Awards News – The Latest From The World of Business Awards

The Sunday Times Best Places To Work, The Great Place to Work scheme and The UK’s 100 Best Companies to Work For are some of the most popular ‘Best Employer’ league tables. Boost’s Rebecca Carpenter discusses these and similar ‘Best Places to Work’ schemes, as well as awards with ‘Employer of the Year’ categories, to help you decide which might be best for your company.

Search is an exciting arena, a true battleground for the soldiers of SEO, SEM and PPC, where everyone is constantly trying to improve their rankings and climb above the competition. Just try searching ‘Best SEO Agency’, for example, to see the unending war to win business being played out. Put simply, winning a search award puts you ahead of the competition and makes a measurable difference to sales conversion. Read Boost’s guide to which search awards you should enter.

After decades of incremental innovation in learning and development, the pandemic brought about a period of radical change. Previous assumptions about how certain types of learning should be delivered have been replaced with the urgent need to provide effective learning across all topics without physical contact. From an awards perspective this has led to a change in the types of stories being entered, the categories award schemes offer, and what awards judges are expecting when they read entries. But which awards should you enter? Please read our comprehensive guide to entering training awards.

Do you believe that your business, team, or an individual leader has demonstrated outstanding achievement, resilience, ingenuity and delivered inspirational results in the last 12-18 months? Run by Awards International, The UK Business Awards (UKBA) provides an independent “seal of approval” to honour such accomplishments. Read our guide to everything you need to know about entering these awards and get the recognition you and your team deserve.

Boost’s Lesley Billen explores the proliferation of mental health awards – from awards that recognise the best mental health and wellbeing initiatives in the workplace, to awards that recognise the excellent mental health strategies and innovations in the healthcare industry. As barriers continue to be broken down surrounding mental health, gaining recognition for best practice becomes another vital tool in widening the discussion further.

To win the King’s Awards for Enterprise brings unparalleled prestige, exposure and recognition, with many recognising it as the highest UK official award for businesses. Anyone who could win an award from HM King Charles III would certainly be mad not to try. Having written 52 winning entries for clients, I hope this article will help you decide whether you COULD win an award, and if so, HOW to do so.

The UK Customer Experience Awards is aimed at organisations who strive to enhance the customer experience they offer in an innovative way. Celebrating its fifteenth-year anniversary, the CX programme has become a key staple in the awards diary for companies large and small. Milly Bones, a former UK CXA judge, guides you through everything you need to know before entering.

You have fantastic internal DE&I initiatives, great communications, senior buy-in and measurable impacts within the business and beyond. Why not celebrate your DE&I initiatives with your colleagues and grow your reputation? Read our comprehensive guide to diversity, equity and inclusion awards.

Do you want to gain essential business insight, hear your employees’ voice and enter the Sunday Times hall of fame? Look no further than this newly launched workplace award programme – The Sunday Times Best Places to Work, Powered by WorkL. Find out what your employees think quickly and with minimal effort and compare yourself with other great employers.

It’s not surprising that some of the most popular awards during and after the Covid-fuelled digital revolution are digital awards in all their many iterations. This article aims to help you navigate the many options and choose the right digital awards to invest your time and money in. It covers digital marketing awards, digital event awards, digital transformation awards, digital learning and digital retail awards and ecommerce awards amongst others.

Now a true staple in the calendars of HR and business professionals in the UK, the UK Employee Experience Awards returns for 2024 with 18 categories – each one focussing on different aspects of employee experience. Aimed at UK-based businesses, the UK Employee Experience awards celebrates employees and their ability to push the limits of best practices and innovation in employee experience – in companies large or small. Read our guide to everything you need to know before entering.

Winning high-profile business leader awards or coveted entrepreneur awards not only celebrates the fantastic work you do, it can elevate your professional profile – and that of your business. If you’re a business leader that wants to be recognised as an influential voice in your industry, or an entrepreneur wanting to celebrate the business you’ve built – you should definitely consider leadership awards and awards for entrepreneurs. But where to start? Read our breakdown of the best business leader and entrepreneur awards.

Have you successfully delivered a major HR strategy or project over the past year? If so, that project, your team, or the individuals involved may be eligible for an award. But with so many awards out there, do you need some help picking which award schemes to enter? Whether its talent management, recruitment, employee engagement or learning and development… Boost’s Chris Robinson says there’s an HR award and category that will be a perfect match for you.

Winning a customer service award is great way to impress customers, both current and potential. Boost’s Claudia Thorpe looks at 4 types of customer service awards and customer experience awards that you should enter, and which might best suit your team and your marketing goals. From Contact Centre Awards to Customer Service categories in General Business Awards, there are plenty of ways to show you provide exceptional customer service.

The Stonewall Workplace Equality Index is the definitive benchmark for an organisation’s progress on LGBT equality. Boost’s Emma Turnbull outlines everything you need to know about entering either the UK or the Global Indices. The application process is massive with the written element potentially over 35,000 words, plus a plethora of supporting material to show your policies, inclusion activity and more. Read our guide and contact us for help if you are considering applying and aiming to become a Top 100 Employer.

Studies have shown that women feel they have to work harder for recognition compared to their male counterparts and on average are less vocal about their success. One of the best, and simplest ways to gain recognition in the business world, is to be put forward for an award. Boost’s Amber Campbell aims to explore some of the business awards for women that are available and you might consider entering.

Around 90% of business awards recognise departments, people, or industry sectors. However, there is a whole collection of award schemes which recognise the business as a whole, irrespective of industry sector. We call these ‘general business awards’ and they include very prestigious schemes like the Chamber Business Awards and The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise. Chris Robinson explains which of these awards suit your business best, and provides some top tips for increasing your chances of winning one.

If a company wants to attract investment, its ESG rating is not just important, it’s critical. In this article, Boost’s Echo Ilott explores how ESG awards and rankings have become an increasingly important tool in proving and improving a company’s business-critical ESG rating.

The Real IT Awards RITA have been rewarding outstanding IT teams and projects since 2004. Our Awards Spotlight for RITA 2020 guides you through the history of the awards, past winners, the entry process and all of the categories for this year, including a raft of new ones. All the details you need to know about one of the most credible awards in the UK IT industry.

Okay, so you’ve achieved something big within your business and now you want to shout about it – and rightly so. The extensive world of awards awaits you…but how do you ensure your entry makes the coveted shortlist, and gives you the best chance of proudly accepting a shiny new trophy? Boost’s Lesley Billen talks you through how to win business awards.

Pensions Awards are on the increase. We surveyed over 400 business decision-makers and the results showed that over 72.1% are influenced by awards when choosing providers of financial services and a massive 81.0% are influenced by awards when choosing HR services (including employee benefits). Is it any wonder that awards in the pensions industry are not only highly sought after, but are also highly competitive? Read our guide to the best pensions awards to enter.

If you work in, or supply to, the insurance sector, then the good news is there is a fantastic choice of insurance awards to enter, and we are not just talking about the most famous like The British Insurance Awards and The Insurance Times Awards. However, with this choice comes a challenge – unless you have an unlimited budget, you’re going to have to be choosy. This article will help you pick which insurance awards to enter.

The awards sector is booming with literally thousands of award schemes taking place around the world each year. Our free list of business awards contains over 3,500 active listings and is still growing! And while you’ve no doubt heard of the industry heavy-hitters such as The National Business Awards, The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise, Employee Benefits Awards, Masters of Marketing Awards or UK IT Awards, there’s a plethora of obscure and incredibly niche ones too. Phil Stock explores the wonderful world of awards.

Entering Business Awards: Vanity or Sanity? With awards seemingly popping up all over the place, businesses could be forgiven for wondering just how valuable such a stamp of approval is.