Today we had our first General Meeting for the 2009-10 Financial Year and we decided to start the new year by recognising the achivements of our staff for their efforts in the 2009/2010 year. Jade and Nga were both given awards for the outstanding Sales Achievements.
Jade receiving her Sales Excellence Award
Nga receiving her Sales Excellence Award
Jayde McCarthy was given an award for completing her Traineeship which she did through the Linked Training Group.
Jayde receiving her Traineeship Award from the Linked Training Group
The team a JEM Promotional Products are all very excited to be starting a new financial year and we look forward to working with existing clients in growing their merchandise ranges and we also look forward to meeting many new potential clients!
The location of the breakfast
Last week Nga and I attended a Macarthur BEC Breakfast but this breakfast was very different to most events we attend because it was actually run in the form of a Great Debate where the topic was ‘Is sustainability Sustainable’.
Nga
The debate was hosted by Adam Spencer who you probably know from Triple J, Good News Week and The Glasshouse. What you probably didn’t know is that Adam Spencer holds a first class honors degree in Pure Mathematics and is a hardcore debater. He was actually voted “Best Speaker in the World” at the World University Debating Championships. He is so passionate about debating that when the first speaker defined sustainability at the debate this morning Adam said that a debate definition is “dirty, sexy talk” to him. Nga and I took the chance to meet him afterwards to say hi and get a photo.
Adam Spencer & Elyse
Teams Captains were Ed Wacarba, Sustainability Consultant, and former Sustainability Manager for Asia Pacific atc Interface Flor operating out of Picton. The CEO of InterfaceFlor Ray Anderson has been named by Time Magazine as an International Hero of The Environment. Ed has incorporated cradle to grave analysis to the Australian operations resulting in savings of hundreds of thousands of Dollars. Ed is the current Chair of GECA. For the negative, Captain is Professor Bobby Bannerjee, Professor of Management and Associate Dean of Research, Business, at University of Western Sydney. Bobby has published over 100 publications including articles in highly ranked international journals, chapters in books and conference papers, and is the recipient of 29 internal and external research grants. His book Corporate Social Responsibility: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (Edward Elgar, UK) was published in November 2007 is a still a hot topic for discussion.
It was a fantastic event and it really got us thinking about sustainability. Oh and the answer is YES, sustainability is definately sustainable!
