4 Ways Technology Can Help You Run Better Awards Events
Technology can be your best friend when it comes to creating and managing successful award programmes. From launching awards sites and managing submission entries to allocating judges, communicating with stakeholders, managing payments and selecting winners. But having all this information sitting across different systems makes the whole process of managing awards events a lot more challenging.
Whether you’re running employee recognition programmes, peer reviews or award evenings for staff, partners or clients – using a dedicated awards management solution that combines all these different elements together on one centralised, secure platform will give you the insight you need for event success.
Have a look at the many ways awards management systems can help you boost submissions, save time and give you the real-time information you need to make decision on the go:
1. Build Attractive Awards Websites
You can engage with people from the very start and encourage them to submit their award entries with attractive, easy to navigate, information websites that can be customised to match your organisation’s own branding guidelines. An awards management solution can help you create a unique look for each of your awards websites, branded with your own logos and the same look and feel of your organisation’s corporate website.
Custom templates, Content Management Systems (CMS) and cloning tools can also help you launch awards submission sites in minutes without the need for any html or web design skills.
2. Save Time Managing Award Entries
Having a user-friendly system that allows people to make their submissions online without any fuss is fundamental to the success of your event. If your submission forms are complex, difficult and time-consuming to complete, then people will just give up and look elsewhere.
A dedicated awards management solution can create a much smoother experience for people when submitting their entries to your awards event. Mobile-responsive tools will ensure that people can complete forms or make changes to submissions on any device. They can also save their work and submit their entries at a time more convenient to them.
As an event planner, an awards management solution can also bring a host of benefits that will help you save an enormous amount of time around managing the awards submissions process, including:
– Flexibility to set your own awards categories, submission parameters and deadlines
– Customised submission forms, helping you capture information in the format you want
– Integrated payment systems make it easier for you to manage payments people make around award entries – all directly linked to pricing categories, packages and early-bird discounts defined by you.
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3. Make It Easy for Your Judges
This is usually the most arduous and time-consuming task when it comes to running awards events. An awards management solution can help you allocate judges to specific award categories, while making it easier for you to communicate with them through personalised invitations and email alerts.
As with submission entries, a mobile responsive solution will encourage your judges to log-in to a secure online portal that can be accessed from any device at any time. It can also help your judges do their jobs more efficiently with simple scoring systems and the ability to save their work and complete it later.
4. Make More Informed Decisions
An awards management system can support you with reporting tools that help you track progress on entries by categories, submitters and status. It can also give you insight on judges scores, comments and the whole selection process in real-time. So at any given point in time, you’ll be able to see how many submissions have been reviewed, which of your judges you need to send reminders to, how close you are to making your final selection process and who to send rejection or nomination emails to.
Eventsforce Awards is a secure web-based solution that simplifies the whole process of managing award events, peer reviews and internal recognition programmes. For more information on how we can help, please get in touch with one of our team members at info@eventsforce.com