This week has been one of highs and lows on the pat on the back front.
We were thrilled to be recognised as the best new start up business in Northern Ireland by winning the regional heat of the prestigious Seedcorn competition for best emerging international company.
But then we were saddened to hear that GMPA walked away empty handed from the Association of Police Authority’s inaugural Excellence Awards at the ceremony in Gateshead on Wednesday. The e-learning induction that GMPA has created for its new members (using the LP AT5) is excellent and received a lot of interest and praise from other police authorities in the run up to the glitzy awards ceremony. But, alas, it wasn’t to be.
Why do we do it? Why put ourselves up to be knocked down? I suppose we enter awards because we want others to know what we do and what we’ve achieved but also, and this is the scary bit, we want to benchmark ourselves against our peers to see how good we are. That’s quite brave, when you think about it.
It’s human nature to want to do well at something, especially something that you passionately care about. We want people to know how we’ve changed our world and, hopefully, fingers crossed, they’ll agree. So that makes it doubly disappointing when others just don’t get why you’re the best and therefore deserving of the winner’s honour.
It seems there are awards for everything these days and, of course, some competitions are more worthy than others. Step up to the mark, The Council Worker of the Year Award and The Best Council to Work for Award. Which Chief Executive wouldn’t want to be part of that?
But you win some, you lose some. As your teacher always used to say at school “It’s the taking part that counts.” Yep. Right. OK.
We know that team Learning Pool (and this includes our subscribers) is fab, with or without awards, so well done one and all. It’s good to put ourselves up there to be critiqued – many wouldn’t want to.
Janet
Tags: AT5, council, GMPA, learning pool, losers, Northern Ireland, police authorities, Seedcorn, winners
November 14, 2008 at 12:09 pm |
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November 15, 2008 at 5:30 pm |
It’s a pity that the GMPA course didn’t win. However, the course is a great example of what can be done with the Authoring Tool. What’s more impressive is that it’s the first piece of elearning they have produced since joining Learning Pool.
November 16, 2008 at 5:18 pm |
I would like to support what John has said – it’s a real shame that Irene at GMPA didn’t pick up an award for her module as it’s innovative and useful. However, we are glad she went for it and were happy to support her in that process.
Learning Pool customers – we in the Learning Pool team are always happy to support any of you in submitting awards you may wish to enter as we like to see you win even more than we like to win ourselves – so don’t be shy and ask your account manager for help.
November 17, 2008 at 3:05 pm |
I still cant believe Learning Pool won best emerging international company of the year for Northern Ireland! Such a great achievement and something to be really proud of! next step…best in the world!