#EmployeeExperienceAwards
Singapore
Employee Experience Awards Key Dates
WHO’S ENTERED EXA?
CELEBRATING SINGAPORE’S TOP WORKPLACES THROUGH THE POWER OF EX
Back for its fifth year, the Employee Experience Awards continues its mission to honour organisations that champion the employee experience. In a world where securing and nurturing top talent is paramount, the EXA spotlights those trailblazers who are setting the standard through employee-centric strategies, fuelling both success and a competitive edge.
Triumphing at the Employee Experience Awards is more than just recognition – it’s a resounding endorsement from the industry that your organisation is a leader in listening to, engaging with, and empowering your most valuable resource: your people.
Showcase Your Success
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Seize this opportunity to highlight the passion and innovation that have transformed your workplace into an environment where employees flourish.
Take on our 4 EX pillars, featuring an impressive 48 categories open for submission. Spanning Leadership, Learning, Engagement, and Talent Acquisition, these categories celebrate remarkable achievements across leadership development, integrated learning, and employee engagement initiatives.
It’s time to share your successes and be recognised by your peers. We wish you all the best with your submission!
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What’s new in 2025?
Most Innovative Leadership Development Programme
Best Learning Culture Journey
Best Learning Technology Implementation
Best Recruitment Marketing Campaign
Best Talent Assessment and Selection Process
Best Talent Sourcing and Attraction Strategy
Best Use of Technology to Enhance Employee Engagement
Why Enter EXA 2025
Stay ahead of the talent war
Catalyse your employer branding efforts
Better business outcomes and improved performance
Deliver stakeholder confidence
Make sure your hard work doesn’t go unnoticed and your teams get the recognition they deserve!
Entries will close on 28 January 2025 so start your entry today!
Judging Criteria
Here are some guiding pointers that judges will be looking out for. Please ensure your entry answers the points below for the various sections along with the guiding pointers in the respective categories.
Business challenge
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- Provide the context of your industry and include the brief background/overview of your company.
- Include information that demonstrates the implications of the business challenges faced.
- What were your initial plan/business opportunities you were looking to pursue?
- How has the challenge(s) pivoted your vision, goal and mission of your HR strategy?
- What was the company’s overall direction? What kind of support did you get from your top management and line-of-business managers to overcome the challenge?
- What are some innovative and/or new ideas proposed when brainstorming solutions to tackle the challenge(s)?
- What is the expected business ROI from the proposed changes?
- Please include some testimonials from peers/senior management/clients.
Transformation strategy
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- What did you do to transform your business? What were the key objectives?
- Outline the milestones in your strategy highlighting what worked and what didn’t work. How did you solve the issues that cropped up along the way when you were executing your strategy?
- Who were your key stakeholders and what channels did you use to communicate the strategy to them? How did you maintain continued support from key stakeholders? What was the acceptance rate?
- What are some of the USP’s of your transformation strategy? How does this align with your organisational goals? Please include some testimonials.
Impact
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- What were the primary and secondary results of your strategy? How did your plan affect your organisational culture and goals?
- What business and commercial benefits did your transformation strategy deliver?
- What was the feedback from your stakeholders?
- How did you track the ROI of your impact?
- Please provide some evidence of success. You may use metrics, anecdotes and case studies.
- Please include some testimonials from peers/senior management/clients. Feel free to include graphs, charts that will strengthen your business case.
Learning points
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- Please identify top 3 key takeaways from your transformation strategy.
- What were some gaps in your strategy?
- What are the strengths that form the foundation of your strategy?
- What are the future plans that you have in place to further boost this?
- What are some elements of the strategy that you think is unique to your organisation?
- Please include some testimonials from peers/senior management/clients. Feel free to include graphs, charts that will strengthen your business case.
Panel of Judges
The Employee Experience Awards will be evaluated at the highest standards, by the most eminent senior HR experts and thought leaders. These hand-picked individuals are committed to giving your entries all the dedication they need, in order to sieve out the finest HR teams and leaders who have transformed the world of work.
Interested in becoming a judge yourself, or would you like to nominate someone? Reach out to Sha Nee at shanee@humanresourcesonline.net or +65 6423 0329.
2024 Panel of Judges
Anish Lalchandani
Global Head of Talent Management
Ozge Yurtsever
Director, Strategic HR Business Partner
Kangan Arora
Head of People, APAC GWS Enterprise
Jaime L. Rosario
Head of Human Resource
Don’t take our word for it. Hear what past award participants of HRO’s Awards have to say:
I want to share with you how much my colleagues and I have enjoyed the dinner at Shangri-la, it was very well organised! The band and DJ were fabulous, world class! Thanks to your team.
HAVI Freight Management
Thanks a lot and though we didn’t manage to bring back an award, it was an eye-opening experience! We’ll be sure to participate in more categories next year!
AstraZeneca
Many thanks for your kind support and please extend our appreciation to Human Resources Online team too. It is truly amazing.
Clermont
A big thank you to you and your team for an outstanding awards ceremony. The energy was wonderful and it was great to see so many people come together to celebrate this awards night.
Change Et Al.
It was a grand event and so nicely organised! Well done to you and your team!
CGS-CIMB
It is an enjoyable and fun-filled event where you get excited over the announcement of the winners of the awards.
Bank of Singapore
HR Excellence Awards is really professional and is the leading awards for the HR community.
Heineken Asia Pacific
It was a moment to take a pause and show our appreciation to those HR folks who added value to other human beings and to their business.
UTAC Group
Thanks for having me as a judge. I truly enjoyed reading the many submissions and noted the level of enthusiasm and involvement of the participants in building their company culture.
Paramount Corporation
Thank you for having me in your event. Not only was the dinner delicious, the whole evening was great. It was an enormous privilege that I be given the opportunity to be part of the panel judges.
Protasco
The pleasure to judge the entries was all mine. Thanks again for the wonderful opportunity and networking.
Segi Value Holdings
I think this is a very prestigious award and it is also a platform for us to share our best practices.
AXA Life Singapore
This year we are ready to share our practices and we’re very proud and excited to actually share what we have done.
SCOR Singapore
I think this is one of the most important at HR, to attract and retain talent. So that is why we want to project ourselves in the market and also to see where we are standing, compared to the leaders in the market.
DKSH
I want to share with you how much my colleagues and I have enjoyed the dinner at Shangri-la, it was very well organised! The band and DJ were fabulous, world class! Thanks to your team.
HAVI Freight Management
Thanks a lot and though we didn’t manage to bring back an award, it was an eye-opening experience! We’ll be sure to participate in more categories next year!
AstraZeneca
Many thanks for your kind support and please extend our appreciation to Human Resources Online team too. It is truly amazing.
Clermont
A big thank you to you and your team for an outstanding awards ceremony. The energy was wonderful and it was great to see so many people come together to celebrate this awards night.
Change Et Al
It was a grand event and so nicely organised! Well done to you and your team!
CGS-CIMB
Video highlights from our past awards
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