The 2022 Inspire Awards are now open! This is your opportunity to recognise and appreciate individuals and teams that in your view have excelled.

These are the ones who champion change. The ones who challenge the status quo. The ones committed to doing the right thing and going above and beyond. The ones who make Wood a great place to work.

The last two years have been challenging for everyone, but our people consistently show up to deliver success and make the impossible, possible. The Inspire Awards are open untilMonday, July 18. Take a look around you and let’s lift each other up by celebrating exceptional performance. Who will you nominate?

There are six categories this year aligned to key cultural aspects of Wood, and these are:

Raising the Shield

This award celebrates those who show extraordinary courage to speak up and raise the Shield to keep people safe and/or make a significant contribution to the improvement of safety.

Engagement Champion

This award recognises either an employee or a leader who has had a profound impact on the people they work with or lead. This could be through their enthusiasm, professionalism, and sheer ability to engage with and motivate others and as a result maintain the morale and positive energy of those around them.

Excellence in Sustainability and Ethics

We are looking for individuals and teams that have truly advanced Wood’s sustainability and ethics agenda through exemplary performance in this vital way in which we do business. Our judges are looking for those who have ‘gone the extra mile’ to enhance Wood’s reputation and support delivery against our global sustainable development targets and ethical working practices.

Impactful Innovation

We are seeking nominations from those who don’t give up in the pursuit of innovation to solve challenges. We want to recognise the positive impact this has in unlocking solutions for our business, customers, wider industries, environment, or society.

Exceptional Customer Service

This award acknowledges outstanding performance in delivering customer satisfaction, listening up to our customers’ needs and putting them at the centre of partnership working. This includes shining examples of where our people have: overcome significant barriers to deliver challenging objectives; consistently and repeatedly delivered exceptional work to stakeholders; and actively promoted collaboration within Wood to find a better solution for customers.

Exceptional Team Performance

This award recognises the combined efforts of a team who have achieved remarkable results. This could be a customer facing project team, or an internal team that has come together and potentially against the odds managed to work together and collaborate with others to deliver exceptional performance and results that have a positive impact that can be evidenced. We want to hear about their performance and how their success can inspire other teams across Wood.

In 2021, nearly 4,600 members of Team Wood were recognised as inspirational by their colleagues in our annual Inspire Awards. Everyone nominated will receive an Inspire Awards certificate.

You can make your nomination athttps://www.judgify.me/InspireAwards2022

If you're interested in being part of the Judging Panel this year, register your interest,here.

Around Wood in 30 Days

Team Wood has done it! We’ve completed our 30-day health and wellbeing challenge and we’ve exercised our way around the Wood world.

And we can now share that our final step total is an incredible 152,491,962 which took us once round the world and on our way back to Papua New Guinea! Watch our video celebrating the achievement:

Dr Joan Patterson, Vice President, Health Protection says: “We are delighted that Around Wood in 30 Days has been embraced by Team Wood again this year. Our collective step total shows what we can achieve when we team up together and commit to putting our health and wellbeing at the top of our priority list.

“Exercise shouldn’t be chore or last on your list, and the photos and videos shared on Yammer and Instagram over the last few weeks provide great inspiration and insight into how Team Wood stays both fit and well. And we have all learned so much about some of the locations where we operate as well as our inspiring colleagues that we have around the globe. Looking after our physical health means we’re taking care of our mental health too so hopefully the challenge has provided some inspiration and ideas for different forms of exercise to try.”