Nomination Tips

Guidance to help your nomination for a President's Award for Employee Excellence to shine.

Submission Checklist

• Did you consider Skills For Success in your nomination? 
• Does your nomination address all of the criteria in the category description? 
  You can also review the rubric.
• Is your nomination within the character limit (3,000 character limitation including spaces and punctuation) and submitted through the system? 
• Was your nomination thoughtful and persuasive? 
• Did you consider utilizing Core Values as part of your submission?

Tips

• Give examples! Make sure to address Skills for Success or Core Values in your nomination by providing examples of action.
• Submitting a video: Test audio and video ahead of time, and reduce audio distractions in your environment. Be sure to face your light source (window, overhead light, lamp). Rehearse your submission, read it out loud once or twice for quality and timing. Please submit your videos as .mov or .mp4.
• Get a second opinion – have someone review your nomination before submitting.
•  Trouble getting started? Utilize the nomination worksheets below to help organize your thoughts and brainstorm ideas or contact our nomination editor to help you edit drafts and proofread final version before submitting.
  • Nomination Editor: Gerald Deis (gtd39)
  • Nomination Worksheets:

Game Changer

Mission Possible

ONE Cornell

Culture of Belonging

Culture of Sustainability

Thoughtful Leader

•  Remember: the system allows 3,000 characters, not words (including punctuation, spacing, etc.) which is almost a full page in Word. We recommend writing your nomination in Word then pasting it into the nomination form.
  • Many prior-year awardees had nominations well under the character limit.
•  Make sure you save a Word document of your final draft before submitting your nomination. This allows you to share it with the nominee if you wish, or use it in a performance dialogue if the nominee is your employee.
•  Re-nominating? If you would like to re-nominate someone for an award, we highly recommended you go through the submission checklist before submitting.