Category

Sponsor

Criteria

• Identify need for change and subsequent innovative strategies for delivering change
• Genuine consultation with organisational stakeholders where appropriate
• Outstanding leadership throughout the change implementation period
• The successful delivery of strategy to completion of desired outcomes

• Have identified an area of work / project that would require significant innovation to deliver success
• Have designed an innovative approach to tackling the issue
• Have delivered the innovation successfully
• Have achieved outstanding results for their organisation / cause as a result of having innovated

• Innovative strategies for political engagement which clearly show their role in leading advocacy has been driven by the voice of the people / cause they represent
• Excellent outcomes / results in line with their strategy
• The capacity to capitalise on these outcomes and build a longer term strategy
• A clear focus on long term relationship building

• Having clearly and comprehensively consulted on and communicated vision / mission / strategy to all stakeholders
• How their individual leadership style has motivated and inspired others to unify around the organisations vision / mission
• Clear, predictable and comprehensive processes for overseeing and managing the people delivering the organisations strategy and objectives
• Celebrating the success of the people you lead

• Having identified and instigated new partnerships / collaborations
• Having built strong, productive relationships with such partners and collaborators
• Created an outstanding project / strategy for joint delivery
• Synergetic nature of outcomes delivered through the partnership working

• Having distilled the organisations ambitions into an inspiring vision
• Inclusive and thoughtful strategy creation which demonstrably creates momentum around the vision
• Interesting /innovative dissemination and communication of the organisational strategy
• The achievement of outstanding outcomes having implemented the strategy, which brings the organisation further towards realising its vision

• Construction and management of income streams to help deliver their organisations vision / mission in the long term
• Successfully developed and implemented business plans
• Examples of having used their own personal leadership qualities to overcome obstacles in bringing their business plan to fruition
• Creatively having used available resources to generate revenue streams
• Entrepreneurial leadership ability of individual is bringing long-term security and stability to the organisation they serve

• Ability to have contended with multiple pressures and expectations pertaining to leaders of a small organisation
• Their ambition and strong leadership has overcome the constraints of working with limited resources (both financial and otherwise)
• The successful delivery of an ambitious project and / or strategy where resources have been limited and the creative leadership of the individual has ensured success where other wise this would not have been attained

• Evidence of having reformed their organisational architecture and governing processes in line with best practice
• The development of productive relationships between their Board and their organisation – this may include involving service users at board level
• Skilful / innovative translation of Board level strategic thinking into daily operations
• Innovation by way of giving the board accurate, relevant information for purposes of oversight, scrutiny and accountability

• Having achieved a quality mark such as IIP or be working towards success in this area
• Commitment towards the learning and development of volunteers, staff, self and Board members
• Innovative approaches to Learning and Development within their organisation
• Having developed a learning organisation / a learning ethos in their organisation