Innovation Awards Program
This program promotes and supports a culture of innovation and is intended to recognize the implementation and accomplishments of new approaches, effective solutions, and/or creative and innovative changes made by the employees of Larimer County.
The program is offered annually, and employees/supervisors are encouraged to nominate others, or apply for the program themselves. The award(s) will be presented to the recipient(s) by the County Commissioners, followed by a press release to recognize the innovative accomplishments. In addition to the public recognition, the employee(s) and/or team(s) will receive an award of up to $5,000 paid in the form of Nectar points and/or 457(b) contribution.
The Larimer County Innovation Awards Program is a deliberately broad program that allows for flexibility in honoring creative methods, ideas, processes, and programs that have been implemented and are beneficial to Larimer County. Innovation is about accomplishing a specific purpose in a new or different way.
It is anticipated that competitive applications for the Larimer County Innovation Awards Program will generally fall into one or more of the following categories:
- Connection to Larimer County’s Guiding Principles.
- Novelty, originality, and/or uniqueness.
- Does the innovation represent a fundamental change in direction, policy, program or approach?
- Results, significance and/or relevance.
- The level to which the innovation addresses a need or problem or is beneficial to Larimer County.
Applications are reviewed by Department Heads, and then by the Strategic Leadership Committee. The nominees associated with the top applications will then be asked to provide a short presentation outlining their innovation to the Guiding Principles Champions. Following the presentations, the winner(s) of the Innovation Awards will be selected by the Guiding Principles Champions.
The winner(s) are then recognized by the Board of County Commissioners during a Work Session. Professional videos of the winning innovations are produced and presented during the Work Session.
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