Global Thriving at Work Awards 2024

There are five award categories, each with their own criteria, aligned to the MindForward Alliance Thriving at Work Framework.

Promoting Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

This award recognises an employer who:

• Embeds the mental health of their employees into their broader inclusion agenda
• Provides access, support and education around mental health specific to the differing needs and contexts of diverse groups
• Provides opportunities for safe spaces to hear experiences, perspective and needs from a range of different groups
• Informs programme of work or introduces initiative to address specific needs or respond to a particular challenge for diverse groups.

Innovative Practice

The Innovative Practice Award will acknowledge a member who has:

• Tried new ideas and methods for promoting workplace wellbeing
• Shown evidence of overcoming organisational mental health challenges which are less commonly addressed
• Made use of different platforms, technologies, resources and support frameworks.

Social Impact

The Social Impact Award seeks to celebrate a member who has:

• Considered their influence beyond their organisation and used this in a positive way
• Sought to create a positive impact on the broader wellbeing of the world around them
• Embedded practices which support the wellbeing across their business ecosystem
• Shown evidence of sharing their wellbeing expertise externally.

Leadership

The Leadership Award celebrates exceptional leaders who:

• Role-model wellbeing-centric behaviours in the workplace above and beyond the remit of
• their role
• Advocate for workplace wellbeing both in the workplace and externally across the business ecosystem
• Prioritise the wellbeing of themselves and others within their organisation
• Demonstrate a strategic approach to workplace wellbeing
• Use their position to affect significant, positive change across their workplace and beyond

Early Careers 

The Early Careers Award recognises a member who:

• Provides tailored and targeted support to Early Careers entrants, both in recruitment and induction/on-boarding
• Shows consideration for the challenging mental health impact of touch points throughout the Early Careers lifecycle (e.g., exams, department rotations, exiting the programme) 
• Shows an understanding of the complex landscape this population is navigating in the workplace