Team of the Year

This award is open to a single council or where appropriate a partnership of councils, or a council-owned company. Private sector partners can enter on a council’s behalf, with the permission of the council itself.

Teams are critically important to the effective working of local government, whether the team is a management team, a frontline service team or a central services team. This award is intended to showcase the ingredients that make council teams effective and contribute to local democracy and local service delivery.

Submissions should focus on:   

• A brief description of the role of your team;
• How the objectives of your team are set, how you measure the extent to which you have achieved those objectives and what you do with the results of that measurement;
• Who the customers of your team are and how you ensure that you are responsive to their needs;
• Your team’s current objectives and achievements with a particular focus on the relevant timescale.
• How the team contributes to the council’s wider objectives;
• How you develop effective team working.

Award entries will be judged on:

• The team’s performance within the relevant timescale and in particular evidence showing the extent to which it achieved its objectives and contributed to the council’s wider objectives;
• The team’s responsiveness to changing customer needs, evidence on its performance and the council’s strategic objectives;

Its demonstrable commitment to developing effective team working.