Creating an Industry Award

An industry award is a very good way for you to keep on encouraging excellent work and to improve performances. They boost morale and help people to perform better and better in their industry.

Ideas for an industry award

Instead of simply handing out a certificate along with a cash reward, you should turn creative and hand out industry awards that complement your industry or your sector. For example:

• If you are in the tyre industry then why not give out an industry award shaped like a tyre?
• Similarly you can present an award that is shaped like a plane if you are in the aeronautics industry.
• However, you will need to be a little more creative if you are in something like the surgical or dental industry!

The key is to help candidates to connect mentally to their award as well as allow others to observe the award from afar. This way they too get motivated to earn one in the future to display on their table or mantelpiece.

Making an industry award

An industry award can be made from various materials, such as different types of metals, plastic, wood, acrylic, model board, etc. Several awards also comprise of one or more materials such as wood for the base and metal for the actual award. While making such awards in the past required manual labour or costly dies, the advent of CNC machines have made it possible to create smaller numbers of unique awards at a very cost-effective rate. There are different processes involved in making industry awards such as CNC machining, RIM moulding, laser cutting, vacuum casting, vacuum forming, etc depending on the material chosen for the award.  

Designing an industry award

Most industry awards are now designed using 3D CAD modelling programmes that allow the designer to quickly design and view the award on the computer screen itself with a three dimensional effect. Rapid prototyping ensures that a prototype can be made swiftly before it is put in actual production. The final industry award can be painted, polished in gold or silver or chrome, anodized, or mirror polished to give it an exclusive look that allows the recipient to beam with pride and others to envy with the hope that they might win it the next time around.  

There are several imaginative ways by which you can get such industry awards made before presenting them to your happy employees. Rewarding deserving workers with an industry award is an excellent method of showing them that you appreciate their effort and have noticed the extra mile that they have walked for the success of the industry.

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