Total Credits: 1 Contact Hours
Your organization does a great job of recognizing employees and stands a chance of winning the RPI Best Practices Award – if you could just write it! If this sounds familiar, join three recent RPI Best Practice Standards winners as they share their recommendations for writing a nomination and winning recognition for their organizations. The RPI Best Practice award is divided into 7 Standards. Dan, Iryna, and Cori will focus on the two most challenging standards: Management Responsibility and Recognition Program Measurement. They will share their strategies for gathering and documenting their organizations’ work – and why you should get over it and start writing.
Dan has a passion for designing platforms and creating the analytics to increase employee engagement. Dan draws from his experience in human resources across all the functional areas at BAE Systems, Inc.. Since the launch of the program in 2014, utilization has grown by over 600%. Dan joined the board for Recognition Professionals International in January. He currently serves as program director for engagement programs where he works with incentive representatives across his organization to design and create employee engagement strategies that align with the employees’ and the organizations’ goals and needs.
Iryna Leonova, Advisor for recognition at the University of Calgary, is passionate about utilizing scientific methods in HR work to identify reliable metrics, measure progress, and predict future trends. Iryna holds a B.Sc. (Hons) in genetics and cytology and a Ph.D. in biochemistry. After switching her career focus from Science to Human Resources several years ago, Iryna has worked in both private and public sector. She graduated from the HR Management Certificate program offered by the University of Calgary and earned the Certified Recognition Professional (CRP) designation from Recognition Professionals International. As a testament to her work on developing and implementing recognition metrics for the University of Calgary’s recognition strategy implementation, Iryna was awarded the university’s “U Make a Difference” employee award in the category of Innovation and Curiosity in 2017. In 2018, she co-presented at the HR Undefined Conference (CPHR, Alberta) and Annual RPI Conference (Nashville, USA).
Cori Champagne is the Recognition Program Administrator for MIT’s employee recognition program, serving over 12,000 employees at the Institute. Started in 2001 as a way to recognize staff contributions, the program has become a model for other higher education institutions and for-profit companies. MIT's program is the 2016 recipient of RPI’s Best Overall Recognition Program Award, and Cori is the 2019 recipient of the RPI Harkins Educational Award.
