Update | ABA Finalists Announced, How to Succeed in CorpComm, Turk Telekom

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May 11 2012

	Follow the Stevie Awards     Share | More Information     • Advertise • Contact Editors • Mailing List • Calendar				IN THIS ISSUE Finalists Announced in 2012 American Business Awards   3 Tips for Succeeding in Corporate Communications, From a PR Awards Judge   Turk Telekom: How Event Awards Winner Fostered Management Team Leadership   IN BRIEF: IBA Entry Deadline on Wednesday; America Means Business Schedule Announced; Apply to Judge the IBAs or Stevies for Women   Upcoming Stevie Awards Calendar Finalists Announced in 2012 American Business Awards   Tweet Finalists were announced this week in The 10th Annual American Business Awards. Companies as diverse as Apple, Chipotle Mexican Grill, The Coca-Cola Company, Delta Air Lines, Ford Motor Company, ING DIRECT, NASCAR, Overstock.com, and YouSendIt are among those recognized.  Lists of Finalists by category have been published at http://www.StevieAwards.com/ABA.  The American Business Awards are the U.S.A. ’s premier business awards program. All organizations and individuals in the U.S.A. are eligible to submit nominations. This year’s Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award winners will be announced at two award banquets: the first will take place on June 18 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York; and the second, a new event, will be held on September 17 at the Julia Morgan Ballroom in San Francisco, California and will honor Stevie Award winners in all tech-related categories. More than 800 executives are expected to attend the events.  The ceremonies will be broadcast nationwide by the Business TalkRadio Network.     Read the Rest of This Article... 3 Tips for Succeeding in Corporate Communications, From a PR Awards Judge   Tweet Alison Graves, Director, WW Influencer Relations, Printing at Hewlett-Packard Company, will chair the committee for final judging of the corporate communications awards, investor relation awards, and PR awards categories in The 2012 American Business Awards. Finalists for the 2012 ABAs, the premier business awards program in the U.S.A, were announced this week. Here Alison shares tips for making your mark in global corporate communications.   What are your top 3 tips on how to make your mark in global corporate communications? Surround yourself with the right people. Whether they are on your direct staff or at your agency partner, you should work with people who are talented and smart—and willing to keep pushing when their opinions differ from yours.  Follow the Golden Rule. Build a career path where you can make deposits, build relationships, be a grown-up, be positive, be helpful, be considerate—behave! Read the Rest of This Article... Turk Telekom: How Event Awards Winner Fostered Management Team Leadership   Tweet Turk Telekom of Istanbul, Turkey won a Stevie® Award for Best Internal Recognition/Motivational Event in the live event awards categories of The 2011 International Business Awards, the world's premier business awards program. (The 2012 IBAs are now accepting entries. Get your entry kit here - the entry deadline is May 16.) Here we look at the how Turk Telekom strengthened their management team's leadership through their Stevie-winning event. The 2011 event awards winner is a leading communication and convergence technology group in Turkey which provides its customers with integrated telecommunication services from PSTN and GSM to broadband internet. With nearly 30,000 employees all over Turkey, the organization was challenged to motivate their leadership when the company transitioned from being a public company to being a private company. To help ease the transition, Telekom's internal communications department organized an internal motivation event. Hosted at Turkey’s tropical Mediterranean paradise, Antalya, the event focused on ‘game playing’ to foster high level team building and strengthen leadership. The key communications objectives were to: 1. Bond the managers from all 81 cities in Turkey as a team in and of itself, 2. Create a family feeling, like a big team, 3. Stimulate enthusiasm for the new company structure, and 4. Foster harmony amongst various departmental managers and geographies. To meet the communications objectives, the best event award winner's internal communications team created a series of “games” lasting over the 3 day event. The highlights included: Read the Rest of This Article... IN BRIEF: IBA Entry Deadline on Wednesday; America Means Business Schedule Announced; Apply to Judge the IBAs or Stevies for Women Wednesday, May 16 is the entry deadline for The 2012 International Business Awards, the world's premier business awards competition. All organizations and individuals worldwide are eligible to submit nominations. If you miss the May 16 deadline, late entries will be accepted with payment of the late fee through June 27. America Means Business, the new event about entrepreneurship that the Stevie Awards will stage in New York this June 13-15, has announced its initial schedule of events. Want to stage your own event at AMB? Learn how here. Apply to be a preliminary-round judge in The International Business Awards and/or the Stevie Awards for Women in Business. IBA judging will begin the week of May 21, and Stevies for Women judging in September. You'll learn how many of the world's top organizations are achieving success, and you'll receive a certificate of appreciation suitable for framing... Upcoming Stevie Awards Calendar May 16: Entry deadline for 2012 International Business Awards May 30: Entries open for 2012 Stevie Awards for Women in Business June 13-15: America Means Business. Celebration of entrepreneurship, featuring educational, networking, and social events throughout New York City, presented by the Stevie® Awards. June 18: 10th American Business Awards Banquet, Marriott Marquis, New York June 27: Last day for submission of late entries to 2012 International Business Awards September 17: American Business Awards new tech awards banquet, Julia Morgan Ballroom, San Francisco

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