Kesempatan Terakhir Untuk Mengikuti Penghargaan Stevie untuk Layanan Penjualan & Pelanggan Tahun 2021 adalah 13 Januari

Posted by Clara Im on Wed, Dec 30, 2020 @ 06:34 AM

Hari terakhir untuk mengikuti Penghargaan Stevie untuk Layanan Penjualan & Pelanggan tahunan ke-15 semakin dekat tanggal 13 Januari 2021. Ini adalah penghargaan utama dunia untuk profesional penjualan, layanan pelanggan, tim dan organisasi/perusahaan. Untuk informasi lebih lanjut dan entri kit dapat dilihat di http://www.StevieAwards.com/Sales.

Para calon nominasi yang memenuhi syarat termasuk departemen, tim, dan profesional dari seluruh dunia yang bekerja di layanan pelanggan, contact center, pengembangan bisnis dan penjualan. Produk dan layanan baru serta penyedia solusi yang digunakan oleh para profesional tersebut juga memenuhi syarat. Pada tahun 2021, para pemenang akan ditentukan berdasarkan kinerjanya setelah 1 Juli 2019.

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Jadwal pengumuman pemenang telah diubah menjadi seremoni penghargaan virtual. Para pemenang penghargaan emas, perak dan perunggu akan diumumkan kepada publik pada tanggal 27 Januari. Para pemenang akan dirayakan dengan jamuan penghargaan virtual pada tanggal 14 April.

“Kami sangat senang dapat menjadi tuan rumah Penghargaan Stevie Tahunan ke 15 untuk Penjualan & Layanan Pelanggan secara virtual pada 2021 untuk merayakan keberahasilan di bidang ini namun tetap menjaga keamanan semua para pemenang dan para tamu mereka. Kami mendorong semua orang untuk mengirimkan nominasi mereka selambat-lambatnya 13 Januari – meskipun tahun ini tidak membuahkan tolak ukur atau ekspektasi tertentu, kami mendorong kembali ke kriteria entri hingga 1 Juli 2019. Artinya Anda dapat mengirimkan nominasi dengan data dari sebelum merebaknya Covid 19,” kata Maggie Galagher, presiden Stevie Awards.

Penghargaan Stevie untuk Layanan Penjualan & Pelanggan mencakup lebih dari 150 kategori, termasuk penghargaan penjualan, penghargaan layanan pelanggan, penghargaan pengembang bisnis, penghargaan produk baru, penghargaan vendor solusi dan lain-lain. Peserta dapat mengajukan sejumlah nominasi ke sejumlah kategori.

Kategori baru untuk tahun 2020 meliputi:

  • Pelatihan Profesional Layanan Pelanggan Tahun Ini
  • Team Pelatihan Layanan Pelanggan Tahun Ini– Eksternal
  • Team Pelatihan Layanan Pelanggan Tahun Ini– Internal
  • Inisiatif Keterlibatan Pelanggan Terbaik
  • Pelatihan Layanan Pelanggan atau Program Pembinaan Tahun Ini
  • Program Pemberdayaan Penjualan Tahun Ini
  • Program Insentif Penjualan Tahun Ini
  • Buku Putih atau Makalah Riset Terbaik Tahun Ini.

Para pemenang edisi Penghargaan Stevie untuk Layanan Penjualan & Pelanggan tahun 2020 diantaranya American Airlines, Barclays, Carbonite, Cisco, Clarabridge, Cricket Wireless, Cvent, Delta Vacations, DHL Express, GoDaddy, Mailchimp, OneWest Bank, SAP, Wells Fargo Treasury Management, VIZIO Inc., dan lainnya.

Kompetisi tahun 2021 akan dinilai oleh lebih dari 150 profesional di seluruh dunia.

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Helping Young Girls Succeed in STEM

Posted by Hailey Roos on Tue, Dec 29, 2020 @ 11:29 AM
  • STEMi Makers Africa is a NGO that helps provide young women with technology skills and experience
  • Founder Amanda Obedike was part of the Barack Obama Young African Leadership Initiative and continues to work with underrepresented communities to boost their potential in STEM

STEMi Makers Africa

STEMi Makers Africa is a Non-Governmental Organization that addresses the leaky unemployment pipeline and under-representation of women and girls in STEM by equipping them with STEM emerging tools, real-world problem skills that they need to use to excel in STEM lucrative fields and become more experienced for Africa's workforce. The future growth and development of Africa depends on an aligned system that enables young Africans to be technology problem-solvers and self-reliant innovators.

STEMi Makers Africa has built a diverse community and impacted nearly 10,000 people across 17 sub-saharan countries in Africa. They are building a STEM Ecosystem (called Africa By Us, For Us) of a diverse talent pool of young people in African countries to provide a sustainable boost to economic growth and prepare them for the jobs of the future. 

This led STEMi Makers Africa into an ongoing partnership with IBM, Red Hat, and the U.S. Department of State to cultivate a STEM Workforce by training educators across underrepresented communities with project-based learning tools and provide key resources to teachers to help them understand STEM pathways and modern classroom courses.  

About Amanda Obidike

Amanda Obidike is a Certified Professional in STEM by the Open University in the United Kingdom. As the founder of STEMi Makers Africa, Amanda provides leadership and strategic management and oversees the design and implementation of sustainable projects. 

Forbes Science named Amanda as the Nigerian changing the culture fabric for young girls to embrace STEM. She serves as a Mentor in the Cherie Blair Foundation, the 1 Million Women in Tech, the Global Thinkers for Women, and the New York Academy of Sciences where she lends her voice and knowledge and serves as a role model to girls in Africa. In 2018, Amanda served as a regional lead at the Barack Obama Young African Leadership Initiative, and in 2019, Amanda was an awardee of the Public Affairs Section of the USA Consulate General for her work in marginalized communities. 

Amanda Obidike of STEMi Makers Africa won the Gold Stevie for Female Innovator of the Year, the Silver Stevie for Female Executive of the Year, and the Silver Stevie for Organization of the Year, all for Government or Non-Profit in the 2020 Stevie Awards for Women in Business®. 

Interested in entering the 2021 Stevie Awards for Women in Business?

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Three Reasons You Won't Win Any Business Awards in 2021

Posted by Maggie Gallagher on Wed, Dec 23, 2020 @ 10:42 AM

We're almost rid of 2020 -- one of the toughest years on record for organizations of all types. Nothing this year has gone as planned.  Many of the goals set early in the year have shriveled in the dust.  Many of the year's achievements sprang anew from necessity and ingenuity.

Usually around this time of year organizations finalize their PR and marketing budgets for the following year.  Many organizations are budgeting and planning to enter any number of business awards competitions in the new year, because they know that awards are cost-effective tools for a variety of purposes, with brand building and employee relations chief among them.

Now is the perfect time to deep dive and reflect on what you and your organization have achieved in 2020, despite the obstacles.   Stories of success despite the odds and hurdles are just the kind that often impress Stevie Awards judges.

But here are the three reasons why you and your organization won't win a single award in 2021 - plus the #1 reason it won't matter a whit even if you do.

1. You Don't Enter
On occasion when we suggest to someone that they should nominate their organization in one of the Stevie Awards competitions, their response is: We don't believe in nominating ourselves for awards.  We plan to do such great work that awards will just be given to us.

Really? we want to reply. Which award are you hoping will make a beeline to your door?  A Nobel Prize? A MacArthur Genius Award?  Get real. 

Hope is not a strategy. If you don't believe that winning awards can help to burnish your organization's reputation, provide a low-cost reward to your employees for their good work, and provide one more incentive to your executives and workers to excel, we could persuade you otherwise, but at least that's your opinion.  But if you do believe that winning awards can offer these benefits, why on earth wouldn't you plan to pursue them?

Sure, it can take hours to prepare entries, and entry fees for a few awards programs can run to several thousand dollars, but the work and the cost are minor compared to the benefits of winning - and leveraging - a prestigious award.

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2. You Aren't Smart About Picking Your Competitions
While we think our Stevie Awards competitions are the best there are, we acknowledge there are many awards programs worthy of your attention around the world for corporate awards, PR awards, marketing awards, IT awards, web awards, HR awards, and so on.  Picking those that are right for you and your organization is important.  And picking the categories within those competitions is also key.

When someone calls the Stevie Awards to enquire about whether their organization might be a fit for one of our competitions, we ask them two questions: one, what do you want to be recognized for?  And two, is it important to you in which category you might be honored?  Their answer to the first question is important, because that will tell us which competition, and which category(s), will be a fit for them.  The answer to the second question is also pivotal, because that will tell us whether we should recommend only the most popular (i.e. "prestigious") categories or can recommend secondary categories to them as well.

3. You Don't Tell Your Story Well
It's our experience that most organizations aren't very good at formally summarizing and articulating their achievements in an engaging way.  Storytelling is a vital part of corporate - and career - success.

When someone says to us, I'm not sure we're ready to enter the Stevie Awards, I don't know that we've achieved enough yet, we ask them to give us their elevator speech, their one-minute summary of what they do and what they've achieved.  Without fail their elevator speech is captivating.  It seems that most people have honed their ability to put into a few words the essence of their capabilities and achievements.  But few people can translate that pride and excitement into a longer document that's well written, well structured, and supported with examples, work samples, and the like. 

Until the day when we can transmit our thoughts to one another via telepathy, the written word will continue to be the way to communicate data-intensive information.  So if you can't write well, you don't stand much chance of winning many if any awards.  If you don't write well, hire or contract with someone who does to write your awards entries for you.

Even if you do enter the right categories in the right competitions, and prepare and write your entries extremely well, and win a raft of prestigious awards, they won't mean a thing if you don't translate those wins into meaningful tools, by

* Publicizing your wins to the media and stakeholders
* Congratulating and celebrating your employees for their recognition
* Using the resources provided by awards organizers, such as winners' logos, to create a long-term association between your products and your brand and their mark of excellence. 

The first step to participating in any of the eight Stevie Awards programs in 2021 is to request the entry kits for one or more of them.  Start here

Request Your Entry Kit Here's to all of us for getting through this horrid year, and here's wishing you and yours a happy and safe holiday season and a healthy and properous New Year!

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Final Entry Deadline in 2021 Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service is January 13

Posted by Hailey Roos on Wed, Dec 16, 2020 @ 03:11 PM

The entry deadline is rapidly approaching for the 15th annual Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service on Wednesday, January 13. Entry kits and complete details on the competition are available at http://www.StevieAwards.com/Sales.

Eligible nominees include departments, teams, and professionals from around the world who work in customer service, contact center, business development, and sales. New products and services and solution providers used by those professionals are also eligible. The 2021 awards will recognize achievements since July 1, 2019.

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The winner announcement schedule has been modified to serve a virtual awards ceremony. Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award winners will be announced publicly on January 27. Winners will be celebrated a virtual awards banquet on April 14.

“We are thrilled to be able to host the 15th annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service virtually in 2021 to celebrate successes in these fields yet keep all Stevie winners and their guests safe. We encourage everyone to submit their nominations by January 13 – even if this year did not lead to certain benchmarks or expectations, we have pushed back to entry criteria to July 1, 2019. This means that you can submit nominations with data from before Covid-19 struck,” said Maggie Gallagher, President of the Stevie Awards.

The Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service feature more than 150 sales awards, customer service awards, business development awards, new product awards, and solution provider awards categories. Entrants may submit any number of nominations to any number of categories.

New categories for 2020 include:

  • Customer Service Training Professional of the Year
  • Customer Service Training Team of the Year – External
  • Customer Service Training Team of the Year – Internal
  • Best Customer Engagement Initiative
  • Customer Service Training or Coaching Program of the Year
  • Sales Enablement Program of the Year
  • Sales Incentive Program of the Year
  • White Paper or Research Paper of the Year.

Winners of the 2020 edition of the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service included American Airlines, Barclays, Carbonite, Cisco, Clarabridge, Cricket Wireless, Cvent, Delta Vacations, DHL Express, GoDaddy, Mailchimp, OneWest Bank, SAP, Wells Fargo Treasury Management, VIZIO Inc., and more.

The 2021 competition will be judged by more than 150 professionals around the world.

Interested in entering the 15th annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service?

Request the entry kit

 

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Gold Stevie Winner Supports Family Caregivers During COVID

Posted by Hailey Roos on Tue, Dec 15, 2020 @ 05:34 PM

In March 2018, Beth Suereth, Founder and CEO of Caregiving Pathways and a veteran of health care marketing, left a corporate job to launch the only company in the United States devoted to helping family caregivers understand how to manage a family member’s hospital stay and the final stages of life.

Those who know Suereth know her to be kind; her voice is so soothing you’ll want to stay on the phone with her as long as possible. As she cared for her father for five years, Suereth discovered a huge need: “My dad had one hospital stay after another after another. I searched for information about managing the hospital experience, but there was nothing out there. It was all trial and error.” 

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Suereth’s first step was to provide the resources sorely needed by family caregivers to give them the information they need all in one place. “If you don’t know the ins and outs of the hospital environment and culture,” explains Suereth, “you can’t know the right questions to ask, and you can end up being overtreated or undertreated. The number of hospital errors resulting in death is staggering.”

The resources at Caregiving Pathways — available to all free of charge on the company website — are groundbreaking. They focus on everything from handling the hospital stay to end-of-life planning, financial considerations around caregiving, and the many questions family caregivers need to ask, “up front.”

This revolutionary business reached profitability in 2018, and Suereth was on her way to becoming a “superstar” on the growing family caregiving speaking circuit.

Caregiving Pathways has never been as important as it has during COVID-19, with hundreds of thousands of people dying in the United States, many of them older adults with family caregivers who are more stressed than ever. As Suereth states, “People in hospitals and nursing homes have so little communication with their loved ones that they are often declining physically and mentally from loneliness.”

An educated family caregiver can mean significantly improved health outcomes.

Beth Suereth headshotUntil Suereth, those 53 million U.S. family caregivers (the number according to the National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP) faced so much with so little in hand. Most are women. “And women shoulder a much greater degree of day-to-day hands-on care. As a result, they often leave the workforce with reduced lifetime earnings and retirement savings — which can affect families for generations.”

The comprehensive guides Suereth created for Caregiving Pathways include How to Help Your Loved One in the Hospital (track what happens and ask questions until everything makes sense); End-of-Life Planning Guide (ask how someone wants to spend the time that remains); an End-of-Life Plan (create and share one before you need it); and Complement Your Client’s Financial Plan with a Personal End-of-Life Plan (for financial planners; align financial resources with final wishes).

Suereth provides consulting services for hospitals, financial services companies, and a business that offers trainings for family caregivers and certifications for those who support them. For employers, the company offers strategies that support family caregivers and help businesses manage absenteeism, presenteeism, and retention.

Pharmacists are yet another Suereth focus. As she explains, family caregivers represent two customers in one because they purchase medications for themselves and the person they’re caring for. For family caregivers, a good relationship with a pharmacist can be crucial in helping someone afford medications, keep to a schedule and, notably, look out for duplications — the same medication prescribed by two different physicians.

Caregiving pathways 2Suereth also supports and coaches individual caregivers, all overwhelmed as COVID-19 spreads. She provides emotional support and helps them gain insights and perspective, often when they are affected by “visitor” restrictions in the hospital or are excluded from accompanying a family member to a doctor appointment. “During COVID, the key is to understand how communication in these settings took place pre-COVID, how it’s different now, and how to navigate all of that. It can be done.” 

It’s no surprise, then, that Suereth has become in two-plus short years a “name” on the speaking/panel circuit, from the National Caregiving Conference on “When the Care Plan Becomes an End-of-Life Plan” to an invitation to speak to family caregivers in the Virgin Islands and a “Beginning Again Virtual Retreat” for caregivers adjusting to life after a family member’s death during COVID-19. Suereth’s primary talk is titled “How to Help Your Loved One in the Hospital,” an expanded version of her easy-to-read guidebook of the same name.

And AARP, the 38 million-member nonprofit organization, sought out Suereth to join the AARP Public Policy Institute team writing its first-ever series of publications for health care leaders: Supporting Family Caregivers Providing Complex Care. The series includes eight research papers published in 2020, with more to come, and a 2020 webinar series. The publications are available at https://www.aarp.org/ppi/initiatives/supporting-family-caregivers-providing-complex-care/.

The institute also asked Suereth to join the team writing a 2019 research report titled Home Alone Revisited: Family Caregivers Providing Complex Care.

It’s rare indeed that an organization of AARP’s size and power reaches out to such a small company — and a start-up to boot — to tap what is clearly vast knowledge.

Then again, Beth Suereth is a unique combination of entrepreneur, expert marketer, and compassionate family caregiver.

Her time has come, and with the COVID pandemic, thank goodness that time is now.

To learn more about Caregiving Pathways, please visit www.caregivingpathways.com.

Caregiving Pathways won Gold for Most Innovative Company of the Year and the Bronze Stevie for Most Innovative Woman of the Year in the 2020 Stevie Awards for Women in Business. 

Interested in entering the 2021 Stevie Awards for Women in Business?

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📣 Call for 2021 Women|Future Conference Speakers is OPEN!

Posted by Nina Moore on Tue, Dec 15, 2020 @ 11:29 AM
The call for 2021 Women|Future Conference speakers is open! Whether you're a female entrepreneur, small business owner, executive, or employee, the Women|Future Conference welcomes movers and shakers like you, looking to Cultivate Your Tomorrow.
 
The 2020 Women|Future Conference took place on November 12-13. This year's virtual event featured a diverse mix of topics including health and financial wellness, female leadership, overcoming imposter syndrome, growth through social media,  entrepreneurship, career planning, technology, and more. View the 2020 Agenda and highlights from the 2020 Women|Future Conference to see what attendees experienced at our third annual event. 
 
Apply to Speak at The 2021 Women|Future Conference
 
If you have an idea for an individual and/or group session, keynote, or workshop that our community of women in business professionals would benefit from, consider applying to speak in 2021. We are looking for dynamic women speakers whose presentations will resonate with the forward-thinking business professionals who attend the Women|Future Conference; 40% of our audience this year was made up of female founders and CEOs, 25% of women held Vice President or Director-level positions, and the remaining 35% of attendees were managers, employees, or students. 
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If you have a presentation topic that falls into any of the below categories, we encourage you to apply to speak. However, we are also exploring topics outside of this list, so don't hesitate to apply if your area of expertise is not mentioned here. 
 
  • Branding/Marketing/Sales Tips and Strategies
  • Career Development
  • Crisis Management
  • Diversity, Inclusion and Equity
  • E-Commerce
  • Entrepreneurship and Startup Coverage- transition from employee to business owner
  • Finance, Investing, Money Management
  • Future of Work
  • Imposter Syndrome
  • Intersectionality
  • Leadership
  • Mental Health and Wellness
  • Mentoring
  • Motherhood/Mompreneur
  • Personal Development
  • Pursuing Funds for Women-run Businesses
  • Remote Networking, Working and Learning
  • Social Media for Business
  • Sustainability
  • Technology
  • Work-life Balance

 
The call for speakers will remain open until May 2021, and speakers will be notified in July 2021 if selected. We look forward to reviewing your applications in the coming months.
 

2021 Conference Updates

The  fourth annual Women|Future Conference will be presented in conjunction with the 2021 Stevie Awards for Women in Business on November 5-6, 2021. Sign up for our mailing list to get notified when early-bird tickets launch for the 2021 Women|Future Conference and other updates about this forward-thinking event for women!

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German Stevie Awards suchen TOP-Unternehmen und Institutionen

Posted by Jule Kern on Tue, Dec 15, 2020 @ 07:14 AM


Unternehmen, Startup oder Innovation des Jahres?
Die Kategorien für Unternehmen und Institutionen würdigen die Leistungen von ganzen Organisationen

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Ein Unternehmen als wirtschaftlich selbstständige Organisation sieht sich täglich mit vielen neuen Herausforderungen konfrontiert. Ob demographische Veränderungen, fortlaufende Digitalisierung, politische und soziale Veränderungen oder ganz aktuell harte Einschläge durch die COVID-19 Pandemie.

Probleme und Veränderungen frühzeitig zu erkennen, darauf zu reagieren und eventuell durch eine Vorreiterstellung nebenbei eine höhere Zukunftsfähigkeit zu erzielen wird oft zum Drahtseilakt. Wertschöpfung entsteht nur dann, wenn das Unternehmen seine sozioökonomische Funktion voll und ganz erfüllt Der Wert eines Unternehmens besteht nicht nur im Erzielen von Gewinnen, sondern wirkt sich durch die kulturelle Weiterentwicklung aller Akteure auch auf Umwelt und Gesellschaft aus. 

Die Kategorien für Unternehmen und Institutionen der German Stevie® Awards würdigen die Leistungen von ganzen Organisationen: Wirtschaftsunternehmen, Non-Profit-Organisationen, großen, mittleren und kleinen, privaten und öffentlichen Unternehmen.

Ausgezeichnet werden Organisationen unter anderem in diesen Kategorien:

  • Unternehmen des Jahres: Ob Buchhaltung, Werbung, Computerdienstleistungen, Recht, Immobilien, Einzelhandel - in 34 Branchen dürfen sich Wirtschaftsunternehmen und Non-Profit-Organisationen, öffentliche, private, große und kleine Unternehmen bewerben.
  • Startup des Jahres
  • Innovativstes Unternehmen des Jahres
  • Innovativstes Technologieunternehmen des Jahres
  • Unternehmensinnovation des Jahres
  • Technologische Innovation des Jahres
  • Corporate-Social-Responsibility-Programm des Jahres
  • Schnellst wachsendes Unternehmen des Jahres

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Diese Unternehmen und Organisationen standen bei den German Stevie Awards 2020 im Rampenlicht

„You Call it Work – We Call ist Passion" lautet der Titel der Nominierung der passcon GmbH. Für das Innovativste Unternehmen des Jahres mit bis zu 2.500 Mitarbeitern wurde passcon mit einem Gold Stevie ausgezeichnet.

Das rasant wachsende Unternehmen im Bereich Unternehmensdienstleistungen, Regtech und Software im Bereich Compliance / Anti-Financial-Crime hat seit 2018 den Markt mit innovativen einzigartigen Produkten und Ansätzen durchdrungen.
Mit einem Mitarbeitermix aus über 20 Nationen in Deutschland sowie einer Revolution der Produktion im Bereich Banking und ihres One-Stop-Shop in Compliance haben passcon Innovationen designed und erfolgreich und profitabel an den Markt gebracht.

33893783818_05f70038b8_cDie Unternehmensinnovation des Jahres im Bereich Dienstleistungen für Privatpersonen brachte ZIB – Zurück in den Beruf mit Sitz in Brandenburg hervor. Der staatlich anerkannte Bildungsträger, der auf Langzeitarbeitslose spezialisiert ist, wurde mit einem goldenen Award geehrt.

„Niemand hat sich je so um mich gekümmert!“, ist das Credo des Unternehmens. Die zu Betreuenden werden bei ZIB wie Gäste behandelt, sodass zwischen Mitarbeitern und Klienten ein failiäres Miteinander entsteht. So kann das Unternehmen eine Erfolgsquote von 86 Prozent bei Langzeitarbeitslosen ab 10 über 20 Jahre vorweisen – eine einmalige Leistung in Deutschland.

Ebenfalls mit Gold wurde die truffls GmbH mit Sitz in Berlin als das innovativste Technologieunternehmen des Jahres ausgezeichnet.

Mit der truffls Job App konnte das Unternehmen im Bereich Mobile Recruiting überzeugen. Ausgehend von der Digitalisierung und gepaart mit einer neuen Generation an Arbeitnehmer*innen, die heutzutage vollständig digital und mobil unterwegs sind, hat truffls eine Plattform geschaffen, die sich direkt an die Lebensumstände der Menschen anpasst und Jobsuchende und Unternehmen effizient und einfach zusammenbringt.

Die Liste der Gewinner finden Sie hier.

Wenn auch Ihr Unternehmen seit Juli 2018 hervorragende Leistungen erbracht hat, nutzen Sie die Möglichkeit, und bewerben Sie sich bis zum 20. Januar 2021 um die Auszeichnung mit einer Stevie Award Trophäe!   

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PR-Stars gesucht!

Posted by Jule Kern on Tue, Dec 15, 2020 @ 03:53 AM

Die Kategorien für Unternehmenskommunikation, Investor Relations und Public Relations der German Stevie® Awards 2021

Kommunikation beeinflusst. Dabei entscheidet nicht selten der erste Eindruck über das Gefühl, das wir einem Menschen oder einer Marke entgegenbringen. Mithilfe kommunikationspolitischer Maßnahmen wird die Wahrnehmung eines Unternehmens gesteuert. Dabei sollen vor allem Image und Reputation der Organisation positiv beeinflusst und Skandale vermieden werden. Vertrauen und Glaubwürdigkeit herzustellen, ist das A und O.

Unternehmenskommunikation, Investor Relations und Public Relations gehen dabei Hand in Hand, um auf einem übersättigten Markt den entscheidenden Unterschied herauszustellen und Alleinstellungmerkmale von Organisationen und Unternehmen ins Spotlight zu rücken. Sie sind das Fundament, um das Vertrauen der Öffentlichkeit und jeder besonderen Zielgruppe zu gewinnen, aber auch um Fachkräfte zu binden.

Entscheidend dabei ist eine systematische, geplante Vorgehensweise, die auf einen längeren Zeithorizont ausgerichtet ist, um die Erwartung des Marktes bezüglich der Unternehmensbewertung möglichst passgenau beeinflussen zu können.

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Professionell gestaltete Kommunikation im Rampenlicht

Solch professionell gestaltete Kommunikation wird bei den German Stevie® Awards in den Kategorien für Unternehmenskommunikation, Investor Relations und Public Relations ins Rampenlicht gerückt. Dazu gehören alle Funktionen von Unternehmenskommunikation, Investor Relations, Gemeinschaftsangelegenheiten/Community Affairs und Public Relations. Die Nominierungen können in insgesamt über 40 Bereichen in den folgenden zwei großen Überkategorien eingereicht werden:

Kategorien für PR-Experten und PR-Innovationen

  • PR-Agentur des Jahres
  • Kommunikationsabteilung des Jahres
  • Kommunikationsteam des Jahres
  • Führungskraft des Jahres in den Bereichen Kommunikation, Investor Relation oder PR
  • Kommunikationsfachkraft des Jahres 
  • PR-Innovation des Jahres

Kommunikations- oder PR-Kampagne/PR-Programm des Jahres


  • Community Engagement
  • Consumer PR für ein bestehendes Produkt
  • Digitale Medienarbeit
  • Einführung neuer Produkte
  • Finanzdienstleistungen &Investor Relations
  • Interne Kommunikation
  • Krisenmanagement
  • Marketing – Business to Business
  • v.m.

Hier erhalten Sie die Teilnahmeunterlagen

Diese Kampagnen konnten bei den German Stevie Awards 2020 punkten

Die Deutsche Post DHL Group mit Sitz in Bonn wurde mit einem Gold Stevie für die Community Engagement Kampagne des Jahres ausgezeichnet. 

Das vor 10 Jahres von DHL entwickelte FIRST CHOICE-Programm dient zur kontinuierlichen, internen Verbesserung. Das Unternehmen hatte im Januar 2019 erstmalig die weltweite „FIRST CHOICE week“ Kampagne durchgeführt. Während dieser Woche wurde in allen Geschäftsbereichen des Konzerns aktiv FIRST CHOICE kommuniziert und Aktionen in den Ländern durchgeführt. Zur Unterstützung der Geschäftsbereiche und einer konsistenten globalen Umsetzung wurde ein Kommunikationspaket für die Länder entwickelt. Darin befindet sich Kommunikationsmaterial zur online und offline Verwendung, sowie eine Auswahl an Aktivitäten zur Durchführung in der Aktions-Woche.

Die Beteiligung der Divisionen und Länder war überragend und übertraf sämtliche Erwartungen. Mehr als 110 Länderorganisationen haben an der FIRST CHOICE week teilgenommen und als Teil der weltweiten Gemeinschaft ihren Beitrag geleistet.

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Die 744 Werbeagentur GmbH aus Düsseldorf ging mit einer europaweiten Influencer-Kampagne an den Start. Für Singapore Airlines und Singapore Tourism Board entwickelte das Unternehmen eine außergewöhnliche europaweite Kampagne, die die Airline und die Destination Singapur bewarb. Um möglichst viele Aspekte von Singapore Airlines und Singapur zeigen zu können, wurde die Influencer Kampagne in zwei Kampagnen-Flights mit unterschiedlichem Fokus geteilt.

Insgesamt wurden zwölf bekannte Food- und Travel-Influencer aus sechs europäischen nach Singapur geschickt. Beide Kampagnen-Flights waren ein großer Erfolg. Die Influencer streuten die Inhalte zur Kampagne auf möglichst vielen Kanälen und erzielten eine große Resonanz. Insgesamt wurden über 8,4 Millionen Menschen mit über 180 Inhalten (Posts, Stories, Videos) erreicht. Die Kampagne erzielte ein Engagement von über 600.000 Interactions und eine durchschnittliche Engagement Rate von knapp 4,5%.

Die Reichweite und Brand Awareness von Singapore Airlines wurde enorm gesteigert und die Destination Singapur wurde von den Influencern perfekt als optimales Reiseziel beworben. Damit wurden die zuvor festgelegten Ziele insgesamt weit übertroffen und sogar verfünffacht. Für diese herausragende Kampagne wurde die 744 Werbeagnetur GmbH mit einem goldenen Award für die PR-Kampagne des Jahres für Digitale Medienarbeit geehrt.

Für das PR-Programm des Jahres im Bereich interne Kommunikation wurde 46981567034_27c7c338f1_ckeySquare Communications UG für das Projekt „Kolibri-Handbuch“, das im Auftrag vom Kolibri-Games entstand, mit einem Gold Stevie ausgezeichnet.

Das schnell wachsende Startup benötigte ein Tool, um neu eingestellte Mitarbeiter auf den neusten Stand der Firmenkultur zu bringen. keySquare entwickelten ein Handbuch, das neuen Mitarbeitern zwei Wochen vor Dienstantritt mit einem Kennenlern-Paket (Notizblock, Kugelschreiber, T-Shirt, Tasche) zugeschickt wird.

Das Buch ist großzügig gelayoutet, leicht zu konsumieren und stellt vor allem die Kernwerte des Unternehmens sowie eine Handvoll grundsätzlicher Verhaltensweisen von Kolibri-Mitarbeitern dar. Die Firma setzt das Buch seither wie geplant bei neuen Mitarbeitern ein, verteilt es aber auch wie eine Image-Broschüre an Journalisten und Partner, wenn sich die Gelegenheit ergibt.

Eine vollständige Liste der Gewinner finden Sie hier.

Haben Sie und Ihr Team auch herausragende Leistungen im Bereich PR und Unternehmenskommunikation geleistet? Dann nutzen Sie noch bis zum 20. Januar 2021 die Chance, sich um einen Stevie Award im Bereich PR zu bewerben. 

 

Topics: PR awards, PR Kategorien, europäischer Wirtschaftspreis, deutscher Wirtschaftspreis

A Cinderella Story: Robot Edition

Posted by Hailey Roos on Wed, Dec 09, 2020 @ 02:59 PM
  • KCD PR teamed up with Brain Corp to position this startup tech company as an industry leader 
  • Brain Corp’s floor-cleaning technology became a global sensation with KCD PR’s media expertise
  • Targeted, meticulously researched approaches to media coverage made this sanitary maintenance company a distinguished, sought-after technology 

About KCD PR

KCD PR is an integrated communications agency that delivers award-winning strategic public relations, marketing communications, social media campaigns, and counsel to financial services, fintech, and technology leaders worldwide. KCD PR’s mission is to create and communicate a brand’s vision through highly targeted campaigns that drive their business forward. 

Brain Corp x KCD PR: The Genesis

Brain Corp is a successful San Diego-based technology startup that specializes in turning manual machines into autonomous mobile robots. While the mention of ‘robots’ may sound sexy, the primary application of its technology was far less so - in commercial floor scrubbers. Brain Corp engaged with KCD PR to help raise awareness of the company and its technology in order to attract new customers, pave the way for future investment, and for this year in particular, take it beyond the standard floor-cleaning trade media and position it as a leader in the business and technology press. 

Development

KCD PR needed to develop an approach that would make Brain Corp and its technology attractive to a far broader and incredibly discerning swathe of media. In a nutshell, they had to make a company that currently focuses on sanitary maintenance compete for media space with the same writers covering the likes of iRobot and Amazon. 

They focused on the following core campaign elements: 

  • Develop a clear message
  • Laser-focus efforts on a core ‘media bench’
  • Think big picture
  • Create a foundation of relationships to set up for campaign success

Execution

With a plan in place, KCD PR hosted a messaging workshop with Brain Corp’s key technology leaders which ultimately provided them with compelling messages that positioned the company’s technology as crucial to the current evolution of work through robotics. Simultaneously, the team meticulously researched and developed a list of 20 key media outlets that moved outreach beyond the cleaning trades and into influential tech and business press such as TechCrunch, ZDnet, Fortune, CNBC, Bloomberg, and the Wall Street Journal. Based on this list, they created targeted approaches, often reserving exclusives, feature angles, and early notice of product news tailored to each title.

One of the campaign’s biggest challenges was that they had a very well-known customer story to tell as part of Walmart’s major tech rollout but had very little control over the message and their position within the announcement. Their challenge was to ensure that Brain Corp gained a strong share of media exposure within the resulting coverage. 

To increase changes for positive and well-informed coverage of the news, the team focused on building influential media relationships well in advance. To secure briefings, they employed a ‘big picture’ approach by creating pitches which positioned the company and its core technology as critical to the current evolution of retail, how they work, and the state of the tech economy - highlighting Brain Corp’s key investors (SoftBank Vision and Qualcomm Ventures) for added credibility. 

Results

The campaign proved highly successful in gaining Brain Corp media coverage far beyond the traditional trade outlets. KCD outperformed its goals for top-tier media interviews by 33%, gaining quality coverage in the business and tech press, thus positioning the company and its technology as leaders in the field. The campaign generated over 500 pieces of coverage against a campaign target of 130. Key media hits included Bloomberg, Forbes, Fortune, Business Insider, CNBC, and a full feature in broadcast technology program BBC Click, which aired in 200 countries with over 380 million viewers. 

KCD PR’s COVID-19 Response

Though this PR firm prides itself in working with industry leaders and top-ranked organizations, they are entrepreneurs at heart and care about the community they live and work in. When the pandemic hit, the team offered on-demand crisis communications counseling to small businesses impacted by COVID. They were providing counsel on everything from creating a social media marketing presence to critical customer updates to pointing to financial resources to help aid their friends in the community. 

KCD PR won the Silver Stevie for Communications or PR Campaign of the Year - Media Relations in The 2020 American Business Awards®.

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Topics: communications awards, American business awards

Letzter Einsendeschluss für die Stevie® Awards 2021 for Sales & Customer Service rückt näher

Posted by Jule Kern on Wed, Dec 09, 2020 @ 03:01 AM

Der Einsendeschluss für die 15. jährlichen Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service wurde bis Mittwoch, den 13. Januar 2021 verlängert. Dies sind die weltweit wichtigsten Auszeichnungen für Fachleute, Teams und Organisationen im Bereich Vertrieb und Kundenservice.

Teilnahmekits und vollständige Informationen über den Wettbewerb sind unter http://www.stevieawards.com/Sales erhältlich.

Zu den teilnahmeberechtigten Nominierten gehören Abteilungen, Teams und Fachleute aus der ganzen Welt, die in den Bereichen Kundenservice, Contact Center, Geschäftsentwicklung und Vertrieb tätig sind. Neue Produkte und Dienstleistungen sowie Lösungsanbieter, die von diesen Fachleuten genutzt werden, sind ebenfalls teilnahmeberechtigt. Mit der Auszeichnung 2021 werden Leistungen seit dem 1. Juli 2019 gewürdigt.

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Einsendungen von Nominierungen können noch bis zum 13. Januar 2021 gegen Zahlung einer Verspätungsgebühr eingereicht werden. Die Finalisten werden dann Ende Januar bekannt gegeben, und die Gold-, Silber- und Bronze-Stevie-Preisträger werden während einer virtuellen Preisverleihung am 14. April 2021 geehrt.

Die Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service umfassen mehr als 150 Kategorien für:

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Die Teilnehmer können beliebig viele Nominierungen in beliebig vielen Kategorien einreichen.

Neu in diesem Jahr sind die vereinfachten Einreichungsvoraussetzungen für alle Kategorien. Diese bieten nun die Möglichkeit, ein kurzes Video oder kurze Antworten auf mehrere gezielte Fragen einzureichen.

Zu den neuen Kategorien für das Jahr 2021 gehören sechs frei zu vergebende Kategorien für den Umgang mit COVID-19, mit denen herausragende Bemühungen von Fachleuten aus den Bereichen Geschäftsentwicklung, Kundendienst und Vertrieb anerkannt werden, die sich mit den Auswirkungen der Pandemie auf ihre Organisationen, Teamkollegen, Kunden und Gemeinden befassen.

Im Jahr 2021 wird es wieder die People's Choice Stevie Awards for Favorite Customer Service geben, eine Beliebtheit der Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service, bei denen die Öffentlichkeit unter allen Nominierungen der Finalisten in den Kategorien der Kundendienstabteilung des Jahres für ihre bevorzugten Anbieter im Bereich Kundenservice abstimmen kann.

 

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Zu den Gewinnern der Ausgabe 2020 der Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service gehörten American Airlines, Barclays, Carbonite, Cisc

o, Clarabridge, Cricket Wireless, Cvent, Delta Vacations, DHL Express, GoDaddy, Mailchimp, OneWest Bank, SAP, Wells Fargo Treasury Management, VIZIO Inc. Und andere.

Der Wettbewerb 2021 wird von mehr als 150 Fachleuten aus der ganzen Welt bewertet.

 Über die Stevie Awards

Die Stevie Awards werden im Rahmen von acht Programmen verliehen: die Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, die German Stevie Awards, die American Business Awards®, die International Business Awards®, die Stevie Awards for Great Employers, die Stevie Awards for Women in Business, die Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service und die neuen Middle East Stevie Awards. Bei den Stevie Awards-Wettbewerben gehen jedes Jahr mehr als 12.000 Beiträge von Organisationen aus mehr als 70 Ländern ein. Die Stevies ehren Organisationen aller Arten und Größen, die Menschen, die hinter ihnen stehen und weltweit herausragende Leistungen am Arbeitsplatz. Erfahren Sie mehr über die Stevie Awards unter http://www.StevieAwards.com.

Topics: Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service