DO you take the time to see the wood from the trees and analyse or celebrate your successes and achievements? Do you recognise your aims, goals and regularly chart your progress?
Taking the time to complete the online application form for the fifth annual Women in Business Awards will help focus your mind on the positives in your business to help you see the wood from the trees, according to Laura Dowie, WIB's marketing and events manager.
This year’s awards, officially launched yesterday, will see business women from across Northern Ireland recognised at a glittering event at the five-star Culloden Estate and Spa on Thursday November 19.
Sponsors and partners include the Irish News, Citybeat, Department for Employment and Learning, Equality Commission, Ulster Bank, JC Decaux and Deloitte.
Laura said: “Our annual awards will celebrate the brains behind some of Northern Ireland’s most high profile and top performing organisations.
"The Women in Business Awards, hosted by television presenter Pamela Ballantine, has become a firm fixture in the business calendar and will recognise the highest achieving business leaders, entrepreneurs, start ups, sole traders and managers.
“Our awards alumnae boasts women who represent and own some of the most profitable of our leading organisations and I encourage women who think they belong in that network of role models to get their entries in for this year’s awards.
“So many Women in Business members and business women tell me that they spend so much time working in their business that they afford little or no time to work on their business. In entering these awards we’re offering them an opportunity to take a few moments to think about the impact they have had on their business and the impact their business has made to the local economy.”
The deadline for entry is Friday October 2, and categories are: Young Business Woman of the Year, Best in Professional Services, Equality and Diversity, Best New Start-Up, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Best Marketing Campaign, Outstanding Management / Leadership, Best Customer Services, Best Small Business, Excellence in IT, Best Exporter.
To enter the awards, log on to www.womeninbusinessni.com and to keep up to date with further details about the event follow Women in Business on facebook at www.facebook.com/womeinbusinessni or www.twitter.com/wibni
