2021 Winners

Please see below the winners and finalists from the 2021 HR Leadership & Management Awards.

Overall Excellence in HR

WINNER:

Beckman Coulter Ireland

HR Leader 2021

RECIPIENT:

Lisa Finnegan

HR Team of the Year

WINNER:

Woodie's

FINALISTS:

  • Clearstream Global Securities Services
  • Clune Tech
  • Dalata Hotel Group
  • Ireland East Hospital Group, HSE
  • Obelisk
  • People Services Team - Bank of Ireland
  • WaterWipes People Team
  • Woodie's

Sponsored by:

HR Manager of the Year

WINNER:

Michelle Gaffney - Clune Tech

FINALISTS:

  • Michelle Gaffney - Clune Tech
  • Dylan Loughlin - Copacetic Business Solutions

Sponsored by:

Best Health & Wellbeing Strategy - Large Organisation

WINNER:

TELUS International

FINALISTS:

  • Activate - Clearstream Global Securities Services
  • Beckman Coulter Ireland
  • Clune Tech
  • Colleague Wellbeing Strategy - Bank of Ireland
  • FD Technologies
  • TELUS International

Sponsored by:

Best Health & Wellbeing Strategy

WINNER:

Healthy Mind, Healthy Body…Happy You - Cornmarket

FINALISTS:

  • Digital Marketing Institute
  • Goodbody
  • Healthy Mind, Healthy Body…Happy You - Cornmarket
  • Obelisk
  • Wellbeing@WaterWipes
  • Your PERsonal Wellbeing - The Department of Public Expenditure & Reform

Sponsored by:

Best Employer Branding Programme

WINNER:

Branding throughout the employee lifecycle - SIRO

FINALISTS:

  • Branding throughout the employee lifecycle - SIRO
  • Lupilu Family Leave Programme - Lidl
  • Universum - Allianz Ireland

Best Flexible Working Strategy

WINNER:

Compliance & Risks

FINALISTS:

  • Clune Tech
  • Compliance & Risks
  • Implementing Hybrid Working - Bus Éireann

Best Crisis Management Strategy

WINNER:

Department of Foreign Affairs

FINALISTS:

  • Approach People Recruitment
  • BWG Foods
  • Clune Tech
  • Dalata Hotel Group
  • Department of Foreign Affairs
  • Meaghers Pharmacy Group
  • Project Shield - WaterWipes

Best Public Sector HR Initiative

WINNER:

Ireland East Hospital Group, HSE

FINALISTS:

  • Development and Launch of an Onboarding Hub - Tallaght University Hospital
  • Ireland East Hospital Group, HSE
  • Tourism Ireland

Best Workplace Diversity Strategy

WINNER:

Beckman Coulter Ireland

FINALISTS:

  • Beckman Coulter Ireland
  • FD Technologies
  • Promoting Diversity in the workplace - SIRO

Best Change Management Programme

WINNER:

Pathways – Unleash Your Potential - Version 1

FINALISTS:

  • Mediation Service - Irish Wheelchair Association
  • New Ways of Working - Permanent TSB
  • Pathways – Unleash Your Potential - Version 1
  • Transformation Programme - Bank of Ireland

Best Use of CSR in HR

WINNER:

Clune Tech

FINALISTS:

  • Clune Tech
  • Sigmar Recruitment

Best Learning and Development Strategy

WINNER:

Reaching Potential – Depaul

FINALISTS:

  • Balanced Leadership - Version 1
  • Digital Learning Strategy - Bank of Ireland
  • Digital Marketing Institute
  • Emerald Contact Centre
  • Goodbody
  • Reaching Potential – Depaul

Graduate Training Programme of the Year

WINNER:

Health Products Regulatory Authority

FINALISTS:

  • FD Technologies
  • Goodbody
  • Health Products Regulatory Authority
  • Lidl Graduate Management Development Programme

Most Effective Employee Engagement Strategy

WINNER:

Ervia

FINALISTS:

  • Appreciation Week - Clearstream Global Securities Services
  • Beckman Coulter Ireland
  • Digital Marketing Institute
  • Engaging our People - Bus Éireann
  • Ervia
  • MOBY Bikes
  • Tricel

Most Effective Use of Internal Communications

WINNER:

Communicating with our People - Bus Éireann

FINALISTS:

  • Clune Tech
  • Communicating with our People - Bus Éireann
  • Digital Marketing Institute

Most Innovative Use of Technology

WINNER:

HSeLanD & Aurion Learning

FINALISTS:

  • Blended - Allianz Ireland
  • Dalata Hotel Group
  • HSeLanD & Aurion Learning
  • Innovate – Depaul
  • MedModus Rostering – Tallaght University Hospital
  • TELUS International