With just a month to go until the 'early bird' deadline for the IoIC Awards 2016, we offer five reasons why you should enter your best work.

1. Improve your expertise: you get a full written critique, highlighting areas for improvement to help refine your approach and thinking.
2. Justify your budget: use the awards as a way of benchmarking what you’re already doing or to measure yourself against your peers.
3. Raise the bar: take your work to the next level and aim higher.
4. Inspire your team: reward individuals or teams by showcasing their work, and celebrate together!
5. Enhance our profession: help raise the profile of effective internal communication by entering work that’s proven its value.
There are eight classes, plus many sub-classes to make 70 awards in total, and the deadline for entry is Monday April 25 – with an ' early bird' discount availabl e until Monday April 11.
The winners will be presented with their awards at a gala dinner at the Shakespeare Globe in London on Friday September 23. Bookings will open in a few months, so look out for annoucements.
To download your entry pack, check entry prices and see who the judges are, click here