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I did a short 15 min podcast episode to share the story behind scribble scholarships.  In this special episode I cover, 

• What is this Baachu Scribble Scholarship Challenge and should I Join? 
• Why is it honouring Tony Birch, Late Howard Nutt, Alan Howard, Nic Adams and Cathy Day? 
• How my early school life inspired Baachu Social Impact including Scribble Scholarships? 
• Why education is my passion and Why I will be never be rich? 
• How Scholarship Challenge relates to APMP certifications and wow2k campaign?

If you are considering APMP certifications or know some one looking to pursue APMP then please share. 

Scribble Scholarship Challenge is FREE.
https://baachuscribble.com/scribble-scholarship-challenge/

What Is The Baachu Scribble Scholarship Challenge?

The Baachu Scribble Scholarship Challenge 2020 is a 45 min quiz challenge designed to accelerate your journey towards APMP certifications. Its FREE. The challenge has 100 Quiz based on bid and proposals and you will need to score 80% or more to win scholarship towards APMP Certification training. 

The Prize 

• Score 80% or more – Get FREE access to your chosen Baachu Scribble APMP Certification Training Programme  (Foundation or Practitioner)​
• Score 71% – 79% – Get 50% OFF to your  chosen Baachu Scribble APMP Certification Training Programme  (Foundation or Practitioner)

The programme is structured to make everyone a winner i.e. every participant will get 2 e-books – ultimate guide to proposal building and bid buddy, self-development journal to begin with. 

Timelines 

• Deadline for entries: 4th Oct midnight UK.
• The Challenge : Take 100 Qs Quiz in 45 min and score 80% or more
• Challenge Kick off : 7th Oct 3pm
• Challenge Date : 8th  – 10th Oct
• Review and consolidate results 11th – 16th Oct 
• Runners Up Announcement : 20th Oct, 3pm UK by Nic Adams and Alan Howard
• Winners Announcement : 21st Oct, 3pm UK by Tony Birch and Cathy Day

Link here :

https://baachuscribble.com/scribble-scholarship-challenge/

People need your leadership, your passion, your enthusiasm. Use this time to focus on the things you can control. Stay strong most importantly stay healthy and build your future self.

Looking forward in seeing you or your colleagues inside the challenge 

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Sunil has over 18 years of experience in Defence, IT & Telecom and Facilities Management sectors and has worked with MNCs like Thales Group, Ericsson and ISS A/S. Sunil is currently, the Head of Commercial Excellence (APAC) at ISS A/S, a facility management company headquartered in Denmark. At ISS A/S, Sunil established the Commercial Excellence function which encompasses of Bid Management, Price Management, CRM Administration, Graphics Designing and Knowledge Management. As a member of the ISS Asia Pacific Commercial Leadership Team, he supports the development and execution of the regional commercial strategy and governance, associated reporting and commercial model sign-offs.

Prior to his Corporate stint, Sunil has served as an officer in the elite Indian Air Force for 10 years. Sunil is the Chair of APMP India and a member of the Intentional Career Path Committee of APMP International. He is part of APMP 40 Under 40-Class of 2020 and was a Blue Ribbon Panel member for the APMP-BoK. Sunil holds Bachelors’ degree in Electronics Engineering, a post-graduate diploma in Business Administration along with professional accreditations in Aeronautical Engineering and Strategic Management. Sunil likes to travel and spend time with his family, when he finds time from his work or studies.

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Mairi Morrison originally started her working life as a graphic designer, moving into bid and proposal management 18 years ago. She’s an all-rounder in the profession, with an excellent track record of proposal management – winning complex multi-million global bids for corporate companies; bid writing – helping clients focus their words on the customer, as well as successfully hitting the dreaded word and character count, and bid strategy. She’s worked across most sectors, in the UK and the US, and worked on specific deals in Greece, Kuwait, Norway and South Africa. Having worked her way up the ranks from small company to corporate life, she now works for Strategic Proposals. Mairi’s been a member of the APMP since 2014 and won the Bid Excellence award in 2015. Holding APMP Professional certification, Mairi now also sits on the APMP UK Board as Marketing & Communications Director. She’s also actively engaged in thought leadership, publishing her research paper on “Mental health and wellbeing in the bid and proposal profession” in May 2020. As well as being an advocate for nurturing good mental health in our profession, she is also a crisis volunteer outside of work, to help those in need. Mairi has also presented at the APMP UK annual conference, and the US Nor’easters conference in 2017. 

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Shubhada is APMP certified at the Practitioner level and this year’s APMP’s 40 under 40 awardee. She has recently debuted at the APMP WBVE, sharing her experiences and learning about Proposal Management in IT industry. Currently, she working as a proposal quality reviewer with Fujitsu Consulting India. She has over 14 years of experience into Presales and Business Development. Through her career span, she has served various roles such as project engineer, system design engineer, technical writer, manual tester and proposal manager. While working on her first proposal for an intelligent traffic management system, she caught the proposal bug and she never looked back. The ability to bridge the gap between Sales and Solution Delivery is what intrigues her about the Presales function. She is a budding grammar stickler and in her current role, she provides feedback on improving the compelling nature of the proposals. 

Shubhada holds a Bachelor degree in Instrumentation and Control from Savitribai Phule Pune University and a post-graduate Diploma in Operations Management. Shubhada has received appreciation for her creativity and commitment to the role at multiple instances. She has also received APMP’s inaugural 

Charlie Divine Scholarship for certification in 2019. Shubhada enjoys travelling, music and photography. She is an avid reader and finds Haruki Murakami’s storytelling style quite interesting. She is also learning violin and recently picked up the K-Pop fever too. 

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We have a special co-host this episode - Valerie Kessie, APMP 40 under 40 winner.

Jeremy Glover is a TS cleared, certified Project Management
Professional (PMP) with 10 years of proposal and project management
experience with a track record of multiple billion-dollar proposal
wins. Jeremy graduated with a bachelors of arts degree from
The University of Virginia and currently works as a proposal manager lead
for Lockheed Martin. Jeremy is also a 2020 APMP 40 under 40 award winner. 

Listen to the legend from the recent Scribble Talk Mix and Mingle at APMP WBVE. 

Can you guess his 2 truth and a lie? 

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Maria Flikkema directs proposal development for IBI Group. With a primary focus on the Canada East region, she has managed large scale proposals across the firm globally and provides strategic direction to proposal teams outside of the Toronto headquarters. Overseeing all aspects of proposal activities, including management of proposal deadlines and progress, and directing the Canada East proposal team, Maria is also responsible for developing a wide variety of customized marketing materials for new pursuits and contract renewals. Having been with the firm for more than 12 years, Maria has a proven track record delivering winning, multi-million to -billion dollar proposals under challenging deadlines for both public- and private-sector clients. 

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As the Chief Operations Officer at SMA, Inc. I have spent the past 12 years creating a work environment that ensure the world’s best talent can focus on what they do best. As a Software Engineer, I am recognized in industry as expert in the field of system design and integration for project management, developing and implementing award winning scheduling, resource planning, costing, and enterprise project management systems for fortune 500 companies and government agencies. Including direct responsibility for bringing five commercial software applications (SMA Talent On Demand (TOD), TRAKKER, iPursuit, iPortfolio, and Traction) to market with cumulative revenues over $50M I have received industry and government awards for successful project management and earned value systems implementations including recognition from: Brookhaven National Labs, Xerox, Boeing, National Missile Defense Program, Navy, and Army.

TOD : https://tod.smawins.com/TOD_Web/

SMA : https://smawins.com/

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Sonya Wooley is the President of Mammoth Technologies, LLC, a small boutique proposal firm specializing in proposal management for small business federal contractors. She has over fifteen years of experience in business development, proposal preparation and management, and pricing for federal government opportunities. She has generated proposals valued from $25 thousand to over $1 billion, acting as both Proposal Manager and Capture Manager for small to mid-sized government contracting firms. Sonya has a MA in Behavioral Science from University of Houston-Clear Lake, and received her BA in History from Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. She has served as the Chapter Chair for the Lone Star Chapter of APMP for seven years, served on the international board of APMP from 2015 to 2016, and currently serves on multiple APMP committees 

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Christopher S. Kälin, CPP APMP Fellow is a global authority on bid and proposal management. He is the Founder and Managing Partner of CSK Management. He has worked with companies around the world to improve success rates, generating over 50 billion dollars in business across many industries, including IT, telecoms, defence, transportation, financial industries, event organisation, gambling and business outsourcing. He developed the BidMaster™ Framework and the Storyline Method™ for developing compelling proposals. Chris regularly presents at business development conferences and sales conventions around the globe and conducts live and virtual training programmes on Winning business with convincing proposals and bid management best practices.

Chris was co-founder and chairman of the German-speaking APMP chapter (Association of Proposal Management Professionals) and regional director for Europe/Africa. He is APMP-certified at Professional Level (CPP APMP) and is an APMP Approved Trainer. In 2013, he received the prestigious Fellows Award. He graduated with a degree in Business Administration and Information Technology from Zurich University.

Virtual Summit : Sep 9 -11 2020
https://www.bid-summit.com/

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Mark Taylor  is Managing Director and a Founder Member of Shipley UK. Having studied Electronic Engineering with Medical Electronics, Mark embarked on a generalist journey spanning 15 years in medical equipment manufacturing, aerospace and defence. He held roles in production engineering, design engineering, engineering consultancy and business winning. Mark pursued his practical enthusiasm for lifelong learning at Nottingham Trent University where he was Course Leader for an Executive MBA Course and subsequently as Head of Training for Linklaters, an international Law Firm.

During his 19 years with Shipley, Mark has been lucky to work with inspiring clients for whom he has designed multinational business winning curriculum’s and delivered over 500 workshops. Always, Mark’s aim is to enthuse specialists from all disciplines to become involved in business winning and to help them develop the skills to do so.

Mark is from Bermondsey and now lives in Worcester with his super wife, sceptical children and a supercilious cat.

The books I mentioned:

 Getting Things Done. David Allen. Piatkus. 2001

• Liberation Management. Tom Peters. Pan Books. 1992
  • Tom Peters is here and still talking about how kindness is more important than shareholder value : https://tompeters.com/
• Body and Soul. Anita Roddick. Ebury Press. 1991
• To Sell is Human. Daniel Pink, Canon Gate . 2014

 Reflective Practice

• The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action. Donald A. Schön (Arena) 1991

 The poem on Kindness

• https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/magazine/poem-small-kindnesses.html

 Steve Jobs Stanford Speech

• https://youtu.be/UF8uR6Z6KLc

  Didn’t mention but inspiring:

• Peter Drucker.  The Essential Drucker. Butterworth Heinemann. 2007

 Didn’t mention but injects some humour into management thinking:

• Don’t be Needy be Succeedy. The A to Zee of Motivitality. L. Vaughan Spencer (aka : Neil Mullarkey of the Comedy Store. London). Profile Books. 2008

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