UFI has named Artexis Easyfairs as winner of the 2017 UFI Education Award.
The theme for this year’s UFI Education Award was ‘employee retention’, an important area of focus for Human Resource departments.
This year’s award was designed to recognise companies that have developed an effective HR strategy that aims to recognise talented employees, and encourage them to continue to develop their skills whilst remaining engaged as key members of the team.
The UFI Education Award jury applauded the Artexis Easyfairs project, which uses a corporate academy as a key part of the HR strategy to foster and retain talent, develop careers and keep the competence curve as high as possible.
“The Artexis Easyfairs project was found to be of particular interest as the company clearly defined retention strategies and talent development as a major part of their growth strategy and value as a company,” says Enrica Baccini, chair of the UFI Human Resources Management (HRM) Committee. “In addition, clear measurement tools are in place to continually assess the success of the project, and review if and when necessary. This is a great initiative that should be embraced by other companies within our sector of activity. We are a people industry.”
Artexis Easyfairs was delighted to be this year’s winner of the UFI Education Award that has been recognising great educational and human resource initiatives since 2013.
After the announcement Yasmine Couderc, head of talent development at Artexis Easyfairs said: “We receive the 2017 UFI Education Award with great pride and honour. We thank the jury for awarding our project, which reflects our proven capacity to become trendsetters in Talent Development; as well as our determination to create an environment where talented individuals are encouraged to try new things, think differently, grow and develop themselves to reach their fullest potential. As we continue to grow, we strive to remain as engaging, innovative, creative and insightful towards our employees as we are towards the communities we serve, embarking all our team members on a journey into the future where creative entrepreneurship is at the heart of our itinerary.”
The UFI Award winners will share their projects at the 84th UFI Congress in Johannesburg (South Africa) during the Special Interest Group (SIG) for Best Practices.
