Webinar
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The 5 Best Practices of Top-Performing Awards Programs

Your awards program shouldn't be this much work. 5 fixes from nomination to recognition.

event
June 18, 2026
schedule
12:00 pm

Increase participation and reduce volunteer fatigue

Every recognition awards program is a heavy lift — nominations, review, member voting, and recognition — and each stage brings its own friction.

What does this mean for you? A thin trickle of nominations, judges buried in submissions, winners that are hard to defend, and recognition that fades the morning after the banquet.

The best-run associations have a way through it. In this webinar, we'll share the five practices that make every stage lighter — and every decision easier to stand behind — then take your questions live.

What we'll cover

Design the nominator → nominee workflow

Keep nominating to four quick questions, then let nominees tell their own story. More nominations, better data.

Run a fair, fatigue-proof review

Reviewer load, conflicts of interest, and consistent, normalized scoring.

Use AI where it actually helps

Summarize nominations and surface themes — with humans choosing every honoree.

Add Member Choice voting

Put finalists in front of your whole membership — turning a two-person nomination into an association-wide event.

Don't disappear after the banquet

Year-round recognition that turns honorees into stories your members actually see.