Today I am looking at the 2013 Glass Magazine Awards.
If you haven’t already, you need to hurry and submit your nominations for the 2013 Glass Magazine Awards: The People, Products and Projects.
The prestigious glass and metal industry awards program―now in its eighth year―recognizes the most innovative products and services the industry has to offer, in addition to the most innovative projects completed within the past year.
2013 Glass Magazine Award Product and Project Categories*
- Most innovative curtain wall project
- Most innovative curtain wall product
- Most innovative storefront/entrance project
- Most innovative decorative glass project: commercial interior
- Most innovative decorative glass project: commercial exterior
- Most innovative decorative glass project: residential
- Most innovative decorative glass product
- Most innovative energy efficient glass project
- Most innovative energy efficient glass product
- Most innovative hardware
- Most innovative bath enclosure project
- Most innovative machinery/equipment
- Most innovative commercial window
- Most innovative website
- Most innovative software
*Limit one category per nomination. Please do not submit the same nomination for inclusion in multiple categories. Total number of nominations is limited to two per company, and editors reserve the right to reallocate nominations to different categories as appropriate.
**All decorative glass categories also include interior glass products and projects, such as glass railings, partitions, stairs, etc.
***For the “most innovative project” categories, projects completed between May 2012 and April 2013 qualify.
To learn more about these categories and to submit your nominations, click here. Winners in these categories are determined by a panel of judges.
2013 Glass Magazine Award People Categories
Introduced last year, the Glass Magazine Awards also includes the following people-centric categories: Best Project Manager, Best Production Supervisor, Best Sales Rep and Best Installer. To view candidate criteria and submit a nomination, click here. After determining the finalists in each people-centric category, the editors of Glass Magazine will open voting up to the industry on GlassMagazine.com. Winners will be determined by popular vote.
Best project manager Who is your go-to person when it comes to project management? That person you can always rely on to make sure projects run smoothly, on schedule, and most importantly, on budget? We want to know! Glass Magazine is looking to acknowledge those people who keep multiple balls in the air, as they stay calm (at least most of the time!): project managers who are efficient, reliable, capable of overseeing processes and people, and get the job done. Sound like someone you work with? Then nominate him or her.
Best production supervisor Behind every great team is a great coach. If you have a good team leader at your facility who brings out the best in his or her production staff; continually looks for ways to get the job done better, faster, and leaner; and empowers his or her employees, we want to hear about them.
Best sales rep What defines a great sales rep? Results is the obvious answer, but what personality factors and skill sets get results? Here are some of the “definers” we’ve heard—does your nominee fit the bill? Dynamic, energetic, memorable, driven, a good listener, a good talker, fun to be around (knows a good glass joke!), product knowledgeable, customer advocate, attuned to different needs, gets results for the customer and for his or her company, gets repeat business, not afraid of cold-calling and won’t take no for an answer. Sound like someone you work with? Then nominate him or her for Glass Magazine’s “Best Salesperson Award.”
Best installer What sets the best installers apart from their peers? Is it their ability to think on their feet and come up with creative solutions to onsite problems? Their commitment to accurate estimating, measuring and no call-back installations? Glass Magazine wants to know what sets your “Best Installer” nominee apart from the rest.
If you have questions or require additional information, please contact Jenni Chase at jchase@glass.org.
The deadline to submit nominations in all categories in April 16, 2013.
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