Audit & Risk Awards: Top tips for a great nomination
Audit & Risk Awards: Top tips for a great nomination
The Audit & Risk Awards are the only annual opportunity for the internal audit function to get together and celebrate excellence and recognise internal audit achievements. They also provide a chance for individual teams to publicise their success both to their peers and to their stakeholders.
Below are our top tips for submitting a great nomination.
Do
Read the whole entry form: You may need to get evidence or endorsements
Contact the people you need to endorse your nomination in good time
Share the burden: Ask others in your team to contribute ideas, endorsements and suggestions
Plan the evidence you need to support your case
Answer the questions: Bullet points are a good way to keep focused
Think of the judges: Keep information short, simple and to the point
Set the scene: Summarise your world with a few key points (number in the team, sector, location(s), etc)
Tell the story: Think about the main points and the highlights. What has changed? What have you achieved?
Read the category details: There’s no point submitting an excellent nomination in the wrong category
Spread the word: Tell your contacts to enter
Think laterally: Do you know a team or an inspirational leader you could nominate?
Check out the awards section of the Chartered IIA website for the full criteria
Get in touch if you have any queries about entries
Don’t
Wait for others to nominate you: It’s fine to nominate yourself
Forget the basics: Don’t assume the judges already know how many people are in your team or challenges specific to your industry
Leave entering until the last minute
Be put off because you work in a small organisation
Struggle in silence: Contact us if you have any questions
Suffer from false modesty!
For a sense of how these top tips work in practice, here are some words of encouragement from former Audit & Risk Award winners Maxine Grainger and Eammon Toland. Maxine and Eammon were part of the DFS team that won 'Outstanding Team: Private Sector' at the Audit & Risk Awards in 2021.