Optimas Awards

THE 2012 NOMINATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED.

Get the Recognition You Deserve for Driving Business Results

What do you get when you pay close attention to workforce management issues? Amazing business results for your organization. You've done it, and now its time to celebrate your successes and share them with your peers.

By becoming an Optimas Awards winner, you gain well-deserved glory for your efforts. You celebrate your company's successes. And you demonstrate the important role that sophisticated workforce management plays in business today.

To be considered for an Optimas Awards, just complete the form below. The application deadline is July 31, 2012. (Below, find our entry requirements.)

2012 Optimas Awards Nomination Form

Organization:
Name:
Title:
Address:
City:
State:	AF America Alberta AF Africa/Europe Alabama AF Pacific Alaska American Samoa Arizona Arkansas British Columbia California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Dist. of Columbia Fed. Micronesia Florida Georgia Guam Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Manitoba Maine Marshall Islands Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri N. Mariana Islands Montana New Brunswick North Carolina North Dakota Nebraska Newfoundland New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico Nova Scotia NW Territories Nevada New York Ohio Oklahoma Ontario Oregon Pennsylvania Prince Edward Isl Puerto Rico Quebec Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Saskatchewan Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington Wisconsin West Virginia Wyoming Yukon Territories	Zip:
Country:
Phone:
Fax:
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Business Information:

1. What does your company do?
2. How many employees are in your entire organization?
3. Is your company privately held or public?

Business Challenges:

What business challenges provided the springboard for your initiative? Examples of business challenges might include rapid growth, overseas expansion, regulatory action, a merger or acquisition, or a downturn in your industry's business climate. Please present quantifiable information that demonstrates the impact of the challenge or problem on the organization, along with a description of the situation. Cite specific examples where possible.

1. First, summarize your organization's business challenge or problem in 50 or fewer words.
2. Now, describe in detail your organization's business challenge or problem.

Your Initiative:

1. Based on the business challenge, why was your workforce management initiative integral to the solution?
   
2. Describe the overall intiative and its objectives.
   
3. What were the specific components of the initiative?
   
4. What was/is the timeframe of the initiative? How long has it been in place? If you plan to maintain it, how will you do so?
   

The Business Results:

1. What were/are the measurable business results of your initiative? Business results could include profitability, reduced costs, increased market share, improved customer service, higher stock value, increased productivity, and higher retention rates.
   

Categories:

Please select the Optimas Awards category most appropriate for your HR initiative.

	Competitive Advantage The organization has developed a program to help forge or maintain a winning edge over the organization's competitors.
	Corporate Citizenship Award is given to the organization whose corporate citizenship programs are demonstrably and successfully linked to its employee recruiting, retention and engagement goals.
	Financial Impact The organization has designed a program to effect a change that results in cost savings or increased revenue.
	Global Outlook The workforce-management leadership has created a program or strategy to help the organization succeed in the world marketplace.
	Innovation The organization has developed an innovative workforce-management strategy that addresses a fundamental business issue. The innovation marks a departure for the winning company and often for the field of workforce management.
	Managing Change The organization has successfully developed a program in response to the changing business environment.
	Partnership The workforce management leadership has developed or implemented a program in partnership with another constituency, either within the organization or outside of it.
	Service Workforce management leaders have developed a program to help another constituency within the organization.
	Vision: The organization has anticipated internal and/or external trends that will affect the organization and has responded proactively.
	General Excellence The General Excellence is given to the organization whose workforce management initiatives have met the standards established for at least six of the other nine categories.

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Entry Guidelines :

Organizations of all kinds are welcome, including private companies, public companies, educational and government organizations and nonprofits. There are no restrictions regarding scope, size, or focus of the workforce management initiative. Entrants from all countries are welcome. Consultants with clients eligible to enter are encouraged to work with the individual client in preparing and submitting the nomination form.

The application deadline is July 31, 2012.

There are no entry fees for the Optimas Awards.

Each entry must include a completed form describing the business challenges, the program and how it addressed those challenges, and the results of the initiative. Please do NOT send supporting documents with your entry. Workforce Management will request documents as needed.

Please select the Optimas Awards category most appropriate for your initiative. Your entry will be judged based upon its merits, regardless of the category, and the Workforce Management judges reserve the right to change the category of your nomination.

Awards:

Each winning company and program is profiled in a story to appear in Workforce Management magazine and Workforce Management online (www.workforce.com).

Workforce Management editors review the entries and base their selection on how the initiative achieved measurable business results in response to the organization's business needs, issues or challenges.

For more information, view the selection criteria.

Questions:

If you have questions, please contact Rick Bell, managing editor.