Home About ESP FAQs Eligibility Requirements Submitting a Suggestion Agency ESP Coordinators Award Winners   How do you know if your inspiration may become an award-winning suggestion? The pointers below may show you how to develop a winning idea and help you avoid some common barriers to success.   A good suggestion will do one or more of the following: Improve methods, accounting practices, housekeeping, quality of products, office procedures, protection of property, or employee morale. Reduce cost of materials or services, safety hazards, waste, or maintenance. Eliminate spoilage, duplication, breakage, wasted effort, and bottlenecks. Increase service delivery, production of materials, and the amount of work produced generally. Increase state revenue. Combine operations, methods, procedures, or official forms. Conserve time, material, equipment, and natural resources. Invent new equipment, new methods of operation, or new products.   Some suggestions that cannot be considered include those that: Would normally be expected in the performance of the employee's job or which the employee can implement without higher-level approval. Constitute a personal grievance or complaint. Request a change in salary or position. Do not include a solution or plan for improvement. Are the result of assigned or contracted audits, studies, surveys, reviews, or research. Concern proposals that management can document as already under active consideration. Duplicate another suggestion under consideration or one which has been rejected or approved in the past two years; Propose using methods or resources already available, or changing an existing fee.
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