OVERVIEW

The PMO Leader of the Year Award honors individuals around the World for their outstanding performance leading PMOs based in India.

HOW TO APPLY

Submitting your application is the first step to participate in the PMO India Awards.

The first part of the application process consists of a simple form, which will collect some basic information necessary for the Organizing Committee to verify your eligibility.

By submitting your application, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to all PMO India Awards rules and procedures.

Within five working days after submitting the form, you will receive a message from the Organizing Committee notifying if it is accepted.

After acceptance, we will send you a brief questionnaire and you will be able to perform the second part of the application process, submitting your questionnaire by the deadline informed at the confirmation message.

After submitting the questionnaire, in up to five days, the Organizing Committee will verify the information and confirm its acceptance, or request adjustments and new submission.

ELIGIBILITY

• Nominees must be at least 30 years old.
• Nominees must be Indian citizens.
• Only individuals with a minimum of a total of five-year PMO or Project Management leadership experience can be nominated.
• The nominee must be working regularly as a PMO Leader in the last 12 months, considering the date of submission of the application.
• PMO Global Alliance affiliation is not required for nominees.
• Directors, Heads, Managers, Coordinators, or any other leadership position can be considered as PMO Leaders.
• Consultants are not eligible to be nominated.
• PMOGA India Hub officers or PMOGA India Ambassadors are not eligible to be nominated.

EVALUATION CRITERIA

1) PROFESSIONAL JOURNEY

This criterion evaluates the nominee’s journey, analyzing his/her career in terms of consistency and the path that made the nominee become an outstanding PMO Leader. Weight: 10%

2) LEADERSHIP

This criterion evaluates how the nominee has been acting as a true Leader, supporting and motivating his/her team to collaborate, develop skills and deliver value and results to the organization. Weight: 20%

3) BEST PRACTICES

This criterion evaluates how the nominee has implemented and run PMOs. It evaluates the PMO structure, practices, and solutions that were implemented by the nominee to deliver the expected results. Weight: 20%

4) INNOVATION

This criterion evaluates what innovative practices and solutions the nominee has implemented in PMOs to overcome the organization’s challenges. Weight: 15%

5) COMMUNITY

This criterion evaluates how much the nominee actively works to create an engaged PMO community into his/her organization, industry and country. Weight: 15%

6) VALUE GENERATION

This criterion evaluates the effective results delivered by the nominee to his/her executives, sponsors, customers, stakeholders, and the organization as a whole. It also evaluates how much the nominee has contributed to the improvement and evolution of the organizational culture and maturity. Finally, it evaluates how the nominee has been encouraging the engagement of the organization’s senior management and improving the sponsorship level. Weight: 20%

IMPORTANT:

• The evaluation process is exclusively online. Judges will watch materials to select the best nominees, considering the established criteria.

• The Judges’ evaluations must be as objective as possible and will be performed based on criteria, supporting the identification of which nominees have an outstanding performance.

• The evaluation process is strictly technical and there is no political or any other non-technical aspect that may influence or change the evaluation results. The Judging Committee decisions are final and cannot be disputed by the competitors.

• The evaluation process and its scores are proprietary to PMO Global Alliance and will not be disclosed to anyone, except to the Auditing Committee, composed of Judging Committee Members from the same home countries of the finalists that will be able to verify all the detailed information of the final evaluations, ensuring the reliability of the evaluation process.

GENERAL RULES

All applications and documents must be completed in the English language (Business English) since they will be evaluated by an international Judging Committee who may not be familiar with acronyms and terms from your organization, industry or country.

The Nominee must obtain all permissions of use before submitting the questionnaire.

If the nominee is one of the finalists, he/she has to agree that the PMO India Awards glass trophies are offered at no cost by the PMO Global Alliance.

Finalists will have distinguished participation in the 2023 PMO India Awards Virtual Ceremony.

PMO Global Alliance reserves the right within its sole discretion, and at any time up to the time of the presentation of the award, to determine that a participant is or has become ineligible for the award.

PMO Global Alliance reserves the right to accept or reject applications and Nomination Packages; make or cancel an award, or change deadlines as circumstances dictate, always aiming to promote the PMO India Awards quality and benefit the PMO community.

PMO Global Alliance reserves the right to rescind an award if it is discovered that any information submitted is false or misleading.

Participants, finalists, and winners will be publicized through PMO Global Alliance (and its partners) communication channels and external media. Participants may also coordinate additional publicity with PMO Global Alliance.

NOMINATION PACKAGE GUIDELINES

The Nomination Package of the Individual Category Awards consists of a brief questionnaire that must be answered by the nominee, providing the necessary information for the analysis of the evaluation process.