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New Zealand Post Group Local Government Excellence Awards

New Zealand Post Local Government Excellence Awards

In 2008 the New Zealand Post Local Government Excellence Awards superseded the New Zealand Post Management Excellence Awards.  This was not just a change in name.  The awards were comprehensively overhauled with a new set of award categories.  These were designed to focus on key theses of strategic importance to local government and to reflect the focus of the Local Government Act 2002. 

2010 New Zealand Post Local Government Excellence Awards

Award categories for 2010 are:

  • Joined Up Local Government;
  • Improved Local Regulation;
  • Council-Community Relationships; and
  • Building Organisational Capability.

To download the call for entries and entry information >>>>.

Entries closed on 23 July 2010, and the results will be announced at the SOLGM Conference in Queenstown on 5 September 2010.  Entries will be published on this site after that.

2009 New Zealand Post Group Local Government Excellence Awards

The winners of the 2009 New Zealand Post Group Local Government Excellence Awards were announced by Don Day, New Zealand Post, on 6th September 2008 at the SOLGM Conference in Palmerston North. 

  • To view details of the overall and category winners - Click Here
  • To view Council-Community Relationship Category entries Part 1 - Click Here
  • To view Council-Community Relationship Category entries Part 2 - Click Here
  • To view all Building Organisational Capability Category entries - Click Here
  • To View all Joined Up Local Government Category Entries - Click Here
  • To View all Improved Local Regulation Category Entries - Click Here

2009 Awards Webinar Series - "Readers' Choice"

We are planning a webinar series featuring a number of selected entries form the 2009 awards.  These are likely to be run during July and August 2010.  You can vote for the entires that you would like to see included in the webinar series.  We are running an online readers' survey to find out which entreis people would like to hear more about.  Click here to take survey

2008 New Zealand Post Group Local Government Excellence Awards

The winners of the 2008 New Zealand Post Group Local Government Excellence Awards were announced by Don Day, New Zealand Post, on 7th September 2008 at the SOLGM Conference in Palmerston North. 

  • To view details of the overall and category winners - Click Here
  • To view all Council-Community Relationship Category entries - Click Here
  • To view all Building Organisational Capability Category entries - Click Here
  • To View all Joined Up Local Government Category Entries - Click Here
  • To View all Taking a Sustainable Development Approach Category Entries - Click Here

New Zealand Post Management Excellence Awards 1999-2007

The New Zealand Post Management Excellence Awards were offered for 11 years until 2007.  They were the most longstanding feature of SOLGM's programme for the promotion of good practice in local authority management. 

All entries in the awards since 2003 can be downloaded from this site -  Directory of EntriesExecutive Summaries of entries for the years 1999 to 2002 are also available.

2007 New Zealand Post Management Excellence Awards

The winners of the 2007 NZ Post Management Excellence Awards were announced by Don Day, New Zealand Post, on 26th August 2007 at the SOLGM Conference in Wellington. 

  • To view the overall and category winners - Click Here
  • To view all Community Relationship Category entries - Click Here
  • To view all Technology Innovation Category entries - Click Here
  • To View all Process Management Category Entries - Click Here
  • To View all Management of People Category Entries - Click Here

2006 New Zealand Post Management Excellence Awards

The winners of the 2006 NZ Post Management Excellence Awards were announced by Peter Fenton, Chief Executive Postal Services, New Zealand Post, on 4th September 2006 at the SOLGM Conference in Nelson.    

  • To view the overall and category winners - Click Here
  • To view all Community Relationship Category entries - Click Here
  • To view all Technology Innovation Category entries - Click Here
  • To View all Process Management Category Entries - Click Here

2005 New Zealand Post Management Excellence Awards

The winners of the 2005 NZ Post Management Excellence Awards were announced by John Allen, Chief Executive of New Zealand Post on 12 September 2005 at the SOLGM Conference in Rotorua.   

  • To view the award and judges commendation winners >>>>
  • To view all entries >>>>

2004 New Zealand Post Management Excellence Awards

The winners of the 2004 New Zealand Post Management Excellence Wards were announced by New Zealand Post's Manager, Local Government Business, Don Day and SOLGM President, Rod Titcombe at the opening of the SOLGM Annual Conference in  Dunedin on 5 September 2004.

To view the entries and find other information about the Awards: