Friday night saw some of the best of the Brighton and Sussex business community turn up for a night of glitz and glamour at the Sussex Business Awards. A fantastic evening was had by all and it was a particularly triumphant night for the Propellernet team!

We were shortlisted for three award categories on the night: Healthiest Workplace, Best Employer and the Innovation in Business award. Despite some very stiff competition from some great Sussex businesses, we are pleased to have walked away with the award for the Healthiest Workplace (sponsored by the NHS West Sussex), as well as the Innovation in Business award (sponsored by the University of Brighton).

As regular readers to the blog have probably seen, we’re keen believers of a healthy body = a healthy mind and have put in place a ‘wellbeing team’ to drive forward continual improvements in this area. So it was fantastic to win an award for our wellbeing efforts and we’ve got plans to continue investing and improving employee wellbeing well into the future. Annelies’ blog post from a few weeks back gives a great overview of some of the things we’ve been doing to keep Propellernet active and healthy.

The Propellernet team celebrating the Innovation in Business Award win (I seem to remember it got rather hazy after that...) Photo Credit: flickr.com/image-catcher

For us, winning the Innovation in Business award is a fantastic achievement, as it recognises some of the big changes we have made in the last 18 months to how we approach online marketing on behalf of our clients. We’ve been tirelessly working on adapting and innovating our approach, embedding strategic planning tools and processes at the heart of everything we do with our clients. This has allowed us to successfully work alongside our broad range of clients as a strategic partner, helping them to achieve some fantastic results online.

Now we’ve had a taste of what it’s like to win some awards, we plan to enter more and hopefully we’ll be able to justify investing in a trophy cabinet soon!

More photos of the Propellernet team at the Sussex Business Awards can be found on our Flickr Photostream.

And finally, if you’re reading this and thinking you need to inject some ‘wellbeing’ into your organisation, then I can highly recommend speaking to Karen Smithson at Endless Possibilities, who we consulted with and who did a great job helping us to shape our wellbeing project.