The CHRO of the Year award is designed to recognise a HR Leader who has demonstrated excellence through his/her achievement of business outcomes and capacity for leadership. Nominate yourself for the biggie of these awards; the coveted and the prestigious ‘CHRO of the Year – 2018’. While nominating, lay special focus on your efforts on initiatives around ~ 1. People & Culture 2. Change 3. Innovation 4. Enhancing HR-Business alignment.

Employee Experience is a workplace approach resulting in conducive environment of an organisation for employees to give their best each day. The nominated project/s shall have a commitment to provide a holistic experience to the employees to make them feel valued, engaged and more importantly stay sustained.

Innovation can be viewed as the application of better solutions that meet new requirements – truly a revolution, upheaval, transformation, metamorphosis or breakthrough in how organizations have used technology! The program or initiative is aligned with organizational purpose and addresses strategic or business goals of the organization. HR Technology to Last Mile Award recognizes the outstanding use of technology solutions to connect and empower employees until the last mile while addressing workforce challenges.

Companies with forward-thinking learning organizations have a far greater impact on overall business performance when compared to their peers. Identifying high potentials requires an assessment of required leadership competencies at the next level and a comparison of the results with known criteria to determine gaps and development needs. This award, thus recognizes the unique strategies adopted by firms who have created unique HiPo/HiPer programs thus translating to superior business performance.

Reward & Recognitions holds a central place in any people management strategy as it helps in improving performance, shaping behaviors and supporting constructive employment relations. The project/s shall be one which foster the spirit of rewarding talent through innovative R&R practices.

With business environment becoming increasingly complex, Leadership programs need to be carefully designed and created to ensure that the company’s talent is retained and upskilled in a suitable manner. Any organization needs to ensure that it has access to quality leaders who are at the helm of affairs, thus the need for a strong and Holistic Leadership Development Program. The project/s undertaken by the firm must not only showcase the initiatives taken, but the impact created as a result of these programs.

HR starts from here. HR builds up from here. Cutting across industries, Organizations struggle on attrition and the resultant talent acquisition. Share with us some of the innovative strategies you have implemented to create values for your businesses through an effective Talent Acquisition framework.

Branding is no more a moral dilemma. It is all about communicating about the work you do and the impact it creates to the last mile of the Organization. The project/s shall be around branding of the HR initiatives which have resulted in not only HR success, but also enabling business agenda.

Success of an Organization is not about its leaders or its workforce alone. It is about how it can sustain and excel in this rapidly changing world order and macro-economics of businesses. Here comes the focus on Next Generation Leaders. The project/s shall illustrate not only the initiative you may have taken, but also of the impact these initiatives have created in the Organization’s success.

Excellence in initiatives and strategies to increase HR-Business alignment. The project/s shall have a direct impact on the way HR has enabled Business & Operations to make them ‘Future-Ready’ and/or ‘Business Aligned’.

DNA of any Organization lies in its Culture. Culture is about Change; Change with new people joining in; Change with new sets of Business dynamics coming in and so on and so forth. It is so very relevant for Organizations of today to keep on enriching their Culture. The project/s being nominated under this category shall have a direct impact on the overall Culture Scorecard/Climate Survey.

This award is for the New Gen Leaders of HR. The nominee shall be at Second level in the hierarchy of the HR Structure within the Organization. The winning individual in this category will demonstrate a talent for disrupting tradition and taking the HR component forward in new and exciting directions – to great effect.

HR and Social, belong together. The eligible project/s shall be from HR Leaders who have significantly contributed to the Social Impact their Organization creates. The project/s mentioned shall be talking not only about the involvement of the employees & the management but also about any innovative practices that were invoked.

The Diversity and Inclusion award recognizes organizations and leaders who have diversity and inclusion at the heart of their business, providing constant support and opportunities to women, people from diverse backgrounds, disabled people and other minorities.The project/s shall be about initiatives with a clear narrative that clearly indicates why the Diversity & Inclusion strategy was implemented and how it is linked to broader business strategy.

The Innovative HR Practices Award is awarded to the organization that has demonstrated the importance and positive impact of innovative HR practices in the organization. The purpose of the award is to recognize an organization that aligns successful HR programs and practices with the company’s business objectives.