
PROBLEM SOLVING that contributes to productive outcomes
Melissa Quah - Malaysian Students Society, Activities Officer 2007
Sarah Flint - Monash Marketing Students Society, President 2007
Congratulations to Sarah Flint, who won the award but was unable to attend the awards ceremony.
INNOVATION AND ENTERPRISE skills that contribute to innovative outcomes
Melissa Quah - Malaysian Students Society, Activities Officer 2007
David Nguyen - Monash Accounting and Computing Society, President 2007
Melissa Quah receiving the Award for Excellence in Innovation and Enterprise
PLANNING AND ORGANISING skills that contribute to long-term and short-term strategic planning
Anna Truong - Monash Marketing Students Society, MINDS Director 2007
Balasubramanian Chidambaram (Bala) - Monash Accounting and Computing Society, Secretary 2007
Nadini Christy - Monash Accounting and Computing Society, Vice-President 2007
Nguyen, Thy Hanh - Monash International Vietnamese Student Club, Vice President (Logistics and Finance) 2007
Nguyen, Thu Hang - Monash International Vietnamese Student Club, Treasurer 2007
Truong, Minh Hung - Monash International Vietnamese Student Club, President 2007
Yipeng Yves Huang - Honk Kong Student Association, President 2007
Raymond Lim - Overseas Christian Fellowship, Vice President 2007
Balasubramanian Chidambaram (Bala) receiving an Award for Excellence in Planning and Organising.
Raymond Lim receiving an Award for Excellence in Planning and Organising.
SELF-MANAGEMENT that contributes to club member satisfaction and membership growth.
Anna Truong - Monash Marketing Students Society, MINDS Director 2007
Nguyen, Thu Hang - Monash International Vietnamese Student Club, Treasurer 2007
Congratulations to Anna Truong who won the award but was unable to attend the awards ceremony.
LEARNING that contributes to ongoing improvement and expansion in club operations
Adrian Allen - Monash Photography Club, President 2007
Adrian Allen receiving the Award for Excellence in Learning.
Thank you to everyone who came and made the night special
MONSU Caulfield Club Awards for Excellence
If you would like to nominate someone you can download a Nomination Form here.
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.
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. (See also Employability Skills: Final Report)
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.
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 nglish
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
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