Celebrating Life Sciences Training Excellence
Virtual Awards Ceremony
The 2021 application window will open February, 24
For additional questions, please contact Awards@L-TEN.org.
Interested in sponsoring this year’s awards program? Contact Gregg Haunroth at ghaunroth@L-TEN.org
Step by Step Guide to Applying:
Login in to select your award category/categories and pay the applicable fees. After payment, you’ll receive an email from contact@L-TEN.org with directions to complete your application(s) and upload a fillable document into the awards system. The steps below show the entire process.
If you have any questions, please email us at awards@L-TEN.org or use the chat tool online.
- Review the guidelines and login to start the Nominations process
- Select the award category you would like to submit a nomination for
- Search for the company or individual you would like to nominate. If you are nominating at team, search for the parent company and also type in the name of the team in the blank space provided. Click Continue to proceed.
- Name your entry with your Nominee Company Name and Nominee’s Last Name (i.e. ABC Pharmaceuticals – Nolan). Select if you’ll be submitting a Poster session. Details for poster sessions located are here.
- Follow the prompts to submit payment or choose invoicing. If you have other nominations you would like to make, click here to add more award nomination entries to the shopping cart, following steps 2 and 3 above.
Upon payment, you will receive an email from contact@L-TEN.org to complete your nomination(s). The steps are as follows:
- Fill out this fillable Word document linked in the confirmation.
- Login to the awards submissions page
- Scroll to bottom of page to see your submitted nominations
- Click on the Entry Title
- Click the + Add Document button to add the completed Word document and any other supporting documents.
Note:
- Document Title is 20 characters long
- Document Description is 80 characters long
If you have any trouble accessing these links, the portal, documents, or just have a question, please reach out at awards@L-TEN.org or use the website chat tool.
Any information shared through the application process may be used for internal or editorial purposes, including possible inclusion in a special issue of Focus On Training magazine spotlighting the LTEN Excellence Awards. Any information considered “Not for Publication” should not be included in the applications for judging purposes.
Training/Industry Partner Awards
Learning Content
Recognizes suppliers that have created superior customized or off-the-shelf learning content in the past year.
Providers can self-nominate or be nominated by LTEN member company.
Industry Partnership
Recognizes suppliers for their work, either via whole or partially outsourced services, content development and delivery or training, in support of an organization’s learning and development function in the past year.
Providers can self-nominate or be nominated by LTEN member company.
Innovation
Recognizes suppliers that have deployed innovative practices, processes and technologies in support of a client’s learning program that delivers engaging learning combining multiple modalities in the past year. Examples include workshops, eLearning, mLearning, social collaboration tools and games.
Providers can self-nominate or nominated by a LTEN member company
Trainers & Training Teams Awards
Emerging Leaders
For someone relatively new to the training field who has demonstrated exceptional leadership skills, business savvy, and training instincts.
Criteria for Emerging Leaders award:
- Must be in the training industry for a minimum of one year, but no more than 3 years.
- Successfully led a large-scale training/learning and development initiative within the last year.
- Demonstrates specific leadership qualities.
- Has potential to lead the training or learning & development function at an organization over the next decade.
- Heads of departments are ineligible.
Eligibility:
Practitioners CANNOT self-nominate. Nominations must come from managers, co-workers or peers/colleagues at an LTEN member company.
Innovation
For learning leaders who have collaborated effectively with internal and external groups and individuals to marshal resources and apply innovative practices, processes or technologies in a new and groundbreaking way to address a significant business or organizational opportunity in the past year.
Eligibility:
Providers can self-nominate or be nominated by a LTEN member company.
Training for Change
Honoring training leaders and/or teams who have led initiatives to help guide their teams, departments or organization through times of change, including mergers, restructurings, launches or business reengineering. The award recognizes training’s role in agilely managing change, bringing new people, products or policies into corporate cultures and helping to create the environment for change and innovation to thrive.
Eligibility:
Practitioners can self-nominate or be nominated by others at an LTEN member company
Non-Commercial Training Efficiency
This award is for projects, initiatives or technology implementations that help increase efficiencies of non-commercial training while leaving resources and bandwidth to be re-allocated to develop staff in a value-added way. Award nominations should demonstrate how the implementation resulted in measurable benefits that reduced overhead (resources), increased productivity and soft savings (reallocated resources) or created hard financial savings.
The award winner should demonstrate:
- The project, initiative or technology implementation resulted in regulatory requirements being met with little or no overhead (or reduced overhead).
- The project, initiative or technology implementation demonstrated the spirit of “competency rather than completion”.
- The project, initiative or technology implementation resulted in measurable benefits in reduced overhead (resources), increased productivity, soft savings (reallocated resources) or hard savings ($).
Eligibility:
Practitioners can self-nominate or be nominated by others at an LTEN member company
All-Star Teams
Recognizing a training department, team or work group that has “gone above and beyond” to meet organizational needs in proactive ways
Eligibility
Practitioners can self-nominate or be nominated by others at an LTEN member company.
Contact Us
To learn more about award categories and criteria, please click here. For a list of Rules and Frequently Asked Questions, please click here.
For additional questions, please contact Awards@L-TEN.org. Interested in sponsoring this year’s awards program? Contact Gregg Haunroth at ghaunroth@L-TEN.org
