Why Apply?
What are the benefits to your organisation?
Participating in the O2 Ability Awards is your passport to reaching existing untapped markets, expanding boundaries and positioning your organisation as an employer of choice that values its employees and meets the needs of all its customers, including those who have a disability.
The benefits to your organisation can be summarised as follows:
- Helps your organisation recognise and seize opportunities to reach new audiences and access new untapped markets
- Enables your organisation to distinguish itself from your competitors, win new customers and maximise customer retention rates
- Improves your organisation’s performance by encouraging self-assessment, learning and development
- Strengthens brand value and awareness, and enhances loyalty from both employees and customers
- Introduces you to business leaders and CEOs of other successful organisations
- Positive portrayal of the culture within your organisation and business community
- High level of exposure in business and media circles
- Top thirty entrants receive a FREE one-day onsite assessment with feedback from expert consultants that will assist organisations in continuing to optimise the employment and inclusion of people with disabilities
- Corporate Responsibility – independent and externally verified recognition of best practice in the area of disability
- Helps you retain talent through team building, enhanced staff loyalty and policy positioning on the retention of team members who may acquire a disability
- Highlights your organisation as striving for best practice for its inclusion of people with disabilities as employees and/or customers
Winning Organisations
- Will feature in a special edition business supplement of The Irish Times
- Will be profiled in a series of television programmes to be broadcast on RTE One and interviewed on prime time programmes including the national radio station Newstalk 106-108fm
- Category winners will be presented with a commemorative award, a certificate and a logo of endorsement that may be used across the organisation’s marketing and corporate identity materials
A journey not a destination…
No organisation is expected to have all the answers. The employment and inclusion of people with disabilities is an ongoing journey, and we simply ask that your organisation begin that journey and reflect on what you are doing well. You may also be surprised to learn that your organisation is doing more than you are actually aware!
Organisations are assessed on what they ARE doing as opposed to what they’re not doing.
Whether your organisation is an enterprising multinational or an SME with a handful of employees; whether your organisation works in the private or non-private sector; whether your organisation has vast experience of working with disability, or whether you are an organisation just starting out on that journey, we encourage you to apply to the O2 Ability Awards 2010.
