Get the recognition your work deserves.
Free to enter for any organisation working in the sector.
Entries can be submitted by anyone whether a CIHT member or not.
This award is aimed at celebrating the achievements of teams who have demonstrated professionalism and have been able to adapt and work effectively under the challenges posed in the Highways and Transportation sector. Entries are welcome from the public, third, private and education sectors.
The team should comprise of 5 or more persons and must operate within the highways and transportation sector.
We expect the team to be working for a single organisational entity.
Entries must demonstrate excellence in the following areas:
How team working has delivered improved outcomes
How teamwork helped to achieve a clear result or outcome
The integration of CIHT values - Professional, Inclusive, Collaborative and Progressive.
Key dates
Entries Open - 8 January 2024
Deadline for Entries - Extended to 11.57pm 11 March 2024
Shortlist announced - 23 April 2024
Awards Evening (Bookings for tables will be open soon) - 13 June 2024 - Venue: 8 Northumberland Ave WC2N 5BY,
All entry submissions must be made online via the online entry portal.
Submissions must be made in English only.
Information on what is required for the perfect entry is below.
The team should comprise of 5 or more persons within a single organisational entity and must operate within the highways and transportation sector. We expect entries to provide details of a project that the team has worked on to showcase their work as a team.
To enter Team of the Year category, your work as a team needs to be active at some point between 01/01/2022 and 01/01/2024 and address all judging criteria.
In addition, for the judges to be able to properly assess how the entry has led to achieving the benefits intended, at the time of entry, the project should have been fully implemented for a period of at least 6 months and no earlier than 01/01/2022. This will enable you to provide quantitative and qualitative examples of the team’s positive impacts on the outcomes of the project, organisation's culture and values and lessons learned to take forward for future projects.
Entries are open to every company or organisation working in the sector, whether a CIHT partner or not
Entries can be submitted by anyone whether a CIHT member or not.
An organisation can also enter as many distinct eligible projects as they wish for a category
Provide us with an overview of your entry. Tell us why this project showcases your work as a team and how working as a team enhanced the success project. Tell us what makes this team stand out. Be clear, concise and tell us why your work is worth further attention.
Provide us with a clear definition of the objectives your project/product/strategy/initiative was trying to achieve and why. Tell us how team roles were agreed and team goals set.
Tell us what you were looking to achieve and any targets that have been set within the organisation to help achieve your goals. We recommend showing objectives as quantifiable metrics.
Judges will be looking for entries that can explain what principles were used to collaboratively develop the work and set the targets of the project.
Please describe the key milestones for the successful implementation of the work.
Focus on the methods and practices adopted within the team, including management and communication within the team.
The judges are particularly interested in the steps taken to ensure contribution from all members, continuity, commitment to process and staff development.
Tell us how challenges were faced as a team and how you overcome them.
Please describe the results of your work providing quantitative and qualitative evidence.
The judges will reward applications that can demonstrate through key performance measures:
If and how you have delivered the outcome you were trying to achieve
How you delivered value for money
How teamwork improved efficiency
And any results to challenges faced which were highlighted in the Delivery section of this entry.
Please tell us how the teamwork made the activity successful.
Focus on:
How it has improved communication
How it has improved the organisation
How it has improved staff development
What lessons and competences have been learnt for future projects
How these lessons will be taken forward
Judges will award additional marks to applications that can demonstrate a contribution to CIHT’s values:
Professional: high- performance, impartial and striving to do the right thing in a fair and responsible way;
Inclusive: ensures accessibility and values equality, diversity and inclusion;
Collaborative: engages with all relevant stakeholders, supporting common interests for social good;
Progressive: ambitious and innovative, committed to positive change.
You are the owner of all intellectual rights in your entry or have all necessary consents from all other owner(s) of intellectual rights in your entry.
Entries must be received no later than the published deadline date.
All submissions must be made online.
All entries must be supplied and conform to the category rules and submission formats.
Work entered into more than one category must be treated as a completely separate entry, we encourage you to address the different criteria for each category you are submitting your entry.
The judges’ decision is final.
Due to the number of entries received, we cannot give feedback on individual entries.
By entering these awards, you give the organisers the right to share, publish and otherwise use the entry in all media and CIHT Policy and Technical publications.
The evidence contained in the submission must be correct and you can provide further details if required.
The organisers reserve the right to verify that all entries have been produced for a client or for the public where relevant.
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Get the recognition your work deserves.
Free to enter for any organisation working in the sector.
Entries can be submitted by anyone whether a CIHT member or not.
