Government Excellence Pioneers Shield For Individuals / Teams
Communicator of the Year Medal (Individual)
This category for an individual whose leadership, vision, creativity, & dedication change lives.
Best Institutional Transformation Team (Team)
This category recognises a team who has made an exceptional contribution and long-term positive impact in their organisation through a series of transformation and continuous improvement. They continuously look for new ways to innovate and push the boundaries of local public service deployment.
Women Leader Of The Year Gold Medal (Individual)
This prestigious category aims to recognize an inspiring women personality for her exceptional championship in creating a diverse working environment and promoting gender equality at every level. The award acknowledges empowering initiatives and innovative actions taken to inspire women.
Best Teaching Assistant Professor award of the year 2023
This category recognises an Assistant Professor who has made an exceptional contribution and long-term positive impact in their univeristy through a series of transformation and continuous improvement. .
Humanism and Excellence in Teaching Award
This category for the innovative use of digital tools and technology, from re-modelling existing services, to creating totally new and dynamic services that lead to improved outcomes
Gold medal for Teaching Excellence
This category is allocated to teachers whose innovation in Teaching development methods, management, planning, and implementation. .
“Happiness First” Leader Gold Medal (Individual)
This coveted category aims to felicitate an individual who has implemented innovative policies and procedures towards driving happiness in the organization.
The Rising Star Gold Medal (Individual)
This category recognizing a government employee who has made a significant impact within the first 8 years.
Nominees who have demonstrated both potential to succeed, and substantial achievement
Nominees who have inspired others.
The Inspirational Leadership Gold Medal (Individual)
After overcoming the challenging year of 2020, this award has been introduced to honor the organization who through their thought leadership and responsiveness to the situation, were able to adapt to the disruptions caused in the business due to the pandemic and have now bounced back in the industry
The Health & Wellbeing Gold Medal (Team or Individual)
This category recognizing people who have made a highly effective contribution to promoting or improving health and wellbeing within their organization. We will be looking for: Successful interventions to improve health and wellbeing with a positive and quantifiable outcome; Innovative approaches to promoting or measuring positive mental or physical wellbeing; Nominees who create a great place to work and inspire others to do the same.
The Innovation Gold Medal (Team or Individual)
This category recognizing the outstanding advancement or application innovation to improve policy, service delivery or public administration. We are looking for: Nominees who have challenged the status quo, or who have taken measured risks to improve outcomes by innovating; Nominees who have learned from failure as well as from success; Work that has inspired others to innovate or has the potential to do so.
The Collaboration Gold Medal (Team or Individual)
This category recognising excellent collaboration that spans the boundaries between sectors, administrations, or layers of government. We will be looking for:
Nominees whose work has put the citizen first, ahead of narrow interests.
Work that has tackled a really knotty problem, where collaboration has not worked before.
Investment in relationships or process improvement, so that foundations have been laid for future joint working.
Customer Happiness Officer Gold Medal (Individual)
This category recognising excellent collaboration that spans the boundaries between sectors, administrations, or layers of government. We will be looking for:
Nominees whose work has put the citizen first, ahead of narrow interests.
Work that has tackled a really knotty problem, where collaboration has not worked before.
Investment in relationships or process improvement, so that foundations have been laid for future joint working.
Innovator Young Employee Gold Medal (Individual)
This category is allocated to graduated employees and workers in government departments, and should complete a period of no less than six months and not more than two and a half years from the date of appointment.
Nominees who inspire others.
An inclusive, confident and engaging approach.
Strong evidence that the nominee's leadership is linked to improved performance by their organization.
Best Mentor of the Year Institutional Shield Award
The Mentor of the Year Award recognizes an individual who has made an impact on other advancement professionals through their mentorship. Candidates should be nominated by a mentee who has benefited directly from the personal and professional leadership of the mentor. We define a mentor simply as an individual who has provided guidance and support to a professional colleague in one or more of the following areas: sponsorship, coaching, protection, exposure/visibility, support, acceptance and confirmation. There are no specific requirements related to years of service or scope of the relationship.
Best Human resources Institutional Employee Award
This category is allocated to any government employees whose innovation in human resources management, planning, practice, and the use of technology.
Best Technology Institutional Employee Award
This category is allocated to any government employees whose innovation in technology development, management, planning, and implementation.
Best Field Institutional Employee Award
This category is allocated to any government employees whose innovation in Field practice.
Best strategy Institutional Employee Award
This category is allocated to any government employees whose innovation in strategy planning and practice.
Best IT Institutional Employee Award
This category is allocated to any government employees whose innovation in IT planning and practice.
Best Administration and procurement Institutional Employee Award
This category is allocated to any government employees whose innovation in Administration and procurement planning and practice.
Best Sponsorship and Partnerships Institutional Employee Award
This category is allocated to any government employees whose innovation in Sponsorship and Partnerships planning and practice, management.
Best Marketing and Promotion relations Institutional Employee Award
This category is allocated to any government employees whose innovation in marketing planning and practice, social media content creation and moderation, management, and marketing.
Best Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative for Business Culture
Corporate Social Responsibility has the power to capture the hearts and minds of employees and other stakeholders, by giving even greater meaning and purpose to their efforts.
This category is open for people who have put CSR at the heart of their Business Culture and seen outstanding results.
The judges are keen to grasp how persons have enacted this focus on corporate social responsibility, and how this has had a direct and positive impact on culture. Entries will cover how persons have progressed corporate social responsibility at a cultural, rather than a procedural, level, and the business benefits that have arisen from this. As well as describing how the culture of the business has changed, submissions should also fully outline the transformation journey itself, including how any barriers or challenges were overcome.