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2019 Workplace Excellence Awards 2019 Workplace Excellence Awards

2019 Finalists

Congratulations to the following finalists of the 2019 Workplace Excellence Awards. We received a high number of quality submissions and are excited to present the winners at the WEA Awards Dinner on Thursday 31 October 2019.

Emerging Directions in Organisational Psychology

The award for emerging directions is designed to recognise emerging specialties in organisational psychology and new and innovative approaches to applying principles of psychology in the workplace.

Finalists:

  • Aon's Assessment Solutions: Aon's Assessment Solutions' vidAssess-AI
  • Raw Mind Coach: RAW Mind Coach for Fire and Rescue NSW
  • Suncorp Group: ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ – Using data, technology and psychology to save young drivers lives

Leadership Development and Coaching

The award for leadership development and coaching is designed to recognise strategies for developing leaders and coaching for improved performance and effectiveness.

Finalists:

  • Attorney-General's Department SA: AGD Aspiring Executive Leadership Program - Executive Building Blocks
  • Spring Point & Vicinity Centres: Vicinity Centres' Everyday Leader Beyond People Leader Program
  • The Positivity Institute & Accenture ANZ: Accenture ‘Elevate Leadership Coaching Program’:  Creating Flourishing Leaders

Organisational Change

The award for organisational change is designed to recognise strategies to effectively facilitate and successfully deliver organisational changes.

Finalists:

  • Bendelta & Herbert Smith Freehills: #FutureFit
  • Synergy: People First Change

Organisational Development

The award for organisational development is designed to recognise organisation-wide interventions that improve organisational performance, efficiency, effectiveness and/or positive outcomes relating to organisational progress.

Finalists:

  • Steople & Western Health: The SCORE Program: Strengthening a Culture Of Respect and Engagement
  • University of Western Australia, Centre for Social Impact: Science for Good: Workforce Analytics for the Australian Not-for-Profit Sector

Performance and Capability Development

The award for performance and capability development is designed to recognise strategies focused on improving and developing the knowledge, skills, abilities, attitudes and performance of employees through processes, systems and learning programs.

Finalists:

  • Department of Education, Western Australia: A development program for aspiring school psychology leaders – School Psychology Service, Department of Education, Western Australia
  • Lendlease: Lendlease Capability Framework

Talent Management

The award for talent management is designed to recognise people strategies focused on attracting, recruiting, selecting, on-boarding, developing and/or retaining talent. 

Finalists:

  • Hudson & Essential Energy: Leadership Blueprint: My EE Development
  • Nous Group & Bastow Institute of Educational Leadership: Growing high potential leaders: A talent management framework for the Victorian government school education system
  • Outsidein Group & Department for Education South Australia: Future Leaders: A Talent Identification and Development Process

Workplace Health, Safety and Wellbeing

The award for workplace health, safety and wellbeing is designed to recognise strategies that improve physical and psychological health outcomes for employees.

Finalists:

  • Communicorp & CBA: CBA & Communicorp Psychologically Safe and Healthy Workplace Strategic Review
  • CQUniversity Australia: Development and Implementation of a Integrated and Holistic Health and Wellbeing Strategy at CQUniversity
  • Sentis & CS Energy: CODE: Culture, Ownership, Drive, Energy
  • Sydney Water: Developing internal evidence-based wellbeing interventions and working with the University of South Australia to bring Psychosocial Safety Climate to life in the organisation in order to help make Wellbeing part of how we do business