1. SPARK! SHRM Pinnacle Awards Rock Susan Post, SHRM-SCP, CAE
Bailey Yeager
Callie Zipple, SHRM-CP
SPARK!
SHRM Pinnacle
Awards Rock

2. Welcome!

3. Agenda Session Takeaways Program Overview Meet Our Panelists! Q & A
Session Wrap Up

4. Takeaways Think about why you selected this session…
What “key nuggets” are you hoping to take away with you?

5. What is the SHRM Pinnacle Award?
Designed to honor outstanding leadership & reward professional excellence in the HRM field.
Recognizes innovative projects created and implemented by SHRM affiliates.
Special consideration given to successful programs readily transferable to other affiliates.
Winners selected using established Standards of Excellence & recognized at the VLS.

6. Program Overview Eligibility Award Levels & Categories
Volunteer Resources
Submission Process
Selection Process

7. Eligibility
To be eligible for 2018 award consideration an affiliate must:
Submit the 2017 SHAPE Year-End Report.
Meet all minimum requirements to be a SHRM chapter or state council “in good standing.”
NOTE: If your affiliate won a Pinnacle Award for a project since 2013, that award-winning project is ineligible for re-submission in 2018, even if the program is ongoing.

8. Award Levels Small Chapters (10 to 100 members)
Medium & Large Chapters (101 to 500 members)
Mega & SuperMega Chapters (500+ members)
State Councils
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Chapters and state councils are encouraged submit award entries for programs developed and implemented collaboratively. However, additional programs may not be submitted by these affiliates, as the joint initiative meets the “one entry per chapter or state council” submission limit.

9. Award Categories Serving HR Professionals Advancing the HR Profession
Enhancing the SHRM Community

10. Serving HR Professionals
Activities that support and promote professionals with HR responsibility to be successful business leaders.
May be related to certification, professional learning, or skills development.

11. Advancing the HR Profession
Creates awareness of or supports key constituents including the workplace, government and regulatory representatives, employers, schools, media and the community at large.
Activities may be programs around outreach & awareness, government or public affairs, diversity & inclusion or workforce readiness.

12. Enhancing the SHRM Community
Programs & services that support SHRM, meet members’ needs or further the affiliate’s efforts.
Activities may include efforts to foster member engagement, retention and acquisition, volunteer development and recognition or support the SHRM Foundation

13. Submission Process Web-based application
Submission deadline is 11:59 p.m. on
September 9th, 2018
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14. Selection Process
Internal and external selection committees select one winner from each award level and award category
Judging is based on Standards of Excellence
Winners receive $1,000 grants and a variety of recognition from SHRM
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15. Meet Our Panelists! Tim Dabrieo
State Director – NH State Council,
Jennifer Parker
Chapter President - Cullman Area SHRM (AL),
Bonita Sonderby
Chapter President – Mile High SHRM (CO),
Whitney Kennedy
President Elect- Lubbock SHRM (TX),

17. Volunteer Resources www.shrm.org/vlrc
Sample entries for chapters and state councils
FAQs document
Compendiums of Previous Award Submissions
Link to Pinnacle Awards Submission Package

18. …AND MAY THE “SPARK” BE WITH YOU!!
THANKS!
…AND MAY THE “SPARK” BE WITH YOU!!