Chapter 9: Preparing a Strong Globee Awards Nomination
A strong Globee Awards nomination presents one clearly defined achievement through accurate facts, relevant context, measurable results, and useful supporting evidence. It should help evaluators understand what was accomplished, how it was achieved, who contributed, and why the outcome matters.
Organizations and professionals researching Latin America business awards may be tempted to include every success from several years of work. A focused nomination is usually more persuasive. The following process explains how to enter business awards with a credible achievement story rather than a collection of general promotional claims.
1. Choose the Most Appropriate Achievement
Begin by identifying accomplishments completed during the relevant eligibility period. Consider achievements involving innovation, growth, leadership, customer service, operational improvement, workplace development, cybersecurity, sustainability, public service, or community impact.
Select an achievement that is:
- Clearly defined
- Relevant to the intended category
- Supported by measurable results
- Important within its context
- Documented with authorized evidence
- Easy for an independent evaluator to understand
The largest financial result is not always the best choice. A smaller initiative may produce a stronger nomination when the challenge, actions, and outcomes are well documented.
2. Research Current Programs and Categories
Review the current Globee® Awards programs and available categories before drafting the nomination. Programs may recognize different subjects, industries, functions, technologies, leadership accomplishments, or forms of impact.
Read category descriptions carefully. A product launch might fit a product or innovation category, while the work of the development team may fit a team category. The executive who directed the initiative may be considered separately for leadership recognition.
Do not write a generic nomination first and attempt to fit it into several unrelated categories later. Selecting the category early helps determine which facts and results deserve emphasis.
3. Confirm Eligibility and Achievement Periods
Award programs establish their own eligibility requirements, achievement periods, nomination rules, and deadlines. These details may change between programs or annual editions.
Confirm that the nominee, achievement, and relevant dates satisfy the current requirements. Determine whether the program accepts nominations from the applicable country, industry, organizational type, or career level. Organizations considering international business awards should rely on the official current rules rather than information copied from an older webpage, article, or previous submission.
4. Identify the Nominee Correctly
Decide who or what produced the achievement. The nominee might be an individual, team, department, product, service, startup, nonprofit, public institution, or established organization.
The nomination subject must match the evidence. If the results came from collaboration among several departments, an organizational or team nomination may be more appropriate than attributing the entire accomplishment to one executive. If the story is primarily about product performance and customer benefit, the product—not its creator’s biography—should remain central.
Verify the nominee’s official name, title, organization, location, and other required information.
5. Write a Concise Opening Summary
The opening should allow an evaluator to understand the central accomplishment quickly. In a few sentences, identify:
- The nominee
- The challenge or opportunity
- The principal action
- The most important measurable result
- The significance of the outcome
Avoid beginning with a long organizational history, mission statement, or list of services. Background information can be added later when it helps explain the achievement.
6. Provide Relevant Context
Context establishes why the accomplishment was important or difficult. Explain the baseline conditions, market environment, customer need, organizational size, available resources, or local circumstances.
For achievements originating in Latin America, context may include infrastructure limitations, market fragmentation, geographic distance, regulatory complexity, affordability needs, or differences among national markets. Include only the circumstances that directly help evaluators interpret the results.
7. Describe Actions and Obstacles
Explain what the nominee actually did. Present the important decisions, methods, innovations, and implementation steps in a logical sequence.
Describe genuine obstacles such as limited resources, technical complexity, time constraints, supply interruptions, adoption barriers, or operational risk. Then show how the nominee responded. This section should demonstrate initiative and execution rather than merely stating that the nominee showed “excellence” or “leadership.”
8. Quantify the Results
Measurable results make the nomination credible. Depending on the achievement, these might include:
- Revenue or customer growth
- Costs reduced
- Jobs created
- Time saved
- Productivity increased
- Errors or incidents reduced
- People or communities served
- Employee or customer satisfaction
- Markets entered
- Waste, water use, energy consumption, or emissions reduced
State the baseline, result, and time period when possible. Label estimates and projections clearly. If currency conversions are included, identify the original currency and the exchange-rate date or method.
9. Give Credit to Contributors
Crediting contributors strengthens accuracy. Identify the teams, employees, partners, customers, researchers, public agencies, or community organizations that helped produce the result.
For an individual nomination, explain the nominee’s specific role without claiming sole responsibility for collective work. For a team nomination, describe how members collaborated and contributed complementary expertise.
10. Select Useful Supporting Materials
Choose supporting materials that verify or clarify the principal claims. Useful materials may include public webpages, performance summaries, news coverage, product demonstrations, photographs, research, customer testimonials, or approved reports.
Quality and relevance matter more than volume. Each item should have a clear purpose and comply with the program’s current submission limits. Do not include confidential, personal, copyrighted, or restricted materials without appropriate permission.
11. Review Claims and Secure Approvals
Verify every name, date, figure, percentage, comparison, quotation, and claim. Confirm that descriptions such as “first,” “largest,” “fastest,” or “leading” can be substantiated.
Obtain necessary legal, privacy, communications, customer, employee, partner, and leadership approvals. Ensure that public disclosure does not violate contracts, confidentiality obligations, intellectual-property rights, or applicable laws.
12. Edit for Clarity and Accuracy
Remove repetition, unsupported adjectives, unnecessary history, and unrelated accomplishments. Use direct language and organize the nomination around Challenge–Action–Result.
An effective final review should answer four questions: Is the achievement immediately clear? Are the results measurable? Are the claims credible? Does the nomination respond directly to the selected category?
Current Globee Awards programs, categories, eligibility requirements, achievement periods, nomination rules, deadlines, and supporting-material requirements should be reviewed at GlobeeAwards.com before submission.
Submitting a nomination does not guarantee recognition. Every entry should stand on the quality, relevance, credibility, and documented results of the achievement presented. A careful, evidence-based nomination gives evaluators the clearest possible basis for understanding what was accomplished and why it deserves consideration.