Leading with Kindness Award
of the Year

Award Nomination Criteria

The brand new Leading with Kindness Award for 2023 has been introduced to acknowledge the huge role that kindness and compassion play in our everyday lives. The Award will recognise, acknowledge, and reward an organisation, team or individual that has demonstrated a kinder approach to people, through empathetic leadership, by showing real care and concern for colleagues or customers, and with a positive impact on business performance. Kindness is not the same as being nice. It is acting with intention, standing up for values in tough times, and addressing unacceptable behaviour when it is sometimes easier to look the other way. With their actions impacting others through their generosity of kindness, this award will celebrate the unsung heroes that go above and beyond what is required of them in their day-to-day working life.

Typical Nominees: Nominations will be for an individual, team or organisation that has gone above and beyond expectations by demonstrating genuine kindness and compassion towards others or empowering their people through commitment and service for others through their actions. Fostering a culture of kindness and willingness across the organisation to help their community, this award will take into consideration the positive culture and the practice of kindness for others in remarkable examples of kindness across Scotland’s many forward-thinking organisations.

Executive Summary:

Please provide a summary of your category nomination in no more than 500 words.

Supporting Evidence (essential):

1. Evidence that kindness is encouraged in the culture of the organisation and employees are empowered and supported to be kind (including tackling unkindness)
2. Evidence of how a culture of kindness is communicated across the organisation, that meet the needs of all employees and customers
3. Employers understand and can provide evidence of the value of kindness to others in the workplace and rewards for all employees that show kindness and compassion
4. Organisations must demonstrate evidence of impact that a kindness culture has had on the performance of the business
5. Evidence that the organisation has made a commitment to positively recognising the impact that kind leaders and employees create through their actions

Sponsored by:

Leading Kind believe that kind organisations and kind leaders make a difference to the bottom-line – and they work with their clients making work fairer, workplaces kinder, more inclusive, and outcomes better. The Leading Kind team combine strong research skills and extensive HR, Equality, & People experience gained across a range of sectors with deep knowledge of how organisations work (and what to do when they don’t). Naturally diverse, their core team have a range of lived experiences that informs what they do and how they do it – using evidence and insight to provide thoughtful solutions that make a (positive) difference.

For further information, please visit: https://www.leadingkind.co.uk