Elly Awards

Ellys

The ELLy Awards
Experience Learning Live Training Awards

Recognizing Excellence in Learning & Performance

Credit unions are doing amazing things for the educational and professional development of their staff. We invite you to toot your own horn and be recognized for your outstanding training efforts. Enter the seventh annual ELLy Awards, stand up and be recognized at Experience Learning Live!

• Winners are recognized and top entries displayed at Experience Learning Live! October 26 - 29, 2008 in Tempe, AZ.
• ELLy winners receive national recognition in industry training and credit union publications.
• Winners will each receive one complimentary registration to Experience Learning Live! in 2009.

No credit union is too small to get an ELLy! This year, entries will be judged according to credit union asset size. Entries by credit unions with an asset size less than $250 million will be judged in their own division. This means more potential for recognition to all credit unions!

Entries are due August 1, 2008.

2007 ELLy Award Highlights

AWARD CATEGORIES - For both asset size divisions, First Place and Merit Awards will be presented in six categories, recognizing excellence in training.

Chi Pi Delta X II Award

This award is presented for the best development of a Credit Union University and its effect on staff learning and performance, utilizing CUNA Center for Professional Development’s products as the foundation.

Coach Award

Not only do credit unions change their members' lives through money management, they change their employees’ lives through career development. A good employee training program can change a person’s life. Demonstrate how trainers changed a person's career and life through education, mentoring, and coaching. Consider how the employee has been impacted by the help of the credit union’s training program or trainers. This entry can be submitted by an employee or trainer in honor of the trainers that impacted their own or their co-worker’s life and career.

eLearning Award

Demonstrate how technology has changed your credit union’s culture and enhanced training. This award goes to the credit union that has effectively incorporated technology into staff training.

Training Champion Award

This is an opportunity to applaud the vision, involvement, and leadership of senior management for their support and development of your credit union’s training initiatives.

Training Professional of the Year Award

This premier award recognizes achievements of a visionary credit union training professional or department for exceptional contributions to the learning and performance development of credit union staff.

WOW Award

Exhilarating! Uplifting! Experiential! Fun! If these words describe your training program or event, then your credit union is the ideal candidate for the WOW Award. This award is presented to the credit union with the best overall training curriculum or event – one that inspires learning, teaches skills that go beyond the classroom, and leaves participants empowered!

HOW TO PREPARE YOUR ENTRY

Submit three (3) copies of the entry form along with three (3) copies of entry materials and supporting documentation. Entries may be assembled in a three-ring binder. If multi-media is used as part of your entry, only one copy is required. Attach an entry form to the first page of each entry.

Questions about your entry should be directed to elearning@cuna.coop or 800-356-9655, ext. 4249.

Mail your entry and entry form to:
CUNA Center for Professional Development
Attn: Michelle Johnson
5710 Mineral Point Road
Madison, WI 53705

Mail your payment and payment form to:
Credit Union National Association
P.O. Box 78546
Milwaukee, WI 53278-0546

RULES, FEES & JUDGING

Dates/Deadlines:

• Entries must be received by August 1, 2008 at 5:00 p.m. Central Time (no exceptions).
• Winners will be notified by September 1, 2008.
• Awards will be announced at the ELLy Awards Presentation at Experience Learning Live! Conference in Tempe, AZ, October 26 - 29, 2008.

Eligibility and Submission Requirements:

• Any CUNA/League affiliated credit union is eligible to enter.
• If you enter more than one category, supporting documentation and an entry form must be completed for each category.
• All fees are nonrefundable.
• An incomplete entry form is grounds for disqualification.
• If the quality of entries in a given category is not strong enough, no awards will be given.
• Entries become property of CUNA, unless you include the $30 return fee with your entry.
CUNA reserves the right to keep one copy of each winning entry.
• Judges reserve the right to move entries to categories they feel more accurately reflect the nature of the entry.
• All judges’ decisions are final.

Supporting Documentation:

Nominations for these awards should be supported by:

• Success stories and supporting materials, including written descriptions of a program or theme, handouts, business plans, graph results, video footage (up to 15 minutes), photographs, and/or anything else that provides documentation specific to a given category.
• A concise description of the exceptional contribution to the category in terms of its focus, the scope and context, the key concepts, and/or innovation.
• The extent to which the contribution is based on original concepts and/or innovative practices recognized throughout the field over a sustained period.
• The impact the contribution has had on workplace learning and performance.
• The extent to which the contribution documents a position on workplace learning and performance that affirms that people are value-added contributors to organizational success and strategically links workplace learning and performance to the credit union’s goals and objectives.
• Please submit a picture of the award nominee or department for all awards.

Judging:

The judges are a mix of credit union industry training professionals and other training and development industry professionals. Judges are not permitted to enter the competition themselves. They will judge each entry against other entries in its category.

Fees: