If you are passionate about the power of HR and have come up with a great people strategy, now is the time to shout about it! There is still have almost a month to enter the HR Excellence Awards 2017.
The longest-running awards in the arena of HR, these prestigious accolades provide important recognition for organizations and HR professionals that push the limits of people strategy.
Choosing the right category for you
Whether you are a doyenne of diversity strategies or a titan in talent management, the HR Excellence Awards have something for everyone.
With 18 awards to vie for, the categories include:
- Best HR team
- Best HR strategy from overseas
- Most effective recruitment strategy
- Best learning and development strategy
- Most innovative deployment of HR technology
- Best talent management strategy
- Most effective use of internal communications
- Health and wellbeing award
- Most effective benefits strategy
- Best CSR strategy
- Leading transformation award
- Outstanding employee engagement strategy
- Best youth employment strategy
- Diversity and inclusion award
- HR future leader of the year
- Most people-focused CEO
- HR director of the year
- HR excellence Gold Award
You can find out more about these categories and what the judges will look for in your submission by clicking here.
You can also get some useful advice on maximising your chances of winning an award by clicking here to read these 10 top tips. You will also see that there is useful advice from the judges as to what they consider to be key to an award-winning entry.
In particular, the judges seem to be looking for a strong narrative about people strategies that are ideally suited to the business and which can be shown to have made a genuine difference to employees and the success of the organisation.
To help you further, you can also take a look at the winners of last year’s HR Excellence Awards to see what set them apart in their awards categories.
How to enter the HR Excellence Awards 2017
You will need to submit your entry online by Monday 6th March 2017, so you still have a couple of weeks left to pull together a powerful submission.
The award winners will then be announced at the HR Excellence Awards gala dinner and awards ceremony on 27th June at the London Hilton on Park Lane.
Of course, if you are a Myhrtoolkit HR software user then we would love to hear about your submission and how you do in the awards.
But whoever you are, we wish you the best of luck. Pushing the boundaries of people management can only lead to more engagement, enthusiasm and success for those involved. That’s why it is so important that sometimes HR blows its own horn. Good luck to everyone and may the best people strategies win!
This article was brought to you by Myhrtoolkit, a suite of software modules designed to help you underpin your people strategies for truly transformative results.
Written by Fiona Sanderson
Fiona is Marketing Manager at myhrtoolkit. Her areas of expertise include HR systems, productivity, employment law updates, and creating HR infographics.