COTY Awards
The COTY awards are an opportunity to celebrate and reflect on a year of professional and personal achievement, to network with peers and to be proud of all that internal communication has achieved.
Three other prizes are made at the awards lunch:
- Communicator of the Year (nominated by CiB members)
- Diamond Award for Outstanding Achievement by a CiB Member (decided by a CiB panel)
- Best CiB accreditation programme student (nominated by the CiB’s Professional Development committee).
| How do we define ‘internal communication’?
Internal
communication is any communication designed to build a shared
understanding and foster a sense of community within a clearly
identified and discrete group.
This
definition reflects the need to include communication within membership
organisations and similar groups, as well as employee communication.
The important distinction is from any form of marketing or external
communication |
CiB presents its Communicator of the Year awards at the same time as the main awards.
This year's recipient was Joan Bakewel.
The Communicator of the Year award is given to an individual that the organisation feels has made a major contribution to business communications over the last year.
Previous recipients include Michael Bishop, British Midland (1989), Howard Davies, then CBI but now deputy head of the Bank of England (1992), Roy Castle, posthumously, (1994), Matt Barrett, Barclays (2001), Major Sir Michael Parker (2002), John Timpson (2003) and Sainsbury's Justin King (2006), Deanna Oppenheimer (2007) and David Fairhurst (2008).
At the same time, CiB presents:
- Diamond Award for Outstanding Achievement by a CiB Member (decided by a CiB panel)
- Best CiB accreditation programme student (nominated by the CiB’s Professional Development committee).
Other previous CiB Communicators of the Year include:
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Jacqueline
Gold
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Sir Richard Branson
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David
Bellamy OBE
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Anne
Diamond
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Dame
Anita Roddick
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To find out more about COTY and previous awards please click on one of the articles below.
