Outstanding Teamwork Award - Team Leader

2009

• Andy Ellett, Business Manager, Bunbury, Western Australia

Andy Ellett has shown outstanding leadership. After a decision was made to reduce the working hours of some staff, Andy showed his outstanding leadership by taking ownership of the decision and communicated the decisions and reasons behind it to the Bunbury staff. Andy kept staff regularly informed about progress and engaged them in the drive to win more work to justify a full- return to work.

As a result of Andy’s leadership, the project management and practices in the Bunbury office have improved, and the Bunbury Business Group achieved a positive result in 2009. This is an outstanding result under very difficult conditions.

• Jonathan Mackey, Work Group Manager - Training, Gracefield, New Zealand

Jonathan Mackey is very highly regarded by his colleagues as shown by the various comments below;

• “I have worked with Jonathan for many years and always found him to be very approachable and supportive. He has an open door policy and listens to ideas that are put forward”
• “Since I started with opus last year Jonathan has encouraged me to develop my skills and to achieve far more than I realised”
• “I have worked with Jonathan for more than 15 years now, I have always found him to put in more than a 100% effort and this with his positive can-do attitude has contributed greatly to the success we have had over the past few years”
• “Jonathan Mackey is a competent manager whose strong guidance and confident direction ensures all who work under his gaze are fully aware of their own direction and its consequences”
• “Jonathan demonstrates many of the Opus brand qualities in his role as team leader in particular; Energetic, Passionate, Trustworthy, Caring, Active and all with an open mind”

• Gareth McKay, Project Manager, Wellington, New Zealand

Gareth continually demonstrates strong leadership and commitment.  Gareth often sets new benchmarks for the company in terms of quality of presentation and professionalism.

Gareth always maintaines focus and a positive outlook during difficult and challenging times.

• David Dunlop, Transportation Team leader, Wellington, New Zealand

Over the last couple of years David has demonstrated outstanding leadership of the Wellington Transportation team to create one of the most highly regarded transportation teams in the Wellington market.  This has been a huge achievement and it has demanded huge commitment, focus and drive from David. 

During David’s leadership, he has built a team of complementary skills, with a range of experience.  Like David, they all show great enthusiasm and commitment to our values – particularly strong client relationships and excellent service delivery.  David has built his reputation not only for strategic roading projects, but in the importantly growing specialisation of bus passenger transport.

The outstanding performance of his team comes not only from being an outstanding role model himself in terms of commitment, but from his personal commitment to his team.  He is committed to - and finds time for – ‘spending quality time’ with his team members.  He encourages them by celebrating their strengths and he is committed to having courageous conversations about how to lift their performance to the next level.