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We love industry awards because celebrating high performance sets the bar higher
By Lisa McCutchion, GM Brand & Marketing, REMONDIS Australia // 20 Oct 2022
REMONDIS Australia sponsors the Young Professional of the Year Award
…and has been a recent Finalist and Winner in multiple industry awards
Awards – whether simply entered or won – can powerfully galvanise action around high achievement
OPINION
When REMONDIS Australia’s Susie McBurney won the Waste Innovation & Recycling Awards’ 2021 Woman of Waste Award, announced this March, we already knew she was fabulous, but now the wider industry knew it too, and we could take pride in sharing this accolade with our customers.
When our ACT team won the Operational Excellence Award in the same year, that was well-deserved, long-awaited recognition for a tightly run operation, which could otherwise have slipped below the radar.
Minutes later, Chris Gusenzow accepted the award for Outstanding WARR Project (Metro) for our role in Containers for Change, and took the opportunity to publicly celebrate our fabulous client, WARRRL.
Winning a national award is magic.
It’s a powerful moment of recognition for the team or person involved, and can be operationally galvanising – helping to build a business case for future innovation or to scale an award-winning practice.
When we celebrate excellence in our industry we create opportunities for more of the same, and better – so I’m a fan of awards programs, because they galvanise action around high performance.
What gets rewarded gets repeated, but in a busy operation it’s easy to get distracted from the ‘reward’ side of this truism. Extracting information, data and evidence from the teams involved in order to submit a nomination requires some effort, there’s no getting around that.
But seeing our people celebrated as finalists and acclaimed as winners is worth every effort, and helps to build a richer picture of our industry.
Young Professional of the Year
In recent years REMONDIS has sponsored the Waste Innovation & Recycling Awards’ Young Professional of the Year Award.
Why sponsor this award? Just take look at the line-up of finalists and winners in the Young Professional of the Year Award, because that's an insight into the future of leadership in the waste industry, right there.
Last year’s winner, Tara Osborne from BINGO, is a standout performer whose success creates opportunities for others.
This year’s Finalists are a diverse and inspiring line up: Katherine Dodd from MRA Consulting Group, Patrick Lally from Veolia, Gordon Co from HSR Southern Cross and Selena Ferguson from Resource Hub. The winner will be announced at Waste Expo in Melbourne on 26 October.
So again – why do we sponsor this award? Because we firmly believe that when we identify and celebrate the young high achievers in our industry, we change what leadership looks like… and open the door to a more diverse, more inclusive industry.
Waste Management Review Editor Lisa Korycki recently asked what being an award finalist and winner has meant for REMONDIS.
Here’s the thing. For many years REMONDIS has just been busy getting the job done for our customers.
Culturally, REMONDIS is a modest, private company – that comes from being a family-owned, family-run business despite our global scale. So we hadn’t been in the habit of celebrating our wins, but we made a conscious decision to change that last year because our people really deserved recognition for several years of absolutely standout performances.
In short, we had a lot to be proud of and the Waste Innovation & Recycling Awards gave us a reason – a gentle poke, and we needed one – talk about it. In collating information for last year’s submissions we created an opportunity to share and celebrate our wins. Firstly, within the company to our 1,100 employees, and then beyond it.
Taking the time to reflect on your achievements is already a win. Actually getting the gong? It’s the icing on the cake.
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POSTSCRIPT DECEMBER 2022
As 2022 draws to a close, we're celebrating a year of acclaim and achievement, both public and private:
- Chris Gusenzow, our GM Western Australia, Finalist for Leader of the Year in the 2022 Waste Innovation and Recycling Awards
- REMONDIS Integrated and Managed Services, Finalist for Large Consultancy of the Year in the 2022 Waste Innovation and Recycling Awards
- Anna Staver, our legal counsel, Finalist in the In-House Lawyer of the Year category of the Lawyers Weekly Women in Law Awards 2022
- Product Stewardship App by REMONDIS Integrated and Managed Services's in-house digital team, Winner in the Excellence in Digitalisation for Product Stewardship category in the national Product Stewardship Excellence Awards
Lisa McCutchion, General Manager Brand & Marketing
As a Certified Practicing Marketer (CPM) and General Manager Brand & Marketing for REMONDIS Australia, Lisa’s scope includes the many large and small considerations that ensure that our products, services, actions and communications are an authentic reflection of our brand and values, and create material value for the business. Lisa feels privileged to work within the sustainability sector, finding better ways to reduce, re-use and recycle Australia's waste – and fostering progressive new conversations with clients and partners.
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