As announced at the January FinAdmin Meeting, WSAB has revamped the grading rubrics for all nominations for the Dean’s Excellence Award, the Meteor Award, and the Community Excellence Awards. All nominations will be submitted as a single freeform text, and we hope that the new rubrics will help nominators craft responses that focus on concrete examples that demonstrate the four qualities associated with each award category.
- Dean’s Excellence – Communication Skills, Service Focus, Efficiency and Leadership
- Meteor Award – Initiative, Resourcefulness, Adaptability and Coachability
- Community Excellence Award – Approachability, Collegiality, Energy, and Enthusiasm
Each example provided in a nomination must demonstrate 1-4 of the qualities. Nominations that use examples to demonstrate all of the qualities associated with the award will be scored higher since there is a rubric category for each individual quality. If only one example is provided, it should convey as many qualities as possible.
The “Examples” category of the rubric grades/ranks how well the example(s) demonstrate the different qualities. The more details nominators can provide the better. We are trying to discourage nominators from keeping their example(s) general and vague. For example: “The nominee initiated a new project and it was great” wouldn’t be a good example because it neither tells us what the project was nor why it was great. We also want the example(s) to clearly demonstrate the qualities of each award category. If a nominator wants to claim that their nominee is coachable, then their example(s) shouldn’t focus on what a great leader their nominee is.
The “Appropriateness” category grades/ranks how appropriate the example(s) are to the nominee’s role/position. We have this category to ensure that nominators focus on examples from their nominee’s professional lives and NOT their private lives. It wouldn’t be appropriate for a nominator to claim that their nominee is resourceful because they helped them book a vacation or that they are energetic because they helped clean their house. If a nominator wants to demonstrate that their nominee is resourceful or energetic, then the example(s) needs to come from their workplace. Examples in which nominees use their own resources or time outside of the workplace will be graded lower. For example, a nominee buying candy with their own money or dropping off colleagues at home wouldn’t be considered appropriate.
Please feel free to comment below or email us if you have any questions about writing your nominations!