Manitoba Career Development Awards of Excellence
Nominate a colleague or organization for the 2019 Awards of Excellence. This is your opportunity to acknowledge and celebrate the excellence and leadership qualities of career practitioners and researchers in Manitoba’s Career Development sector. The awards will be presented at Manitoba’s 6th Annual Career Development Conference November 8, 2019, at the Victoria Inn, Winnipeg. Nomination deadline is Friday, August 16th.
Goal
The goal of the Career Development Awards of Excellence program is to recognize those individuals and organizations that have contributed to the overall advancement of career and workforce development in Manitoba.
The awards acknowledge accomplishments that have a lasting impact, demonstrate the highest level of professionalism, and deliver exceptional results.
Awards
The Let’s Get to Work: Awards Steering Committee is now accepting nominations for the following awards:
Selection Criteria
The Let’s Get to Work Steering Committee has set up an Awards Subcommittee to oversee the selection process. The committee will review and assess nominees for demonstrated commitment to one or more of the following elements:
Nomination Guidelines
Nomination Statement Guide
The nominees for the awards are judged by Let’s Get to Work: Awards Steering Committee; peers who understand the challenges, opportunities, and rewards inherent in the advancement of the fields of career and workforce development. The judges recognize the value of creativity and innovation, appreciate the complex demands of diverse environments, and recognize the role of champion practitioners in enhancing the quality of career development in Manitoba. This committee can, however, only make decisions based on the information supplied in your nomination form. To ensure that your nominee receives proper consideration, please take the time to be thoughtful and detailed when writing the nomination.
Provide comments that highlight the nominee’s overall contribution based on the list of criteria.
Submit nominations before 4pm on Friday, August 16th, 2019.
Goal
The goal of the Career Development Awards of Excellence program is to recognize those individuals and organizations that have contributed to the overall advancement of career and workforce development in Manitoba.
The awards acknowledge accomplishments that have a lasting impact, demonstrate the highest level of professionalism, and deliver exceptional results.
Awards
The Let’s Get to Work: Awards Steering Committee is now accepting nominations for the following awards:
- Bill Schulz Lifetime Achievement Award
- Leadership in Career and Workforce Development (Individual)
- Leadership in Career and Workforce Development (Organizations)
- Leadership in Research and Innovation (Individual)
- Leadership in Research and Innovation (Organizations)
Selection Criteria
The Let’s Get to Work Steering Committee has set up an Awards Subcommittee to oversee the selection process. The committee will review and assess nominees for demonstrated commitment to one or more of the following elements:
- The advancement of career development through research, theory, practice and/or leadership.
- Innovation and creativity in program development and/or service delivery.
- Leadership and vision within the organization and/or career development community.
- Ongoing professional development and learning.
- Represents an optimal model of a professional whose knowledge, skills, and talents are valued by clients/colleagues.
Nomination Guidelines
- Nominators should select the award category that most closely fits the nominees background and work.
- Previous nominees can be nominated again in other award categories.
- Nominees are aware that they are being nominated.
- Nominators will be notified that their nomination has been received.
- Nominees and nominations will be notified once selection has been completed.
Nomination Statement Guide
The nominees for the awards are judged by Let’s Get to Work: Awards Steering Committee; peers who understand the challenges, opportunities, and rewards inherent in the advancement of the fields of career and workforce development. The judges recognize the value of creativity and innovation, appreciate the complex demands of diverse environments, and recognize the role of champion practitioners in enhancing the quality of career development in Manitoba. This committee can, however, only make decisions based on the information supplied in your nomination form. To ensure that your nominee receives proper consideration, please take the time to be thoughtful and detailed when writing the nomination.
Provide comments that highlight the nominee’s overall contribution based on the list of criteria.
- Use specific detailed examples rather than general praise. Remember that the committee reviewing recommendations can only base its decision on what you submit. Help the committee understand what this person has done. Imagine that none of them has ever met your nominee before, and go from there.
- Use specific detailed examples rather than general praise. Remember that the committee reviewing recommendations can only base its decision on what you submit. Help the committee understand what this person has done. Imagine that none of them has ever met your nominee before, and go from there.
- Explain in detail how this nomination is related to at least two of the awards criteria:
- The advancement of career development through research, theory, practice and/or leadership; Innovation and creativity in program development and/or service delivery;
- Role-modeling leadership and vision within the organization and/or career development community;
- Ongoing professional development and learning; and representing the optimal model of a caring professional whose knowledge, skills, and talents are valued by clients and colleagues.
- Use specific and descriptive wording. Don’t just say that “Jerry is really good with clients.” be detailed! For example: “Jerry takes the time to get to know his clients and is very careful to assess what they need and then to find the proper tools of which to work with them. He motivates them by understanding how they think. He follows up with them and gets them on track by using what motivates them. Every client is different. He has working clients with numerous barriers, but he has a placement rate of 82%. Most of his clients keep in touch with him to let him know how they are doing because he has made an impact on them, not because they have to.” Nominations can be typed in narrative or bullet point format.
Submit nominations before 4pm on Friday, August 16th, 2019.
2018 Bill Schulz Lifetime Achievement Award
This year’s Bill Schulz Lifetime Achievement Award Winner is Beverlie Stuart.
Beverlie is passionate about career development and has influenced career and workforce development in Manitoba throughout her career. She is a strategic thinker, planner and implementer. She is rarely content with the status quo, always trying to improve service, enhance the understanding of career development and educating others on the importance of career development in both the workplace and the school systems. Bev has a core belief. It is …It takes a community to raise a worker and that we are all in this together.
As stated by colleagues, Bev’s greatest contribution to career development has been her ability to think about her client base and make strong connections to the employer community. Working front line, with Youth Employment Services for 11 years and as a board member for both Career Trek and Manitoba Start, Bev gained a strong appreciation for the needs of the clients the career development community serves. She was instrumental in creating career initiatives in her role with the Alliance of Manitoba Sector Councils and as the Executive Coordinator of the Minister’s Advisory Council on Workforce Development. She continues to connect industry with future employees in her current role. Beverlie is currently the Associate Vice President of Business Development and Strategic Initiatives for the Manitoba Institute of Trades and Technology.
Join us for the Awards Ceremony Luncheon to hear more about Beverlie Stuart’s contributions to our career field and where winners for the remaining categories will be announced.
Beverlie is passionate about career development and has influenced career and workforce development in Manitoba throughout her career. She is a strategic thinker, planner and implementer. She is rarely content with the status quo, always trying to improve service, enhance the understanding of career development and educating others on the importance of career development in both the workplace and the school systems. Bev has a core belief. It is …It takes a community to raise a worker and that we are all in this together.
As stated by colleagues, Bev’s greatest contribution to career development has been her ability to think about her client base and make strong connections to the employer community. Working front line, with Youth Employment Services for 11 years and as a board member for both Career Trek and Manitoba Start, Bev gained a strong appreciation for the needs of the clients the career development community serves. She was instrumental in creating career initiatives in her role with the Alliance of Manitoba Sector Councils and as the Executive Coordinator of the Minister’s Advisory Council on Workforce Development. She continues to connect industry with future employees in her current role. Beverlie is currently the Associate Vice President of Business Development and Strategic Initiatives for the Manitoba Institute of Trades and Technology.
Join us for the Awards Ceremony Luncheon to hear more about Beverlie Stuart’s contributions to our career field and where winners for the remaining categories will be announced.
What is the Bill Schulz Lifetime Achievement Award?
In 2015, as a special commemoration and launch of a most prestigious award, the Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Bill Schultz as the inaugural recipient of achievement for his outstanding contributions to career development. From 2016 and on, the Bill Schulz Lifetime Achievement award has been given to others who have mirrored his contributions.
Bill Schulz had been a force in career development, counselling and ethics for over 40 years. He is currently Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Education at the University of Manitoba. He taught at the University of Manitoba for over 30 years as well as supervised and mentored hundreds of students in their pursuit of furthering education and more specifically in their pursuit of Masters and Doctoral work in the career development and counselling field. In his most recent years of teaching, he taught graduate courses in Counselling Theories, Ethics, Career Development and Secondary School Counselling. He received the Olive Beatrice Stanton Award for excellence in University teaching.
Bill has also been a guest lecturer, presenter, speaker and consultant; in Manitoba, nationally and internationally (United States, Poland, Hungary, Germany, Trinidad and Tobago, Thailand, Zimbabwe, Switzerland, France, and Chile). He is a published author in English and German of close to 40 books and over 70 articles. His writings include but are not limited to the development of career resources and guides for clients as well as practitioners; the evaluation of career centers and guidance centres; definition of the role of employment counsellors in Canada and abroad; a casebook of counselling ethics; a global comparison of counsellor training programs; and the review, techniques and ethics in group counselling. He has been called to and reviewed 15 books in the field as well as served as Editor on the Canadian Journal of Counselling; the Manitoba Chapter of the Canadian Counselling Association and the Manitoba Counsellor.
He has led countless research and curriculum development projects as well as presented at 50 national and international conferences. Much of his work has been focused on furthering developing the field. In the 80’s, Bill developed a training program for all Canadian Employment Counsellors. In the 90’s the employment counselling field saw great change. Bill along with Stu Conger, Lynne Bezanson and Brian Hiebert wrote Ready for Change: Career Counselling in the 90’s; a position paper prepared for the Canadian Guidance and Counselling Foundation. He later developed and piloted career development theories courses for universities as well as the development, piloting and evaluations of a ‘fundamentals of employment counselling course’ for Human Resources Development Canada in the 90’s. His most recent work in Manitoba dealt with the evaluation of counselling services and the development of a comprehensive guidance and counselling program for the Manitoba School Counsellors’ Association. His work is endless. Some of his personal creative works include:
- Code of Ethics for Employment Counsellors
- Development of a graduate course on Counselling Ethics
- A six course conflict resolution institute.
- Leaders’ Manual for the Fundamentals of Employment Counselling for Human Resources Development Canada
- Effective Group Leadership, a 200 page manual as well as a Leader’s Manual for National Service Needs Determination prepared for Canada Employment
- A six-course certificate program on Career Development and Transitions for Brandon University
- The Canadian Occupations Finder
- Guidebook for the Canadian Classification and Dictionary of Occupations
- Assessment Component of Employment Counselling
- Two booklets: Careers and Self Awareness for young people and Career Exploration: Life Style and Awareness for junior high students
Bill’s devotion has helped to advance the field to where it is today. He has not only made countless achievements but been an outstanding model for all of those in the career development field. He has been a leader, a researcher, an educator, author as well as mentored a myriad of people.
2017 Award Winners
BIll Schulz Award For Lifetime Achievement in Career Development
Darrell Cole, Career Trek
Darrell Cole, Career Trek
Individuals who have demonstrated significant and long term commitment to the principles and experience outlined below.
- To celebrate individuals who have established themselves as leaders within our profession.
- To recognize leaders who combine the role of researcher, educator, author, practitioner and career leader.
- To encourage individuals in Manitoba, Canada and/or around the world to celebrate those around us who have contributed so much to our identity as career development professionals.
- To establish a significant and uniquely Manitoba award that recognizes those individuals who have devoted their lives to the enhancement of career development practice, administration, research and education.
CAREER AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT AWARD (individual)
AARON GOLDMAN
CAREER AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT AWARD (organization)
CAREER TREK
AARON GOLDMAN
CAREER AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT AWARD (organization)
CAREER TREK