AWARD CATEGORIES
Best apprenticeship scheme
Anglo American with Accenture UKI
Bishop Fleming LLP
Howdens
Kier
Pepper Advantage
UBS
Virgin Media O2
At a time when skills shortages are rife, particularly in the tech sector, any organisation that can home-grow talent stands to be head and shoulders above the competition. And that’s exactly the approach the winner of Best apprenticeship scheme, telecoms giant Virgin Media O2, adopted.With the newly merged entity responsible for maint...
Best change management initiative
Business Services Organisation
Coventry Building Society
Instead of a performance management process with objectives, mid-year reviews, end-of-year reviews and a performance rating, Coventry Building Society wanted something new and empowering that would help to create a place where all its people could be brilliant. Coventry asked its staff what they thought of the current performance manag...
e&
Mott MacDonald
Trayport
United Nations Development Programme
Vodafone
Best digital/technology initiative in HR/L&D
Deutsche Post DHL Group
In an effort to break away from traditional approaches and become more employee centric amid the height of the pandemic, Deutsche Post DHL (DPDHL) recognised the need to create a fresh learning strategy and reflect the needs of its 570,000 employees worldwide.As the company pondered how to join up all those people and ensure everyone h...
Lowell Financial
Mott MacDonald
Network Rail
Network Rail Training
SUEZ recycling and recovery UK
Tesco (supported by Electric Circus)
Best employee experience initiative
Acacia Training
Alzheimer's Society
Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Landbay Partners Ltd
Ombudsman Services
SUEZ recycling and recovery UK
When it launched its sustainability initiative, national environmental solutions company Suez wanted to enhance its employee experience by harnessing and increasing employee enthusiasm for sustainability.Its people share the firm’s commitment to the environment and to a triple bottom line, balancing people, the planet and profit in eve...
Virgin Money
Best flexible working initiative
Citizen
Housing provider Citizen summarised its commitment to its ~1,000 employees in terms of supporting and equipping them to do the best job they can. But, like many employers, the pandemic changed its whole approach: a 2020 survey showed 90 per cent of their employees wanted to work more flexibly in the future, while another poll a year la...
Reward Gateway
Worksome
Best health and wellbeing initiative – private sector
Bosch UK
When Bosch found through its Mental Health at Work 2020 summary report that 41 per cent of its staff experienced mental health symptoms caused or worsened by work during the pandemic, the organisation knew it had to do something.Spurred by the data, and also determined to combat the decline in positive mental health impacting absence r...
Bristol Myers Squibb
Centrica
Grosvenor Property UK
Softcat
SUEZ recycling and recovery UK
Ubisoft Reflections / Ubisoft Leamington
Best health and wellbeing initiative – public/third sector
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Fife College
Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership
Midland Heart
The Covid-19 pandemic posed a challenge for organisations to foster a safe and supportive working environment, where individuals felt included, valued and empowered to reach their full potential with colleagues’ wellbeing more important than ever. With this approach in mind, Midland Heart developed a wellbeing strategy that supported t...
North Wales Police
Shaw Trust
Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
Best HR/L&D consultancy
Culture Consultancy
Edgecumbe
Management Dynamics Global Ltd
Peoplewise Ltd
The Clear Company
Starting on a mission to tackle diversity challenges the construction sector is often familiar with, The Clear Company leaned on to its innovative equality, diversity and inclusion strategy to address the imbalance within its client’s workforce – infrastructure firm Balfour Beatty.The client was eager to understand the strategic value ...
The Connor Consultancy
The Wellbeing Project
Best HR/L&D supplier
Corndel
OpenBlend
OpenBlend created its unique performance management model, designed to facilitate effective employee-manager conversations, in a bid to move away from the traditional ‘tick box’ method of monitoring performance and objectives. Through its partnership with leading estate agency Foxtons, established in 2020, the company achieved its goal...
Own The Room Europe Limited
Client: Citi
Best inclusion and diversity initiative
Browne Jacobson
Network Rail
Openreach
Shaw Trust
With 3,600 employees and 800 volunteers, Shaw Trust is a not-for-profit social company that supports people with disabilities and social and economic issues from ‘kid to career’. The trust provides services to a variety of clientele that encounters numerous obstacles and it saw the value of hiring and maintaining diverse talent in deli...
The Sovini Group
UNISON
UnLtd
Best L&D initiative – private sector
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Arla Foods Ltd
Being part of the dairy industry, which is a cooperative business model with tight learning budgets, Arla Foods recognised the demand for employees to learn efficiently.As its 2017 annual employee survey indicated a need for enhanced skills development, but also opportunities to grow in terms of employees’ careers, the company responde...
CGI
Circle Health Group
Howdens
Openreach
PageGroup
Best L&D initiative – public/third sector
Civil Service HR Casework team and MatchFit
Devon Air Ambulance
EY and Sellafield
Network Rail
Network Rail
Shaw Trust
United Nations Development Programme
The well-known international organisation focused on eradicating poverty and inequality, the United Nations Development Programme, launched its initiative, Leaders for 2030, last year. Its initiative, a comprehensive senior executive leadership programme, sought to excel in leadership and people management, business management and inte...
Best organisational development or organisational design initiative
Circle Health Group
Circle Health Group is the UK’s largest private healthcare provider, offering a network of 50+ private hospitals and employing more than 8,000 permanent employees. In 2020 a merger between BMI Healthcare and Circle Health took place, creating Circle Health Group. This merger brought big changes and challenges, including the merging of ...
Civil Service HR Casework and MatchFit
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust
Lakeland
Mott MacDonald
Saudi Aramco
Veolia
Best people analytics initiative
Cadent Gas Limited
Standard Chartered
The topic of hybrid and flexible working has become a key issue for people teams across a range of organisations, and the winner of the people analytics initiative has shown how vital this is in the workforce of today. UK-based global bank Standard Chartered understood this need, which is why, in 2021, they launched their phased approa...
Best resourcing initiative
Audit One, hosted by Cumbria Northumbria Tyne and Wear NHS Trust
Circle Health Group
Midland Heart
Police Service of Northern Ireland
In 2021, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) – the policing organisation for all of Northern Ireland – decided to transform its approach to recruitment by launching a new initiative that would alter perceptions about the PSNI as a career option, confront recruitment barriers, and increase the reach of its advertising among un...
Seetec
Trayport
Veolia
Best responsible business initiative
Accenture & World Economic Forum, in collaboration with Cognician
RL Challenge
To be announced on the night
Best reward or recognition initiative
Howdens
SUEZ recycling and recovery UK
Recycling and waste management company Suez launched Payroll Autosaving for new joiners last year. After testing the waters with a trial, in 2021 it launched the scheme in partnership with TransaveUK, automatically enrolling new starters in the scheme with the option to opt out.The company said EAP data and employee survey results duri...
Welcome Break
Westminster Drug Project (WDP)
Best SME people management initiative
Lee Kum Kee (Europe) Ltd
Maverick Media
After video game creative agency Maverick Media put the finger on the pulse of its employees’ experience, it decided to act on the feedback and foster better engagement and employee experience.Realising that the company’s work-life balance was affected by a significant amount of overtime work, the organisation decided to launch the ‘Ha...
N T Killingley Ltd
Scrutton Bland
Strategi Solutions
Best talent management initiative
Coca-Cola HBC
Network Rail
United Nations Development Programme
This entry impressed the judges with its clear focus on tackling underrepresentation across the organisation on a global basis and across many aspects of inclusion. The programme was committed to changing lives and changing perceptions by releasing talent with demonstrable support and leadership of those pioneering this approach. The U...
Vakif Katilim
Michael Kelly outstanding student award - foundation/intermediate level
Gemma Berrington
Softcat Ltd
After being a fully remote workforce during the pandemic, Softcat transferred to a hybrid working model in November 2021, a move it hoped would encourage employees back into its offices to improve culture and employee engagement. Gemma Berrington, early years L&D team leader at Softcat, noticed how fundamental the induction process was...
Lorraine Barnett
CAMURUS LTD
Natasha Garcia
London Borough of Barnet
Sarah Sims
Cervus Defence and Security Limited
Sarra Al Breiki
Borouge Abu Dhabi Polymers Limited
Sinead Leach
Wells and co
Troy Winfield
Cygnet
Michael Kelly outstanding student award - advanced level
Angela Emefa Tagboto
The London School of Economics (LSE)
Jamila Lecky
Mott MacDonald
At Mott MacDonald, the employee-owned engineering, development and management consultancy, a global people transformation programme has been underway since 2019. Jamila Lecky, who had joined two years prior as a change consultant, launched her initiative, ‘Connected Conversations’, in 2020, which sought to improve the firm’s performanc...
Michelle Weir
Philip White Tyres Ltd
Uddalak Banerjee
Dabur India Limited
Best HR/ L&D team of the year – public/ third sector
Humberside Police
United Nations Development Programme
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
The Covid-19 pandemic brought challenges to the NHS like none ever seen before, testing all staff to their limits, frontline or otherwise. Critical to the health service’s work during the two years was its HR teams, whose vital role in everything from nurturing staff wellbeing to redeploying workers into other roles helped support work...
Best HR/ L&D team of the year – private sector
Bright Horizons Family Solutions
Cadent Gas Limited
Circle Health Group
Circle Health Group (CHG) is the UK’s largest group of independent private hospital brands, with 50+ hospitals, clinics and specialist centres, across the UK. We are the UK’s most patient-focussed healthcare organisation and have been acknowledged by ministers for our support of the NHS during the pandemic. Having made significant inve...
Cleveland Clinic London
e& (Formerly Etisalat)
Trayport
Wales & West Utilities Limited
