This morning marked the SEMA New Product Awards Breakfast—headlined by Jay Leno—in the Paradise Event Center at the Westgate Resort in Las Vegas.
The exciting event was packed with eager participants and interested attendees waiting with tense anticipation for the thrilling results!
These awards are given to the most innovative and cutting-edge automotive aftermarket products that will be consumable in 2022.
The New Product Awards competition recognizes outstanding achievements in the development of products being introduced to the automotive specialty-equipment market at the SEMA Show.
Products are judged in 16 award categories, and each category has one winner and two runners-up.
More than 1,300 were entered into the 16 different Showcase categories to be considered for a SEMA New Product Awards this year.
Winners were selected based on a variety of factors—the superiority of innovation, technical achievement, quality and workmanship, consumer appeal and marketability, and more.
The winners
Interior Accessory Product Winner: Cargo Dog, Cargo Dog
LAS VEGAS (Nov. 2, 2021) — The Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) announced its Best New Products Award winners this morning at the 2021 SEMA Show. These awards are given to the most innovative and cutting-edge automotive aftermarket products that will be consumable in 2022.
SEMA’s annual New Product Awards competition recognizes outstanding achievements in the development of products being introduced to the automotive specialty-equipment market at the SEMA Show. Products are judged in 16 award categories, and each category has one winner and two runners-up.
More than 1,300 were entered into the 16 different Showcase categories to be considered for a SEMA New Product Awards this year. Winners were selected based on a variety of factors that included superiority of innovation, technical achievement, quality and workmanship, consumer appeal and marketability, and more.
The New Product Award Winners are:
Interior Accessory Product Winner: Cargo Dog, Cargo Dog
Wheel and Related Product Winner: Carbon One, Litespeed Racing
About SEMA and the SEMA Show The SEMA Show is a trade show produced by the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA), a nonprofit trade association founded in 1963. Since the first SEMA Show debuted in 1967, the annual event has served as the leading venue bringing together manufacturers and buyers within the automotive specialty equipment industry. Products featured at the SEMA Show include those that enhance the styling, functionality, comfort, convenience and safety of cars and trucks. Additional details are available at www.SEMAShow.com or www.sema.org, 909/396-0289.
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Your Team & Customers Are Feeling Grief
& Need Compassion & Action
Can you recall a time when you or someone close to you was stricken with a level of fear so intense, that there was a thought of, “how convenient it would be to just die”? Obviously, you didn’t follow through, life is worth living, leaders always find a way. Fear focuses.
At any point of time, and especially in times of turbulence, there are people, customers, prospects, employees, vendors and friends, that are at a level of concern and fear that you might not totally appreciate. In any time of turbulence, the fear of change and the loss of normalcy, at the very least causes grief. In times like these you need to be as compassionate as you are with friends who have lost a loved one. While the grief is not as intense, the loss of normalcy in economic turbulence causes a type of grief that can be like that with the death of a loved one.
I believe that the first decision you should make as a leader in a time of turbulence is to have compassion for the grief that others are feeling. From much experience I know first-hand, that those at an echelon like yours, and even Fortune 500 CEOs experience grief in these trying times. I’ve counseled dozens of high-level CEOs in turbulent times about the agonizing decisions they must make and implement. But there is a power you and they have that cannot be left on the table.
The power of reassuring words can do wonders, here is one real life example:
“You need to know that your jobs are secure, I am not going to lay you off in this turbulent time. I need you for the inevitable uptick, and in fact you and I are going to innovate like never before in this down time and we will hit the ground running when the inevitable comeback takes place as it ALWAYS does.”
Nearly those exact words were recently shared by several of my clients. They weren’t initially realizing how powerful they would be, but when they finally said them out loud and in person and/or in video to their team, the impact was palpable. There were tears. The quality of the virtual meetings and innovation sessions with which I was involved afterwards took a leap to a new dimension of performance.
I call it innovation Jujitsu, it is the momentum of some amount of fear, grief and/or external uncertainty being redirected toward a vision of hope and change. It creates an energy that can be aimed toward devouring problems, challenges, and opportunities with an intrepidness like nothing you’ve ever seen.
Are you going to waste this opportunity of turbulence or are you going to seize it?
In the worst of times you learn who your friends are. You know this, your clients know this. Now the question is, are you ready to leverage this momentum to help those whom you most love to serve?
Reaching people in this time of turbulence is actually easier than ever. Several of my clients executed calling blitzes and even my CEO clients have made literally hundreds of calls in just a couple of days. They have been shocked at the great response to the personal touch and the simplest of questions.
Forget about all these sappy emails going out, “In the wake of…we want you to know that you are in our thoughts…” CRAP! Pick up the phone, call your top 100 contacts and after finding out how they and their family are doing just ask a simple question:
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Mark Faust works with CEOs and owners who have decided that healthy growth and innovation is what they want regardless of the economic environment. Since 1990, Mark has worked with over 300 companies and over fifty 3rd generation family owned businesses and helped them to grow and become much more profitable during the most turbulent of times. He is also a professional speaker, author and strategic growth coach to successful yet humble CEO’s. For a free copy of one of Mark’s books send an email to Mark@em1990.com
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