Individual Awards

The most critical feature of the Awards is to set forth the achievements which make an individual worthy of public recognition

Excellent Employee in the Technical Field

A technical employee with a technical is deemed to be one who is a practitioner of specialist skills in a particular area of expertise

Excellent Employee in the Managerial Field

A manager is deemed to be any person with management responsibilities but may not necessarily have the designation of manager in their job title

Excellent Employee in the Administrative Field

An administrative employee is deemed to be a person responsible for the discharge of business in some capacity in their Entity who does not hold a managerial position.

Excellent Employee in the Professional Field

A professional employee is deemed to be one who has gained professional qualification or accreditation from a profession specific body at a higher level for the necessary exercise of their job function.

Best Employee in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi Government Service

The winner will be selected from amongst all the applicants into the four Award classifications above and will be recognized as the overall best Government employee (No separate submission)

Submission Module For Category 3 – STARS

Equal attention should be given to each of the elements of STARS and wherever possible items within each of the elements be addressed.

Situation
A personal work related profile to put into a context those issues that follow in the Submission. This might include:

· Educational background including academic and work related qualifications held

· Previous experience within the Government Service and experience outside of the Government Service

· Period of time within current role

· Nature and scope of current role

· Key deliverables of current role

· Contribution of role to the fulfilment of entity purpose and objectives

· Lines of communication (upwards/downwards/horizontally) in current role

Task

· Key responsibilities in current role

· Key challenges in current role

· Opportunities taken to develop self in role

· Opportunities taken to enhance contribution in role

· Barriers and obstacles to developing self and contribution in this role

· Identify your key skills, competencies and behaviours or attitudes which enable you to demonstrate excellence in your role

Action Taken

· What are your key achievement(s), success(es) or accomplishment(s) this year?

· Why do you feel the above represent exceptional performance compared with colleagues in similar roles within the Government Service?

· Who and in what way has been the beneficiary of your contribution this year?

· Who has supported you in bringing about your accomplishments?

· What unexpected difficulties did you experience and how were these overcome?

· What did not turn out as you expected, anticipated and planned?

· How did you manage the difficulties and set-backs as above?

Results

· What was achieved in quantifiable terms for yourself, your entity/Section/Team and your customers internal or external

· What evidence or data is there to support statements concerning achievements and accomplishments?

· On reflection what might you have done differently in order to achieve even higher outcomes?

· Were there any unexpected benefits from your contribution last year?

· What have you learned about yourself and your work responsibilities as a result of last year’s activities?

· How will your accomplishments and achievements of the last year be used as a platform even higher contribution in the year ahead

· How has any process or procedural improvements made by yourself in the discharge of your role been disseminated and communicated for implementation elsewhere?

Summary

· Summaries why you believe actions taken by you or behaviors demonstrated by you in connection with your work warrant national recognition of yourself as an Excellent Employee

· Explain what winning an Excellent Employee Award would mean for you and your Department

· What are your work related vision, plans and expectations over the next three years?

The above elements of STARS are not exclusive but indicative of the structure and content of an effective Award Submission. It is recognized that each employee and their personal contribution is unique, so therefore this guideline should not be seen as a constraint or limitation to the content of a submission that any applicant would wish to include.

Category 3 Eligibility guideline

· Applications for a Category 3 Award must be made in the form of a written Submission using the application template which will be provided by the Award Office

· The deadline for the receipt of submissions will be advised by the Award Office

· The activities on which the Submission is based must have been completed within 3 years from the submission deadline although the activities may have been initiated in an earlier calendar year.

· Submissions must cover activities undertaken by individual employees in their own job role and must not be wholly based on their individual contribution to a Project Team which might be the subject of a Category 2 Award.

· Submissions covering activities of consultants, external agencies or contractors will not be eligible for an Award. This does not invalidate any Submission concerning a project or initiative on which external support or cross-agency working was involved.

· Entities may only put forward one submission for each of the four Category 3 Awards. There is no separate submission required for the Award of Best Employee in the Government of Abu Dhabi.

· Applications for category 3 award must have completed minimum of two years of service in the applicants entities.

· Previous winners of Abu Dhabi Award for Excellence in Government Performance are not eligible to re-apply

· Director General or Chairman or equivalent are not eligible to participate

· All submissions must be accompanied by a letter from the Director General or Chairman of the of the applicant entity endorsing their submission for an Award

Submission Details

· One paper copy and one electronic copy of the Submission Document should be submitted to the Award Office in the format as per the set date.

· Each set of Submission document must clear state which sub-category of Category 3 the submission is in respect of.

· Submissions shall be of no more than 3000 words and no more than 15 pages presented on A4 paper size written in 14 simplified Arabic

· Supporting evidence to the Submission such as documentary attachments or electronic based data will not be accepted

The Feedback System

The Feedback Report is a critical document in the ADAEP providing a summary of the findings of the assessment giving entities balanced, value adding comments from the assessors to position their current level of excellence and achievement within the framework of the ADAEP. Most importantly it provides input to drive and encourage further endeavours towards excellence through reflection, review and action in addressing the identified strengths and areas for improvement. It assists the Jury in determining in an objective and reasoned fashion the Award winner.

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