HRO Today Association Company/Team Award Nomination Form – North America

Nominate a team, either at your own company or another, that has made an inspirational impact on a product, group, organization, or even the HR industry. All nominations are required to provide evidence of how nominees garnered impactful results through work within their organizations or the HR industry overall.

You may submit nominations for one or multiple categories. Choose the award for which you are submitting a nomination below. If you’d like to submit multiple nominations, please submit separate nomination forms.

Best In Class: Candidate Experience/Company Reputation

This award recognizes a company for excellence in attracting and engaging people and delivering profitable growth through their employer branding efforts. Winners in this category should demonstrate success with candidate experience and branding efforts for their employees and candidates, and also show how this coincides with or is linked to the focus, care and coherence that has long characterized effective management of the customer brand experience.

Best in Class: Employee Experience & Retention

A positive Employee Experience breeds happy employees, which not only builds a stronger work culture, but also impacts business performance. Tell us about your best talent management programs, showcase your employee experience success stories and key retention strategies to ensure job satisfaction and that make your company a great place to work!

Best in Class: HR Technology

How is your company utilizing technology differently, more efficiently, and in ways that make the lives of your employees and/or customers happier? Showcase your latest technology advancement, upgrade, or unique solution that uses or enables technology to work more efficiently and successfully on one or more areas of the Human Resource function. This can be a standalone private labeled technology developed for use within your company or a new technology that you’ve taken to market for the entire industry.

Business Partnership

A business partner or alliance can be crucial for businesses. Tell us about a business partnership between an organization and an HR services or technology provider and why it is successful. IMPORTANT! This is a dual award. If a nomination is chosen as a finalist, BOTH parties are expected to attend the ceremony and BOTH will be listed on the actual award.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Excellence

Diversity is the mix, and inclusion is making the mix work. More formally, diversity is the composition of individuals in a group. Inclusion consists of the requisite programs and organizational strategies that welcome and embrace the strengths each person brings to the mix. How does your company excel in these areas?

HR Team of the Year

This award recognizes the HR Team that has excelled within their function and across the organization by partnering with key executives and stakeholders, employees, and/or HR services and technology partners. The winner in this category should be able to showcase not only their HR excellence through initiatives created and completed, but also cross-functional synergies and bottom line performance.

Innovation in HR

This award recognizes forward thinking, innovation, or a breakthrough idea, resulting in improved employee and/or customer satisfaction, better business performance, and/or an advancement for the industry. This award recognizes a new and creative solution, process or product that really made an impact at your organization and may just be considered a game-changer within the Human Resources industry!

Recruitment Team of the Year

Recruitment teams manage the process of finding and hiring the best-qualified candidates from within or outside an organization in a timely and cost-effective manner. The recruitment process may include analyzing the requirements of a job, attracting applicants, screening and selecting candidates, hiring, metrics and data collection, and/or integrating the new employee to the organization. This award recognizes the recruitment TEAM that does this best!

Nominee Information

Details about the person being nominated.

Nominee/Team Name *

Nominee Title *

Nominee Company *

Nominee Email *

Nominee Work Phone *

Your organization has operations in the following regions (check all that apply):

North America (Canada and U.S.)
Asia Pacific (APAC)
Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA)

Nominee Company's Industry

Award Category – North America *

Best In Class: Candidate Experience/Company Reputation
Best in Class: Employee Experience & Retention
Best in Class: HR Technology
Business Partnership Excellence
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Excellence
HR Team of the Year
Innovation in HR
Recruitment Team of the Year

*To nominate for more than one award, please submit the form again.

A summary of why the team/organization should be considered for this award:

List the major contributions and accomplishments (progress and/or actual results realized from actions) that the team/organization has made and how they got buy-in from stakeholders to support or reinforce their plan:

Provide any applicable examples of messaging/communications and the vehicles used to announce or inform people about the new initiatives/programs utilized and/or actions taken:

How have they contributed to the overall mission, strategic plan, and/or brand of the organization?

Provide an example of a specific challenge, solution, and the outcome using specific data and/or metrics (where possible)

Explain why the team/organization should be considered an industry leader in this category – what are they doing that other organizations are not?

What strategies, resources, and/or best practices did the team/organization employ to generate these results?

Provide examples of lessons learned or things, in hindsight, you may have done differently and why. Were there things initially planned or executed that needed to be revised or removed?

How will you sustain the momentum and ensure continued success and/or what do you see as potential evolutions to further enhance or support this initiative?

Please post any links to articles, whitepapers, speeches, or other published content to support the nomination. You may also upload supporting PDF documents below.

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Nominator

Details of the person submiting the nomination.

Nominator Full Name *

Nominator Title *

Nominator Company *

Nominator Work Phone *

Nominator Email *

Please note:

all nominations become property of the HRO Today Association and may be published/referenced in HRO Today and supporting publications, social media, and the HRO Today and HRO Today Association websites. If you have concerns about your information being published in any of these venues, please contact Jackie.Wilson@SharedXpertise.com for more information.

Due to the overwhelming number of award submissions, only finalists will be contacted.