Sheralyn's Blog

As one of the HR judges for the Clubs NSW excellence awards, I had the privilege of attending their very glamorous awards presentation evening last week. As I sat through the evening and put up with MC Vince Sorrenti's jokes, I reflected on how well these awards contributed to these Clubs developing effective human resource practices. Firstly to apply for these awards, including the Outstanding HR Award category the Clubs need to complete an self evaluation and demonstrate how they have achieved the criteria set out in the awards. The application process itself, regardless of winning, provides the Club with a gap analysis of where they should be directing their future efforts to improve working conditions for their employees. For those Clubs selected as finalists, they get to bring along to the presentation evening, a table of representatives from their Club and this alone is a great recognition opportunity. Finally those Clubs that do win awards can use these awards to help market themselves to future employees helping them be able to attract the best talent in town. The other insight for me as an HR professional was that all the Clubs that won the Outstanding HR award categories also won their corresponding Best Club of the Year category too. So it just goes to show, if you invest in your people your organisation is bound to be successful too!