The Best Initiative in Colleague Wellbeing & Development Award will recognise the organisation that have undertaken initiatives and programmes to support the wellbeing of colleagues, and programmes of development that have led to improvements across the business, impacting staff morale, talent retention, and personal growth.
Information for Submissions
Am I eligible to enter this award?
To enter The Best Initiative in Colleague Wellbeing & Development Award your organisation will need to have a membership with the Collaboration Network. If you and your organisation have a membership then you are eligible to enter and we welcome your submission.
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Is there a cost to enter this award?
No, these awards are completely free to enter for Members to recognise their brilliant achievements.
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How do we enter The Best Initiative in Colleague Wellbeing & Development Award?
To enter a submission for this award you will need to submit either a video presentation that builds on the criteria outlined below, which will be based on a scoring system (the presentation can be up to 20 minutes in length, with one or more of your team presenting), alternatively, you can enter a written submission in either PDF or Word doc format that can include any evidence to support the entry.
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Can you host us to record the presentation submission if we choose that option?
Yes. You can either record your presentation via your own choice of platform (Zoom, Teams, etc.) and send this to us, or alternatively, we can host you to record your session via the Collaboration Network team at a time of convenience. If you would like us to organise this for you, just get in touch info@collaborationnetwork.co.uk.
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What happens if we are shortlisted?
Shortlisted submissions will be invited to participate in a Q&A with the Judging Panel (see below) throughout July and August. The judges will then factor the scores for each presentation alongside the information, insight and context shared via the Q&A discussions which will help determine the winner.
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What are the timelines for the awards?
Award entries are open now, with the deadline for submissions being 28th June 2024. Shortlisted entries will be invited to a Judges Q&A session online throughout July and August.
The winners will be announced and presented with their award on 2nd October 2024 at the Annual Conference & Awards Ceremony.
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Great, how do we get started?
To get started, simply click below to confirm your intention to submit an entry to this award category. We can then help support you with your award submission and provide any additional guidance and support where appropriate.
Criteria for Award Submission
The Best Initiative in Colleague Wellbeing & Development Award
For your 20 minute presentation or written submission, we will be scoring based on the following areas and criteria. We need to know about your organisation, the problem you faced, how you dealt with it, what your actions achieved, what was particularly rewarding, exciting or enlightening resulting from your actions, and what legacy has it left.
What is your business background and context – 5 marks
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Introduce your organisation, customers served, key facts you would like to share and your part/role within the organisation, individually and as a team.
What was the challenge that needed to be met – 10 marks
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Tell us about your approach to understanding the needs of your colleagues and the problems they were facing, how they arose, who challenged you to fix them, and measurements of the size of the challenge (mental/physical health impacts, staff retention, cost of recruitment, staff satisfaction, limited candidates, executive awareness and action).
What did you do? – 20 marks
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Outline the story of what you undertook to meet the challenge above.
What were the outcomes? – 20 marks
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What were the metrics as you measured them?
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Who was affected? Staff, management, customers, sub-sets of customers, third parties, regulators, the public?
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Did you adopt new technology, ways of working, staff support mechanisms, training & development, etc?
What made it a success? – 20 marks
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What did the outcomes lead to?
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What improvements have you seen (qualitative and quantitative examples)?
What was the WOW factor? – 15 marks
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What do you believe makes your approach to wellbeing and colleague development special and unique?
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How was it innovative?
What are you going to do next? – 10 marks
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Following your successes, where is this going to lead?
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What ongoing differences has it made?
The Judging Panel
Anastasia Vinnikova
City Mental Health Alliance
Jo Howcroft
BSI
Ollie Wright
Estate Search
Natasha Dickinson
Money & Pensions Service
