A popular Star of the Month scheme is to be revived.
It is exactly a year since the Reading Buses Star of the Month Awards were suspended due to coronavirus.
With 2020 forcing people to stay at home and with fewer customers travelling, Reading Buses recognised that the year wasn’t conducive to a stellar scheme. They replaced their end of year Star of the Year awards with a special GEM (Going the Extra Mile) Awards recognising their frontline heroes during the pandemic which attracted 134 nominations spread widely across the operation.
Now Reading Buses are set to re-start Star of the Month and inviting customers, employees and managers to nominate someone in the company whom they think has been consistently excellent, gone the extra mile or done something above and beyond.
There’s an online nomination form at https://www.reading-buses.co.uk/star which is now live for this month’s re-launch.
Said Robert Williams, Chief Executive Officer: “After the success of the GEM Awards this January we decided that the time was right to bring back our Star of the Month scheme to help recognise the hard work and dedication of our wonderful employees. We’re looking for nominations for anyone that a customer, employee or manager thinks has done something that little bit special. It may be someone who has helped you when you had a problem; some team members who worked together to solve a difficult situation; or perhaps it’s someone who is just brilliant all the time. We are looking for any of our amazing employees who have gone the extra mile to make your journey amazing; dazzled you with their kindness; gone beyond the call of duty; or done something remarkable. Whether it is a driver who is always cheery and brightens your day, a member of our customer service team who has been a huge help, an excellent engineer or one of our team doing great things – why not nominate them to show them what an excellent job they do.
“The first winners of this year’s Star of the month awards will be announced in April – we can’t wait to see who our worthy winner is.”
Reading Buses say they are looking for quality nominations to help show how amazing their team is, not only during the current difficult period, but also before and afterwards too.