WIM Top50 Professional & Career Women Curtain-Raiser Awards
United Kingdom 2024

Who deserves the award ?

The UK Chapter of Women in Management (Sri Lanka) is going to recognise and celebrate outstanding achievements in the UK. 15 persons and organisations will be awarded in its Curtain-raiser on 16th of March 2024.

There are always fewer awards than people who deserve them and because they are rare, they are reserved for people, who have changed things through recognised achievements and whose work has brought distinction to UKs society and enhanced UK’s reputation globally.

If you think your nominee demonstrates one or both accomplishments and that their contribution stands out from other people’s, in the following categories, please consider nominating them for the award.

Award Categories

Panel of Judges

Nomination requirements

Anyone may submit a nomination for the Top50 Awards with the candidate’s permission. Nominations must clearly document why the candidate should be considered, above all others, for this distinguished award. All nominations must contain sufficient information highlighting the individual and corporate achievements of individuals. Each nomination submitted must adhere to the following outline and page counts.

Eligibility

• Anyone who lives in the UK and a right to work in the UK can be nominated.
• The nominee can not be an employee of WIM or a judge on the Award Committee.
• If you are competing for the individual categories for career and business award you must hold that position for no less than 36 months or you should be operating your business for at least 36 months.
• WIM should not have a financial interest in your business or organisation.
• Nominee should not have been involved in the judging of the Top50 Professional & Career Women Awards in the past three years.
• The nominee's age should be 18 years or more.
• The nominee should be living in the UK with working writes.

Nomination notices

• Nominations are open from 1st December to 31st January 2024.
• Self-nomination or nominate by another or institute
• Career categories should be authorized by the Company’s HR Department before submission
• With the Nomination professional profile of the nominee should be included.
• Recently taken professional photograph should be included with the submission to be used at the Award Ceremony announcements.

How do I write a nomination?

Please use the nomination form or send us an email with the following details:

• Name of the nominee:
• Organisation
• Contact email
• Contact telephone number
• Letters of support

Please write about what they have done and how they’ve made things better for others. There isn’t a right way or a wrong way to write a nomination and it doesn’t need to be particularly formal. There’s no “right length”. Every nomination is different. But the nomination must tell the story of what your candidate has done.

Give examples of how they have demonstrated outstanding quality. Show how the contribution has been made. A good nomination should also describe as vividly and precisely as possible the difference their contribution has made. Try to answer the following questions:

• How were things before the work began?
• How are things now?
• What makes the nominee’s work different from others doing the same work.

Give details to support these claims. Show how the nominee:

• has earned the respect of others and has become a role model in the field.
• produced, perhaps against the odds, sustained achievement which has required moral courage, vision, the ability to make tough choices or determined application and hard work.

Do not be afraid of using superlatives in as the awards exist specifically to recognise superlative achievement. But remember that superlatives without an explanation are just hot air. Take care always to support any assertions with hard evidence. Do not just say that an achievement has had a widespread effect: describe what that effect has been and show why it has been important.

Effective nominations often include:

Nouns such as:

Determination, commitment, respect, drive. Sustainability, recognition, innovation, creativity, selflessness, impact, zeal, performance, ambassador

Adjectives such as:

Trusted, unstinting, conscientious, wise, inspirational, peerless, persuasive, passionate, exemplary, resourceful, enthusiastic, fair, tenacious, sympathetic, admired, unflustered, supportive, vibrant, dogged, articulate, diligent, dedicated

Phrases such as:

Making a difference, going the extra mile, role model, overcoming obstacles, head and shoulders above the rest

The nomination shouldn’t be:

• an extended CV
• a list of educational achievements
• a list of appointments, awards or posts
• a job description showing what the person is meant to do.

Because poor citations often list these things, a frequent complaint from committees is that the person recommended is “doing no more than their job” or “doing nothing that stands out”.

Please do not attach any personal photos.

Under the Data Protection Act 2018, the Awards system is exempt from the usual requirement under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to inform someone that you hold and are processing their personal data. This is outlined in the awards system privacy notice.