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Award readiness

Preparing for the Sheikh Khalifa Excellence Award

We prepare private-sector companies for the Sheikh Khalifa Excellence Award: we establish where you stand against the criteria, build the evidence with you and ready your team for assessment.

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About Sheikh Khalifa Excellence Award (SKEA)

The Sheikh Khalifa Excellence Award has been run by the Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce & Industry since 1999. It recognises private-sector companies with a measurable impact on the economy and society.

Official site: skea.ae

Who the award is for

  1. Large companies

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  2. Family businesses

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  3. Small and medium enterprises

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  4. Start-ups and scale-ups

Where we work with you

Assessment and the submission

A structured self-assessment, a numbered gap report, a coded evidence matrix, submission writing and a simulated site visit with the criterion owners.

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Customer experience

Customer journey mapping, written service standards for every touchpoint, and internal mystery-shopper rounds ahead of the official assessment.

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Preparing excellence teams

Training for your team: excellence model foundations, award submission writing, and internal assessor training on the RADAR logic.

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How we prepare you

  1. 1

    Read the Criteria

    Decomposing the award guide into measurable, trackable requirements.

  2. 2

    Self-Assessment

    A structured internal assessment to establish the real baseline.

  3. 3

    Close the Gaps

    Delivering initiatives and building missing evidence within a defined window.

  4. 4

    Submit & Defend

    Submitting the file and preparing fully for the site visit and interviews.

Check your award readiness in three minutes

The nine questions we ask every entity before we start. Answer honestly; the result shows immediately and we ask for no details to reveal it.

1Do you know your baseline?
  • We ran a documented self-assessment in the last twelve months, with a score per criterion.
  • We know our previous score and the assessors' feedback word for word, not from memory.
  • We have named our three weakest criteria, with their weights.
2Does the evidence actually exist?
  • We keep an evidence matrix that lists, codes and tracks every requirement.
  • Every figure we plan to cite comes from a system an assessor can be shown.
  • We hold at least three years of data showing a trend, not a single snapshot.
3Does every criterion have an owner?
  • Each criterion has an owner named as a person, not a department, with real authority.
  • Each owner knows they will be interviewed in person during the site visit.
  • Senior management has approved protected weekly time for the award work.

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Results from our work

⁦100%⁩Government mystery-shopper score

From a target written into the contract to best in class, two years running

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Raising an Abu Dhabi school's inspection rating with ADEK

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Frequently asked questions

When should we start preparing?+

Six to nine months before the assessment phase. We can work to tighter timelines, but the return is higher the earlier we start, because genuine evidence is built, not written.

Can we gauge our readiness before contacting you?+

Yes. The readiness check on this page is free and gives you the result at once, with your weakest area, without asking for your details.

Do you guarantee a win?+

No one can guarantee the decision of an independent assessment panel. What we do guarantee: you will know exactly where you stand, and your team will enter the assessment with genuine evidence it can defend.

Let's establish where you stand

Tell us where you stand and what you want to achieve, and we will come back with an initial view of scope, duration and investment within two working days.

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