This award recognizes senior leaders who endorse, support or champion the HR function within their organization and places people at the heart of business decisions. Candidates for this award must demonstrate a high level of leadership, integrity, and commitment to excellence, who are not from the HR field.
Nominees must:
- Employed by an organization based in Nova Scotia
- Holds an senior-level position outside of Human Resources
Keeping People First: Collaboration Award Criteria
- Vision and Addressing Future Challenges: Forward-thinking perspective, envisioning the future of their organization and addressing challenges proactively.
- Commitment to Employees: Commitment to the well-being, growth, and development of employees.
- Involvement of HR Leaders: Involve Human Resources leaders in key decisions and strategic planning.
- Leadership with Integrity: Ethical conduct, transparency, and consistency.
If selected as a recipient, nominees must:
- Consent in writing to the nomination and publication of both name and photo in connection with the Nova Scotia Professional HR Awards.
- Agree to complete a confidential information form that will be used to determine eligibility.
- Provide a professional biography and photo to be used for publicity purposes in relation to the awards.
- Be available to attend the Awards Event celebration.
Nominations Process
- The nomination or letter of recommendation must come from a member in good standing with CPHR Nova.
- Awards are open to individuals in Nova Scotia.
- Nominations must be received within the stated nomination period.
- Self-nominations cannot be made in this category.
- Nominations must have the expressed consent of the nominee prior to submission.
- To ensure consistency among the nominations, submissions must include all components and not exceed the maximum number of pages for the nomination.
- CPHR Nova Scotia reserves the right to check the nominee's references.
- CPHR Nova Scotia reserves the right to confirm the accuracy of the information provided.
- CPHR Nova Scotia may contact nominees, or nominators, for clarification of information provided.
- The panel of judges may select one or more award recipients in this category.
- The judging panel is not required to accept all nominees as award recipients.
- All recipients will be recognized at the awards celebration.
- CPHR Nova Scotia reserves the right to not present awards in all categories each year, depending on the quality of the nominations received.
- All decisions of the panel of judges relating to the awards will be final.
Submitting a Nomination
Complete the nomination form including Narrative Summary outlining how the nominee meets the award criteria by the deadline.
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