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The Workies 2019

The Talent, Culture, Brand & Technology Awards

Awards Schedule

  • May 22nd, 2019 Entry Opening Date
  • September 25th, 2019 Entry Closing Date
  • October 7th, 2019 Shortlist Announced
  • October 24th, 2019 Awards Ceremony

ABOUT THE AWARDS

The Workies is a unique award program that recognizes, rewards and celebrates the achievements of Talent, Culture, Brand and Technology leaders disrupting and innovating within the HR industry worldwide.

Our industry is transforming and with it, the tools we use in our practice. In the workforce of today (and tomorrow), innovation and disruption is key to remaining relevant. Existing awards do not recognize the holistic elements it takes to recruit, retain and streamline Human Resources.

In order to encourage lasting change, we will honor leaders doing work that reflects the mission of The Workies. Those that are supporting talent, building a sustainable culture & brand and creating new technologies that are all disrupting HR for the good.

Brought to you by the team behind DisruptHR NYC, the awards will take place at the Work Awesome Conference 2019.

 

SHORTLIST

Best Onboarding Process Tydy/Unilever
  Zappos
  Quora
   
HR Team Of The Year A Modern Way to Work
  Wegman's
  Johnson & Johnson
   
Best Use of Employee Benefits The Muse
  Ultimate Software
  Squarespace
   
Best Coaching/Mentorship Program iMentor
  Soho House / Routes In
  GoCoach
   
Best Emerging HR Leader Jaime Battle, Airbnb
  Theresa Pauzer, 1010 Data
  Madison Butler, EverlyWell
   
Best Learning & Development Initiative Level52
  Burberry
  AbleTo
   
HR Director Of The Year Angela Shaw
  LaToya Lyn, Compass
  Brett Frank, Slalom
   
Best Employee Engagement  Online Rewards
  Etsy
  UiPath
   
Best Use of Video ThirtyThree/Capita
  TDIndustries
  Rolls Royce
   
Best Internal Comms ThirtyThree/ACI WW
  Hootsuite
  Delta Airlines 
   
Best Purpose Initiative Ultimate Software 
  Kroger 
  Sweetgreen 
   
Best Diversity & Inclusion Initiative Audeliss
  L'Oreal 
  Knotel 
   
Best Employer Brand Zappos
  L'Oreal
  UiPath
   
Best Workplace Design Delos HQ
   
  The Barbarian Group
   
Best Engagement Technology League
  Reward Gateway
  Werkin
   
Best Sourcing Technology Reflik
  Greenhouse
  JobDiva
   
Best HR Support Technology Sapling
  Ultimate Software
  Lattice

CATEGORIES

TALENT
The Workies honor those that find innovative ways to source, recruit and nurture talent. Recognizing the work of HR teams within companies and organizations from the public, private and non-profit sectors
Best Learning & Development Initiative

Recognizing companies that have developed an innovative L&D strategy that aligns with the overall business strategy, and who can show evidence of improved enagement and performance.

Best Talent Management Initative

Recognizing companies that have adopted a proactive approach to talent management and succession planning. This can include how a company spots talent and how they deliver and monitor results.

Best Mobility Initiative

Recognizing the internal mobility opportunities of a company. This includes lateral or vertical movement (promotion/transfer) of employees.

Best Mentorship or Coaching Program

Recognizing companies offering orginial and successful coaching for employees, to better perform a job or task. Alternatively, a standout mentorship relationship can also be entered.

Best HR Compliance

Awarding effective HR compliance programs integrated successfully into business strategies, to keep people in the organization informed and safe.

Best Use of Employee Benefits

Recognizing companies that have used employee benefits in a strategic way aligned to their organizational objectives. These can range from PTO, family leave and student loan reimbursement to massages, gym memberships, and everything in between.

Best Onboarding Process

Recognizing outstanding examples of companies introducing employees to the expectations, skills, knowledge and culture of the company. This includes engaging recent hires and current employees moving roles.

Best Review Process

Reognizing teams and companies implementing original and forward-thinking performance reviews. This includes approaching a standard annual review critically and considering alternatives for your team and company.

HR Impact on Business Strategy

Recognizing individuals or a team that has added value to their organization through an innovative, clear or determined solution. The winning intervention should show HR at it's most creative and flexible.

Best In House Recruitment Team

Awarding internal departments responsible for recruiting talent, without the need for external agencies. Those that have successfully completed volume recruitment drives, or filled hard to place roles, or at the top executive level.

Best Emerging HR Leader of the Year

The Emerging HR Leader of the Year award recognizes leaders who have made outstanding contributions to their organizations and who exemplify the increasingly strategic role in HR in business today

Best HR Team of the Year (Small / Med / Large)

Recognizing teams for their work within the function and partnering with those outside of HR, through specific projects or general attraction and retention of talent.

Best HR Director of the Year (Small / Med / Large)

The Best Director of the Year award recognizes Directors who have made outstanding contributions to their organizations and who exemplify the increasingly strategic role in HR in business today

View all categories in this group
CULTURE & BRAND
The Workies honor those that build a culture that retains, rewards and grows talent, and a brand that reflects authenticity. Recognizing the work of HR teams and marketing agencies, rewarding those that have created an authentic brand and culture. And have delivered successful and results driven campaigns.
Best Diversity & Inclusion Initiative

Recognizing companies that have rolled out a diversity & inclusion initiative that has delivered positive results by encouraging applications from under-represented groups, flexible working schemes, or strategy to improve inequality. Entries should reflect a true shift in the diversity of the workforce.

Best Employee Engagement

Recognizing organizations that are seeing amazing input from staff through effective employee engagement. This will include multiple touchpoints to reach employees and make them feel valued.

Best Purpose or CSR Initiative

Recognizing companies that have a clear corporate social responsibility program throughout the organization. Awarding those that have demonstrated the role of HR in the strategy and execution of initiatives.

Best Employer Brand

Recognizing companies that have a clear employer brand, promoting the culture and key values. It must be demonstrated through materials (web/printed/digital) externally and internally, and a realistic portrayal of the company values.

Best Employer Website

Recognizing an exceptional employer website, effectively using employer brand to attract talent and convey values, principles and mission, in a digital space. Particular attention paid to the design and user experience.

Best Workplace Design

Rewarding strategic, innovative and informed use of workplace design to provide the best working culture for employees, whether in-office or remote.

Best Internal Communications Initiative

Awarding the best use of internal communications, either for a project or ongoing initiative. Recognizing stand-out communications, using digital, print or experential plaforms.

Best Use of Video

Recognizing the best use of video including film, video, cinema, and television.

Best Graduate Recruitment Campaign

Recognizing the best graduate recruitment campaign, aimed at recruiting the best talent for the company. This can include digital, print or experiential, and other forms of marketing. Please include information on the company website if relevant.

Best Recruitment Event

Rewarding companies that have excelled in production of a recruitment event either on-campus or off.

Best Health & Wellbeing Initiative

Recognizing an innovative company strategy for health and wellbeing in the workplace, showing links to engagement and productivity.

View all categories in this group
TECHNOLOGY
The Workies honor those that find innovative ways to use technology to attract, recruit & retain talent. Recognizing the best HR technology solution providers and front runners in the digital space
Best Sourcing Technology

Recognizing the best sourcing technology including career advice & coaching, job boards, crowd sourced recruitment, referral tools, temporary labor market and recruitment marketplace.

Best Engagement Technology

Recognizing the best engagement technology including bots, employer reviews, candidate relationship management, social networks, brand creation and management.

Best Selection Technology

Recognizing the best selection technology including matching systems, video interviewing, skill assessment, resume parsing and behavioural assessment.

Best Hiring Technology

Recognizing the best hiring technology including freelance management systems, ATS staffing companies, ATS corporations, vendor management systems and analytics.

Best Use of AI in Recruiting Technology

Recognizing technology that uses the application of artificial intelligence to the recruitment function. It is designed to streamline or automate some part of the recruitment process, especially high volume tasks.

View all categories in this group

ENTRY CRITERIA

TALENT

The Workies honor those that find innovative ways to source, recruit and nurture talent. Recognizing the work of HR teams within companies and organizations from the public, private and non-profit sectors. 500-word case study plus evidence. Specific category requirements below

Best Learning & Development Initiative
Case study of the L&D strategy and how it feeds into broader business objectives. Show success of L&D work by clear metrics on business impact and how it has strengthened the company.
Best Talent Management Initiative
Case study of the Talent Management initiative and how it feeds into broader business objectives. Show success of work by clear metrics on business impact and how it has strengthened the company.
Best Mobility Initiative
Case study illustrating the internal mobility opportunities to improve employee & organizational effectiveness, and adjust to changing business operations. Please provide metrics and anecdotal evidence.
Best Mentorship or Coaching Program
TBC
Best HR Compliance
Case study showing true integration of HR compliance, to ensure laws are complied. Evidence should show understanding of complicance initiative from the top down, and impactful ways of ensuring all staff are aware and following valued behavior.
Best Use of Employee Benefits
Entries should demonstrate innovation, ROI, flexibility and evidence that rewards are making a positive difference. We encourage you to share any creative benefits.
Best Onboarding Process
A clear case study showing excellence in onboarding. Must show use of relevant and impactful tools to engage staff, including authentic messaging. Metrics will include retention of onboarded employees, both in metrics and anecdotal evidence. This can include increased productivity and increases in revenue.
Best Review Process
A case study illustrating the review process in place, including details on how this has evolved over time. Must include evidence of success, including metrics on productivity of employees and the rate of promotion or other development.
HR Impact on Business Strategy
This is a chance to show the broad impact of HR on business strategy. A case study illustrating ongoing work by HR that has improved the business. This can be both revenue improvements and/or culture and/or brand.
Best In House Recruitment Team
A clear case study showing excellence of in-house recruitment. Must show use of successful recruitment drives, including description and results.
Best Emerging HR Leader of the Year
Description of candidate - background, role, department. Examples of impact the individual has had on the company, including metrics and feedback. And the future impact they are likely to make, considering work done thus far.
Best HR Team of the Year (Small / Med / Large)
A clear case study, outlining the impact your team has on people within and outside of your department. How has your team helped business development? Use metrics, feedback and referrals.
Judges will consider the scale of your team and service provision and the business environment you operate in.
Best HR Director of the Year (Small / Med / Large)
Description of Director - background, role, impact. Examples of the outstanding impact the individual has had on the company, including metrics and feedback.


CULTURE & BRAND

The Workies honor those that build a culture that retains, rewards and grows talent, and a brand that reflects authenticity. Recognizing the work of HR teams and marketing agencies, rewarding those that have created an authentic brand and culture. And have delivered successful and results-driven campaigns. 500-word case study plus supporting evidence. Specific category requirements below 

Best Diversity & Inclusion Initiative
A casy study explaining the D&I initiative, how it was implemented and the affect it's had on business objectives. Particular attention will be paid to a true shift in D&I statistics, however the company reports these. Supporting evidence should include visual references, including messaging and branding.
Best Employee Engagement
Entries should include a clear description of the employee engagement strategy, why it was implemented and measurable results, ultimately showing increased employee satisfaction.
Best Purpose or CSR Initiative
Entries should include a case study outlining the company CSR initiatives, the messaging and branding used and HR's involvement. Please include evidence showing how employees are engaged to help create a positive change on important social and environmental issues.
Best Employer Brand
Entries must provide a clear and concise description of the employer brand, how it came to be (e.g. research and creative input), and proof of success. This can include measurable benefits to the business, impact of branding on key stakeholders and understanding of messaging internally & externally.
Best Workplace Design
A case study outlining the design of a workplace, why it was implemented and how it has improved working conditions for either all, or a subsection, of staff. Evidence can include floorplans, specific furniture or tools, accessibility implementations etc.
Best Internal Communications Initiative
Description of the internal communications strategy, including why, how, where and what makes it successful internally. Please include branding examples, messaging and metrics that support the success of the campaign.
Best Use of Social Media
TBC
Best Use of Video
TBC
Best Graduate Recruitment Campaign
Description of campaign and how brand and message is aimed at the target market. Include examples of the marketing and branding, and how it follows an informed strategy. Please also include evidence of success, using metrics and feedback, and how the campaign is improving business objectives.
Best Recruitment Event
Judges will look for a unique and innovative recruitment event, showcasing why this approach was used to recruit for the particular target market. Please include evidence of success, including an increase in hiring numbers and how business objectives were achieved.
Best Health & Wellbeing Initiative
A case study explaining why health and wellbeing is important, whether it's company-wide or for a particular group, and the implementation. Please include any branding or unique implementation methods, plus evidence of success in metrics and feedback from employees.

TECHNOLOGY

The Workies honor those that find innovative ways to use technology to attract, recruit & retain talent. Recognizing the best HR technology solution providers and front runners in the digital space. 500-word case study plus supporting evidence. Specific category requirements below.

Best Sourcing Technology
A description of the platform, why & when it was created and how it successfully helps companies source the best talent. Please provide evidence in the form of metrics (web stats/applications/conversion) and client case studies.
Best Engagement Technology
A description of the platform, why & when it was created and how it successfully helps companies engage with the best talent. Please provide evidence in the form of metrics (web stats/applications/conversion) and client case studies.
Best Selection Technology
A description of the platform, why & when it was created and how it successfully helps companies select the best talent. Please provide evidence in the form of metrics (web stats/applications/conversion) and client case studies.
Best Hiring Technology
A description of the platform, why & when it was created and how it successfully helps companies hire the best talent. Please provide evidence in the form of metrics (web stats/applications/conversion) and client case studies.
Best Use of AI in Recruiting Technology
A description of the platform, why & when it was created and how it successfully helps companies hire the best talent. Please provide evidence in the form of metrics (web stats/applications/conversion) and client case studies.



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EVENT INFO

The Workies Awards 2019 will take place on Thursday 24th October 2019 at the Grant Thornton in New York

Timings

8am Arrival at Work Awesome Conference
9am - 5pm Award Winners announced throughout the day
5pm Post Conference Drinks

Venue Information

Grant Thornton
757 3rd Ave 9th floor
New York
NY 10017
USA

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