APM Project Management Awards - Hints and tips for a winning award entry webinar Thursday 18 April 2024 The APM Awards overview and the resources of this webinar: https://www.apm.org.uk/apm-awards/ Content description: Ahead of the APM Awards 2024, find out from our expert panel what elements make a winning APM Award entry. Learn how to choose the category best suited to you or your company. Answers provided to those all-important questions: -What importance does the criteria hold? -What are the judging panel looking for? -How should I structure my entry? -What additional evidence is acceptable? -What will give my entry an edge? X hashtag: #APMawards

1. APM Project Management Awards Webinar
Hints and tips for a winning award entry webinar
• Emma Carroll-Walsh, APM Awards Steering Group Chair
• Sam Davey, APM Awards Moderator
• Kalpesh Patel, APM Awards Judge
• Paul Hamnett, APM Engineering, Construction & Infrastructure Project of the Year Award
Winner 2023
• Kathryn Williamson Hall, APM Young Project Professional Award
Winner 2023

2. Categories - 2024
• Company of the Year
• Small to Medium Enterprise of the Year
• Not-for-profit Organisation of the Year
• Public Sector Organisation of the Year
• APM Sustainability Award
Tier 2 – Projects and Programmes
• Engineering, Construction and Infrastructure
Project of the Year
• Social Project of the Year
• Technology Project of the Year
• Transformation Project of the Year
• Programme of the Year
Tier 3 – Sustainability
Tier 1 – Project Organisations

3. Tier 4 – PMOs
• PMO of the Year
Tier 5 - Individuals
• Emerging Project Professional of the Year
• Project Professional of the Year
• Chartered Project Professional of the Year
Hosted Category - Shell
• Safe Project Management Award
Nominations Only
• Outstanding Achievement Award

4. Non-entry Categories
• Innovation in Project Management
• Overall Project of the Year

5. Tier 1 - Project Organisations Categories
• Company of the Year and Small to Medium Enterprise categories will be two-stage
judging categories. Not-for-profit of the Year and Public Sector of the Year will
remain one-stage judging categories.
Key Changes for 2024
Tier 5 - Individual Categories
• Young Project Professional changed to Emerging Project Professional of the Year.
Entry requirement changed to - aged 29 years or younger, or less than three years’
experience in project management career.
• Project Professional of the Year entry requirement changed to - of any age, with
more than three years' experience in project management career.
Outstanding Achievement Award
• New for 2024 – a ‘by nomination’ only category.
• Nominee must be aware of nomination.
• 1,000-word entry.

6. Video Entry
• Video entry trial for 2024 – Emerging Project Professional of the Year category only.
• Entrants will have a choice between written entry (1,000 words) or video entry
(eight minutes).
• The video must only show the entrant speaking to the camera, no additional persons may be present,
no graphics, images or documents may be included in the video.
• Required to follow category criteria in the same way as written entry.

8. www.apm.org.uk/apm-awards
All category and criteria information can be found on
the APM website
Further details