“Get me those nice looking jackets.”
This was my
personal marching order to the select team of Corp Comm officer Dolly Pasia and
Quality officer Net Saysay when we embarked earlier this year on our mission to
win an LAA for our company First Balfour, Inc. The jackets I was referring to is the prize, together with an elaborate
trophy given to the winners.
What is the
Lopez Achievement Awards?
The Lopez Achievement Awards (LAA) aim to recognize
and reward outstanding team or individual achievements that are exemplary in
nature, contribute to business objectives and exemplify the Lopez Group values.
There are six categories for the LAA: Business Management, Customer Focus, Operations Management, Human Resource Focus, Corporate Image-Building and Public Responsibility. An entry can be nominated in one or more categories, depending on the nature of the achievement and results.
Teams may be composed of members from a single company or from different companies. For the individual, the impact of the achievement must extend beyond his/her employer company.
All regular employees of Lopez Group companies may nominate Award candidates, except for members of the Panel of Judges and Program Management. Nominations can come from both profit and non-profit organizations within the Lopez Group.
There are six categories for the LAA: Business Management, Customer Focus, Operations Management, Human Resource Focus, Corporate Image-Building and Public Responsibility. An entry can be nominated in one or more categories, depending on the nature of the achievement and results.
Teams may be composed of members from a single company or from different companies. For the individual, the impact of the achievement must extend beyond his/her employer company.
All regular employees of Lopez Group companies may nominate Award candidates, except for members of the Panel of Judges and Program Management. Nominations can come from both profit and non-profit organizations within the Lopez Group.
It was our
second time to nominate one of our projects in First Balfour. The first one, last 2011 for the 2010 cycle,
did not prosper beyond the elimination round.
For the 2011 cycle, we submitted a nomination for our project management
team that handled the Texas Instruments Bump Building Expansion Project in
Clark. We entered our nomination in the
Customer Focus category. This time, we
were a bit more optimistic of our chances given that this project has received
a recognition award already from the
client. Moreover, we got a repeat order in
Clark from the client (Texas
Instruments).
So it was that
our nomination survived the elimination round and come October 10, 2012, ours
was among 14 semifinalists (out of 40
nominations) invited to the Lopez
Achievement Awards ceremony at the Rockwell Tent. The ceremony was special as this year is the
10th year of the LAA. Lopez
Group top brass (Chairman Emeritus Oscar
Lopez, Chairman Federico Lopez and ABS CBN Head Gabby Lopez) were present and ABS CBN talent (Vina
Morales, Daddy’s Home and Tippy Dos Santos) provided world class entertainment.
Finally, the
winners were announced. All in all, 11
winners plus 1 special award were announced. Our First Balfour nomination was one of them.
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| First Balfour project manager Nelson Cartagena receives LAA trophy |
Customer
Focus:
ØTask Force 499, Sky Cable
Corporation: Plan 499 Winning the Hearts of the Filipino Family and Changing
the Cable TV Landscape
ØTexas Instruments Bump Building
Expansion Project Management Team, First Balfour, Inc.: Above and Beyond Customer Expectations
Operations
Management:
ØPGPP Hybrid Project Team, Green
Core Geothermal, Inc.: Successful
Retrofitting of a Non-Performing LVRP into the SGE Systems of PGPP-1 Unit-1
ØSteam Saviors, Energy
Development Corporation: S.O.S. – Save
Our Steam
Corporate
Image Building:
ØQESH and External Affairs Department,
First Gas Power Corporation: Sowing the Seed of Environmental Stewardship in
Batangas
ØDZMM Radyo Patrol Sais Trenta, ABS CBN
Corporation: DZMM SilveRadyo
ØEDC Global Reporting Initiative
Team, Energy Development Corporation: Measuring EDC’s Triple Bottom-Line Impact
Public
Responsibility:
ØABS-CBN Regional Network Group,
ABS-CBN Corp.: Choose Philippines – Sharing More than Just Discoveries
ØDZMM TLC, ABS CBN Corp.: Teaching Learning Caring
ØKrusada, ABS CBN Corp.:International Recognition and National Impact
Through Social Awareness
ØBayaniJuan Calauan, ABS CBN
Foundation: Rebuilding the Philippines...One
Community at a Time
Special
Awards:
ØGina Lopez, ABS CBN Foundation
Managing Director
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| Lopezlink front cover |
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| FB winning team at page 5 |
Congratulations
to all the LAA winners.
Finally, I got
an LAA jacket. Feels good to finally wear one.
Feels great to
be part of a team.
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| Thanks Dolly and Net for getting me the LAA jacket |
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