About the Developing Quality Talent award
This award recognises a strategy, programme or initiative that demonstrates how investing in people can strengthen quality capability and build a lasting quality culture across an organisation.
Whether you've introduced a graduate programme, mentoring scheme, apprenticeship, quality academy, career pathway or training programme, this is your chance to show how you're developing talent, addressing skills and knowledge gaps, and preparing your organisation for the future.
Entries should highlight the impact of your approach, with clear evidence of how it supports professional development, strengthens quality capability within teams and across the wider organisation, and delivers measurable benefits.
The judges are looking for:
- clear measurable results and evidence of organisational impact
- a project or initiative that embeds quality culture across the organisation
- examples of how that programme or initiative successfully addresses the gaps in quality capability within the quality team and across the organisation.
| Criteria | Questions | Scoring |
|---|---|---|
| Context | What challenge or opportunity relating to your quality talent pipeline needed addressing? What were the implications of not addressing it? Describe how the challenge or opportunity fits within the context of your overall business and your staff team. | Up to 5 points available |
| Planning | What factors informed your approach to addressing the challenge or opportunity identified above? Explain what resource constraints you had (if any)? How did you use quality management principles in your planning? | Up to 30 points available |
| Delivery | Tell us about the quality management approaches you used in the delivery phase. How did you manage risks, issues and barriers that emerged during delivery? | Up to 30 points available |
| Results | What was the impact of this approach in relation to the quality talent pool in your organisation? Did you achieve your aims and objectives? Provide any objective metrics that demonstrate this impact. | Up to 30 points available |
| Learning and improvement | What lessons did you learn from this process? Is there anything that you would do differently? Was there anything that was particularly critical to the success of the initiative? How will you sustain the benefits of this work? | Up to 5 points available |
Join our webinar
Want to make your entry stand out? Join us on Wednesday 25 November at 12:00 GMT for a webinar with some of the award judges. Find out what the judges look for, get practical advice on preparing your application, and ask any questions about entering.
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