ECO Canada's Environmental Employers of the Year Awards recognizes employers  for their commitment and dedication to HR excellence. These awards are one of Canada’s only awards where winning organizations are selected based on the feedback of those who are most impacted by an organization’s HR practices – the employees.

Does your organization encourage professional growth and excellence? Does it value a healthy corporate culture and the input from its employees? Are you proud of your organization's HR practices?

If so, give your organization the chance to be recognized by nominating them for the Environmental Employers of the Year Awards.

Feel your organization has room for improvement? The awards process also provides an opportunity for employees to provide valuable feedback to their organization and for employers to utilize this feedback to make changes and improvements.

A great example of this is Mosaic Sales Solutions, who as a result of their participation in a similar process learned that they were lagging in corporate social responsibility. As a result of this feedback Mosaic’s HR team formed committees to brainstorm and implement more initiatives in this area. “It gives a really good benchmark against all the other organizations so you can easily see the areas where you may be falling down and you can pick some areas and focus on those,” says Shari Martin, HR business partner at Mosaic Sales Solutions.

This feedback will be helpful in understanding what it is your organization is doing right and more importantly, help identify potential developmental opportunities.

“With the looming labour shortage, these awards will be useful in recruiting key talent”, says Evelyn Katrakis of Bennett Jones LLP. “As the years go on, it’s going to be harder to find good people so this (top employer ranking) will bring in more good people,” she adds.

Ron Nicholson, President of EcoMetrix Incorporated, weighs in on his experience competing in ECO Canada’s Environmental Employers of the Year Awards: "The ECO Canada engagement survey gave us an opportunity to independently benchmark what we were doing well with staff and what we still need to work on. We plan to participate every year – not for the award, but for the valuable feedback that we plan to use to keep EcoMetrix in the top-end of Environmental employers."

Learn more about the Environmental Employers of the Year Awards or nominate your employer today.