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2025 Excalibur Award - Special Awards: Communications Team
The Communications Team of the Year Award recognizes an outstanding communications team for exceptional professional accomplishments during 2024. Individuals may nominate their own team or the team may be nominated by others. Entries for the Communications Team Special Award should be submitted in one (1) PDF document not to exceed five (5) pages in length and should not use less than a 10-point font size. If you choose to include a video, upload the video to YouTube and provide a link in your PDF document.
Entry submissions should include:
- Number of staff employed in PR function (please split professional and support staff)
- Annual communications budget for 2024 (broken down into areas of marketing activity directly under the team’s control)
- Outline of goals for the organization as a whole and the role of the communications team in fulfilling those goals
- Outline of PR-related issues and objectives during the entry period
- Achievements during the entry period
- Use of internal/external resources, including agencies and other companies
- Where appropriate, details of work with other departments within the organization
The judges will look for evidence of success in executing PR campaigns or programs during 2024 as part of an overall communications strategy. They will also look for cost-effective use of both in-house and external resources.
Grounds for Disqualification/Reclassification – Judges retain the right to reject any entry that is either incomplete or improperly prepared according to the guidelines. Entries that are incorrectly classified may be reclassified or disqualified at the discretion of the judges. Entry fees will not be returned in those cases nor will entrants be notified.