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Managing Partners' Forum Awards 2020

The Forum, with its knowledge partners Harvard Business Review and the Financial Times, has organised annual Awards for Management Excellence since 2002, with over 200 professional services firms located worldwide entering to date, many on multiple occasions. Forum membership is NOT a pre-requisite for entering these Awards.

Purpose of the Awards

Help clients select advisers based on a rigorous independent process of evaluating initiatives that demonstrate either effective management practices, relevant support to clients, or enhanced community engagement.
Shine a spotlight on the vital contribution made by management experts to the strategy and smooth operation of their firms, and on their unique ability to share practical hands-on advice with their peers at clients on ways to improve management practices and boost employee engagement.

Key dates

Submissions 1 October to 30 November 2019

Shortlists Early January 2020

Ceremony Tuesday 3 March 2020

• 2019 winners • Dinner booking form

Preparation

• Read the Awards Guidelines

• Visit the Forum website to see previous winners, along with citations from the judges

• Request a Personal code to speed up entry submission, and receive tailored alerts.
Recommended but not obligatory

• Email Richard Chaplin or call him on +44 (0)20 7786 9786 with your questions

Introducing Themes

Instead of shoehorning an initiative into a pre-determined category, choose the Theme that best reflects the aspirations of your initiative:

Make your business more productive
Help your clients be more productive
Enable your community to flourish

Themes make it easier to focus on crafting the best submission possible.

Make your business more productive
A key challenge for management is how best to foster productive, healthy and sustainable working practices, and to develop and adopt innovations in management practices. In addition, numerous studies confirm that when a working environment is pleasant, productivity and employee engagement increase, and vice versa. Indicative categories include:

Access to knowledge
Advice from experts
Board engagement
Brand performance
Corporate culture
Culture tracking systems
Developing skills
Employer brand
Energy & attitudes
Financial acumen
Inclusive innovation

Judgement & leadership
Leadership development
Learning & development
Mould breaking firm
New or improved management practices
Strategic leadership
Strategy implementation
Thought leadership
Use of new technologies
Well-managed firm
Working environment

Help your clients be more productive
Professionals tend to describe themselves by their expertise (law, accountancy, architecture, etc) rather than by their contribution to their clients. This Theme addresses the common purpose of every professional firm, namely helping clients convert their insights into action. This may involve collaboration between firms, clients and external specialists such as financial institutions. Indicative categories include:

Business process advice
Collaboration with external specialists
Employee engagement advice
Innovative client service
Knowledge-sharing
Management practices advice
Strategy advice
Technology advice
Training advice

Enable your community to flourish
Community engagement has emerged as an excellent way for firms to develop their people in terms of both individual skills and teamwork, and to enhance the firm’s employer brand for new recruits, as well as to boost the engagement of current employees, while improving the community of which they are also a part. Indicative categories include:

Diversity and Inclusion
Environmental awareness
NED contribution to charities/education
Philanthropic engagement
Pro-bono activities
Service delivery in a non-work environment
Social mobility

Contact

For more information, email Richard Chaplin or call him on +44 (0)20 7786 9786.