Why award management software is essential for scaling your awards

Are you looking to grow your awards program?

Scaling an awards program involves increasing the number of entrants and participants as well as broadening the demographics and geographic areas involved. It also means improving the quality of the awards and the impact of the awards program.

In essence, awards program scaling is all about enhancing these different elements without compromising participant experience or the efficiency of the program.

Why scale up? It can provide better visibility, more networking opportunities, enhanced participation, and increased revenue generation through more awards entry fees and sponsorship.

Scaling your awards program doesn’t have to be complicated. Awards management software is the secret ingredient to growth success. Here is how software can help grow your program and streamline your awards operations.

1. By ensuring excellent entrant experience

With awards software like Award Force, entrants can easily apply for your awards program from anywhere. It eliminates the need for a paper-based or email-based application process. It can also streamline entry by allowing entrants to register with their social media accounts or log in with Single Sign-On (SSO).

Awards software can provide a good entrant experience through an accessible and diverse entry form with relevant content to help guide your entrants and set their expectations.

Award Force offers a platform available in multiple languages; entrants can choose one or more of their preferred languages, helping boost accessibility to more entrants in the awards program.

Good entrant experience translates to entry growth. Award Force is designed to provide a stellar entrant experience; it’s little wonder our clients enjoy an impressive 38.17% increase in entry volumes!

2. Through system centralisation

Awards software functions as a central location for all program participants. It ensures that everything is available in one place and that every aspect of the award process is managed and monitored from there.

Applicants can register, upload documents and submit their entries. Judges can review the submissions, score them and provide feedback from their portal on the awards software. Through the software, administrators can set deadlines, generate reports and track progress.

All participants can receive communications in the form of notifications and reminders directly from the software. This eliminates the need for disparate systems.

3. By streamlining the judging process

Judges evaluate submissions better with awards software.

Awards software can automatically assign entries to judges based on predefined criteria. This ensures that each entry is reviewed appropriately and that the workload is evenly distributed among the judges.

By anonymising entries, the software can ensure that judges are unbiased during assessment—this maintains fairness and integrity in the judging process.

Award Force helps scale awards programs by assisting judges with evaluation. Features such as AI detection and plagiarism detection help judges instantly assess a large volume of submissions for originality. Grading tools such as a consistent rubric can also ensure holistic evaluation of submissions.

Using a variety of judging modes can make the judging process more efficient. The qualifying judging mode in Award Force helps judges assess a large volume of entries before progressing to in-depth evaluation. The voting judging mode helps judges solicit votes from the public without hassle.

What’s more, judges can seamlessly leave comments and provide feedback on entries.

4. Through automation

The functionality of automation in awards software can help you scale up your awards program. In Award Force, for example, you can use eligibility screening to ensure that applications meet your eligibility criteria before they’re assigned to the judges. This provides value to judges by saving time and eliminating human error.

Likewise, results can be automatically calculated based on set criteria; this reduces the possibility of errors that come with manual scoring.

Automation can also power notifications, to help you automatically notify participants about status updates, program information, and the awards outcomes.

5. By enhancing management capacity

Awards managers can do more in less time, thanks to awards software. A higher volume of applications can be handled efficiently. They can also be received and assessed simultaneously with the same evaluation standard.

Similarly, data can be stored and organised securely, helping safeguard your program’s data and outcomes.

Scaling your awards program can help unlock new dimensions and deepen your program’s impact on the community and industry. Award Force can help you effectively maximise the potential of your awards program. Learn more about Award Force.