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Program	Area	Category	Entrant	Entry Title	Medal	Year	Blurb
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Advance in a Diversity Recruiting Strategy	Kordsa Teknik Tekstil A.S.	"We Are One"	Bronze	2022	Diversity Recruiting Actions through DE&I Strategy. For the first year of implementation women recruiting and disabled recruiting are at the center.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Advance in a Diversity Recruiting Strategy	Accenture China	Accenture Greater China Recruitment Gender Diversity Practice - "Getting to equal, start from candidate experience"	Gold	2022	Accenture believes that a culture of equality is key to creating a sense of belonging and ensuring that all people can advance and thrive. Based on Accenture’s purpose and commitment on gender diversity, Accenture Greater China recruiting team formulated Recruitment Gender Diversity strategy in second half of 2021 to achieve short-term and long-term goal. In 2021, Greater China recruitment gender diversity was significantly behind target and even more improving areas including gender diversity awareness, female candidate experience was identified through a female candidates/new joiners experience survey. Accenture Greater China Recruitment Gender Diversity Strategy was formulated to achieve FY21 target, meanwhile fundamentally upgraded strategic focuses and empowered more stakeholders to be gender diversity advocate. Launching for almost one year, recruitment gender diversity made big impact of building a gender balanced workforce, attract top talents, influence talent market, and foster the culture of equality.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Advance in a Diversity Recruiting Strategy	British American Tobacco	British American Tobacco_Best_Advance_in_a_Diversity_Recruiting_Strategy_2022_Diversity_Equity_IGNITE Returners programme	Silver	2022	This submission details BAT’s ‘IGNITE’ Returners programme. Following a successful pilot in the UK in 2020, BAT launched the IGNITE returners porgamme in 19 more countries in 2021. IGNITE focuses on supporting experienced professionals returning to the workplace after a career break. It includes flexible working, training and coaching for returners, and training for line managers on how to best support them. Hiring diverse talent and accessing this hidden talent pool is fundamental to the success of the business and helps demonstrate delivery of BAT’s global D&I ambitions and contribution to talent pipeline.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Advance in a Diversity Recruiting Strategy	McKinsey & Company	Taking a microscope to recruiting: How simple changes throughout the funnel can lead to more inclusive outcomes	Bronze	2022	As part of McKinsey's 10 Actions toward racial equity, the firm's talent acquisition team developed and implemented a strategy for identifying and removing potential biases from the recruiting process. The team examined the full scope of talent acquisition - from job postings through offer decisions and from both the candidates' and the internal colleagues' points of view - and redesigned aspects of the process to mitigate potential bias and its possible effects.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Advance in a Diversity Recruiting Strategy	VMWare Software Pvt Ltd	VMware Ascent: Nakshatra; a paid returnship program for women	Gold	2022	VMware Nakshatra is a 6-month paid returnship program for women who have been on a career break for a couple of years. This program is designed to benefit the individual as well as the organization. During the program, the “returnee” goes through an ‘on-the-job training’ program. They receive mentorship, guidance, knowledge enhancement and skill along with an opportunity to catch up with new advancements in industry. It is a unique program. We align them with Women In Tech buddies as well as with hiring managers and technical mentors. These Women In Tech buddies help women returnees enhance their confidence! At VMware we provide real change powered by human difference.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Advance in Leadership Development for Racial/Ethnic Minorities	Deloitte LLP	The Springboard Experience	Silver	2022	Deloitte Consulting LLP (Deloitte) sought to enhance the representation of its leadership and decided to lean on their own knowledge in leadership development and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives to foster more diversity in these leadership positions. The Springboard program was primarily intended to support the advancement of cohorts of Deloitte Consulting Senior Managers (and equivalent level) of diverse gender, race, and ethnicities to the PPMD (Principal, Partner, Managing Director) role and other market-driven leadership destinations. The program pairs individuals with a business sponsor and includes learning courses, cohort discussions, leadership exposure, executive coaching, and more over a two-year span during participants’ multi-year journey to the PPMD level.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Advance in Leadership Development for Racial/Ethnic Minorities	Marsh McLennan	Marsh McLennan Racial Inclusion & Social Equity Fellowship Program - Advanced Leadership for Racial & Ethnic Minorities	Gold	2022	The Racial Inclusion and Social Equity (RISE) Fellowship program for leadership development is an innovative partnership between Marsh McLennan, Fisk University, The National Black MBA Association, and world renowned Program Lead and Culture Expert, René Carayol. The 8-month program provides an enriching curriculum of practical business knowledge and social justice instruction, with workshops focusing on leadership. There is a rotational approach to understanding the Marsh McLennan businesses, guiding all Fellows towards meaningful career progression, and ideally a position within the company.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Advance in Leadership Development for Racial/Ethnic Minorities	National Association of Multi-Ethnicity in Media and Communications (NAMIC) and UVA Darden Executive Education & Lifelong Learning	NAMIC Executive Leadership Development Program	Bronze	2022	NAMIC's Executive Leadership Development Program is unique in its focus on both men and women of color, and its research-anchored exploration of the intersection of business-critical leadership competencies with cultural identity. The program is designed to help solve some of the industry’s most persistent diversity challenges: increasing the diversity of the industry’s executive suites; retention of executives of color; and maximizing the ROI of a diverse workforce within the business environment that demands strategic leadership agility and creative innovation.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women	Absa Group Limited and Walters and Company (Pty) Ltd	Absa IgniteHer Women Development Programme	Gold	2022	This Entry, submitted by Absa Bank together with vendors Branding & Marketing You and Walters and Company (Pty) Ltd, is called IgniteHer. IgniteHer is a multi-touch point women development programme that brings together flexible and guided learning through tailored learning journeys and personalisation. Its purpose is to encourage the holistic development and transformation of female leaders across the broader Absa ecosystem for sustainable and meaningful growth, and business impact.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women	Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd	EVOLVE – Mid-management Women Leadership Development program in Corporate Functions in Accenture India	Gold	2022	To realise its goal of creating a gender-balanced workforce by 2025, the Corporate Functions in Accenture India envisioned EVOLVE, a program to support the development of mid-management women professionals and grow them into future leaders. The program was conducted for Finance in 2021 and has been scaled up across Corporate Functions in 2021-2022.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women	Accenture Solutions Pvt. Ltd	Developing Future Women Leaders	Silver	2022	The Developing Future Women Leaders Program aims to prepare the high potential women managers of Capability Network (CN) – a globally distributed consulting team within Accenture - for elevated career journeys, by building resilience, presence, self-awareness and meaningful connections with peers and sponsors. The five-month journey involves extensive coaching, sponsorship, interactive learning, and networking opportunities, enabling participants to find their voice, and positioning them for extended leadership roles and career progression. The program is a significant component of CN’s endeavor to achieve a gender-balanced workforce by 2025, in line with Accenture’s global goal of gender parity at all career levels.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women	Cognizant	Propel- Accelerating Diverse Leadership Pipeline	Gold	2022	Signature Women’s Leadership Development Program at Cognizant is designed to establish a strong pipeline of women business leaders at senior leadership levels.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women	Continental and Cegos	Boosting Female Talent at Continental	Gold	2022	The Executive Board of Continental has set a goal of reaching 25% of women in management positions by 2025. To achieve this goal, Continental Mexico realized it needed help to expand the talent and competencies of high-performance and high-potential women for executive positions and reached out to Cegos, international leader in Learning & Development, to carefully curate an effective learning program that would contribute to their professional and personal development.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women	Disney Star and Harappa Learning Private Limited	The NEXT Program	Silver	2022	Disney Star India, one of the country’s leading media conglomerates, has defined the Indian media landscape for more than 30 years, and boasts over 700 million viewers a month on TV across India and 100 other countries. Disney has always encouraged diverse representation at the workplace. This led to the inception of a well-thought-out leadership pipeline through a Women Leadership Program called NEXT, a 16-week program for 52 high-performing women professionals preparing for senior leadership roles. The program was designed to create a significant impact on their organization’s future as they inspire and uplift other women leaders. It provided women leaders with a definitive toolkit of principles and approaches to navigate their current demanding and challenging mandates and acquire new behaviors and mindsets for peak performance in future leadership roles. The program equipped the learners and the organizations with coaching and mentoring skills, competency-based training and high-potential leadership skills.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women	DXC Technoloigy	SheLEADS@DXC: Women in Leadership Program	Gold	2022	DXC is on a 3-year business and culture Transformation Journey and believes that innovation that comes from diversity and inclusion is critical to the company’s success. While DXC has a fairly healthy gender mix, this reduces at higher levels in the organization. At the peak of the health crisis in 2020, DXC Technology launched SheLEADS@DXC for 100 mid-managerial women participants with an objective to support their career development and nurture their leadership potential. SheLEADS@DXC is a blended learning program, including learning on various subjects in different learning modalities, inspirational leadership connects, social learning, gamified networking challenges, social learning and actual on-the-job practice though implementation of Action Learning Projects. As a result of this and other allied initiatives, the diversity ratio improved from 28.94% women in April 2020 to 33% women in May 2021.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women	Experian and Impact	WILD	Gold	2022	WILD is Experian’s Women in Leadership #DiveIn (WILD) programme that has been created with the strategic objective of accelerating women into executive leadership positions at Experian. WILD was designed to equip participants with sponsorship, advice, targeted development and support to accelerate the women's pathway to promotion. Lateral or vertical career moves were anticipated as a result. Experian’s priority is to create an environment that is diverse, equitable and inclusive – this creates happy, engaged and productive employees who are then able to focus on our business priorities.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women	HCL Technologies Ltd.	Best_Advance_in_Leadership_Development_for_Women_2022_Diversity_Equity_Inclusion	Gold	2022	Building leadership pipeline within the Organization is a necessity more than an imperative in HCL hence showcasing the HCL’s best in class premier leadership program – Ascend
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women	HP Inc and BTS	Women in Leadership Lab (WILL)	Silver	2022	HP has attributed its growth and success to its innovative approach, global identity and commitment to diversity and inclusion. To advance diversity and inclusion and have the senior leadership team better represent customers, HP in Asia Pacific and Japan partnered with BTS to design WILL (Women In Leadership Lab). WILL was incepted to respond to this critical ask and as part of HP’s 10-year plan to be the “School of Talent” by building a culture of agile, customer-centric, and ambitious women leaders.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women	Infosys	IamtheFuture – Women in Leadership Program	Gold	2022	Infosys’ IamtheFuture is a multi-faceted program designed to address the complex challenge of increasing the representation of women in leadership positions. It brings various facets and stakeholders together to create an impact both for the organization and for the women leaders. In just 12 months, the program has had significant organizational and participant impact.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women	Merck & Co. and Cornell University	Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women - 2022 Merck/Cornell Women's Leadership Program	Gold	2022	This entry submitted primarily by Merck with Cornell as a solution partner is on-behalf of its innovative and impactful Women's Leadership Program. This program relaunched by Merck with Cornell partnership in 2020 has been delivered to close to 700 senior director women at Merck on a global basis with very strong impact. The multi-phase program featured customized live virtual workshops, eCornell online synchronous programs, coaching sessions, peer coaching groups and individual reflection as part of the blended learning journey.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women	Salesforce and BTS	Leading TMP: Salesforce Leadership Development Program	Gold	2022	Leading TMP started with a vision: Increase diversity, representation, and inclusion within TMP leadership; develop leaders for advancement to senior roles; and prepare them for the challenges of today and tomorrow. That vision inspired the program’s goals. Participants would: Have increased visibility and access to Salesforce executives; Gain a deeper understanding of the business; Further develop their leadership skills; Expand their network by building lasting relationships with peers. LMTP was composed of 3 themes: developing leadership skills, learning the business, and building relationships. Over six-months, participants gathered live virtually for discussions with Salesforce executives and workshops exploring leadership challenges. A 360 assessment, facilitator-led small group discussions, and 1:1 meetings with advocates rounded out the experience. The 2021 iteration of the program furthered ongoing Salesforce efforts to increase representation of women and underrepresented minorities. LTMP particularly targets the area of women in tech leadership.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women	Stellantis and Center for Creative Leadership	Stellantis Women’s Leadership Program	Silver	2022	The Stellantis Women’s Leadership Experience (WLE) is a career-development program that addresses the needs of first-level managers/executive level women as part of the company’s efforts to improve the representation, advancement, and influence of women in corporate leadership. Developed by the company’s Women’s Alliance Business Resource Group (now Women of Stellantis), WLE is designed to enrich participant perspectives of the business, connect them to senior leaders, and enhance their individual leadership toolkit. The program launched in 2018 as a series of in-person sessions, was re-configured for remote learning through the pandemic, and is now designed as a fully remote 9-month experience beginning in 2022.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women	The Kraft Heinz Company	The WE (Women’s Empowerment) Network	Gold	2022	The WE Network is a dynamic leadership development program created to prepare the next generation of women leaders at Kraft Heinz. Through sessions, small group engagements and executive coaching, Kraft Heinz is preparing associate directors to take on senior leadership roles by developing the skills to work as a team, inspire excellence and navigate the future. Outcomes include higher retention for participants, and higher engagement scores for their teams.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women	UST and Udemy	UST Win It	Bronze	2022	The theme of International Women’s Day for 2021, #ChooseToChallenge is the foundation of this six-month twin-tracked journey, with an emphasis on practical learning and talent development, to equip the women ussociates with the knowledge and tools needed to elevate themselves to a new level. Through the Win It program, UST is enabling a new journey of self-discovery, technical certification, knowledge sharing, mentoring, and networking for its women employees. The program examines different aspects of technology, leadership, and self-awareness. As part of the program, women at UST are encouraged to sharpen their skills and expertise – personally and professionally, with the Udemy platform as a trusted resource. The women leaders within UST as well as the Executive leadership played an important role as mentors and subject matter experts through the duration of the program. The best performers in the program will also be identified to participate in a social impact project.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women	Verizon	Women of the World (WOW) Program	Silver	2022	This development program is focused on engaging, enabling, and empowering women by developing foundational skills and competencies. The intent of this program is to create a strong pipeline of future women leaders at Verizon. In addition to immersive learning experiences, WOW participants will engage in activities that are designed to help them hone in on their career aspirations, expand their network and build strong connections.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women	WNS	Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women	Gold	2022	Centurion, WNS’ visionary leadership development program, has been created exclusively to groom women employees, especially frontline managers, to take on leadership roles in the organization. WNS has set itself a target of having at least a 100 women leaders in key positions within the organization over the next 4-6 years. Candidates from the program are chosen through a rigorous three step process involving manager nomination, leadership review and a thorough assessment process. Centurion is envisioned as a structured development journey including academic courses, cross-functional insights, role enrichment and mobility, competency development, coaching and leadership engagement. One batch of Centurions have already completed a successful 24-month journey and 25 women leaders have already been absorbed in key positions while the second batch is underway. WNS’ attempts at building a diverse and equitable workforce including this vibrant program have found it a place on the Bloomberg GEI Index twice in a row.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Advance in Leading Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Initiatives	Allianz Technology India and Alianz Services India	Best Advance in Leading Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Initiatives	Silver	2022	Our leadership is committed to creating an inclusive workplace that fosters diversity in all forms. In order to achieve the goals, the organization aligns its efforts with some key principles and become torch bearers of the same.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Advance in Leading Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Initiatives	BMC	BMC’s mission to prioritize Diversity, Equity & Inclusion	Silver	2022	This entry, submitted by BMC Software is called BMC’s mission to prioritize Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. Integral to the company’s philanthropic mission is the empowerment of BMC’s workforce to invest in people and enrich communities across the globe through digital literacy, interventions, and accessibility.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Advance in Leading Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Initiatives	HCL Technologies Ltd.	Best_Advance_in_Leading_Diversity_Equity_and_Inclusion_Initiatives_2022	Bronze	2022	HCL Technologies embraces Diversity as an asset, Equity as a differentiator and Inclusion as an Integrator. It trusts in ‘The power of difference’ and shares unwavering commitment to be purposefully and deliberately diverse, equitable and inclusive.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Advance in Leading Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Initiatives	IBM Corporation	We Are Stronger Together - Advancing Inclusion at Workplace!	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by IBM Corporation details activities and practices that are led and facilitated by IBM in support of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. While some sections describe key practices and principles of DEI that apply to the Global IBM, the specific initiative that is presented for review, titled "We Are Stronger Together - Advancing Inclusion at Workplace!" describes activities and outcomes as applicable to the IBM in India. The attached materials provide a brief and very high level overview of diverse set of activities that contributed to an outstanding achievements in the Diversity and Inclusion arena in India.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Advance in Leading Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Initiatives	VMWare Software Pvt Ltd	Accessibility through Storytelling	Gold	2022	The VMware accessibility story began with the need to make their software products accessible, then expanding to a global, cross-functional effort to address access needs of our increasingly diverse workforce. The impact of the team’s work was not limited to just all the employees at VMware, but also users of other global software products as the Accessibility Team embraced personal storytelling as the best method to communicate the vital role accessible tooling plays in workplace inclusion!
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Advance in Mentoring to Develop Diverse Leaders	Bank of America	Bank of America Diverse Leaders Sponsorship Program	Gold	2022	The Diverse Leader Sponsorship Program is a 10-month experience for mid-level leaders that includes personal and professional development and 1:1 pairing with an executive sponsor that provides career navigation and exposure. The program’s goal is to enhance and develop executive level skills for continued career navigation and advancement while addressing the unique challenges of diverse leaders.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Corporate Outreach to Promote Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Communities	Kordsa Teknik Tekstil A.S.	"Women Engineering Reinforcers" Mentoring Program	Bronze	2022	Women Reinforcing Engineering” is a Mentorship and Development Program that aims to reach engineering women students all around Turkey, especially on the Anatolian side of the country. After Kordsa's kick-off with the panel of our woman reinforcers (we called our employees reinforcers), mentor-mentee matches are made and the 6-month program begins. The main goal of this program is to inspire, encourage and guide students in engineering which is seen as male-dominated, with our stories and career journeys.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Corporate Outreach to Promote Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Communities	Bank of America	Student Financial Literacy	Gold	2022	Bank of America created the Student Financial Literacy program, with robust, age-appropriate content, to educate students and their families on how to manage their finances and make informed financial decisions. This is the first program Learning and Leadership Development developed for an external audience and paves the way to demonstrate at scale Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) programs to low and moderate income communities for more external outreach programs that can be offered by Bank of America to communities at no cost. After the learning team successfully piloted the program to a non-profit serving students, the program was transitioned to 4000+ employees in 93 markets across the country to continue to offer the program to communities at no cost.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Corporate Outreach to Promote Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Communities	LexisNexis Legal and Professional	The LexisNexis African Ancestry Network LexisNexis Rule of Law Foundation Fellowship	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by LexisNexis Legal and Professional, is called "The LexisNexis African Ancestry Network LexisNexis Rule of Law Foundation Fellowship". The LexisNexis African Ancestry Network LexisNexis Rule of Law Foundation Fellowship is a program that encompasses 12 law school student Fellows from the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Law School Consortium (HBCULSC) in a meaningful opportunity to accelerate their career, develop their leadership skills, and create opportunities to make a real difference in the effort to eliminate systemic racism in legal systems, build a culture of inclusion and diversity at the company, and advance the rule of law.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Corporate Outreach to Promote Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Communities	Molson Coors	Project Justice 2.0	Silver	2022	“Project Justice 2.0” is Molson Coors’ enhanced DEI Community Outreach program for 2021. Molson Coors’ overarching community outreach goal is to create a more equitable and just society so that it is better for everyone. In 2021, through Project Justice 2.0, Molson Coors invested $1.5 million in 33 Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) organizations at the local grassroots level, as well as national nonprofit organizations focused on racial justice. Molson Coors employees and ERGs provided feedback to help select nonprofit organizations for financial investments, as well as engaged in community involvement events like clean-ups and efforts to revitalize black and brown neighborhoods. Molson Coors sponsored events to educate employees including speakers/panel discussions on associated topics. Over the first 2 years of Project Justice, a significant impact has been realized in partnership organizations, employees, and surrounding communities – but this is just the beginning.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Corporate Outreach to Promote Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Communities	Unilever and Roberts Group Consulting Limited and BopInc	Building capabilities of female micro entrepreneurs in Africa	Gold	2022	Unilever needed to find a way to build capability in female micro entrepreneurs, and their supporting teams, in rural parts of sub-Saharan Africa. This is directly linked to the Unilever corporate strategy (‘Compass’) where one element aims to ‘contribute to a fairer, more socially inclusive world’. BopInc & Roberts Group Consulting created a digital learning approach that helped to deliver bite-size videos and follow up coaching sessions across Nigeria & Ethiopia that helped to increase capabilities and directly increase sales by 5% during the initial rollout phase.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Strategy	Kordsa Teknik Tekstil A.S.	"Being Plural"	Bronze	2022	With the motto of "not leaving anyone behind", this document covers all the studies and main strategies at Kordsa within the scope of making an embracing, inclusive, equal, and diverse environment sustainable.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Strategy	Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd	Best DEI Strategy	Gold	2022	Accenture embraces our rich diversity as a “culture of cultures”, which is all about our people around the world living our shared core values and bringing their unique skills and experiences to create lasting value for our clients and communities. We strongly believe that diversity is a source of innovation, creativity and competitive advantage. It helps create an inclusive workplace where everyone feels equally accepted with a real sense of belonging. Our unwavering commitment is a testament to our people, who truly own our Inclusion & Diversity (I&D) agenda through their actions every day. This collaboration between our people, clients and communities continues to accelerate progress and foster a culture of equality where everyone can grow and thrive.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Strategy	Bank of America	Bank of America Diversity and Inclusion Learning Strategy	Gold	2022	Our Diversity & Inclusion strategy provides an enterprise-wide, horizontal approach to D&I program/course development. D&I program development objectives clearly align with our company’s corporate strategy, commitments and values. In developing the D&I strategy, the team recognized the opportunity to deliver training that is accessible and relevant to a large, global organization while also maximizing cost efficiencies. As a result, creating a pull vs. push approach that drives inclusion deep into the organization. Employees attend because it is important to them personally, not because they are required to do so.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Strategy	British American Tobacco	British American Tobacco_Best_Diversity_Equity_and_Inclusion_Strategy_2022_Diversity_Equity_Inclusion	Gold	2022	This submission details the progress of BAT’s D&I strategy and bold global ambitions which were launched in 2020. The company also refreshed its wider strategy, vision and ethos. D&I is fundamental to the success of the business and intertwined with the wider business and talent management strategy. We received a Bronze award in this category in 2021.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Strategy	Cocnentrix	Diversity: Global Objectives Align with Local Intimacy	Gold	2022	Growing our Diversity, Inclusion and Equity locally and globally
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Strategy	Fibabanka	Fibabanka Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy	Bronze	2022	Fibabanka Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Strategy	HCL Technologies Ltd.	Best_Diversity_Equity_and_Inclusion_Strategy_2022_Diversity_Equity_Inclusion	Silver	2022	HCL Technologies embraces Diversity as an asset, Equity as a differentiator and Inclusion as an Integrator. It trusts in ‘The power of difference’ and shares unwavering commitment to be purposefully and deliberately diverse, equitable and inclusive.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Strategy	Kibar Holding	We are Equal	Bronze	2022	Kibar Group has aimed at making a commitment through its practices that it takes a stand against any and all forms of violence and discrimination in any manner to harm physical or psychological integrity or disrespect symbolic or cultural values of any individual or group within Kibar Group. This project offers benefits not only to Kibar Group, but it also offers a social benefit to those within the sphere of influence of each individual working at Kibar Group. This commitment of the Group means a beneficial step for the world with its contributions to the industry as well as all humanity.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Strategy	O'Reilly Media	Carving Out Space for Underrepresented Communities: How O’Reilly is Solving Tech’s Notorious Diversity Issue	Silver	2022	Part of the challenge organizations face when it comes to recruiting is finding talent and showing them there is a place for them in technology – instead of waiting for these communities to find these places in the industry themselves. Beyond aggressive hiring goals, O'Reilly also created initiatives designed to seek out underrepresented talent and provide them with the tools and resources to help them develop and sharpen the skills needed to break through barriers within the technology field, such as its Diversity & Inclusion Scholarship Program. In 2020, 30% of O’Reilly experts identified as a member of an underrepresented community. The company’s goal in 2021 was to advance that number a full 10 percentage points higher, to 40%. O’Reilly achieved that goal with 41.9% representation. O’Reilly also set a goal to have 40% of new hires come from underrepresented communities. The company surpassed this goal and achieved 51% representation.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Strategy	Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited	Jio’s 5E Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Framework	Gold	2022	Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Jio rests on 3 pillars: 1) Business Case 2) Legal Compliance, and 3) Social Responsibility These pillars provide directional inputs for building an inclusive organizational culture. The strategic direction is operationalized using Jio’s 5E DE&I Framework to create a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace. 1) Educate: Sensitization and development of capabilities to foster an inclusive environment 2) Enable: Support through infrastructure, practices, and policies 3) Encourage: Visibly increase support of internal and external stakeholders 4) Experience: Provide an inclusive experience to all employees; be allies and ambassadors 5) Effectiveness: Create, measure, monitor, report, and benchmark
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Strategy	Tech Mahindra Limited	Intentionally Diverse & Naturally Inclusive	Gold	2022	TechM’s ‘intentionally diverse and naturally inclusive’ actions created a psychologically safe ecosystem where employees are connected through human-centered experiences. Here genders, generations, abilities, and cultures coexist and learn from each other, together contributing to TechM’s core purpose of enabling people to Rise. TechM redefined its organizational strategy with a new Vision about creating a purpose-led company. To be purposeful, it is important to concentrate on the ESG- Environmental, Social and Governance aspect. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are critical to improving the social aspect of ESG. Hence the organizational business strategy is tightly linked to its improvements in DEI. This is articulated through a three-year roadmap with five focus areas — Gender, People with Disabilities (PwD), Generations, LGBTQ, and Nationalities & Cultures. This has helped the organization establish co-operative differentiation and stay ahead of the curve to succeed in the post-pandemic world.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Learning Program for Unconscious Bias Awareness	Kordsa Teknik Tekstil A.S.	Kordsa’s Unconscious Bias Training Program	Bronze	2022	The program was designed to create inclusive and respectful culture, break people's unconscious biases in the workplace, and understand the basic gender concepts at Kordsa.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Learning Program for Unconscious Bias Awareness	Bank of America	Bank of America Unconscious Bias Awareness Program	Gold	2022	Our overall Diversity & Inclusion strategy provides an enterprise-wide, horizontal approach to D&I program/course development. The goal of our Unconscious Bias Awareness Program is to create a consistent, robust and flexible program to increase bias awareness, building skills and competency in managing and mitigating bias overall, and creating an inclusive culture where courageous conversations are encouraged and supported. We specifically focus on equipping managers with tools and resources to interrupt bias during key decision making moments during the employee lifecycle. The success achieved in the program furthers progress toward our goal of having all employees treated with respect and be able to bring their whole selves to work.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Learning Program for Unconscious Bias Awareness	Chevron	Best Learning Program for Unconscious Bias Awareness - Chevron	Gold	2022	Open to all employees, Chevron’s global DECIDE Breaking Bias program equips its workforce to (1) collaborate more inclusively and (2) make stronger, more confident decisions by identifying and mitigating unconscious bias. Chevron’s D&I team of five, plus a cohort of 15-29 accredited volunteer facilitators from the business units lead the live learning in 2-5 available languages. Additionally, Chevron offers the three self-paced video components in four languages to comprise the four-part program. Breaking Bias is also a cornerstone of Chevron’s Inclusion Counselor program that helps ensure the selection/hiring discussions about internal and external job candidates are robust and bias-free.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Learning Program for Unconscious Bias Awareness	Eastman Chemical Company	Inclusive Leadership Training Empowers Eastman Leaders to Recognize and Mitigate Unconscious Bias to Drive High Performance	Gold	2022	This entry is titled "Inclusive Leadership Training Empowers Eastman Leaders to Recognize and Mitigate Unconscious Bias to Drive High Performance". Eastman recognizes the significance and impact of individual, inclusive leadership choices in creating a powerful collective that advances not only the business and growth strategy, but culture in- and outside its walls. The Inclusive Leadership program drives necessary shifts in leaders’ mental models and the choices driven by them in service to their teams, the organization, and our society. It also fosters high commitment through leaders taking actions outlined in an individual Conscious Inclusion Plan. This instructor-led program is delivered globally as a module in Eastman's Frontline Leadership program which serves first-time people leaders, as well as a standalone course for experienced leaders. The end result is an impactful learning experience that leverages dynamic learning platforms and leaders, and positively impacts Eastman's systemic approach to supporting an inclusive, high-performance workplace.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Learning Program for Unconscious Bias Awareness	HCL Technologies Ltd.	Best_Learning_Program_for_Unconscious_Bias_Awareness_2022_Diversity_Equity_Inclusion	Gold	2022	HCL Technologies believes “Inclusion is achieved when people believe that their unique and authentic self is valued, they are treated equally and with respect, they feel safe while expressing their opinion and when they are empowered to take decisions to grow and do their best”
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Learning Program for Unconscious Bias Awareness	LCBO and Ryley Learning Ltd.	Unconscious Bias Awareness Program	Silver	2022	This entry submitted by LCBO, is called Unconscious Bias Awareness Program. It is a three-part program focused on creating foundational understanding of diversity, equity and inclusion principles including understanding of systemic racism, microaggressions and anti-racism. The program spanned over 18 months duration and consisted of Spark the Conversation Poster campaign, development of Inclusive Leadership Council and Good Culture Ambassadors, and a 30-minutes asynchronous E-Learning on Unconscious Bias to approximately 9,000+ employees at all levels across the LCBO.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Learning Program for Unconscious Bias Awareness	McKinsey & Company	Anti-Bias Training for Evaluations	Gold	2022	This anti-bias learning program trains McKinsey evaluators and evaluation bias observers to identify and prevent potential unconscious bias throughout the performance review process. In this program, learners examine potential unconscious biases, recognize common forms of biased feedback that may occur, and practice disrupting bias in evaluation settings. To effectively shift both mindsets and behaviors, the training emphasizes research-backed evidence, draws from realistic scenarios, and provides tactical recommendations to empower learners to take action.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Learning Program for Unconscious Bias Awareness	Pope & Associates, Inc., DBA Pope Consulting and EI Design Pvt Ltd	The Inclusive Workplace	Silver	2022	Organizations that are intentional about creating inclusive workplaces that position them to attract, develop, support and, more importantly, retain diverse talent from all backgrounds will undoubtedly have a competitive advantage. This course is your guide to creating and fostering an ecosystem of diverse ideas, backgrounds and perspectives for a high-performing and culturally inclusive workplace.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Learning Program for Unconscious Bias Awareness	RIBA and Lever - Transfer of Learning	The Royal Institute of Architects addresses unconscious bias and develops cultural intelligence through robust learning program	Gold	2022	Without a robust approach to learning, diversity and inclusion initiatives often fail. Global architecture membership body, The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), set out to deliver a new diversity and inclusion program to address unconscious bias and develop cultural intelligence, employing a learning transfer methodology.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Learning Program that Supports and Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion	Allianz SE	Learning Program supporting Diversity, Equity & Inclusion - The Allianz Olympic and Paralympic Partnership Enablement Program	Gold	2022	The Global Onboarding and Enablement Program for the Allianz Olympic and Paralympic Partnership consist of both live and self-directed learning opportunities via a series of live training sessions in webinar format, and an all-encompassing global digital learning platform that is accessible in over 70 markets worldwide and ensures all ergonomic and accessibility standards for disabled employees to the highest degree. With a motto “Diversity and Inclusion by default”, this holistic enablement approach, which includes tailored learning journeys, a highly interactive interface, and engaging learning formats followed by expert deep dives, has allowed Allianz to onboard all its operating entities (OEs) globally and upskill all Allianz employees worldwide around the partnership topics.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Learning Program that Supports and Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion	Ameriprise Financial	Ameriprise Diversity and Inclusion Program	Gold	2022	Prior to 2020, Ameriprise was actively creating a focus on gender inequality. The events in 2020 led Ameriprise to increase focus on racial injustice, underrepresented groups and demonstrating commitment to advancing Ameriprise’s diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) goals. The DEI curriculum and learning experience has been significantly enhanced to prepare leaders and employees to lead more effectively.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Learning Program that Supports and Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion	Apposite Learning Solutions Pvt Ltd	D&I Energized!	Silver	2022	This entry, D&I Energized!, submitted by Apposite Learning Solutions, is a learning program that supports diversity, equity, and inclusion through a gamified, immersive experience for learners to gain awareness into the biases that exist within all of us. Designed as a situational awareness generating e-learning program, it helped employees and contractors across multiple geos to come together in a cohesive manner and achieve high levels of collaboration and productivity by being sensitive to diverse cultures and practices followed by the global team members. The expected reach of this learning program.is all employees and contractors of Apposite to understand cultures and diversity of countries such as India, Mexico, USA, China, Israel, Brazil, UAE and others.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Learning Program that Supports and Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion	Atlantic Health System and Blue Ocean Brain	Building Inclusion and Equity Across the Modern Healthcare System	Silver	2022	In 2020, Atlantic Health System established ambitious commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion learning goals, and their traditional training methods were not going to deliver the level of access, engagement, and learning retention needed to drive true and lasting behavioral and cultural change – especially during a global pandemic. To meet the DEI learning needs of their busy and dispersed workforce, they launched a breakthrough program that would redefine how learning and development opportunities can be consumed and delivered in healthcare.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Learning Program that Supports and Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion	BHP Operations Services	FutureFit: BHP Disrupts Traditional Trades Training to Support Women and Indigenous Australians	Bronze	2022	This entry, submitted by BHP, is called “FutureFit: BHP Disrupts Traditional Trades Training to Support Women and Indigenous Australians”. It is a National Training Program that provides fast-tracked Trade Apprenticeships and Traineeships for new-to-industry individuals. The Program was specifically designed with diversity and inclusivity at its core, aiming to increase employment rates amongst diverse cohorts within the BHP Operations Services workforce. Two purpose-built training centres were established in Western Australia and Queensland to deliver the Training Program. These feature state-of-the-art virtual reality and augmented reality that immerse students in learning scenarios before they set foot in the workplace. BHP partnered with two registered training organisations in Western Australia and Queensland to offer students weekly learning sessions as well as Language, Literacy and Numeracy and other supports. The Program has led to the diversification of BHP’s workforce, as well as the creation of permanent employment in states facing recent economic uncertainty.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Learning Program that Supports and Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion	Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina and Aptara Inc.	Racial Equity	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina and Aptara is called Racial Equity. Diversity and Inclusion training is an organized training that aims to promote awareness and create a thorough understanding of how employees from different backgrounds, cultures, ages, races, genders, sexuality, religions, physical conditions, and beliefs can best work together. The eLearning course was designed to achieve the following specific objectives: • Create awareness of racial and health equity • Explain the inclusive culture at Blue Cross NC • Highlight the existing racial and healthcare inequities across North Carolina • Explain the power of empathy and understanding • Build an understanding of Blue Cross NC’s community health equity strategy Overall this training was received and perceived as a key driver of diversity and inclusion at Blue Cross NC.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Learning Program that Supports and Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion	British American Tobacco	British American Tobacco_Best_Learning_Program_that_Supports_and_Promotes_Diversity_Equity_and_I	Gold	2022	This submission outlines BAT’s new D&I e-learning and development initiatives namely a Line Manager D&I toolkit and Allyship guides focussed on Race/Ethnicity and LGBT+. The materials were developed with the aim to enhance existing D&I training offerings and support available to middle managers, diverse employees, and allies with key practical guidance on managing diverse teams, mitigating bias, and supporting each other in the workplace.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Learning Program that Supports and Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion	Google Cloud	Google Cloud GTM 2021 DEI Learning Journey	Gold	2022	The Google Cloud Go-To-Market (GTM) 2021 DEI Learning Journey is an in-house learning experience designed and curated for 10,000+ internal Cloud GTM Googlers. This DEI learning journey was predicated on a solid foundation of DEI concepts and extended learning into the sphere of the business case for DEI, DEI as a competitive differentiator with customers, identity, power and privilege complexities, practicing allyship in the workplace, and racial equity.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Learning Program that Supports and Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion	International Youth Foundation (IYF) and Infopro Learning	IYF SOAR Leadership Camp	Bronze	2022	The entry, submitted by International Youth Foundation (IYF), jointly submitted with Infopro Learning, is called "IYF SOAR Leadership Camp". A short pilot program divided into three modules each focusing on a specific leadership competency that contributes to the overall IYF goal of inspiring and equipping young people to realize the future they want.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Learning Program that Supports and Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion	LAFCU and Publicom, Inc.	DEI Internal Communication Program	Bronze	2022	This entry, by LAFCU and Publicom, Inc., is the "DEI Internal Communication Program.” It is a communication program that revealed the tenets of LAFCU’s enhanced DEI Program — its mission, logo, tagline and core principles — to employees. Key messages delivered via weekly emails for four weeks included videos and were supported by giveaways that reinforced the messages. This fun approach included interactive segments and a “Show us you know us!” educational quiz for "Smart Cookies." This represents the credit union’s supportive environment in which creativity and “thinking outside the box” are encouraged. Because discussions around unconscious bias can be uncomfortable, the messaging was positive and focused on why DEI is important. The end result was education reinforced by lasting artifacts that helps staff more easily identify unconscious bias. This allows employees to adjust accordingly — personally and professionally — for the betterment of LAFCU, its members, staff and community.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Learning Program that Supports and Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion	LCBO and Accenture	LCBO's Inclusive Leadership Training	Gold	2022	This entry submitted by LCBO, is called Inclusive Leadership Training. It is a 3-hour course for LCBO leaders to promote new behaviours and mindsets critical to instilling Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging and Equity into the DNA of the organization. The end result was a blended approach of facilitated learning, digital Inclusive Leadership competency assessment and personalized, curated learning paths that were offered to 1,100+ leaders. Creation of the course was aligned with business needs, operational priorities and the approach was grounded in adult learning principles. All key goals and metrics that were identified upfront were met or exceeded.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Learning Program that Supports and Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion	Medtronic	Inclusive Leader Training	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Medtronic is called Being an Inclusive Leader. It was a required training for all people leaders located in the U.S. and Puerto Rico in April and May of 2021. The training was delivered in a three-week sprint creating a shared experience for the participants. Participants attended a live kick-off webinar, participated in a social learning platform and concluded with a closing webinar. The objectives of the program was to train the leaders on how to have effective performance and career development conversations with their historically underrepresented employees as well as how to mitigate bias in talent processes. The training was initiated as a result of addressing internal and external I,D&E issues. As an important training to address in a timely manner and bespoke due to the unique objectives, the team worked quickly to build and deploy the training within six months.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Learning Program that Supports and Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion	Paylocity	Bridge Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Paylocity, is called Bridge Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. The BRIDGE program is designed to support the company’s DEIA goals and build its clients’ employees’ DEIA capabilities. The learning experience strives to keep employees in dialogue with each other and their employer on sustaining and/or advancing inclusive cultures.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Learning Program that Supports and Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion	Pope & Associates, Inc., DBA Pope Consulting and EI Design Pvt Ltd	The Inclusive Workplace	Silver	2022	Organizations that are intentional about creating inclusive workplaces that position them to attract, develop, support and, more importantly, retain diverse talent from all backgrounds will undoubtedly have a competitive advantage. This course is your guide to creating and fostering an ecosystem of diverse ideas, backgrounds and perspectives for a high-performing and culturally inclusive workplace.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Learning Program that Supports and Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion	RIBA and Lever - Transfer of Learning	The Royal Institute of Architects addresses unconscious bias and develops cultural intelligence through robust learning program	Gold	2022	Without a robust approach to learning, diversity and inclusion initiatives often fail. Global architecture membership body, The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), set out to deliver a new diversity and inclusion program to address unconscious bias and develop cultural intelligence, employing a learning transfer methodology.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Learning Program that Supports and Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion	Rogers Communications and Metrix Group	Creating Inclusive Learning Experiences Workshop	Silver	2022	Rogers Communication created a virtual training session to equip their Learning & Development team with the knowledge and skills required to create Inclusive Learning Experiences. This practical, action-oriented session helped them to identify tangible ways to increase inclusion and a sense of belonging in their learning programs.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Learning Program that Supports and Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion	Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and SweetRush	The SHRM People Manager Qualification (PMQ)	Gold	2022	This entry submitted by SHRM and SweetRush is “The SHRM People Manager Qualification (PMQ).” PMQ is an innovative learning program for new people managers that promotes and supports DEIB, from its performance objectives, to content, to design. The six main characters and supporting cast of 90 reflect the diversity of SHRM’s 300,000 members and the 115M employees SHRM members reach. Inspired by streaming TV-Netflix-Friends, with episodes and seasons rather than modules and lessons, PMQ is story-driven with relatable, authentic characters. The program covers all the responsibilities, tasks, challenges, and opportunities new leaders face, including a special focus on workplace bias and social justice. PMQ is human-centered learning at its best. It will be leveraged by thousands of organizations with a profound impact—creating a new standard for online training, showing how the craft of learning and development can be leveraged to promote inclusion and diversity in the workplace, and beyond.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Learning Program that Supports and Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion	The Kroger Company and Advantage Performance Group	Beyond Compliance: Building an Inclusive Culture at Kroger	Bronze	2022	This entry, submitted by The Kroger Company, Advantage Performance Group and Ten Thousand Feet, is called "Beyond Compliance: Building an Inclusive Culture at Kroger." Kroger brought in their learning partners at Advantage Performance Group and Ten Thousand Feet to bring to life the company’s urgent call for action, making its goal for greater Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion not just a matter of compliance but a framework for a more robust culture being embraced at every level every day. They invested heavily in the highly engaging and customized learning experience, The Inclusive Leader: Maximizing the Mix, specifically for all Kroger Company leaders. This learning program raises awareness of, empathy for, and solutions to alleviate DEI challenges being experienced by associates and to help establish throughout the organization a mindset of inclusiveness. This program will continue as part of Kroger's DEI work, as all incoming or promoted managers will experience the program.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Learning Program that Supports and Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion	Verizon	Conscious Inclusion and Anti-Racism	Gold	2022	In Conscious Inclusion & Anti-Racism, people leaders have the opportunity to identify and explore many forms of racial discrimination, bias, and non-inclusive behaviors. They are challenged to discuss and reflect on their own perceptions, experiences, and teams, and build an action plan to create meaningful and lasting change. Conscious Inclusion & Anti-Racism focuses on foundational steps in creating an inclusive environment where anti-bias behaviors are at the forefront; differences are appreciated and respected.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Learning Program that Supports and Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion	VMWare Software Pvt Ltd	Best Learning Program that Supports and Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion	Gold	2022	As a global technology leader, VMware believes that diversity is key to innovation. The country has some of the largest number of women STEM graduates in the world and yet, at 17 percent, the contribution of Indian women to the country’s GDP is amongst the lowest in the world. In 2017, 2.4 million women dropped out of the workforce due to factors such as family pressure and wage disparity. And approximately 19 percent of the country’s women quit their jobs within 8 years of beginning their careers. For an industry that thrives on innovation, this is an irreparable loss. VMware launched VMinclusion Taara in January 2019 to address this widening gender gap in the Indian technology sector. VMinclusion Taara, one of India’s largest up-skilling programs for women on career break to effectively give them a second chance at a successful career in technology. VMinclusion Taara Website : https://www.vmware.com/taara/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/taarainyou/?hl=en
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Learning Program that Supports and Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion	Wells Fargo & Company and Cabral Consulting LLC	Wells Fargo’s Diversity Equity & Inclusion Commitment	Silver	2022	Wells Fargo has made a commitment to change and do better in the areas of diverse talent acquisition and mobility, serving diverse customers, and DE&I training. The DE&I training commitment included new anti-racism manager training requiring all managers to participate in a live and interactive program designed to tackle today’s challenges. An enterprise-wide sustainable three-dimensional plan was implemented that consisted of 1) unconscious bias training focused on race/ethnicity and gender delivered as immersive workshops for the top 200 leaders, live virtual training for approximately 24,000 managers, and video training for 250,000 employees, 2) Operating Committee (OC) in-person workshops, and 3) a call to action.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Use of Employee Resource Groups to Address Diversity, Equity & Inclusion	Accenture (China) Co. Ltd	Accenture Greater China I&D Ambassador Network	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Accenture (China) Co. Ltd, is called "Accenture Greater China I&D Ambassador Network." It is a well-structured employee resource group aiming to foster inclusivity and diversity in the workplace by creating a space for employees who share a common interest to support one another and raise awareness. This network focuses on five areas of inclusion and diversity that Greater China works on, which are Gender, Disability Inclusion, Mental Health & Wellness, Pride, and Cross-cultural Diversity. It defined the leaders serving as sponsors to maximize the Network's value. The end result is Accenture Greater China made a significant increase in Ally numbers and held 5 main I&D events and 12 sharing sessions to promote an inclusive, diverse and equal culture for everyone in Accenture Greater China.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Use of Employee Resource Groups to Address Diversity, Equity & Inclusion	Bank of America	Women in Technology & Operations GBS India: Connect, Develop and Inspire	Gold	2022	Employee Networks (the internal term in Bank of America for Employee Resource Groups) are an integral part of the D & I efforts and the leadership council works closely with all the Employee Networks with more than 180,000 memberships worldwide. Each of our 11 Employee Networks are led by one or two executive sponsors who provide guidance to the network’s leadership committee, one or two chairs, and committees for finance, communications, membership, and events.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Use of Employee Resource Groups to Address Diversity, Equity & Inclusion	Curriculum Associates	Curriculum Associates: ERGs as a Vehicle for Change	Gold	2022	At Curriculum Associates, ERGs help create an internal culture where all employees thrive and in return their work positively impacts the teachers and students they serve.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Use of Employee Resource Groups to Address Diversity, Equity & Inclusion	HCL Technologies Ltd.	Best_Use_of_Employee_Resource_Groups_to_Address_Diversity_Equity_and_Inclusion	Silver	2022	Our Employee Resource Groups have been an integral part of our diversity and inclusion journey — and a key to maintaining a richly diverse talent base. Our ERGs foster an inclusive, engaged culture; drive business growth and innovation; help attract, retain and develop employees; and engage meaningfully with their local communities.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Use of Employee Resource Groups to Address Diversity, Equity & Inclusion	NeoGenomics	Employee Resource Groups at NeoGenomics	Gold	2022	At NeoGenomics, Employee Resource Groups are instrumental in the development of the company Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging strategy. The current ERGs (We S.T.A.N.D.@, Women@, LGBTQ@, Wellness@, and Veterans@) help NeoGenomics create a stronger sense of belonging within the company. NeoGenomics is entering this category to show the strength the ERGs have on the implementation of the company’s diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEI&B) strategy.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Use of Employee Resource Groups to Address Diversity, Equity & Inclusion	QBE North America	Best Use of Employee Resource Groups - QBE North America, MIX BRG group	Silver	2022	QBE North America's Multicultural Inclusive eXtension (MIX) Business Resource Group (BRG) is one of the company's five BRGs. MIX's mission is to create an inclusive workplace environment that enables cultural awareness and respect for the company’s diverse talent to thrive, promoting individual growth and the collective advancement of QBE in the marketplace and the communities it serves.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Use of Employee Resource Groups to Address Diversity, Equity & Inclusion	TCS	Network of Outstanding Women – A global ERG for women	Silver	2022	The global employee resource group for women in TCS is NOW – Network of Outstanding Women. The ERG is focused, via its various initiatives, to enable women in the organization to connect, co-create and learn, adding value to themselves and the organization.
HCM	Diversity and Inclusion	Best Use of Employee Resource Groups to Address Diversity, Equity & Inclusion	VMWare Software Pvt Ltd	Best Use of Employee Resource Groups to Address Diversity, Equity and Inclusion	Bronze	2022	VMware launched VMinclusion Taara in January 2019 to address this widening gender gap in the Indian technology sector. This not for profit program aimed to address the gender gap in the Indian technology sector by helping women on career gaps upskill and return to work. Approximately 19 percent of the country’s women quit their jobs within 8 years of beginning their careers. For an industry that thrives on innovation, this is an irreparable loss. VMinclusion Taara, one of India’s largest up-skilling programs for women on career break to effectively give them a second chance at a successful career in technology. Mobilized an employee resource group – VMinclusion Taara Evangelists- to drive community level awareness of a unique upskilling and return to work program called VMinclusion Taara. VMinclusion Taara Website : https://www.vmware.com/taara/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/taarainyou/?hl=en
HCM	Future of Work	Best Advance for Leading Under a Crisis	Anheuser-Busch and Accenture	AB InBev and Accenture Leadership During Disruptive Events	Bronze	2022	The Leadership during Disruptive Events training aims to prepare leaders to recognize the need for crisis management and recovery during disruptive events. The program provides leaders with tools and guidelines that will help them better support their teams during disruptive events and maintain business productivity.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Advance for Leading Under a Crisis	Majid Al Futtaim	Adapting Analytics & Technology learning programs during COVID-19	Silver	2022	This award submission demonstrates the effectiveness of a group-wide Analytics & Technology program called DIGITAL EMBRACE. It has replaced an IN-CLASS delivered prior to COVID-19 being declared a global pandemic. Despite reservations around the effectiveness of a purely digital program, DIGITAL EMBRACE proved to be a success across all impact dimensions outlined in this submission.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Advance for Leading Under a Crisis	SCL Health	Continuing Care under Crisis	Gold	2022	SCL Health is a not-for-profit, faith-based healthcare system dedicated to improving the health of the people and communities they serve, especially those who, because of cost and other factors, would otherwise encounter barriers to care. The health system employs more than 17,500 associates working together to meet the challenges of a changing healthcare environment. The coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, which will be referred to as the ‘crisis’ throughout this submission. This submission covers the health system reaction, resolve and response to the crisis. The crisis caused an immediate rise in hospital patient numbers as devastatingly sick patients began to arrive at the hospitals. The health system became stressed at all levels; space, resources, equipment, hospital beds, staffing and financially.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Advance in Business Automation	Kuwait Finance House	Best Advance in Business Automation 2022 Future of Work Awards	Bronze	2022	At HRIS department we spent the last two years working on two big projects. We believe that these two projects have helped reach a new level digitalization and automation. Both project I’m proud to say even helped greatly during the pandemic and made the workplace a safer environment. The HR Kiosk is one of a kind machine that we made to suit our needs, and the process transformation to accept HR Offer letter online.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Advance in Business Automation	Saudi Aramco	iTask (Best Advance in Business Automation)	Bronze	2022	iTask is a web application developed in house by Saudi Aramco/SAOO MDD division to handle and track all industrial employees task evaluation and certification journey through their careers with the company. The goal of developing iTask, is to optimize MDD limited evaluation resources, and maximize the return and quality of service provided to SAOO Admin Area industrial employees. Also, to meet the high and ambitious target set for SAOO new hired trainees to become fully certified and capable operators and technicians, that will work on the company new mega projects and facilities, contributing to the company vision and supporting the kingdom of Saudi Arabia ambitious vision 2030.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Advance in Business Automation	TCS	Performance management system in a machine first™ model	Gold	2022	“Moving from agile as a development model to a work methodology” – with this vision in mind, TCS focused on three aspects to deliver business agility – people (culture), process and technology.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Advance in Business Automation	Turkcell Global Bilgi	Digital Employee Experience Platform	Bronze	2022	In order to provide a digital and heart-touching employee experience, the “Digital Employee Experience Project” has been launched. 4 digital products have been developed within the scope of this project. • The “Globalim Digital Employee Experience Platform”, which provides Turkcell Global Bilgi with digital solutions in order to manage all HR processes from job application to the dismissal of employees through a new infrastructure, • “HR Digital Assistant (Artificial Intelligence)” that facilitates the lives of candidates and employees with artificial intelligence supported digital assistants. • “Robotic Process Automation in HR” that provides personalized employee experience, speed and time savings with robots. • It is a program that includes data analytics studies and “HR Data Analytics, Dashboard” studies that generate value from data, aiming to increase employee satisfaction and mobility in their journey. Objectives of the “Digital Employee Experience Project”: Developing digital applications that can be personalized and make life easier.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Advance in Business Automation	Zurich Insurance and DelphianLogic	MyAuthority	Bronze	2022	This entry is submitted by DelphianLogic and Zurich Insurance. MyAuthority is a global Letter of Authority (LoA) management and administration application for Zurich Insurance’s 7000 strong global Underwriting division. The field of insurance is one of the most highly regulated in the world. All companies operating in this area, including Zurich Insurance, are required to be mandatorily compliant to global and local regulations, of which, a key compliance requirement is that all insurance underwriters must operate with a current and appropriate LoA, based on their experience and level of competency. MyAuthority attempts to automate and centrally monitor the process of review, issue, management, and monitoring of LoAs for underwriters at Zurich Insurance across 30 different geographies.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Advance in Business Strategy	Brisa	Brisa Bridgestone Sabancı_Best_Advance_in_Business_Strategy_2022	Gold	2022	By 2021, Brisa have identified two strategic programs for Smart Culture: Future of Work (FoW) and Digital Transformation. Brisa's strategic drivers are illustrated by the sailboat metaphor and shared with all employees. Brisa has developed an overall "FoW 2023" strategy using BCG's framework, includes 7 main dimensions: Remote Work, Flexible Workforce and High Performing Workforce, New Talent and Skill Paradigm, Leadership with Head, Heart and Hands, Purpose-driven Organization and Culture, Resilient and Agile Organization. Steer Committee was established to include all Brisa's C-level executives. The Steer Co. can give directions to following the developments with regular meetings and making decisions on critical issues. Brisa's purpose is to reach Brisa FoW 2023 aspirations by inclusive & collaborative approach. The difference about the Brisa way of FoW is managing the transformation by including all partners and employees for bottom up and top down all together designing and executing activities and implementations.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Advance in Business Strategy	ENERJISA	Enerjisa “Geleceğin Yolunda” Future of Work Strategy	Gold	2022	“Geleceğin Yolunda” strategy aims to shape the future of work together with Enerjisa employees by considering the new working principles in 7 basic dimensions defined with a holistic perspective in order to adapt to the future of work today.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Advance in Business Strategy	PepsiCo, Inc. and MPS Interactive Systems	Mastering Online Food Ordering and Delivery	Bronze	2022	The food service industry has changed significantly with consumers shifting to online delivery. This training program aims to help PepsiCo Foodservice sales reps and customers understand the huge market potential in online ordering and delivery, and enable PepsiCo customers to build a competitive and credible online presence.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Advance in Business Strategy	Pfizer Drug Safety and Research and The Mosiac Company	Preparing Colleagues for Return to Work	Silver	2022	A Go Forward Task Force created a renewed and sustainable working model practice that facilitates implementation of the “Log in for your Day” principles and working model, which blends the best of remote work and on-site collaboration to drive greater flexibility for many of the colleagues. Colleagues are encouraged to take ownership and demonstrate commitment to adhering to the company’s values and standards as they start to return to on-site work, starting with completion of the e-learning COVID-19 pledge.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Advance in Managing a Remote Workforce	Kordsa Teknik Tekstil A.S.	"Smart Work"	Bronze	2022	Within the Future of Work concept, 2023 aspirations were determined in cooperation with Sabancı Holding and Boston Consulting Group. Especially following pandemic conditions, Kordsa has formed an employee-driven dynamic working group for hybrid work. Under the Future of Work Concept, Kordsa’s motto is “Reinforce today for tomorrow” and the teams worked for delivering a strategy for all pillars.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Advance in Managing a Remote Workforce	Allstate and Powers Resource Center LLC	Elevate Virtual Leadership Program.	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Allstate and Powers Resource Center, LLC, is called "Elevate Virtual Leadership Program" It is a six module, eLearning and roundtable learning journey that focuses on how to lead your team effectively in a remote environment. The modules include professionally recorded videos from internal SME's and incorporates custom content and tools to help Allstate leaders manage this major transition and support their transformative growth plan. Creation of the program took place following focus group with close to 200 employees and leaders to determine the greatest need for learning and development. The program is being offered to over 1500 Claims leaders at Allstate with great results and high engagement levels. The end result is a SCORM-compliant eLearning program with facilitated Leader Round Table discussions by Allstate trainers to help leaders share best practices and how they are implementing their new skills.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Advance in Managing a Remote Workforce	Brisa	Brisa Bridgestone Sabancı_Best_Advance_in_Managing_a_Remote_or_Hybrid_Workforce_2022	Gold	2022	COVID 19 has profoundly altered the way we live and the way we work; Challenge is to predict how work will change in the new normal and how we can smartly design new work principles. Brisa have identified two strategic programs for Smart Culture: Future of Work (FoW) and Digital Transformation as the focus of the company 2021. Remote Work is one of the main dimensions of FoW dimensions. For Remote work, it was aimed that a minimum of 60% of white-collar employees across the company. In the engagement survey conducted in 2021, dimensions were determined and measured to support Remote work. Remote work was handled in a holistic way where the details were considered and no part of it was left out. As we move towards the vision of FoW at Brisa in 2023, it is planned to develop applications in the remote work.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Advance in Managing a Remote Workforce	MetLife and NIIT	MetLife Distribution Academy: Distribution Excellence Through Remote Workforce Management	Bronze	2022	The Distribution Academy is tasked with leading and coordinating the efforts to ‘raise the bar’ on distribution capability to address strategic imperatives, business priorities and strengthen MetLife’s distribution advantage.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Advance in Managing a Remote Workforce	Mindtree Ltd	Best Advance in Managing a Remote or Hybrid Workforce 2022	Silver	2022	This entry, submitted by Mindtree Ltd is called "Best Advance in Managing a Remote or Hybrid Workforce 2022". It is a document detailing Mindtree's journey towards the Hybrid work model. As a people centric and digital first organization, Mindtree brings the best of both worlds with a sense of purpose, caring, learning and delivering results to transform businesses and reshape the ‘Dynamic Normal’.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Advance in Managing a Remote Workforce	Nordea and Infopro Learning	Supporting a Remote or Hybrid Workforce	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Nordea, jointly submitted with Infopro Learning, is called "Supporting a Remote or Hybrid Workforce". Employees who work from home are more likely to feel isolated or overworked, which can lead to stress. It is critical that the company, managers, and employees all understand what they can do to support their physical and mental health. Nordea’s illustration-based e-learning solution with interactivities inspired and enabled their employees to succeed in virtual teams.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Advance in Managing a Remote Workforce	Schindler Group and DelphianLogic	Digital Media Services (DMS) MediaScreen Rollout-in-a-Box	Bronze	2022	This entry is submitted by DelphianLogic and Schindler Group. In a pre-pandemic world, Schindler had been preparing the rollout of new products and services to their various business groups around the world on a country-by-country basis, using a traditional instructional approach, mostly in-person. The COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the fastest pace of change induced by the digitalization of products and services made Schindler re-assess their approach to rollout orientations and switch to an approach that could allow greater scalability, efficiency and sustainability. This resulted in the “Digital Media Services (DMS) Rollout-in-a-Box” project, materialized in a virtual toolbox that enables each business unit to prepare, equip and upskill themselves in a much more self-driven, self-paced and resource-efficient manner than with conventional rollout orientation approaches.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Advance in Managing a Remote Workforce	The Estee Lauder Companies	Best Advance in Managing a Remote or Hybrid Workforce_ Future of Work	Gold	2022	Considering the COVID-19 pandemic and forever changed approaches to work, The Estée Lauder Companies has developed new ways to engage and educate its employees. Through both short and long-term initiatives, employees have been given the support to adjust to immediate crises and establish a fresh foundation for work as the company embraces hybrid ways of working, with an eye to the future for our recovery and transformation that will shape the future of the organization.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Advance in Predictive Analytics	Accenture	PRE Indicator for initiating Stay Conversations to Prevent Turnover	Gold	2022	To stay ahead of the great resignation trend, Accenture named One of the best places to work by Forbes (2022), developed, Predictive Retention Indicator or the PRE indicator, available as a flag in WorkDay that shows every team lead how similar some of their employees are with ex-Accenture employees who have left the organization in similar situations. This flag enables team leads, especially leads with large teams to prioritize one on one conversations with those team members fostering an environment of trust and care that prevents unexpected and sudden turnover, especially from high performers. Based on Risk-Radar technology this model uses 400+ employee attributes from both current and ex-employees across a 9-year time span to accurately predict current employees who are very similar to ex-employees who have already left the organization.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Advance in Predictive Analytics	Swiss Re and SiyonaTech	Price Tag App: Predicting market prices in a nontransparent market. Crowdsourcing market perspectives to help Swiss Re's sales force to quote high, not too high, and definitely not too low.	Silver	2022	Swiss Re's Learning & Development team created a Predictive Pricing Analytics App together with SiyonaTech with a clear purpose in mind: To support sales performance by predicting market prices and presenting this information in an accessible and meaningful way. The Price Tag app delivered an additional profit of 1.9m USD during its pilot phase. The 2022 goal is to refine its predictive analytics and earn 10m USD in additional profit. It's the learnings from peers that inspire the workforce – the app collects reasons "to quite high, not too high, and definitely not too low".
HCM	Future of Work	Best Advance in Predictive Analytics	TCS	Performance Management – roadmap of Predictive analytics	Gold	2022	TCS Performance management system (SPEED) has built a platform known as Performance Insights that enables • analysis of data and build analytics to transform data into future insights. • focusing on change of mindset from “optimizing scarce resources” to “harnessing abundance” through data driven analytics and decisions. • focusing on quality of performance
HCM	Future of Work	Best Approach to HCM Innovation	Enerjisa Üretim	BilBot	Silver	2022	Bilbot is a software developed in-house aiming to find answers to work related questions in a quick and easy way, while also being able to connect with the subject matter expert for additional information if necessary. This tool reduces operational labor while increasing the satisfaction of internal customers in an innovative way.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Approach to HCM Innovation	Milestone Retirement Communities, LLC and iSolved	40-Site Milestone Retirement Communities Solves for Complexities, Compliance with isolved People Cloud	Silver	2022	This entry is submitted by isolved on behalf of Milestone Retirement Community. After searching for an HCM suite that fit their many needs, they landed on isolved People Cloud. With a single HCM platform, Milestone was able to save 2-4 hours per employee a month by eliminating manual forms and empowering employees with self-service.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Approach to HCM Innovation	Philip Morris International and Accenture	Digital P&C experience with MyPMI	Silver	2022	The entry describes the MyPMI employee experience platform that is bringing a new way to access P&C advice, guidance and support on computers and smartphones. It brings together all commonly used tools in one convenient place, creating an easier experience to engage with P&C (and even other capabilities) and find all the answers that are needed.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Approach to HCM Innovation	Revere Plastics Systems, LLC and Paylocity	Molding Culture Using Community	Bronze	2022	This entry, submitted by manufacturer Revere Plastics Systems along with HCM provider Paylocity, is titled "Molding Culture with Community." With 1,000 employees across nine facilities, Revere switched to a more modern HR platform that enabled the HR team to streamline common manual processes, make communication more accessible to all employees, and build culture, ultimately driving business results. The key element of Revere's new HR approach for building culture was Paylocity's Community social collaboration hub, which is proven to help employees -- even those who are hybrid, remote, on-the-go, or don’t have computers or email--feel connected to their work. In the first year, Revere reduced the administrative time for onboarding by 25%, and saw a 70% reduction in turnover, within an especially competitive industry for attracting and retaining talent.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Approach to HCM Innovation	Turk Telekom	Turk Telekom - The Personalized (New) Working Model	Bronze	2022	This entry, submitted by Turk Telekom, is called "The Personalized (New) Working Model". With the Personalized Working Model, the aim is to implement a model that improves the resilience of our organization while responding to the needs and expectations of our employees. In addition, the remote and flexible working structures are aimed to establish a management tool to ensure the well-being of our employees, the continuity of their work and to support workplace productivity and sustainability in different uncertainty situations such as pandemics and natural disasters. The Personalized (New) Working Model that we designed is divided into 4 models including Office, Mobile, Remote and Hybrid Working Styles. This permanent working model was carefully handled in a strategic context with a joint work with different teams, and it was created with the needs and expectations of the employees as well as the business goals.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Initiative for Philanthropy and Corporate Giving	NIIT	The NIIT Foundation - Giving Learning Back	Silver	2022	The NIIT Foundation (NF) is a not-for-profit education society (NGO) set up by the promoters of NIIT in 2004. Its mission is to positively impact the underprivileged sections of society through educational initiatives and skill development programs. The Foundation builds corporate and NGO partnerships - for sustainable development with educational interventions like children’s education, skill development, and financial literacy for the underserved sections of society.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Initiative for Philanthropy and Corporate Giving	QTS Data Centers	QTS Data Centers - Success-based Giving	Silver	2022	In 2019, QTS’ ESG Leadership Team took it upon itself to identify, create and implement success-based giving programs that would allow customers to participate and contribute to worthy environmental and social causes at no additional cost to them. After researching and evaluating a variety of options, QTS chose to partner with American Forests, World Vision and the Dream Academy and is now considering new and additional programs for its customers to choose from.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Program for Upskilling Employees	Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd.	Actuarial Development Program	Silver	2022	The Actuarial Development Program (ADP) provides our people with an opportunity to fulfill their career aspirations by gaining Professional Actuary Certification from renowned institutes. We also extend financial and operational support to them. The effort helps build our in-house Actuary expertize
HCM	Future of Work	Best Program for Upskilling Employees	Baxter Healthcare	Baxter_Best Program for Upskilling Employees_Digital Learning Adventure and Talent Marketplace	Bronze	2022	Baxter Senior Leadership team initiated a companywide Digital Transformation that set out to change the way employees think, recognizing many new horizons of opportunity to continue innovating to bring the most cutting-edge products, service, and technologies to patients and providers. To unlock this potential, the company needed to continue to build its capabilities to meet the evolving healthcare landscape and specifically, differentiate themselves by their digital capabilities. At the outset, Baxter’s leaders established that Digital Transformation is not about technology, it’s about people. So, the focus on people was widely understood and acknowledged. To achieve Baxter’s digital aspirations, the people workstream was tasked with upskilling employees in a way that’s transformational yet least disruptive to day-to-day work. It was evident that providing training itself will not provide this level of impact, but a framework needed to be established to achieve these goals.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Program for Upskilling Employees	Capital One Financial Corporation	Building a Discipline	Bronze	2022	Upskilling talent so that they can provide immediate impact wherever they are requires delivering an ML education that privileges the Capital One context over a more generalized ML education, similar to what one might find in a college or university. So instead of a broad, academic-style ML education, Capital One teaches associates how MLE technologies work in a Capital One environment, thus providing conceptual ML knowledge that is more meaningful because it is situated within a specific context. The company does this so that newly trained engineers feel confident working swiftly as well as thoughtfully once they’ve transitioned to their new role as MLE. Essentially, Capital One didn’t want to simply craft just another academic ML discipline. So instead, they crafted an ML discipline that empowered associates in the ML space, giving them the opportunity to be great immediately, and doing so the Capital One way.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Program for Upskilling Employees	CGI IT UK Limited	#EveryMemberCounts Bootcamps	Bronze	2022	CGI is a global IT and business consulting services firm. COVID-19 significantly affected the way CGI clients were able to run their businesses and the types of projects they needed CGI to deliver. With the number of members without billable work increasing, CGI launched the #EveryMemberCounts initiative to proactively support those members to find billable roles across the wider organisation (and not just within their own business unit). Immediately, CGI were able to match members with open roles and place them on billable client engagements. Where the skills of members on the bench did not directly align with the remaining open or anticipated job roles, CGI created upskilling bootcamps to bridge skills or knowledge gaps for members who had the right baseline skillsets to learn the skills that clients were looking for.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Program for Upskilling Employees	Colgate-Palmolive and Mercuri International Group AB	Virtual Detailing 101	Silver	2022	The Virtual Detailing 101 is designed for our sales team Managers, in Dental, Skincare and Veterinary business. The course is focused around four key areas: virtual coaching, convincing customers to join in virtual visits, refreshing the knowledge base needed for virtual visits, expanding the skillset to run excellent virtual visits.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Program for Upskilling Employees	Dogus Otomotiv	GO–DGTL Academy – Development of Competencies in Digital Transformation	Bronze	2022	The upskilling program was designed to meet the strategic goals of the Digital Transformation and Human Resources departments talent Management strategy. According to the Human Resources policy, it is aimed to develop the skills of all employees in line with global trends and to develop business solutions. It is well known that the world has a talent gap in some recent jobs such as Data Scientist and User Experience Designer. This program enabled the company to cultivate its own talents that embody these latest competencies. GO-DGTL Academy program is the upskilling program of Dogus Otomotiv involving 5 different programs in Basic Digital Awareness, Digital Transformation,Data Science, User Experience and RPA. This program initiated in 2020 and has been continuing for 2 years.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Program for Upskilling Employees	ICICI Lombard and Chrysalis	The Connected Manager	Bronze	2022	The Connected Manager is an asynchronous intervention based on the principles of self-paced learning, customized to the needs of ICICI Lombard managers, managing teams in a hybrid environment. In the current form, The Connected Manager has two modules – Manager as a Virtual Coach and The Effective Meeting Manager. Each module counts as a Micro-Certification. The learning journey for both modules was designed into seven phases: • Phase 1 includes the Pre – Assessment and a Context Setting Video • Phase 2 to 5 comprises 4 master classes of 1 hour each, which includes Video Lectures, Readings, Quizzes, Caselets, and My Effectiveness Journal - Toolkit • Phase 6 has the Post – Assessment and the Leaderboard with Completion Certificate for each masterclass • Phase 7 has the Mastery certification which will be awarded based on the result of the overall needle movement in the internal performance and the productivity scores.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Program for Upskilling Employees	Majid Al Futtaim	Upskilling employees in Analytics & Technology at Majid Al Futtaim	Silver	2022	This award submission demonstrates the effectiveness of a group-wide Analytics & Technology program called DIGITAL EMBRACE. It has replaced an IN-CLASS delivered prior to COVID-19 being declared a global pandemic. Despite reservations around the effectiveness of a purely digital program, DIGITAL EMBRACE proved to be a success across all impact dimensions outlined in this submission.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Program for Upskilling Employees	MetLife and NIIT	MetLife Distribution Academy: Transforming how the Salesforce Learns, Works, and Performs	Gold	2022	The Distribution Academy is tasked with leading and coordinating the efforts to ‘raise the bar’ on distribution capability to address strategic imperatives, business priorities and strengthen MetLife’s distribution advantage.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Program for Upskilling Employees	Philips GBS (Global Business Services, Chennai) and NIIT-Stackroute	Enabling FP&A Professionals (at multiple levels)	Silver	2022	Philips a leading HealthTech player in the fields such as cloud-enabled tele-health, solutions with recurring revenue-based business models, and our finance team serves as an effective partner to the business. As a function, they enable transformation according to customer needs which is why Philips continually invest in training to building new capabilities. Our new ‘Engaged Workforce of the Future’ program, which roadmaps future-ready finance capability enhancement has a strong focus on digital upskilling. With the intent to empower and upskill our FP&A professionals, a uniquely deep-skilling learning intervention was designed with NIIT-StackRoute. Aimed at developing data processing, data analytics, critical thinking and visualization skills. This intervention was designed to meet the needs of finance professionals across the ladder at three levels. Each intervention tailored to address specific challenges faced at each level depending upon experience and need.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Program for Upskilling Employees	Roads & Transport Authority -Dubai	Certified Rail Professional Program in RTA	Gold	2022	this submission by Roads & Transport Authority - Dubai, is called "Certified Rail Professional Program in RTA", it is about developing and obtaining required futuristic knowledge and specialized skills necessary for the Rail agency in RTA and maintenance employees, as well as to approve the participants as Certified Rail Professionals.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Program for Upskilling Employees	Sam's Club	Manager Quality	Silver	2022	The Manager Quality program is an immersive leadership program crafted with all field associates in mind – from entry-level to facility managers. The desired outcome is to develop and refine associates' essential leadership foundational / soft skills while enhancing overall engagement, tenure, and retention. To achieve this degree of all-level development, the program’s content is divided into four pillars– Identify, Develop, Manage, and Reward. Each pillar has foundational concepts scaled for all Sam’s Club associates, based on role and topic applicability. Additionally, there is a seamless transition to more complex content based on the needs of each role. Like Lego blocks, the pillars purposefully interconnect, allowing multiple learning paths with the flexibility to create a customizable learning experience.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Program for Upskilling Employees	Shell and NIIT	IDT Upskilling Series	Silver	2022	Upskilling at pace and at scale in Shell’s Information and Digital Technology organization, to accelerate capability building on Hot Skills essential to enable Shell’s digital business transformation and Powering Progress strategy.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Program for Upskilling Employees	Tata Consultancy Services	TCS Metamorph	Bronze	2022	Metamorph is a self-learning program that covers domain (client industry) upskilling. This is a flagship program and the first of its kind that focuses purely on honing domain knowledge.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Program for Upskilling Employees	Tata Consultancy Services	Elevate Wings – Strategic initiative to upskill on futuristic roles	Silver	2022	ELEVATE Wings 1 & 2: A merit-based talent framework to help bring tighter linkage between learning, career and rewards for different experience segments of associates. It is a global program that provides mass personalization for almost 592K+ associates, based on associates' career aspirations and business needs.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Program for Upskilling Employees	Tavant and Adobe	Implementing Explore, Bootcamp and Flywheel Upskilling with Adobe Captivate Prime	Bronze	2022	Tavant used Adobe Captivate Prime LXP to implement its organization-wide upskilling program comprising leadership training (through a program called EXPLORE), new fresher technical training (through a program called Bootcamp), and its pivot to digital transformation (through the Flywheel program). The implementation of a LXP is the core of the blended learning programs which include - detailed curriculum deployment in blended mode, one-on-one coaching and mentoring, Capstone projects for finalization, collaborative learning for accelerated outputs and detailed on-the-job shadowing and assessments. All three programs of Tavant has been successful in increasing billable hours, deploying human talent faster on projects, benefited clients and driven organization wide ROI at scale.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Program for Upskilling Employees	Tech Mahindra Limited	Upskilling as a Service	Gold	2022	The availability of key skills is becoming the single biggest challenge to business growth. Even when talent with key skills exist, the demand in the market causes high attrition and related losses in productivity for the business. Providing employees with the opportunity to stay on top of their field through several upskilling options while working with global customers on diverse projects is pivotal to retention. TechM has created a detailed Job Family Framework with career pathways mapped to support talent mobility and encourage self-learning in line with their desired career aspiration. Employee ‘Upskilling as a Service’ is enabled through Futureskilling (skilling in next generation technologies), Fresher Skilling (skilling employees hired from college), Project-Skilling (skilling based on project/customer requirements) and Bench-Skilling (training resources in-between projects). Upskilling as a Service is underpinned by the self-learning ecosystem #NAD Learn that helps employees access interactive, on-demand, contextual and hyper-personalized upskilling.
HCM	Future of Work	Best Program for Upskilling Employees	Turkcell Global Bilgi	TURKCELL GLOBAL BİLGİ_Best_Program_for_Upskilling_Employees_2022_Focus Agile Program	Gold	2022	Focus Agile is basically an upskilling program the agile working frameworks, agile disciplines, agile roles and accompanying supporting competencies of which have been prepared for individual and organizational development.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Advance in Benefits Strategy and Administration	HCL Technologies Ltd.	HCL Technologies_Best_Advance_in_Benefits_Strategy_and_Administration_2022_Human_Resource	Gold	2022	At HCL, aligned with our value of “Employee First”. A good benefits package can make employees feel rewarded and appreciated for their work. Satisfied employee results in better job performance & improved talent attraction.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Advance in Benefits Strategy and Administration	ICBC Turkey Bank A.S.	ICBC Turkey Bank A.Ş	Bronze	2022	This entry, submitted by ICBC Turkey, is called “Our Employees, Our Priorities”. Employees are the crucial system supporting an organization’s ability to grow and thrive. Benefits, rewards are the way of showing that you are invested in not only their overall health, but their future. Alongside helping the organizations to attract and retain talent, these significant items differentiate your business from competitors. ICBC Turkey tries to support its employees in many different ways. The Bank is working on increasing their employee’s efficiency and motivation becoming aware of they are the most valuable asset for the Bank by leaving a positive mark on their perceptions.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Advance in Benefits Strategy and Administration	TCS	TCS GEMS – Benefits that propel high performance	Gold	2022	Since its launch in 2007, GEMS – the global in-house rewards & recognition platform has been enabling recognition for TCS employees across the globe. Built on the pillars which encourages each one of our employees to “Go the Extra Mile, GEMS gives opportunities to leaders and team members to recognize and reinforce their belief – on oneself and as a team, in the core values and principles of the organization.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Advance in HR Data Analytics	Kordsa Teknik Tekstil A.S.	“HR 4.0” HR Analytics Project	Silver	2022	Human resources metrics and employee data the important part of effective HR management. Together with HR 4.0, HR Team aims to use the data published in HR reports more effectively and to link it with corporate goals. In order to achieve this goal; the HR Team has created HR Dashboards to make instant and effective reporting. In short, HR 4.0 allows to justify clean, accurate, and up-to-date data, as well as analyze it and make predictive analyses.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Advance in HR Data Analytics	Accenture	Organic Growth: Payroll and Head Count	Gold	2022	Accenture, recently named as one of the best places to work by Forbes is about 700,000 strong in terms of employees worldwide and is still growing. How does an organization like Accenture keep growing while still being profitable and leading the market in client value creation? The Organic Growth tool implemented by Accenture, is one such HR measurement and analytic strategy tool that makes sure that Accenture is growing in a sustainable manner without compromising profitability from projected revenue. Since its implementation this tool even with its limited use has impacted about 5000 hires globally and saved about $100 million USD in terms of opportunity cost.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Advance in HR Data Analytics	Roads & Transport Authority for Dubai	HR Data Analysis in RTA	Bronze	2022	This entry, submitter by Roads & Transportation Authority - Dubai RTA, is called "HR Data Analysis in RTA". It showcases the RTA HR Data Analytics Model, which aims at improving accuracy and governance of HR&D data in-order to provide more consistency and accuracy in reporting and improve decision making.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Advance in HR Data Analytics	Solid State Storage Technology	SSSTC HR Data Analytics	Bronze	2022	Integrate HR-related system data and produce management reports for supervisors to refer to management decision.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Advance in HR Data Analytics	TCS	Workforce Optimization using People Analytics	Gold	2022	TCS has a workforce of over 592,000. To address the perennial lateral movement of people across projects, TCS put together an intricate blueprint to ensure that the enterprise makes the most of its human capital by analyzing, and then upskilling and reskilling the workforce. The Resource Management Group (RMG) has put together an algorithmic model to match associate skills to open requirements within the organization based on forecasting client needs and talent availability.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Advance in Social Impact Innovation	Accenture, World Economic Forum and Cognician	Responsible Leadership Challenge	Gold	2022	The Responsible Leadership Challenge (RLC) engages the World Economic Forum’s 10,000+ next generation leaders, inviting them to participate in a five-week series of online, interactive challenges; this provides tangible opportunities to implement responsible leadership behaviours to drive positive impact within their individual organizations, projects and communities. Following on from its successful launch in 2021, this unique and innovative experience was refreshed and improved in 2022, with focus on Global Shapers, a global network of changemakers under 30.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Advance in Social Impact Innovation	Albaraka Türk Katılım Bankası A.S.	Sustainability and Social Responsibility	Gold	2022	Albaraka Türk aims to instill the awareness of sustainability in our employees, our customers and even everyone, including non-customers, and works in this direction. We need to make our activities sustainable and be stable in the sustainability works. It is always aimed to go further from the point we are at. Works carried out abroad on sustainability are continuously followed up and it is evaluated whether there is a new work we can do in the field of sustainability activities in each new period. It is known that each work is both an opportunity for us to gain a different experience in this field, and an opportunity to instill this awareness in our employees/customers. BEING THE WORLD'S BEST PARTICIPATION BANK MEANS BEING INNOVATIVE, FOLLOWING THE TRENDS AND WORKING HARD. WE ARE ATTENTIVE TO BEING A PIONEER AND CAUSE GLOBAL IMPACTS BY PRESERVING THE SAME STANDARD IN OUR SUSTAINABILITY WORKS.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Advance in Social Impact Innovation	CAP Youth Empowerment Institute and EI Design Pvt Ltd	Lead the Change: An Online Training On Life Skills	Silver	2022	Lead the Change, is a multi-level online game, designed specifically for out-of-school youth to achieve basic life skills and ensure success at internships or work opportunities. Designed on the principles of human-centered learning, the youth’s mission in this game is to become qualified social workers who will make a big difference in society by achieving the ‘Counsellor of the Year’ award at the Lead the Change foundation. The overall program focus lies in truly developing skills and competencies of the youth to make them employable.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Advance in Social Impact Innovation	CreativeLive and Edios Media	CreativeLive, the emes project, and Edios Media present Back to Biz	Bronze	2022	The COVID-19 pandemic caused serious damage to small businesses worldwide. Global shutdowns prevented customers from eating out, buying gifts, getting a haircut, and so many other activities taken for granted pre-pandemic. Countless small businesses across the globe faced the daunting challenge of trying to stay solvent. Back To Biz is a free program designed to help your business recover and grow. It features a collection of more than 400 actionable video lessons, informative interviews, success stories, articles and tools from a diverse and renowned set of innovative entrepreneurs, designed for business owners to gain skills and knowledge to help them recover and continue to thrive in the post-pandemic world. Back to Biz is submitted by CreativeLive, the emes project, and Edios Media.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Advance in Social Impact Innovation	EssilorLuxottica and Centum Learning Limited	Best Advance in Social Impact Innovation	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by EssilorLuxottica with Centum Learning Limited, is called "Essilor-Centum Best Advance in Social Impact Innovation". To cater for the widespread problem of uncorrected vision in Kenya through a unique intervention - The Eye Rafiki Program. The initiative not only aims at developing Kenya's eye-care ecosystem but also caters well to the aspirations of the nation's youth (Unemployed, under-employed Youth and women in particular) through entrepreneurial capability.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Advance in Social Impact Innovation	PepsiCo India Holdings Pvt Ltd and Nirmaan Org	Learn Today Give Tomorrow Social Impact Innovation program	Gold	2022	With the purpose of building Employee Pride and strengthen PepsiCo EVP , The program Learn Today Give Tomorrow was crafted. The program was launched as an opportunity for PepsiCo Employees to enable digital access and education for girl children and women in rural India , while investing in own learning and self development. The program is highly relevant to the prevalent socio-economic context of India in 2020-2021. Due to Covid-19 , there has been unprecedented impact to rural communities, but none are more significantly impacted than women and girl children. In this context, Learn Today Give Tomorrow identified women and girl children as the key beneficiaries of the program. As each employee invests one hour in self learning via Pep U Degreed platform, PepsiCo matches with an equivalent donation towards education of girls and women in rural India.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Advance in Social Impact Innovation	Salesforce.com	Hack2Help Hackathon - Program designed to empower nonprofits through innovative technology solutions and create enormous social impact in the communities we live in.	Silver	2022	Hack2Help hackathon catered to 6 non-profit projects with 3 weeks of prep time and 72 hours of hacking, 40 volunteers, 1201.5 hours. Hack2Help Hackathon taught us – Technology is the most powerful equalizer of our time, providing access to data, knowledge, and connections. As a social enterprise, the more missions technology supports, the more we can invest back into the community, creating an endless circle of good. We believe that technology when used for good can change the world. Hack2Help shifted the mindsets of the nonprofits involved. Nonprofits entered this partnership with a lot of hesitancy towards technology and its ability to enhance their respective causes. By the end of the Hack2Help Hackathon, the nonprofits were a lot more comfortable and confident in the power of technology as a means to achieve greater impact.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Advance in Social Impact Innovation	Tata Consultancy Services	Best Advance in Social Impact Innovation 2022 Human Resources Awards TCS BridgeIT	Gold	2022	TCS' CSR commitment stems from the Company's core values and the Tata Group's ethos of advancing the quality of life of local communities while aligning its contributions to holistic economic and social development. TCS' core ethos of building on belief promises futures in partnership with people and communities through innovation and collective knowledge, is based on the values of fairness, equity and the utmost commitment to human rights and guides how the Company conducts its business, treats its employees, and strengthens local communities. CSR strategy leverages the best of TCS’ expertise to create bespoke, contextual solutions which addresses the most pressing issues and meet the needs of the most vulnerable populations across the globe. TCS' vision is to empower communities by connecting people to opportunities in the digital economy and its mission is to build inclusive, equitable and sustainable pathways for all - especially youth, women and marginalized communities.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Advance in Social Impact Innovation	Tech Mahindra Limited	Innovate to Rise for Good	Gold	2022	TechM’s Rise for Good mantra in business and beyond to create long-lasting social impact. Innovation at TechM through product, platform and processes is aimed towards the good of society. TechM is committed to developing solutions that address the pressing problems faced by humanity by making technology responsible and humane. Some of the key challenges that TechM sought to address through its social impact innovation include responding to the COVID-19 crisis, making technology more accessible to young innovators and ensuring food security by helping farmers. e.g. COVID SOS Seva- a WhatsApp based platform to provide authentic information about emergency numbers, hospitals, availability of beds etc. with local volunteers ; BHaML (Bharat Markup Language) - an open source, free to use coding tool to help school students build websites by coding in their mother tongue; Atmanirbhar Krishi App developed to help farmers with scientific information provided by various government departments.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Advance in Social Impact Innovation	TISK (Turkish Confederation of Employer Associations) and Dracolex	Food Waste Training	Gold	2022	Food waste is one of the most important problems of our time and at the same time one of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Under the leadership of TİSK, as Fazla Gıda and Dracolex, we realized the most comprehensive training project for food waste in the cafeteria sector in our country. We developed solutions for the measurement, analysis, on-site reduction and recovery of food waste generated in the cafeterias of the institutions involved in the project, and we achieved incredible results at the end of 1 year.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Advance in Workforce Planning and Management	Bank of America	Paycheck Protection Program Tier 4 (PPP4) Enterprise wide systems access provisioning and onboarding	Gold	2022	Bank of America’s extraordinary and proactive approach to the coronavirus pandemic led to better solutions for our associates and clients. The Enterprise Onboarding Readiness team rapidly initiated and delivered a centralized system access provisioning process and onboarding experience for the 8,000+ associates across the enterprise responsible for supporting the Paycheck Protection Program. These solutions helped mitigate delays in gaining systems access and obtaining hardware.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Advance in Workforce Planning and Management	Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI)	Best Advance in Workforce Planning and Management	Gold	2022	BRI has been serving Indonesia for 127 years, supporting economic growth and serving customers from small economic community levels throughout Indonesia. Throughout its journey, BRI shows its commitment to prioritizing service to the micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) segment. BRI consistently provides the best service by fostering, empowering, and supporting MSMEs to optimize their competence in improving the welfare of families and surrounding communities. Carrying the vision of becoming "The Most Valuable Banking Group in Southeast Asia and Champion of Financial Inclusion" by 2025, BRI has implemented brilliant breakthroughs in overcoming business predicament through enabling the mobility of businesses in promoting their products.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Advance in Workforce Planning and Management	Roads & Transport Authority -Dubai	Workforce Planning in RTA	Bronze	2022	This entry is submitted by Roads & Transport Authority for Dubai, is called: Workforce Planning in RTA. it will showcase how Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) faces unprecedented changes in demand and need an evidenced way to get the right amount of people with the right skills to meet future demand. this project allows RTA to anticipate change rather than be surprised by the changing scenario and helps build a mechanism to address the workforce gaps. RTA is using a "Workforce Planning" tool that is designed to give HR and Agencies a long term view as to the likely changes and needs across the organisation.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Advance in Workforce Planning and Management	TCS	Analytics-based Workforce Utility Optimization	Gold	2022	TCS has a workforce of over 592,000. To address the perennial lateral movement of people across projects, TCS put together an intricate blueprint to ensure that the enterprise makes the most of its human capital by analyzing, and then upskilling and reskilling the workforce. The Resource Management Group (RMG) has put together an algorithmic model to match associate skills to open requirements within the organization based on forecasting client needs and talent availability.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Benefits, Wellness and Well-Being Program	Accenture Solutions Pvt. Limited	Crisis Management, Proactive interventions and Building Resilience	Gold	2022	Accenture’s well being program caters to the needs of a diverse workforce, enabling them to proactively recognize their health concerns and thereby pick and choose from a bouquet of benefits through a personalized approach to support their holistic wellbeing including mental wellbeing needs, managing lifestyle related ailments and financial wellbeing. Accenture has ensured its preparedness to manage any health and wellbeing crisis that might impact its’s people’s wellbeing and safety. During the Covid second wave Accenture was able to optimize existing resources and create customized interventions for various groups such as people dealing with grief, employees impacted with Covid, caregivers, front line responders etc. Accenture was able to provide medical related support to it’s employees and contractors across the country.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Benefits, Wellness and Well-Being Program	Albaraka Türk Katılım Bankasi A.S.	Vitrin Flexible Benefits Program	Bronze	2022	‘Vitrin’ program is a human resources platform built to meet changing needs relevant to fringe benefits.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Benefits, Wellness and Well-Being Program	Bank of America	Bank of America Benefits Programs	Gold	2022	Bank of America is committed to supporting teammates’ and their families’ wellness by offering flexible and competitive benefits across three pillars of wellness: physical, emotional and financial. The bank’s broad suite of competitive and flexible benefits programs are designed to provide teammates with the support they need to achieve their career goals and to help them and their families grow and thrive.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Benefits, Wellness and Well-Being Program	Cocnentrix	Best Advance in Providing World Class Holistic Wellness	Bronze	2022	As we approached 2021, a clear need to invest even more in our staff wellbeing, staff engagement and holistic wellness approach. Uncertain times as the pandemic continued to impact the world, and the fact that a new wellness approach was needed in the new virtual world made this need an inspiring challenge for the Wellness team.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Benefits, Wellness and Well-Being Program	Dogus Group	Wellbeing at Doğuş Group: Better Life, Better Future	Bronze	2022	This entry, submitted by Doğuş Group, is called "Wellbeing at Doğuş Group: Better Life, Better Future". It is a wellbeing program was launched in early 2021 to improve the physical, psychological, social, emotional and financial well-being of Doğuş Group employees and families. It was designed as a program to include the employees, to be continuously updated according to feedback, to respond to different needs depending on sector-specific Group dynamics, and to encourage collaborations with Group companies to leverage the industry diversity of the Group.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Benefits, Wellness and Well-Being Program	HCL Technologies Ltd.	Assuring Wellbeing	Gold	2022	‘Assuring wellbeing’ is just not a wellness & wellbeing campaign, it underpins a series of employee communications and wellness, wellbeing initiatives and benefits packages that not only aim to educate and empower employees with helpful wellness & wellbeing related information, but also foster positive messages of care, appreciation, and encouragement in these stressful times.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Benefits, Wellness and Well-Being Program	Jardine Matheson	Jardine Matheson - Key2Wellness	Bronze	2022	Key2Wellness (K2W) is Jardines’ Group-wide health and wellness programme that aims to empower colleagues across Jardines and its group of companies to lead healthier lives through the provision of wellness-related resources, education opportunities, and activities. By promoting a healthy body, mind, and workplace, as well as connecting employees across Jardines and leveraging the unique scale of the Group, K2W is making a positive impact towards a sustainable, healthy corporate culture
HCM	Human Resources	Best Benefits, Wellness and Well-Being Program	Modis Bulgaria	Modis Well-Being Program	Silver	2022	This entry submitted by Modis Bulgaria is called "Modis Well-Being Program" and demonstrates the company's effort to design and deliver a complex well-being program for over 1200 employees that corresponds to their needs in the current work from home or hybrid working model. The program is divided into two main parts focused on keeping talents' mental and physical health and well-being to guarantee positive work-life balance for Modis Bulgaria's employees and their families. The project also demonstrates perfect collaboration between the main owner - the Human Resources Business Partners - and other internal and external stakeholders for the organization (HR partners, Marketing team members, Sports team ambassadors, Modis Bulgaria Management team, and others).
HCM	Human Resources	Best Benefits, Wellness and Well-Being Program	PepsiCo India Holdings Pvt Ltd	Pepfit -Employee Wellness @ PepsiCo India	Gold	2022	PepsiCo’s people first approach led to the launch of a wholistic wellbeing program called Pepfit which enabled us to support and re-energise the org in the midst of a pandemicPepsico launched a holistic wellbeing program- PEPfit covering a plethora of interventions and programs targeting it’s 4 key pillars: 1. Physical Wellbeing 2. Mental Wellbeing 3. Financial Wellbeing 4. Social Wellbeing The multipronged program encompasses Mental, Physical, Financial & Community wellbeing, and all of it sponsored by the executive leadership. Some of the interventions included 14 Hobby Clubs sponsored with professional classes, Yoga Day, Meditation workshops, Medical facility, Financial awareness sessions customized in regional languages & Nutrition awareness sessions, Employee Assistance Program etc.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Benefits, Wellness and Well-Being Program	Qatar Airways Group and Upside Learning Solutions	New Understanding, New Hope: Mental Health Awareness	Bronze	2022	Qatar Airways believes in providing a psychologically safe and healthy workplace that promotes emotional well-being among employees while taking all reasonable steps to minimize threats to employees’ physical and mental health. Qatar Airways partnered with Upside Learning to create a story-based program that follows the lives of five personas at various stages of the mental health continuum. Each story is unveiled with activities that let learners identify signs and symptoms, debunk myths, suggest wellness habits, practice coping skills, and introspect their own mental health with the broader view of creating awareness and building a healthier, more compassionate society.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Benefits, Wellness and Well-Being Program	Tokio Marine HCC	To Thrive at TMHCC	Gold	2022	This entry, titled To Thrive at Tokio Marine HCC, describes the newly rebranded overall benefits and well-being offering for employees and their dependents. Like most companies, TMHCC benefits were previously categorized into two categories, the traditional "medical benefits", which included medical, vision, and dental, and "other" for any other benefit. These broad categories meant employees were often unaware of the many benefits at their disposal and had to sift through information on the intranet to find what they needed. With Thrive, TMHCC reimagined the way benefits were communicated and categorized, highlighting the four main areas of employee well-being; mind, body, wallet and life. The consistent rebranding across company channels and communications provides an intuitive and easy to navigate employee experience that highlights the importance that TMHCC places on workforce well-being and ensures employees can Thrive.
HCM	Human Resources	Best HR Strategy and Measurement Approach	Accenture	Skills at Action: Skills Supply Demand Insights	Silver	2022	To serve our clients and stay ahead of competitors in the war for Talent, Accenture developed TalentPulse, a multi-faceted solution using artificial intelligence and Big Data to inform an effective Talent Strategy and identify how the skills landscape is evolving. Taking it a step further the Skills Supply Demand Insight (SSDI) is dashboard that enables Talent Strategists to take very specific market based, service based data to actually plan hiring and staffing for different teams within Accenture. SSDI pulls various internal and external information to enable different segments of Accenture business to hire for projects with maps of actual skills from certain markets. By targeting specific skills and by making the hiring more targeted this tool easily saves $100 million USD in opportunity cost, at Accenture’s hiring at scale.
HCM	Human Resources	Best HR Strategy and Measurement Approach	AKCANSA	AKCANSA Future of Work Project	Silver	2022	Akcansa launched the "Future of Work" project in late 2020 aiming to prepare both the company and its employees for the future in the best way possible. The Akcansa Future of Work project was born out of the need to prepare working conditions, workforce and working models for the expectations of the future in parallel with the accelerated transformation in the business world with the effect of the pandemic.
HCM	Human Resources	Best HR Strategy and Measurement Approach	Charoen Pokphand Group China	Charoen Pokphand Group China Smart HR Project	Gold	2022	The CP Group China Smart HR Project starts from the perspective of HR digital management and "mechanism+platform", constructs an efficient system that integrates human resources, business and finance under the new organizational structure, helping CP Group China achieve the objectives of overall control, enabling operation, activating organization and improving efficiency, and laying the foundation for strategic transformation
HCM	Human Resources	Best HR Strategy and Measurement Approach	ENERJISA	Enerjisa “Geleceğin Yolunda” Future of Work Strategy	Gold	2022	“Geleceğin Yolunda” strategy aims to shape the future of work together with Enerjisa employees by considering the new working principles in 7 basic dimensions defined with a holistic perspective in order to adapt to the future of work today.
HCM	Human Resources	Best HR Strategy and Measurement Approach	Tech Mahindra Limited	Purpose-driven and human-centric strategy	Gold	2022	With the COVID pandemic, the last two years have been unprecedented and disruptive in many ways for the IT and digital industry. The crisis has accelerated the shift towards flexible work, tech-enabled, holistic well-being, and resilient leadership. Through the new Vision 2024, and the new strategy NXT.NOW, TechM has redefined its people strategy using the TMW (The Mahindra Way) Quality framework to focus on wellbeing of its employees while ensuring that they develop skills to take advantage of the opportunities presented by the post-pandemic world. Through this new strategic direction, TechM will drive positive change in the lives of internal and external stakeholders enabling organizational growth. With people as a source of competitive advantage, TechM will create customer-centric and purpose-led human experiences that will help the organization transform and grow.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Strategy for Corporate Citizenship	Avantus Federal Solutions	Avantus Federal Solutions – Enriching the Lives of Employees and their Families, Local Communities, and Embracing Diversity	Gold	2022	Avantus Federal— a mission-focused data, cyber and space services and solutions company that serves Defense, Intelligence, Homeland Security and Federal Civilian agencies—has positively impacted the lives of their employees and their families through a focus on health and well-being, community service, learning and development, and diversity, equity, and inclusion.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Strategy for Corporate Citizenship	Bank of America	Bank of America Year Up Program	Gold	2022	Bank of America has partnered with national nonprofit Year Up since 2006, hosting over 2,000 apprentices during that time, with a significant increase in hiring from 2017-2021. As the momentum for investing in LMI (low- and moderate-income) talent continues to increase, so has the need for a more structured partnership. The Bank of America Year Up Program Office was created in 2020 and provides end-to-end engagement for the apprentices, with the goal of conversion to full time employees at the end of each apprenticeship cycle.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Strategy for Corporate Citizenship	iMerit Technology Services Pvt. Ltd	Best Strategy For Corporate Citizenship 2022	Bronze	2022	The entry describes how the company has taken up the mission of contributing to the communities by means of empowering the youths of the underprivileged communities. It mainly resorts to up-skilling initiatives and creating a diverse workforce in order to bring the youths from the said communities to the forefront of digital economy.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Strategy for Corporate Citizenship	PNC Bank and GP Strategies	Providing Professional Opportunities within the Community with the PNC PartnerUp Program	Gold	2022	PNC PartnerUp is a PNC-designed and -led multi-employer recruiting strategy created to empower and prepare high school graduates to confidently enter today’s job market. The program is actively helping solve the skills gap and workforce shortages between what employers need and the current talent pool. PartnerUp addresses the issue of workplace readiness head-on by offering an in-school curriculum and providing immediate career opportunities post-graduation.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Strategy for Corporate Citizenship	Tata Consultancy Services	Best Strategy for Corporate Citizenship 2022 Human Resources Awards TCS YEP	Silver	2022	TCS' CSR commitment stems from the Company's core values and the Tata Group's ethos of advancing the quality of life of local communities while aligning its contributions to holistic economic and social development. TCS' core ethos of building on belief promises futures in partnership with people and communities through innovation and collective knowledge, is based on the values of fairness, equity and the utmost commitment to human rights and guides how the Company conducts its business, treats its employees, and strengthens local communities. CSR strategy leverages the best of TCS’ expertise to create bespoke, contextual solutions which addresses the most pressing issues and meet the needs of the most vulnerable populations across the globe. TCS' vision is to empower communities by connecting people to opportunities in the digital economy and its mission is to build inclusive, equitable and sustainable pathways for all - especially youth, women and marginalized communities.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Unique or Innovative HR Program	Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd	Best Unique Innovative HR Program	Bronze	2022	The COVID‐19 pandemic has forced an adaptation process for the whole world and working life. One of the most common adaptation measures is working from home. Working from home comes with its own challenges especially for our caregivers. In a lot of Accenture’s employee surveys, 1:1 connects and listening sessions, One thing that we constantly heard was the blurring boundaries between work hours and personal time. We anticipated that our workforce is at the risk of facing burnouts if we don’t set the boundaries immediately. Accenture HR Team felt it was crucial to develop and implement best practices for working from home to maintain a good level of productivity, achieve the right level of work and life balance and physical+mental well being.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Unique or Innovative HR Program	Accenture Solutions Pvt. Ltd.	Compassionate Employee Relations	Bronze	2022	The Compassionate Employee Relations program is focused on creating a workplace where every individual can speak up and be heard and experience a sense of belonging while ensuring that they are aligned to Accenture’s culture and core values. Accenture truly cares for the employees and goes above and beyond to do the right thing for them. It means not blindly following processes and policies but understanding the employee’s situation, escalating where relevant and finding an appropriate path forward. It also means playing the role of a guide or a mentor to an employee: not always giving them what they may ask for, but guiding them towards the right path for their long term growth. More than anything it means having empathy.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Unique or Innovative HR Program	AKCANSA	AKCANSA Future of Work Project	Gold	2022	Akcansa launched the "Future of Work" project in late 2020 aiming to prepare both the company and its employees for the future in the best way possible. The Akcansa Future of Work project was born out of the need to prepare working conditions, workforce and working models for the expectations of the future in parallel with the accelerated transformation in the business world with the effect of the pandemic.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Unique or Innovative HR Program	Bakioglu	Bakioglu 360-Degree Development System	Bronze	2022	Bakioglu HR team designed the "Bakioglu 360-Degree Development System" in order to develop employees for today's and tomorrow's competencies. The 360 Program is a collaborative development process in which participants can develop their competencies by seeing themselves through the eyes of their stakeholders. The participant obtains a 360-degree analysis of his/her competencies, consisting of his/her managers, subordinates, customers, stakeholders and his/her own evaluation by the individual report obtained at the end of the process.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Unique or Innovative HR Program	Bank of America	Academy for Families	Gold	2022	Bank of America is providing student enrichment resources via Academy for Families powered by Degreed. With this initiative, Bank of America took the unique route of developing online learning resources for their employees’ children rather than their employees. Within the Academy for Families learning platform, children will find a wide range of online educational resources tailored to age and needs so that the employees’ children can access relevant and fun online resources at home to help with schoolwork and continued learning. Degreed is a partner of Bank of America, providing the company with its own Degreed digital learning platform that integrates learning content from internal learning created and customized for the bank, along with content curated from hundreds of external sites, culminating in the world's largest collection of e-learning content.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Unique or Innovative HR Program	DİMES A.S.	Human Resources Awards - Best Unique or Innovative HR Program	Bronze	2022	DİMES Sincere, Positive and Determined, Innovative, Pioneer, always chooses the best, and establishes a relationship based on trust. The culture created with its values is the basis of success. Emphasizing the power of the Employer Brand, values as well as the fact that small daily choices and choices can add great value to life and aiming to inspire, “Look Differently to Life!” It takes it from its rhetoric and the establishment spirit of DİMES, by supporting agriculture with industry and its determination to produce more value for the country, people, and nature.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Unique or Innovative HR Program	DOGUS OTOMOTIV - DRIVE	Dogus Otomotiv DRIVES sustainable HR Processes to Dealer Network (DRIVE - “Dogus Otomotiv’s Route is toward People and Education”)	Bronze	2022	This entry, submitted by Dogus Otomotiv, is called DRIVE (Dogus Otomotiv's Route is toward People and Education). Doğuş Otomotiv launched a unique & differentiated project for its dealer network, DRIVE – “Doğuş Otomotiv’s Route is toward People and Education” –with the objective of improving the human resources management process in 524 Authorized Dealers and After-sales Service Centers in 52 provinces, and to provide support in this area without charging any dealer at all. DRIVE aimed at ensuring institutionalism in family-owned-enterprises (dealers), providing authorized dealers with sustainable and successful business results and increasing customer and employee satisfaction. DRIVE, an innovative HR project, was specifically designed for the Authorized Dealer and After-sales Service Center network that consists of 8000+ employees with the aim of enabling organizational structures in human resources of Authorized Dealers and After-sales Service Centers and attaining sustainable success in customer/employee satisfaction and business results.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Unique or Innovative HR Program	Freshworks and Accenture	Freshworks Employee Experience led HR Transformation	Bronze	2022	This entry, submitted by Freshworks and Accenture is the Employee Experience led HR Transformation. The HR transformation was led by the implementation of a unified HCM system for Freshworks, in light of its accelerated growth and hiring. The overarching goal of this transformation was to empower employees and managers as owners of their data, and their teams – enabling the HR team to spend more time focused on talent strategy and long-term growth. The transformation was driven with an Employee Experience lens to bring Freshworks' promise of 'Delight made easy' to its employees, and not just to its customers. In the current phase of the transformation, the unified Oracle HCM, named PeopleHub, has gone live alongside initiation of several roadmap initiatives. The outcome includes a phased HR roadmap, operating model and enhancements to self-service and the digital experience for employees which will be implemented over the coming years
HCM	Human Resources	Best Unique or Innovative HR Program	Givaudan and The Oxford Group	Business Partner Program	Bronze	2022	A bespoke program, designed by The Oxford Group and delivered within Givaudan to over 120 HR leaders and specialists across 25 countries, which successfully strengthened the strategic mindset, confidence and behaviors within the HR function to support Givaudan’s growth targets and transformation. The program successfully pivoted to digital learning despite a culture of face-to-face learning delivery. Its success has created a template for other functions to replicate, both in terms of content as well as format.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Unique or Innovative HR Program	Infosys BPM Limited	Accelerate and Transform Talent	Bronze	2022	The OD & Leadership Development team in HR launched a unique program called ACCELERATE & TRANSFORM TALENT in FY'22 to help the organisation get ready for the future. This included three interventions under this program to prepare talent for growth and new business, all linked to the talent transformation agenda. They included the new concept of Skill tags for niche skills for Operations, Techno-domain Masterclass for leaders, and Organisation Citizenship Quotient to foster a culture of continuous learning and innovation. While the first two were about capability and talent readiness, the third one was about sustaining the right working culture to accelerate and transform talent. A unique initiative where culture and capability were brought together to accelerate talent growth and sustain it.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Unique or Innovative HR Program	Philip Morris International and Accenture	Digital workplace experience with MyPMI	Gold	2022	The entry describes digital and mobile ways to access and request all workplace services in MyPMI Workplace Experience portal, within MyPMI platform. It brings together all commonly used tools in one place, making it easier to engage and find answers and support.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Unique or Innovative HR Program	Shaya Group Turkey	Pulse Project Team	Bronze	2022	This entry is called "Pulse Project Team". Pulse is an employee satisfaction survey and made in every two years. Employee satisfaction survey is one of the best ways for listening and understanding employees and increasing their engagement. Pulse Project team, composed by each support and business teams’ representatives, had been established in 2018 after first Pulse survey. Main aim of the Pulse Project Team is to benefit outputs of survey by showing them that “we are listening” apart from required functional initiatives through motivational touches to the people to promote employee engagement, enhance community communication and support our objective to being best place to work.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Unique or Innovative HR Program	TCS	Careers With Purpose	Gold	2022	As a part of the HR Transformation Program, TCS has started “Careers With Purpose”, a unique 360 degree career development initiative for associates. The program looks at all the needs of the associates to build their careers within TCS. The program has everything for different associates from different career segments and ambitions. The career paths are designed in a way that they fulfil the strategic intent of TCS.
HCM	Human Resources	Best Unique or Innovative HR Program	The Kraft Heinz Company	The HR Business Partner (HRBP) Accelerator Program	Bronze	2022	The HRBP Accelerator Program is a global program focused on enabling high-potential, global HR Business Partners to be the strategic partners the business and functional leaders need. This immersive program supports this through increasing knowledge/acumen of several critical skills for strategic HRBPs: Trust and influence; HR leadership; and Organizational design.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring	Kordsa Teknik Tekstil A.S.	“People Reinforcers” Mentoring Programs	Silver	2022	Development is not always a one-way process; it is often a process of sharing in which both parties feed each other. People (talent) are at the heart of both the strategy house and the strategic planning process at Kordsa, as it has embraced empowering people, increasing their motivation, and managing talent with the best strategies as essential areas of professional development. In the light of this perspective, the People Reinforces Mentoring programs have been developed considering the needs of different audiences.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring	Accenture	Digital Heart Smart Program - Coaching and Mentoring	Gold	2022	Digital Heart Smart is a coaching program that helps learners become more aware of their current emotional skills and behaviors. Digital Heart Smart focuses on developing Emotional Intelligence and elevating overall performance in the workplace. The 13-weeks learning journey includes self-paced learning and virtual coach facilitated discussions. The self-paced learning consists of multiple coaching guides. Every week, participants are presented with a different “Law of Emotion” (there are 10 in total), each of which focuses on a different aspect of emotional intelligence. Once every two weeks, participants meet with colleagues in smaller intimate pods in a coach facilitated session to reflect on the laws and share how they’re applying/practicing the learnings in their daily lives, to make incremental changes to their behaviors and actions.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring	ADP, Inc.	ADP Sales Leader Development Program	Gold	2022	How ADP’s Sales Leader Development Program enhanced its Leader Development Program (LDP) by integrating human-centered technology that focuses on the unique strengths of the individual and supports leader behaviors to drive talent engagement and performance.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring	ASELSAN	Prizma Mentoring Program	Bronze	2022	Prizma Mentoring Program is aimed to develop leadership skills and capacity to ensure management continuity.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring	Birevim	Birevim Mentoring Program	Bronze	2022	Mentoring Program started in 2021 with a strategic need of develop sales teams to support growth strategies and also expand our leadership culture.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring	Chevron and BetterUp	We Coach	Silver	2022	This entry, submitted by Chevron (in partnership with BetterUp), is called the We Coach program. It is an individualized, cost-effective opportunity for employees to experience one-on-one coaching with a live certified coach and participate in facilitated peer coaching circles. We Coach effectively aligned with the enterprise-wide objective to build leadership capabilities and develop a coaching culture. Since deployment, data has shown growth in cognitive agility, strategic planning, and resilience, which resulted in a 14 percent increase in overall well-being and an 8 percent increase in productivity throughout the organization.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring	Google and CEQ Collaborative Equity	The Google Way of Sales Coaching	Gold	2022	The Google Way of Sales Coaching is regarded as a highly acclaimed leadership development program at Google that reached 1,800 managers over 206 cohorts and garnered 95% satisfaction rating, 22% lift in coaching confidence and a 21% lift in coaching competence. Google's Global Business managers must keep fostering a high-performance sales culture to drive 92% of Alphabet revenue ($168B in 2021) and accelerating their competency is business critical. A blended learning design in small cohorts teaches coaching skills through a six-week journey with nine components that enable a more sustainable workforce.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring	IHA and Dion Leadership	Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring IHA	Silver	2022	IHA created and delivered a Group Leadership Coaching Program for the Executive Team, concluding in mid-2020. Based upon the successful outcomes and the desire to continue to promote a coaching culture at IHA, the organization launched a second cohort shortly after. This second cohort completed the program in August 2021. This submission highlights the achievements of the second cohort’s program.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring	Merck	Coaching Through Change	Silver	2022	The Coaching Through Change Program was developed to support employees going through organizational change. It was key that employee levels of engagement were maintained or enhanced, and talent was in the right place, at the right time with the right skills to support a spin off organization.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring	Mondelez Global LLC and BTS Group AB	Transition Coaching Program, 2022	Gold	2022	The Transition Coaching Program targets senior leaders transitioning to a new role, whether internal, external, or in geographical location. The learning journey takes the form of a of 6 to 9-month, 1:1 coaching-session journey hosted on BTS’s proprietary platform Momenta.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring	NEQSOL Holding	NEQSOL Executive Coaching & Mentoring Program	Gold	2022	As a very important building block of Leadership Journey Program, Coaching and Mentoring Programs have been designed and implemented specifically for NEQSOL Holding needs. NEQSOL Executive Coaching Program is defined as one of tools of NEQSOL Holding leadership development initiatives and supports Succession Readiness Program through individual development plans.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring	Tata Consultancy Services	MentorCast - Special Initiative	Silver	2022	MentorCast is an exclusive platform created by TCS’s Europe Talent Development Team, onboarding TCS associates, experts in their fields, as faculties. This is for contextualizing global learning framing to suit 21 diverse countries of the geography by building local business Subject Matter Experts (SMEs). MentorCast initiative strongly nurtures TCS values of learning and sharing, respect for individuals and leading change.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring	TCS	Talent Transformation - Powering People for Excellence	Gold	2022	The entry describes, an in-house, digital and agile mentoring platform called iConnect, which is being leveraged by employees to connect with experienced & knowledgeable mentors across TCS. These connects are helping employees to define their career paths, achieve their aspirations and learn how to maintain work-life balance. As part of the mentorship program, a Mentor Capability Building Framework with a holistic blend of self-paced WBTs, EQ Assessments, Virtual Trainings, Webinar (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) & Action Learning to develop mentors is also available in the organization.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring	Texas Tech University System and CoachHub	Texas Tech University Systems Partners With CoachHub To Establish a Values-Driven Culture Through Coaching	Silver	2022	Because of their need for a flexible coaching program that meets the needs of leaders dispersed across Texas and beyond, the people development team at Texas Tech pivoted from an operated coaching program to digital coaching. This allows them to leverage the AI-based matching algorithm CoachHub uses to help every coach and coachee find the best match. This is critically important based on the widely diverse backgrounds of the coachees and their multiple locations. The university system has faculty, staff, administrators, and students from around the world who speak numerous languages and have very diverse interests. CoachHub’s unique matching algorithm allows coachees to swiftly select a coach who fits their unique interests and background. CoachHub’s dashboard feature allows the Texas Tech team to view success metrics in real-time and make adjustments that help the coaching program better align with their values-driven organizational goals.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring	World bank	Leveraging Mentoring to Support a Global Development Workforce	Gold	2022	This entry introduces a strategic approach to implementing mentoring within a global international development organization. It offers a roadmap that shapes the mentoring engagement model, standardizes practices, and processes, and identifies opportunities where mentoring can have the greatest impact. The strategy also provides a consistent approach to the design and delivery of mentoring programs.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Executive Development	Infosys	Leadership Development Journey	Gold	2022	This entry by Infosys, titled the Leadership Development Journey, details the strategy, approach, execution, and impact of developing all the senior leaders in the organization. Leadership development at Infosys is designed as a holistic development journey geared to enhance individual and collective leadership capabilities. Over the last 3 years, with a renewed vision and focus, Infosys Leadership Institute has designed and implemented a structured and integrated journey for leaders, that has led to significant impact for the leaders and the organization.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Executive Development	System Simulations, Inc.	Nissan Executive Manager Suite	Gold	2022	Nissan has developed a new Nissan Executive Manager (EM) Suite to help Nissan dealership EMs maximize sales and customer satisfaction. This suite is available 24/7 as a website with a KPI dashboard that’s updated daily and direct access to a large repository of Leadership Development resources.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Executive Development	Target and Abilitie	Target’s Accelerated Leadership Program and Abilitie	Gold	2022	Target’s Accelerated Leadership Program (ALP) is a highly customized cohort development program, designed to help participants understand their aspirations, current skills & competencies, and provide them experiences, outside-in perspective, and leadership support. ALP achieves this through challenge-based learning and support from the CEO and Leadership Team.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Accenture	Heart Smart - Leadership Development	Gold	2022	Heart Smart is an emotional intelligence leadership development journey comprising an EQ assessment, individual virtual debriefs and 9-12 months ongoing individual coaching with a certified EQ coach, and three hours x 8 virtual group workshops. Heart Smart focuses on accelerating leaders' emotional intelligence defined by EQ-i 2.0 model of Multi Health Systems (MHS).
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd	New Generation Leaders Immersion	Silver	2022	New Generation Leaders Immersion on Accenture Operation’s high potential Senior Managers who have the potential to move to leadership roles as Managing Directors to build their leadership skills, growth mindset and future outlook. The New Generation Leaders Immersion was tailor made as a 6-month executive leadership program that will develop promising Senior Managers into our next generation of leaders for Operations. The program design included Durable Learning principles, reflective learning and Leadership DNA. The training aimed to build leadership skills to manage complex problems, evolving client needs and experience with global teams keeping Client Centricity as the key focus, develop Storytelling and presentation skills, develop a growth mindset for collaboration and teamwork in the face of multiple stakeholders and continuing change and disruption, and develop a strong understanding of the latest trends and disruptions in both outsourcing industry and functional offerings.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd	Apex – The Leadership Crescent program	Bronze	2022	Apex – The Leadership Crescent Program has been curated with a blend of the best industry conversations, experience-based simulations, and coaching (group & individual). This immersive learning journey elevates the participants’ leadership quotient, helps them solve business problems and deepens the trust with clients. The program came to life to resolve Accenture’s need for new tech leaders who could take lead the organization into the future.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd	Senior Manager Excellence Program	Silver	2022	The Senior Manager Excellence Program is a hyper-personalized leadership development initiative conceptualized to provide high-potential Senior Managers the right support to groom them to be exceptional leaders. Accenture’s Leadership DNA and Leadership Essentials are cornerstones of the program that takes the participants on a series of high-end learning experiences to increase their capability to take on expanded leadership roles and readiness for the next level.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd.	Coaching For Success	Bronze	2022	Leaders with the right mindsets are indispensable for every organization. A successful leader demonstrates business acumen, encourages innovation, and leads by example to establish positive work environment, that helps our business & people thrive. This leadership development program titled ‘Coaching for Success’ offers our leaders, an opportunity of self-discovery so they transform to be successful future leaders.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Aksigorta	Power Up	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Aksigorta, is called "Power Up". Power Up is designed to ensure the leadership development of our Unit Managers and SMEs. We have certain competencies determined to reach the organizational goals and the future of work. Power Up aims to develop these competencies and certain skills. Program is a 7-month online learning journey consisting of 4 main and 4 intermediate modules, excluding the launch and graduation. The 4 main modules of the program are Lead Myself, Lead Business, Lead Others and Learn Together in line with our organizational values. The last module Learn Together distinguishes Power Up from other leadership programs because participants learned from each other's successes and failures. At the end, our participants improved their competencies, and a team spirit was created among the groups. This not only strengthened the network between them, but also enabled them to work in synergy with other teams.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Al Jazeera Media Network	Al Jazeera 3-fold Leadership Development	Silver	2022	This entry, submitted by Al Jazeera Media Network, is called “3-fold Leadership Initiative”. It is a 3-tier leadership program that was designed and developed to cover all levels of leaders within the Network. This multi-media blended program includes customized and engaging content presented to learners in workshops, individual coaching sessions, classroom training on building skills, knowledge-sharing channels, and supporting materials that leaders can refer to whenever they need. The program was carefully built around the Network’s strategy and leadership goals, vision, mission and values, and included proven leadership concepts and methodologies. The aim of the program is to define what it means to be a leader at Al Jazeera and to enable leadership experiences, while committing to creating psychological safety, engaging, providing developmental opportunities, and coaching employees for performance.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Align Technology and Relevant Solutions, LLC	aspire@align Leadership Development Program	Gold	2022	ASPIRE is an immersive, experiential and individualized “on the job” program that leverages accurate job simulations and curriculum connectivity to produce long term skill and knowledge retention via constant application. Participants are introduced to their fictional Region along with personnel work histories, DiSC profiles and personal biographies. There are pre and post assessments measuring knowledge transfer throughout each learning phase. In role, participants internalize leadership principles and acquire key managerial skills through decision-making that immediately impacts sales results and employee engagement. Between phases, mentor-driven sustainment learnings reinforce connectivity. Constant and continuous in-role ownership, discovery through decisions, providing unassailable results.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Allstate and Powers Resource Center LLC	Elevate Virtual Leadership Program.	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Allstate and Powers Resource Center, LLC, is called "Elevate Virtual Leadership Program" It is a six module, eLearning and roundtable learning journey that focuses on how to lead your team effectively in a remote environment. The modules include professionally recorded videos from internal SME's and incorporates custom content and tools to help Allstate leaders manage this major transition and support their transformative growth plan. Creation of the program took place following focus group with close to 200 employees and leaders to determine the greatest need for learning and development. The program is being offered to over 1500 Claims leaders at Allstate with great results and high engagement levels. The end result is a SCORM-compliant eLearning program with facilitated Leader Round Table discussions by Allstate trainers to help leaders share best practices and how they are implementing their new skills.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Ambea and Mindset	Leadership Pathway	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Ambea and Mindset is called "Leadership Pathway". The Leadership Pathway is a high performance learning journey that incorporates an introduction to the company as well as development of leadership capabilities at all levels of management. The initiative has reduced manager turn-over, improved decision making and speed of execution.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Anglo American	Best Advance in Leadership Development_The Anglo American Leadership Academy	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Anglo American is called The Evolution of the Anglo American Leadership Academy. The Anglo American Leadership Academy evolved dramatically because of, and during the Covid-19 pandemic. Pivoting away from face-to-face to digital program delivery has not only been successful, but it has made the Leadership Academy programs more accessible and inclusive, reduced their carbon footprint, and it compelled the Leadership Development team to think more creatively about innovative and immersive program delivery solutions, alongside prioritizing participant’s mental health.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Anglo American and Center for Creative Leadership	Anglo American Accelerator Program	Gold	2022	Accelerators are Anglo American’s future business leaders who need to respond skilfully to uncertainty and change to live up to the company’s Purpose (reimagining mining to improve people’s lives). Leaders are tasked with creating a better, more sustainable future for mining and for all stakeholders and communities. This entails thinking deeply about sustainability, ESG, and digital transformation and finding solutions to improve lives, through leading innovative practices. The Accelerator Program is a transitional 6-month virtual learning experience incorporating new ways of thinking and leading, to grow leader capability to thrive in the new world of Anglo American.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	BD and The Ken Blanchard Companies	BD and Blanchard: Best Advance in Leadership Development 2022_Leadership Development, Rise Program	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by BD and The Ken Blanchard Companies is called "Rise: Building Managers Foundations". It is a blended, leadership development program for people managers. Over the course of 12-weeks, participants engage in asynchronous learning modules, small group discussions, digital simulations, large group interactive virtual sessions, and project-based learning (individual and small group) to demonstrate their commitment and what they have learned. This learning experience is modern, globally scalable, and is the best of what blended learning has to offer while demonstrating incredible impact. This new manager development program provides the ability for all BD people managers to learn and practice the same critical skills associated with being an effective manager.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	BlackBerry	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Silver	2022	BlackBerry’s Virtual Leader Onboarding Program was designed to provide all new People Leaders at BlackBerry with an overview of the tactical elements to support their success in a leadership role. As a global organization with employees in 21 countries, BlackBerry wanted to ensure that all new People Leaders received consistent guidance on how best to lead their team and also learn about the various responsibilities they carry as People Leaders. The Virtual Leader Onboarding Program was designed to support new or seasoned People Leaders who have stepped into a leadership role at BlackBerry.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Blackmores and BTS	Best Advance in Leadership Development 2022 - Blackmores	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by BTS, is a Leadership Journey that was designed for our client, Blackmores. 'The Blackmores Leadership Journey,' was a 6-9 month dynamic experience that fused together simulated workshops with coaching and POD-based learning. This is a core and foundational Leadership program that is underpinned by the Blackmores strategy and renewed vision for the future.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	CAE and SuccessFinder	Leadership Development at CAE	Bronze	2022	CAE partnered with SuccessFinder to allow, through the SuccessFinder behavioral assessment tool, all leaders at CAE to understand their strengths and opportunities for development as part of a new leadership development program. The behavioral insights helped leaders raise their self-awareness, and understand their own leadership profiles and natural behavioral styles. This data will also provide CAE with insights as to where they have collective leadership strengths across the organization as well as areas that they could collectively develop further which they will be able to apply in the design of training and development programs moving forward in support of their vision to become a high-tech organization.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Calder Stewart and Impact	Leading Together	Silver	2022	Calder Stewart’s innovative leadership development initiative was designed in response to the COVID pandemic alongside a period of significant organisational change and growth. Leading Together is a customised guided learning journey, co-created with Impact. Aligned to Calder Stewart’s purpose – Helping New Zealand build a strong future – it has equipped leaders with the skills, experiences and capabilities they needed to create a strong, clear, and consistent leadership culture across all levels of the business. The program has produced transformational change across the organisation.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Capgemini and SweetRush	Connected Manager	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Capgemini and SweetRush, is called “Connected Manager.” After the 2020 pivot to virtual work, Capgemini’s middle managers found themselves leading international, multicultural teams—overnight. As the face and heart of Capgemini for their teams, these managers needed to learn how to engage, motivate, and retain their people in the new normal of hybrid and remote work. Connected Manager is a unique and innovative leadership development program designed to help managers engage and connect with their teams. Connected Manager prioritizes human connection and shifts mindsets while delivering a highly scalable leadership program. Relevant, high-impact content and hands-on live practice sessions with gamified, interactive branching scenarios prepare learners to lead a change that transforms their teams—and the business. Through teamwork, rituals, and interactive microlearning content, Connected Manager helps Capgemini’s learners experience connected, collaborative teamwork in a fresh, personalized, and exciting way—a bright spot of camaraderie and connection.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Carestream Health and Bluepoint Leadership Development	Carestream Emerging Leaders and Advanced Leadership Programs	Gold	2022	This entry submitted by Bluepoint Leadership Development and Carestream Health is called "Carestream Emerging Leaders and Advanced Leadership Programs". Bluepoint and Carestream formed a strong collaborative partnership which resulted in the creation of two high-potential development programs: one for emerging leaders and one for senior leaders. Both are blended-learning programs and include assessments, a series of custom leadership development workshops and micro-eLearning programs, individual application coaching for each participant, and a group leadership project where participants were able to apply their learning. The adoption and success of these programs at Carestream have been outstanding resulting in short-term and long-term benefits, including a significant return on investment that was large enough to essentially fund the program for the next eight year
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada) and MPS Interactive Systems	Show Up Like a Coach for Effective Performance Management	Gold	2022	A comprehensive 8 course online and on demand program on leadership skills development for emerging leaders (less than 10 years of experience) from all accounting and finance sectors – audit, industry, practitioner, public sector, not-for-profit, and focused on developing leadership skills. This entry is for the first course of the program, Show Up Like a Coach for Effective Performance Management. The solution included a mix of self-paced learning modalities with real-life scenarios and reflection activities to encourage contextual and active learning application of the concepts. It also included social learning activities, such as poll questions and the ability for the learners to view responses from other participants to enable them to analyse the industry trends and self-reflect on what areas they need to focus on to develop their skills and competencies to become better leaders.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Chevron	Your Leadership, Our Future - Mindset Learning Series	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Chevron, is a series of quick grab-and-go modules easily consumed by learners. Mindset packages are a component of the mindset learning series, part of the Your Leadership, Our Future (YLOF) suite of leadership development learning portfolio. The series focuses on specific leadership topics delivered through diverse methods and forms in an interconnected network to provide relevant resources and leader-led activities that enhance application and adoption in the flow of work.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Citi	Leadership Labs	Gold	2022	The Leadership Lab experience is at the core of the firm’s democratization strategy. A Leadership Lab is an experiential learning opportunity that provides Citi Leaders a safe place to explore and solve common leadership challenges. The essential goal is to provide an immersive experience with a focus on context to enable effective application of Leadership Lab content.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Cognizant	Digital Transformation of ADM Leadership	Gold	2022	Digital Transformation of ADM Leadership Skilling Program was conceived with the mission of helping our Mid Managerial Leaders to grow and transform into Digitally Strong Market leaders or fully equipped delivery leaders who are technology agnostic capable of weaving Solution RFIPs better, proactively proposing solutions to the customer, translating the message to persuasive conversations thereby influencing business wins.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	DexKo Global and Dion Leadership	High Potential Leadership Development Program	Bronze	2022	The DexKo NEXT Program is a high potential (HIPO) leadership development program created to identify and develop leadership potential across the organization and to maintain a healthy and growing pipeline of internal talent. After clearly defining and articulating the organization’s leadership culture and leader expectations, the global talent department created a program that consistently develops the mindsets and skill sets of high potential leaders in the organization. Program evaluation clearly shows that the program did in fact create a healthy pipeline of fully engaged leaders that have stayed with the organization. These leaders consistently demonstrate a greater capacity to inspire, align, and activate the organization’s continued growth.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	DNB ASA and IMD	DNB & IMD: Building a culture of collaboration, through action learning - at scale.	Silver	2022	To propel DNB into Leadership 2.0, rooted in a culture of organization-wide collaboration, DNB and IMD co-created an action-learning journey revolving around on-the-job pair shadowing. Whereas action learning typically plays out in small groups, the design of this program was unique in that it aimed for scale: Thus, a single cohort of 230 leaders took part simultaneously, supported by 28 coaches from both DNB and IMD.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Ernst & Young US LLP	Everyday Candor	Gold	2022	Everyday Candor is a leadership development initiative that uses science of change to make candid communication the norm in the EY culture. The “why” and “how” of candor are woven through leadership and learning communications and taught through online learning. Team meetings provide modeling, support and accountability.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	FIEP and CrossKnowledge	Developing the leadership to leverage results	Bronze	2022	Since March 2020, Sistema Fiep, as an institution, has gone through a period of many challenges; The L&D team has worked to guide training efforts in the search of solutions for the sustainable maintenance of FIEP activities by develop its leaders.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	FirstRand and BTS	First Rand Management Essentials - Manager of Others	Silver	2022	This entry, submitted by BTS and FirstRand is called "Management Essentials Programme, Manager of Managers program and provides managers with an opportunity to develop and apply their ability to translate strategy, drive execution through others, build multi-stakeholder relationships while navigating ambiguity. This programme was adapted from an in-person to a virtual programme and is centred around a simulation experience that unlock key moments in the life of an FirstRand leader.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	FirstRand and BTS	FirstRand Aspire - Botswana	Bronze	2022	This entry, submitted by FirstRand and BTS is called "The FirstRand Aspire Programme". This is a bespoke, highly contextual and strategically aligned leadership journey that was implemented to support the First Rand Botswana Junior Executive team in advancing their leadership capability.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Google Cloud	Google Cloud Delivers an Aspiring Leadership Academy for Developing High-Potential Talent	Silver	2022	As Google Cloud’s annual revenues have grown 45% year-over-year, the company has kept up with increasing customer demand by tripling the size of the internal Sales and Customer Engineering organizations. Given this high-growth environment, the need to hire strong leaders with Google Cloud expertise has risen, while strong individual contributors have been congruently requesting expanded leadership development and promotion opportunities within the company. Thus, the Cloud Sales Leadership Development team formed the Aspiring Leadership Academy to identify top-performing future leaders and provide them with various networking and training opportunities to boost leadership skills and confidence. The program has already resulted in $12.3M in attrition-related savings for the company, with 100% of participants agreeing that the program has increased top-talent retention and personal readiness for becoming a people manager.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Grifols and BTS	Digital Leaders Program	Silver	2022	Digital Innovation is one area of focus in Grifols´ strategy. The organization identified that it needed to improve its digital capabilities and ensure that everyone shifted their mindsets around Digital Innovation, to deliver better outcomes, explore new areas of growth and capture new sources of value. To achieve this, the Digital Leader Program was developed, which would act as the catalyst to foster a Digital Innovation mindset across all leaders in the organization, starting first with the Digital Transformation Team that consisted of the 63 leader champions of Digital Innovation.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Infosys	Constellation Program	Silver	2022	This entry by Infosys, called the Constellation Program, is intended to strengthen the organization Succession Planning by accelerating the readiness of successors and identifying & developing high potential leaders as potential successors for the future. The program is also intended to strengthen the pool of successors to meet the future leadership needs of Infosys and to develop enterprise leadership capabilities. In the last about 36 months, the program has achieved significant outcomes for the leaders who are a part of the program as well as for the organization.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	iQor	PPQ 2.0	Bronze	2022	This entry, submitted by iQor, is called "PPQ 2.0." It is a varied approach to coaching and development, responding to the ever-changing needs of a global company. This program combines the traditional coaching and development model and couples it with responsive microlearning content, which includes a coaching playbook, video vignettes, and interactive sessions.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Jardines and INSEAD	Driving the Jardines Momentum Shift: Flagship Leadership Development Programmes with INSEAD	Gold	2022	The 'Driving the Jardines Momentum Shift: Flagship Leadership Development Programmes with INSEAD' details the creation, carrying out and result of a Jardines and INSEAD partnership that has led to a suite of world-class leadership-development programmes. The focus of the programmes was on three core career transitions and formed a continuum of learning across a common curriculum, designed around Jardines’ business priorities and differentiated for different levels of leadership. Jardines leaders were keen to strengthen what it means to be part of Jardines across its various business units. The aime was to build more of a common sense of belonging, a commitment to sharing expertise and leveraging scale, and in particular to build a common culture of leadership for those identified as corporate talent for the future.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Jindal Stainless Ltd.	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Silver	2022	Masterful Management is a two-year-long flagship Leadership Development Program.It was launched in two cohorts for employees at Associate General Managers and Deputy General Managers with an aim of identifying and creating a talent pipeline comprising the illustrious group of employees to be groomed further for leadership positions. The key focus of the program is to develop the perspectives of participants by using the Learning – Action - Behaviour – Results model.. There were seven modules, covered in a span of 12 months. Each module consists of prework, session, post-work and assessment. Modules were followed by action learning projects with quantifiable ROIThe implementation and success of Masterful Management program changed the way development was done. Being inspired from Masterful Management now all programs at JSL are measured on ROI. Every training is tracked till Results (Level 4 – Kirk Patrick).
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	KPMG India	Embark Leadership Program for New Leaders	Gold	2022	Embark, is a three-month, blended leadership learning program that is designed to help newly promoted Partners with the ability to successfully lead a team(s) in a hybrid environment and develop a balance achieving KPMG growth targets, whilst managing wellbeing, work-life balance of workforce. It also aims to build Partners who have the means to be able to connect globally to good practice, share resources and knowledge, and work with colleagues to meet the needs of KPMG’s teams and clients.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Larsen & Toubro Ltd	Leadership Development of Mid-Level Managers	Gold	2022	L&T’s leadership development program (LDP) for mid-level managers is one-of-a-kind, rigorous and pathbreaking intervention that has nurtured home-grown leaders who have enabled L&T achieve record year-on-year growth and venture into sunrise sectors and new geographies.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Loblaw Companies Limited	Leading Inspired & Future-Focused Teams (LIFT) program	Bronze	2022	Loblaw’s Learning & Development team introduced the Leading Inspired & Future-Focused Teams (LIFT) program to people leaders. The aim was to assist people leaders in their growth along with allowing them to successfully lead their team. There was a strong emphasis on enhancing leadership skills and personal strengths. The program was administered through a series of virtual workshops, pre-work and post-work activities. The goal was to build sustainable and actionable leadership skills. The program was extremely successful and ended up being launched at a larger scale. It continues to grow in order to provide a collective learning experience where the participants are able to move through their learning journey together.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	LPL Financial	Emerging Leaders Program \| LPL Financial	Gold	2022	The Emerging Leaders Program (ELP) was designed to develop and further enhance leadership capabilities of LPL’s Assistant Vice Presidents and Vice Presidents in a fully virtual and creative experience so that they can lead with greater strategic agility, operational excellence, decision-making, and talent management. Participants learn from “leaders as teachers”, keynotes, small group collaborative communities, and real world practice on topics aligned to the frameworks and competencies of LPL Financial. ELP includes extended learning for the first year and ongoing early adopter invitations to new organizational skill development.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Merck & Co. and Cornell University	Best Advance in Leadership Development - Merck/Cornell Women's Leadership Program	Gold	2022	This entry submitted primarily by Merck with Cornell as a solution partner is on-behalf of its innovative and impactful Women's Leadership Program. This program relaunched by Merck with Cornell partnership in 2020 has been delivered to close to 700 senior director women at Merck on a global basis with very strong impact. The multi-phase program featured customized live virtual workshops, eCornell online synchronous programs, coaching sessions, peer coaching groups and individual reflection as part of the blended learning journey.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Molson Coors	Living Leadership	Bronze	2022	Molson Coors’ Living Leadership (The Journey to Authentic Leadership) program is an experiential leadership development journey. Leaders and their teams explore their own self-awareness, personal values, and authentic leadership. This is a 2.5-Day virtual training hosted by an external facilitator. As part of the 2020 revitalization plan, Molson Coors defined the leadership philosophy which was aligned to the new business structure and values. As a result, the current leadership development program, Living Leadership was redesigned to ensure a consistent development path for leaders throughout the organization.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Mondelez Global LLC and BTS Group AB	Top Talent	Silver	2022	Whilst Mondelēz had always recognized the need for a strong talent pipeline, the shift to a new operating model, new strategy, and new leadership behavior demanded the need to accelerate the development of their talent pipeline. They met this need by embarking on a journey to develop its “top talent” or high potential leaders across all people leader levels within the organization. To do so, leaders would go through a comprehensive six-month learning journey individualized to their specific level and personalized to their own development needs, whilst focusing on the critical future ready skills identified as part of their growth strategy. This includes virtual workshops, individual and group coaching sessions, business projects, and follow up with their line manager to ensure progress and commitment. Ultimately the program has seen great success and continued demand from participants and will be renewed in the coming years.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Money Management Institute and University of Virginia Darden School Foundation	Executive IQ Leadership Development Program	Gold	2022	This entry is submitted by Money Management Institute jointly with UVA Darden Educational Foundation. Executive IQ is an executive-level professional accelerator for leaders in the investment services industry looking to advance their careers and their organizations. Tomorrow's financial industry is complex and facing disruptions. Executive IQ helps transform experienced decision makers into innovators with the leadership skills necessary to grow their organizations today and build high-level networks alumni can count on for the future. The program was designed and delivered in collaboration with UVA Darden Executive Education & Lifelong Learning, Microsoft and PWC. Participants benefit from the academic and real-world business perspectives to gain real-time skills and tools to make an immediate impact. It's a roadmap to lead change and inspire a culture of innovation within their teams.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Mubadala Health and BTS	Advance Leadership Program	Gold	2022	A 6-month learning journey comprising of 6 Masterclasses focused on Leading Self, Teams and the Business, Impact Pods between each masterclass for smaller groups to facilitate learning application and knowledge sharing, 1:1 Line Manager Meetings to make the learning personal and facilitate career development and a customized scenario-based simulation runs through all 6 Masterclasses to bring the learning to life through simulating typical scenarios leaders at Mubadala Health would face, the simulation helps participants better respond to these scenarios. The end result is an integrated and impact focused learning journey.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore	LEAD@NTU	Gold	2022	"LEAD@NTU" an entry submitted by Nanyang Technological University Singapore, is a leadership development programme series intended to build capabilities across all management levels. It aims at developing exceptional leaders who would inspire, grow, and empower those around them. Designed in three different tiers, the emerging, developing, and senior leaders, from across faculty and staff accelerate their leadership competencies through experiential learning and networking. With Talent identified as a key enabler of the NTU 2025 ambition, LEAD@NTU produces a steady pipeline of effective leaders and thus fostering a culture of leadership and succession planning at University, College, School and Administrative departments of the University.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	National Grid and PricewaterhouseCoopers	National Grid's RI Divestiture	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted jointly by National Grid and PricewaterhouseCoopers is called the RI Divestiture. This submission is the leadership development strategy for the of divestiture National Grid’s Rhode Island business. This directly impacted 1,100 employees identified to convey to the buyer and affected all remaining US employees at National Grid.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	NEQSOL Holding	NEQSOL Leadership Journey Program	Gold	2022	Brief Description of Entry (2-3 Sentences) Leadership roles have critical influence in all strategic objectives and expansions of NEQSOL Holding and are the backbone of the operations Therefore, the development and succession of these roles within this dynamic structure is very significant priority for the HR strategies. Based on the results of Succession Readiness Program, a comprehensive leadership program was designed and implemented. It is called NEQSOL Leadership Journey Program. NEQSOL LJP covers both individual needs and Group’s strategic leadership priorities, organizational future plans with the support of a hybrid model leadership development initiatives.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	NewYork Presbyterian and Crucial Learning and Harvard Business Publishing	NYP Leadership Pathways	Silver	2022	The Leadership Pathways of NewYork-Presbyterian is competency-based training created to ensure the ongoing development of leaders throughout the organization. Virtual classes and online modules offer management employees with the flexibility that was critical during COVID, and still important in a post pandemic staffing situation.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Norm Holding and K2C	ENLider Sensin Leadership Development Program	Silver	2022	ENLider Sensin Leadership Development Program is aimed develop future leaders by adapting to new skills & competencies and support strategic & cultural transformation of the company.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Orkla ASA and Mindset	Leadership Compass	Silver	2022	This entry, submitted by Orkla and Mindset is called "Orkla Leadership Compass". OLC is designed as a four-month journey in leadership fundamentals to support new and first line managers in applying good leadership to deliver results through their teams. This has resulted in more engaged teams and more effective managers.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Paylocity	Sales Director Accelerator	Silver	2022	This entry, submitted by Paylocity, is called Sales Director Accelerator. Paylocity’s Sales Director Accelerator Program is designed to bolster the Sales organizations’ Director bench and prepare top talent Account Executives for a Sales Director role. The learning experience pulls through essential learning concepts that ends in an immersive homegrown custom-built Paylocity case study and business simulation.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	PepsiCo Foods Canada and The Roundtable	Accelerating High Potential Leaders through Group Coaching at Pepsico Foods Canada	Gold	2022	For over 12 years, PepsiCo Foods Canada has run the Leadership Roundtable Program (LRP) in partnership with The Roundtable for their L11-Band 1 high potential executive leaders. This group coaching and mentoring program blends assessment, group and individual coaching plus formal learning, informal learning and social learning to drive lasting behavior change, support strategic and cultural priorities and ready next-generation leadership talent to accelerate their leadership impact in a highly dynamic and results-oriented work environment. Sessions and individual coaching is provided by an experienced Roundtable coach and involves the active participation of program participants' direct managers and the internal talent team. Over the past twelve years, this program has resulted in high retention, a reduction in reactive coaching spend and the acceleration of a coaching culture within PepsiCo Foods Canada enabling their high value leaders to navigate change, disruption and growth successfully and proactively.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	PGIM and Impact	OutLEAD	Silver	2022	OutLEAD is a customized global and cross-business virtual experience to develop leaders across PGIM, to learn how to help others to reach their full potential and deliver on the business strategy. The program came to inception in 2020 to addresses the unique challenges of leading in our current virtual/hybrid work environment. OutLEAD was a new and creative program for PGIM. It focused on driving inclusion, innovation and transformation through leadership action in a virtual environment.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	REA India (Housing-PropTiger-Makaan) and Proventus HR	Leadership Excellence through Awareness & Practice (LEAP)	Gold	2022	Leadership Excellence through Awareness & Practice (LEAP) is a custom-made people manager development program that brings together the best of Experiential Learning and Leadership Coaching to shape leadership styles through an immersive 360 degree learning journey. It's a custom-made learning journey spread across 5 months comprising of facilitator-led workshops in groups, followed by virtual engagement sessions and 1-0-1 coaching sessions with the facilitator. The program also recognizes that human behavior cannot be changed with a stand-alone training intervention and hence, offers bespoke & integrated leadership intervention - a 360-degree mindshare approach.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Ekmas Group and Qmark Consulting	Leadership Development Academy	Bronze	2022	Leadership Development program firstly has been designed and delivered for all of the Management Team; Chairman of the Executive Board, General Manager, Human Resources Manager, Life Cycle Manager, Finance Manager, Accounting Manager, Sales Manager and Administrative Affairs Manager. Also Leadership Development program has includes individual coaching. Leadership Development program secondly has been designed and delivered for providing supervisors and management trainees development opportunities such as promoting more senior positions as they develop more. The first leadership program has been designed with 8 face-to-face modules and 5 coaching meeting. The Second program has been designed with 5 modules. In both programs has been designed post-program follow-up workshop together with various homework, book summaries, articles, self-reflections and analysis, etc. in blended learning approach. Overall, the leadership development program had a positive impact for the participants and organization culture.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Çelebi Ground Handling - Turkey	Çelebi Ground Handling Turkey – Management Development Academy: Living the Leadership Manifesto	Silver	2022	This entry, submitted by Çelebi Ground Handling, is called "Management Development Academy: Living the Leadership Manifesto" All the principles in the Leadership Manifesto, which was created at the end of 2019 under the leadership of the Managing Director and the company's senior management team, in line with the targeted management philosophy and expectations of its employees at ÇGH, reflect the code of conduct and business etiquette it expects from its employees. Within the scope of the Leadership Manifesto, 8 main principles and sub-behavior indicators were created. In order to spread this leadership culture and ensure its adoption by all the employees at ÇGH, trainings were designed within the scope of leadership development program, using many tools such as launch interviews, leadership compass describing principles and sub-behaviors, leadership trainings, a leadership manifesto online training module, live broadcasts on leadership, surveys, contests and leadership magazines.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Repsol and BTS	Lead Program	Gold	2022	In the context of Repsol's new Strategic Plan, the organisation is seeking a new leadership model based on four pillars: Commit, Trust, Streamline and Undertake. These four pillars, and the behaviours associated with them, are reflected in the organisation's new leadership totem. The Lead program seeks to convey to all Repsol leaders (more than 2,000 people) how they should put these behaviours into practice through different modules.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	RingCentral and Entelechy	Hello to Leadership Possibilities: Unleashing Leadership Potential at RingCentral	Gold	2022	With a geographically diverse, rapidly growing, and highly innovative workforce, RingCentral needed a standardized and unified approach to developing, coaching, and supporting leaders in order to continue to lead the competitive Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) industry. RingCentral partnered with Entelechy to implement Unleash Your Leadership Potential — first as a blended learning program with in-person workshops and then as an all-virtual learning experience when the global health crisis emerged in spring 2020. By all measures, the program is an incredible success and the program has been instrumental in the organization’s ability to attract, engage, and retain top talent around the world, allowing the organization to continue its high-growth trajectory, including being recognized by workplace culture experts, Comparably, for Best Company Outlook in 2022.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Royal Caribbean Group	Lead Excelling	Bronze	2022	This entry, submitted by Royal Caribbean Group is called Lead Excelling. This program is a 16-week multi-module, cohort-based learning voyage that targets mid-level people managers with one or more direct reports and one year of people management experience. Participants learn leadership skills considered essential to lead others, lead the business, and lead the future in an inclusive manner.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Salesforce	Tech Leadership@Salesforce	Bronze	2022	This entry, submitted by Salesforce, is called Tech Leadership@Salesforce. Salesforce has had unprecedented growth in the number of employees (14,000 in 2014 to more than 82,000 in 2022), suite of products, number of customers, industry areas, revenue, acquisitions, and the entire Salesforce platform ecosystem. Growth in size and complexity comes with multiple leadership challenges for our technology leaders. Integrating multiple technologies, systems, development methodologies, and engineering cultures, while still meeting the needs of customers and the business, requires advanced and situational leadership skills. The Tech Leadership@Salesforce (TL@S) program was developed so TMP leaders could bring their challenges to the program and receive personal 1:1 coaching, executive communication coaching, pod coaching, as well as participation in four live virtual workshops.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	SCL Health	SCL Health Maximizes Learning Journeys	Gold	2022	This submission chronicles the design, development, and rollout of SCL Health's Leadership Development Strategy and Program in support of initial and ongoing development, organizational performance and effectiveness through a systematic framework between August 2021 and March 31, 2022.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Sino-American Shanghai Squibb Pharmaceuticals Limited and GP Strategies	2021 BMS SASS Manager Academy -- Leadership Development Program	Silver	2022	The BMS SASS Manager Academy is a modular, six-month, diversified learning journey for leadership development. Creation of the program was initiated by top management, with a focus on enhancing the leadership and management ability of high-potential middle-level managers, in order to develop key talents for senior management and to support the execution of business strategies. Through compound learning design including Pre-Assessment, On-site Training & Workshop, On-job Assignment, Project-based Action Learning, Post Team Coaching, Project Report and Best Practice Sharing, the program delivered beyond expectations, brought positive business impact, and transformed learners' leadership behaviors.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and SweetRush	The SHRM People Manager Qualification (PMQ)	Gold	2022	This entry submitted by SHRM and SweetRush is “The SHRM People Manager Qualification (PMQ).” PMQ truly represents the best in leadership development! It tackles a critically important subject through a 10-hour eLearning journey, is extremely effective, and so highly engaging and enjoyable, it’s bingeworthy! PMQ covers all the responsibilities, tasks, challenges, and opportunities that new leaders face as they transition into their new role. Inspired by streaming TV-Netflix-Friends, with episodes and seasons rather than modules and lessons, PMQ teaches the 110 behavioral indicators and 27 performance objectives new leaders need to learn, practice, and embrace. PMQ is story-driven with fully developed, relatable and authentic characters. Engagement stays high with interactivity and gamification. PMQ is leadership development as it should be done; it will be leveraged by thousands of organizations with a profound impact—creating a new standard for online training.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) and EI Design Pvt Ltd	Developing Volunteer Club Leaders and Event Officials	Bronze	2022	SCCA typically gains 10-12K new members annually, only to lose that same number every year. Club Leaders have suffered similarly with burnout. The Club did a formal assessment (2019-2021) that showed a Leadership Course was needed to better support both Club Leaders and Event Officials, who’ve received little leadership development or training, and knowledge and experience has only sometimes been passed down from the outgoing Region Executive and other Officers to the next. This inconsistency has led to frustration amongst members and participants at events and activities. The need was to have an always accessible eLearning module which would provide consistent training on SCCA Leadership Values.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Standard Bank and BTS	Standard Bank JMP	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Standard Bank and BTS, is called "The Standard Bank Junior Management Programme". It is a bespoke journey through which the delegates are immersed in leading self, leading others, and leading the business though the use of assessments, tools and simulations to embed the Standard Bank Leadership Identity and develop the leadership competencies of the Front Line Leaders. This programme distinguishes between being just a leader, and being a true Standard Bank leader.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Tata Consumer Products Ltd. and Chrysalis	Catalyst: Become Future Ready and Engaged	Bronze	2022	At Tata Consumer Products, we remain committed to investing in building people's capabilities and creating a sustainable high-performance work culture. To fulfil this commitment of capability-building, needs were identified at an organizational level through inclusion of Learning Goals in the annual initiative-setting process. Learning needs of over 1350 employees across management levels and functions were collated. Based on this information, content was curated & created to put together customized learning journeys under the banner of ‘Catalyst: Become Future Ready and Engaged’. The Learning opportunities offered included customized self-paced learning content (~10 hrs. per learner) that could be accessed at their choice of time, pace and place, and virtual instructor led training (~4 to 8 hours per attribute).
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	TCS	iConnect & Mentor Capability Building - Growth through Guidance	Gold	2022	The entry describes, a leadership development program that aims to develop the competency of leaders for playing mentorship roles. The program design enables leaders to hone behavioral skills essential for a mentor and apply the learning as they progress in the learning path. The leaders undergoing the development program mentors employees from their teams and beyond it with the support of an agile, digital mentoring platform created in house. The leaders going through the program enhance their skills and in turn develop the capabilities of other employees.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	TD Bank	Learning in a Rapidly Changing World: Our Journey to Continuous Learning	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by TD Bank is called "Learning in a Rapidly Changing World: Our Journey to Continuous learning". Transforming Leadership training practices within TD's contact center (North American Customer Operations) from classroom based, synchronous learning to independent self-paced learning, anchored in the 70-20-10 model of development. This submission will examine the transformational journey, how TD imagined, designed, developed, and delivered a best-in-class leadership program and transformed the way leaders united to common goals and practices, while making a meaningful impact on the culture of care, growth, and impact.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Tenaris and Degreed	Tenaris Unifies New-Leader Learning & Takes It Global	Bronze	2022	For years, people promoted to leadership positions at Tenaris didn’t always have all the tools they required to succeed right away. By dramatically reshaping new leader development — taking it from a sporadic regional effort to a globally-minded, unifying experience — Tenaris with its Management Essentials program has effectively responded to a serious organizational need and cost-effectively created new value.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	The Warehouse Group and Inspire Group	The Warehouse Group x Inspire Group - Emerge and Evolve	Silver	2022	This entry, submitted by Inspire Group on behalf of The Warehouse Group, is a transformational leadership program, named ‘Emerge and Evolve’. Initially planned to be delivered entirely face-to-face, COVID-19 instead forced a pivot of delivery to include a blend of virtual and in-person deliverables, both synchronous and asynchronous. With participation by application-only, Emerge and Evolve is about to enter its third year of delivery, with a number of metrics already demonstrating its high level of efficacy.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	TRATON and Mindset and ESMT Berlin	Management Excellence Program	Silver	2022	This entry, submitted by TRATON and Mindset is called "Management Excellence program". The Management Excellence program is developed to transform brand managers to be able to drive Business Success. It is a learning journey that combines different learning modalities and application activities over a 10 month period. The target audience for this program is high potentials of the middle management. The program improved business-driven decisions and an open error culture.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	Turk Tuborg Beer & Malt Industry Incorporated Company	%100 Leadership School-New Supervisor Development Program	Bronze	2022	%100 Leadership School-New Supervisor Development Program is a leadership development program for the supervisors of the company. It has been designed to make quality permanent and also improve it, to develop leaders within, to be the "first choice" by talented workforce, to promote the employees with high potential and seniority. The company believes that “We develop our leaders from inside”. Leadership skills of the supervisors are aimed to be increase. It is designed as modular, 4-month development journey. The program has “manage yourself”, “manage your team” and “manage your work” pillars. Hybrid learning model has been used. All the results have been analyzed and measured.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development	UST	Servant Leadership at UST	Silver	2022	UST has made considerable strides in its digital transformation journey over the last few years and is a leading provider of digital services. UST believes that Employees are the lynch pin of digital transformation. They want their people to provide the best available service to our customers and the only way to do that is to improve the engagement, passion and commitment of our employees. They want their talent to feel empowered to share innovative ideas and want these ideas to receive the visibility, support and resources they require. Servant Leadership is the best suited leadership style to achieve this. Servant-leadership incorporates the ideals of empowerment, team building, participatory management and the customer service ethic into a single leadership philosophy. UST has embraced Servant Leadership as the overarching Leadership philosophy, as it keeps the employees at the center of everything they do, and balances beautifully between Results and Relationships.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Leadership Development Competency Models	The Academy for Developing Administrative Leaders (Powered by the Institute of Public Administration)	Best Advance in Leadership Development Competency Models	Bronze	2022	This entry introduces a leadership competency framework designed via ground theory specifically for Saudi leaders. It covers three leadership levels (promising leaders, mid-level leaders, senior leaders). The Program designed by ADAL consists of a library of leadership competencies used as a general resource for ADAL and other government entities. The library consists of 55 competencies and behavioral indicators across all three leadership levels. The programs also provides a general framework for Saudi Government leaders, and nine subframes (one for each leadership level, one for each leadership level specific to males, one for each leadership level specific to females). The framework is mainly used for training and assessment. it currently the main driver of the core business of ADAL.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Measuring the Impact of Leadership Development	Anglo American	Best Advance in Measuring the Impact of Leadership Development	Silver	2022	Anglo American introduced a new and business-aligned Leadership Academy in March 2019, which included an exceptionally thorough impact evaluation strategy which encompassed surveying, independent data analysis, and the design of an innovative leadership development dashboard. This proved that the strategy was not only delivering exceptional learner satisfaction, it was also driving talent retention, promotion and increased female representation within senior leadership levels.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Measuring the Impact of Leadership Development	Grifols and BTS	Digital Leaders Program	Gold	2022	Digital Innovation is one area of focus in Grifols´ strategy. The organization identified that it needed to improve its digital capabilities and ensure that everyone shifted their mindsets around Digital Innovation, to deliver better outcomes, explore new areas of growth and capture new sources of value. To achieve this, the Digital Leader Program was developed, which would act as the catalyst to foster a Digital Innovation mindset across all leaders in the organization, starting first with the Digital Transformation Team that consisted of the 63 leader champions of Digital Innovation.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Measuring the Impact of Leadership Development	Mowi Canada West and Vivo Team Consulting Inc.	Mowi Canada West \| Vivo Team - Measuring Leader Effectiveness	Gold	2022	Vivo Team worked with Mowi Canada West leaders over 2 years delivering live-instructor led sessions, group coaching, and people analytics. Mowi wanted to be able to measure and evaluate their program as is appropriate for Mowi’s learning strategy and the business needs and situations of the widely diverse and remotely located teams. The company experienced many stress factors throughout this period including COVID-19 and government regulatory issues.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Measuring the Impact of Leadership Development	North Shore Environmental Consultants Inc. and Vifo Team Consulting Inc.	North Shore Environmental Consultants: Measuring The Impact of Leadership Development with Data	Silver	2022	Vivo Team worked with North Shore Environmental Consultant leaders over 5 months delivering live-instructor led sessions, group coaching, and people analytics. North Shore Environmental Consultants wanted a data centric leadership development program for their senior leaders who were managing diverse and dispersed field teams. The company experienced many stress factors throughout this period including COVID-19.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Measuring the Impact of Leadership Development	Repsol and BTS	Lead Program	Silver	2022	In the context of Repsol's new Strategic Plan, the organisation is seeking a new leadership model based on four pillars: Commit, Trust, Streamline and Undertake. These four pillars, and the behaviours associated with them, are reflected in the organisation's new leadership totem. The Lead program seeks to convey to all Repsol leaders (more than 2,000 people) how they should put these behaviours into practice through different modules.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Measuring the Impact of Leadership Development	Vale and BTS	Impact!	Silver	2022	To sustain its new strategic ambitions, Vale was facing a much-needed cultural transformation. The company's leadership recognized the need to revisit their beliefs and mindsets to promote new key behaviors aligned to the new organizational culture. To this end, Vale designed different leadership development journeys using a simulation, which wasbased on scenariosmodeled after Vale’s business.In the simulation,participants would experienceeveryday situations, discuss the trade-offs for each decision,understandthe impact of their choices, and realizethe necessary changes in their mindsets and behaviors.Within the simulation, leaders experimented with new behaviors and received positive reinforcement for takingnew approaches to everydaytasks.This reinforcedthebenefitof behavior changeand increasedthe chances that the new behaviors would become thenew way of doing things.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Senior Manager Development	Accenture	Accenture Supply Chain & Operations (SC&O) Business Solution Architect Program	Silver	2022	The Business Solution Architect Program is a multi-modal leadership development program designed to train the next generations of global Supply Chain & Operations Leaders. The three-part design included: small group Immersion Sessions (Learn all of the ingredients); a 5-day, 15-hour Masterclass with multiple hands-on solutioning exercises, best in class story-telling training, and active practice through role-play with expert coaching and feedback (Learn the best recipes); and finally a 6-12 week coach/mentor-mentee program where participants work with senior executives on active client pursuits, putting work/learn fusion into action. The result? Substantial improvement in sales performance by executives who completed the program compared to the control group who partially completed or did not complete the program for various reason.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Senior Manager Development	Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd	India MU Senior Manager Leadership Enablement Advanced Program (SM LEAP)	Gold	2022	The Senior Manager Leadership Enablement Advance Program is an annual hyper-personalized leadership development initiative conceptualized to equip new Senior Managers (SMs) with the right leadership skills, help them understand their roles in India Market Unit context, to help them connect with leaders and learn from their experiences. This program helps the participants build exceptional leadership skills needed to achieve the rigorous IMU business ambition and ability to maneuver client relationships, projects, and teams in a post Covid, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous business environment. Accenture’s Leadership DNA is the philosophy that underpins the program and takes the participants on a series of high-end learning experiences to increase their readiness for the new level.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Senior Manager Development	FirstRand and BTS	FirstRand Management Essentials - Manager of Managers	Bronze	2022	This entry, submitted by BTS and FirstRand is called "Management Essentials Programme, Manager of Managers program and provides managers with an opportunity to develop and apply their ability to translate strategy, drive execution through others, build multi-stakeholder relationships while navigating ambiguity. This programme was adapted from an in-person to a virtual programme and is centred around a simulation experience that unlock key moments in the life of an FirstRand leader.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Senior Manager Development	Hexaware Technologies Limited	Best Advance in Senior Manager Development	Bronze	2022	The Ignite 2.0 OD program focuses on an umbrella of collective development programs curated for specific career-level target groups. The intent of the program is to address the upliftment and competency enhancement of personnel in the organization, running up from nascent managers up to senior leaders. Each of the designed programs is tailor-made to these specific career level target groups, predominantly front-facing clients and executive committees. In the current Pandemic environment, the modality of training was required to change. Hence, an online virtual training methodology was designed with an objective to create improved and potentially enhanced consultants, achieved by a hybrid model of training & learning to ensure role to task linkage.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Senior Manager Development	SoftServe	Delivery Directors Leadership Program	Silver	2022	This entry, submitted by SoftServe, is a job-specific leadership program with a hardened law-school approach and being 100% run by the in-house experts helping to distill and spread the best practices across the company while raising and onboarding the most strategic leaders, the Delivery Directors. The matrix of the program content is being fully aligned with the organisational goals and stuffed with the real-time challenges unlike the classic case studies that might be irrelevant for the given business context. Its ultimate goal is to generate the leaders who would ensure and sustain an excellent delivery organisation under the conditions of yty growth of 30%.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Senior Manager Development	Synovus and Training Pros	The Catalyst Senior Leader Development Program	Bronze	2022	Catalyst On-Demand is an engaging, self-directed, peer-connected virtual learning experience tailored for Synovus senior leaders. The program learning objective is to equip and empower leaders with the transformational mindsets, skillsets, and toolsets needed to align the business strategy to the leadership behaviors that lead to results.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Senior Manager Development	Tata Consultancy Services	Catalyst - The TCS Journey for Leading Transformation Programs	Gold	2022	Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has evolved and gained recognition as the Growth and Transformation (G&T) partner of several customers, with the necessity of implementing large, complex, and multi-stakeholder engagements, including multi-geography play! Leading such large and complex programs requires managers who can think holistically, look at optimizing the outcome, articulate and sustain business value, question the status quo, focus on the purpose, think strategically and build long-lasting customer relationships by delivering powerful social impacts through their programs. Catalyst is a training journey that enables the elevation of mid-level managers to the role of transformation program managers.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Senior Manager Development	The Estee Lauder Companies	Best Advance in Senior Manager Development_People Leadership Program	Gold	2022	The People Leadership Program is an immersive blended learning journey designed to nurture, invest, and prepare our high-performing leaders with the strengths-based skills needed for success to run, recover, and transform with an eye on the future, all while navigating unprecedented circumstances. This program is inspired by ELC President and CEO Fabrizio Freda’s high performance leadership competencies that enables our strengths-based approach to people development. Each cohort is curated with leaders across brands regions and functions to create a truly global, yet intimate experience that inspires new ways of working together, building common visions, and forming new alliances – to further nurture ELC’s diverse and inclusive culture.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Senior Manager Development	The Kraft Heinz Company	Managing People at Kraft Heinz	Silver	2022	Managing People at Kraft Heinz is a manager development program that was originally launched in 2017. Designed as an investment in the future leaders at Kraft Heinz, Managing People at Kraft Heinz strives to develop people managers to operate with empathy and care, move with speed and agility, and grow people to their full potential. The program shifted successfully to an entirely virtual delivery due to Covid-19, however, it will now remain virtual due to its success and the opportunities virtual delivery provides to the global Kraft Heinz audience.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Talent Mobility	ICBC Turkey Bank A.S.	ICBC Turkey Bank A.Ş.	Bronze	2022	This entry, submitted by ICBC Turkey, is called “The Key to Lasting Internal Talent: Mobility”. It is a detailed report that includes brief introduction of ICBC Turkey, vision, mission, strategy and in light with these, talent mobility activities are explained in a detailed manner. Following the acquisition of a local Turkish Bank, operations and implementations reformed under the name of ICBC Turkey. In this regard, reformed implementations are explained in this report. Under the objective of turning ICBC into a global leading bank with the best profitability and executing a strategy of “A Bank of Best Talent”, to build a workplace for all employees to work and grow ICBC Turkey with performance and prestige and in accordance with the corporate philosophy of focusing on the primary elements of the employees, the bank places significant value to its talents.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Advance in Talent Mobility	UBS AG	GWM Key Talent Program – developing great leaders	Gold	2022	The GWM Key Talent Program accelerates the careers of our top 5% Director globally. Over 42% have already moved their jobs during this program, where participants build up their leadership muscle and are getting inspired by the future.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders	Accenture Solutions Private Limited	Accenture Capability Development - Emerging Leaders Program	Gold	2022	Emerging Leaders Program (ELP) is a robust learning program to improve skills of Frontline Leaders (Team Leaders or TLs), a critical role in Accenture, hugely impacting its client and employee experiences. ELP is a holistic program targeted to upskill existing Team Leads and build a new talent pool of Team Leads by creating an eco-system for skills and competency development through experiential learning, impacting our business and people positively.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders	Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd	Emerging Leaders Program	Silver	2022	To create and nurture the young leaders of tomorrow, Accenture created an iconic learning intervention called Emerging Leaders Program. Through this intensive, five-month program, the company provided future leaders with curated trainings in in-demand skills that will help them advance in their careers and champion their leadership abilities.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders	American Association of Critical-Care Nurses and SweetRush	Fundamental Skills for Nurse Managers	Gold	2022	This entry, “Fundamental Skills for Nurse Managers” is submitted by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) and SweetRush. (More than 500,000 frontline critical care nurses are represented by AACN.) AACN recognized the need for a robust nurse manager leadership development program that prepares nurses to move from being an individual contributor to a frontline leader, especially during the first daunting year of transition. With 16 hours of in-depth eLearning content, chunked into 40 concise, mobile-accessible lessons, the program had to be engaging, hold the learners’ attention, be accessible within their work environment, and speak to them authentically with relevant themes and storytelling. Fundamental Skills for Nurse Managers is an innovative scenario-based frontline leadership program that features relatable avatar-characters and situations, supplemented by branching activities and job aids, and has proven to be remarkably effective! This is leadership training done right!
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders	Ameriprise Financial	Ameriprise Field Leader Development Journey	Bronze	2022	This entry provides an overview and details about the recently developed field leader learning experience. This experience provides new leaders with the onboarding and learning resources to be successful in role. For existing leaders this role plan is leveraged for continued professional development.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders	Astellas and BTS	Transform program	Bronze	2022	This entry focusses on the People Manager Academy (PMA) Transform program, a program designed for Frontline Leaders to transform the business and deliver upon the new strategy (CSP2021). CSP2021 defined goals to improve organisational health and culture alongside strategic and performance goals. To deliver upon these goals required a new, globally consistent, approach amongst people managers to both lead effectively, and to transform the business for the future. The PMA is a hybrid learning journey involving virtual instructor led training, group coaching, business simulations and practical application. The PMA has already delivered tangible impact to participants and the organization.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders	Bridgestone Retail Operations and Judge Learning Solutions	AM Impact Development Workshop	Silver	2022	Bridgestone was able to convert an existing 5-day ILT training and re-design it into a fully virtual 12 session vILT training spaced out over time with the future option of delivering a hybrid approach of ILT/vILT version.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders	CEVA Logistics	CEVA Logistics Frontline Leader Development Program	Gold	2022	CEVA Logistics Front Line Leaders Program is a flexible, 7-module program that provides with a toolkit of practical communication and employee development tools that reduce conflict, improve employee performance, and enhance team effectiveness. The ultimate goal of the program is to enable leaders to create work environments that foster employee engagement, improve performance, increase employee satisfaction thus affect business performance in terms of critical KPIs.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders	Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada) and MPS Interactive Systems	Show Up Like a Coach for Effective Performance Management	Gold	2022	A comprehensive 8 course online and on demand program on leadership skills development for emerging leaders (less than 10 years of experience) from all accounting and finance sectors – audit, industry, practitioner, public sector, not-for-profit, and focused on developing leadership skills. This entry is for the first course of the program, Show Up Like a Coach for Effective Performance Management. The solution included a mix of self-paced learning modalities with real-life scenarios and reflection activities to encourage contextual and active learning application of the concepts. It also included social learning activities, such as poll questions and the ability for the learners to view responses from other participants to enable them to analyze the industry trends and self-reflect on what areas they need to focus on to develop their skills and competencies to become better leaders.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders	Concentrix	LEAD Now – Creating Leaders of Tomorrow	Gold	2022	A holistic frontline leadership development program with progressive curriculum relevant to the dynamic business environment with an aim to ensure Concentrix continues to thrive as the employer of choice and keeps staff satisfaction as the top priority.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders	Fonterra Co-operative and JumpShift Development Ltd	Fonterra Leadership Essentials Frontline Leadership Program	Silver	2022	This entry, submitted jointly by Fonterra Co-operative and JumpShift Development Ltd, is called 'Fonterra Leadership Essentials Frontline Leadership Program'. It is about the design, delivery and roll out of a frontline leadership program in Fonterra to support and lift the capability of leaders who are first time supervisors or for those stepping into a role of increased leadership responsibility. Fonterra sought to create a scalable, cost-effective program that added real-time value for it's global frontline workforce based on the latest research in adult development. The successful graduation of 37 cohorts has seen leaders within Fonterra build their confidence, collaboration, performance and capability across the organisation, further tying into the vision of the Co-op to create adaptable leaders to thrive in VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) environments.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders	Ford and Blue Ocean Brain	Breakthrough Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Learning for Manufacturing Frontline Leaders	Bronze	2022	Ford is committed to being an industry leader in providing a diverse and inclusive environment for its workforce. But reaching its large and dispersed frontline manufacturing leadership team with DEI learning content was a challenge, especially during a global pandemic. By partnering with Blue Ocean Brain, Ford was able to build a learning program that would consistently provide its frontline leader workforce with modern, relevant DEI content designed to meet their unique needs and busy schedules and influence change in the workplace.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders	Geotab	Geotab_Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders_Emerging Leader Programs	Bronze	2022	To support Geotab’s new and developing frontline leaders from a business perspective, Geotab’s Human Resources (HR) Vice Presidents (VPs) and Board of Directors (the Board) requested the development of two Emerging Leader programs to grow, develop, and retain the company’s global internal talent.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders	ICICI Lombard and Chrysalis	The Connected Manager	Gold	2022	The Connected Manager is an asynchronous intervention based on the principles of self-paced learning, customized to the needs of ICICI Lombard managers, managing teams in a hybrid environment. In the current form, The Connected Manager has two modules – Manager as a Virtual Coach and The Effective Meeting Manager. Each module counts as a Micro-Certification. The learning journey for both modules was designed into seven phases: • Phase 1 includes the Pre – Assessment and a Context Setting Video • Phase 2 to 5 comprises 4 master classes of 1 hour each, which includes Video Lectures, Readings, Quizzes, Caselets, and My Effectiveness Journal - Toolkit • Phase 6 has the Post – Assessment and the Leaderboard with Completion Certificate for each masterclass • Phase 7 has the Mastery certification which will be awarded based on the result of the overall needle movement in the internal performance and the productivity scores.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders	Landmark group	Game changer	Silver	2022	This entry is submitted by Maxfashion which ia value fashion retailer and part of big conglomerate Landmarkgroup retail . The entry is called as "Gamechanger". It is a carefully designed and curated Frontline leadership program which aims at developing retail acumen for our Store leaders . We had to change mindset and the way of working in this role to adapt them to technological changes and make them ready to lead teams in an VUCA Environment.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders	Monte dei Paschi di Siena and iSapiens and CrossKnowledge	Growing Employees Accountability, the GEA Project	Bronze	2022	Managing a team for the first time is an important step in any career, and involves major changes. As a manager, the main challenge is to make sure other people do things right too. To do this, it is essential to start on the right foot, preparing to be "First Time Manager". Today we need to invest in intangible elements that no longer concern the mere execution of tasks, but the interpretation of roles. We are facing a full "role revolution”: • from tasks to role • from tasks to results • from execution to management • from "what I do" to "why I do it" and "how I do it"
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders	Novartis and Limitless Leadership Limited	M1 Lead the Way - Unleash the Power of Your People	Silver	2022	This entry, submitted by Novartis and Limitless Leadership Limited, is called "M1 Lead the Way - Unleash the Power of Your People". Our entry demonstrates how the M1 Lead the Way program has transformed leadership development of Novartis's frontline leaders over the last 22 years. Novartis believes there is no organizational change without individual change, and self-aware leaders in deep, continuous personal growth drive a positive working climate and culture, and ultimately superior business results. This is why its 20,000 Frontline Leaders play a critical role in driving the Novartis cultural values of inspire, curious, unbossed and integrity across the organization. M1 Lead the Way was designed to increase frontline leader's self-awareness and understand the impact they have on others, focusing on building high performing teams and managing performance. M1 Lead the Way has become a brand name within Novartis and is viewed as vital to Novartis’s leadership development landscape.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders	Panda Restaurant Group	Store Leadership Training Program	Gold	2022	The Store Leadership Training System (SLTS) is designed to support leadership development and retention at Panda Restaurant Group. Over 40,000 operators are eligible to participate in the SLTS. Learners include Front of House roles (e.g.: Counter Help and Shift Leader), Back of House roles (e.g.: Kitchen Help, Cook and Chef), Assistant Manager and General Manager in Training roles. SLTS also provides a clear roadmap for all positions leading to a General Manager role and focuses on both the fundamental skills of restaurant operations and the leadership skills necessary for emerging leaders to be successful.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders	RingCentral and Entelechy	Unleashing Leadership Potential for RingCentral’s Frontline Leaders	Bronze	2022	With a geographically diverse, rapidly growing, and highly innovative workforce, RingCentral needed a standardized and unified approach to developing, coaching, and supporting leaders in order to continue to lead the competitive Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) industry. RingCentral partnered with Entelechy to implement Unleash Your Leadership Potential — first as a blended learning program with in-person workshops and then as an all-virtual learning experience when the global health crisis emerged in spring 2020. By all measures, the program is an incredible success and the program has been instrumental in the organization’s ability to attract, engage, and retain top talent around the world, allowing the organization to continue its high-growth trajectory, including being recognized by workplace culture experts, Comparably, for Best Company Outlook in 2022.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders	SCL Health	Frontline Leader Program Doubles Down With Results	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by SCL Health is called "SCL Health's Frontline Leaders Double Down For Results". Challenged by the organization to align goals and initiatives to the strategic imperatives during a chaotic and demanding time in the world, and especially healthcare, creators of the program sought to meet the needs of the leaders and organization real time. The true collaboration between operational leaders, senior executives, human resources and learning and development was a new opportunity to build upon in-house resources and expertise. The results exceeded expectations and have awakened a thirst to create similar programs throughout the organization.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders	Security Service Federal Credit Union	SSFCU Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders: SSFCU Emerging Leaders Program	Silver	2022	This entry, submitted by Security Service Federal Credit Union, is called "The Emerging Leaders Program". The SSFCU Emerging Leaders program began in 2019 as an annual program with nominations in January, and classes February through November. Throughout the 10-month journey, SSFCU dedicates a safe learning space to help Emerging Leaders maximize their potential. Participants commit to attend all courses, enthusiastically participate, and actively seek to become a better version of themselves. Leaders at SSFCU are the bridge between organizational goals and employees, they are essential in engaging, motivating, and guiding teams to drive business performance. When teams succeed, so do their leaders. The Emerging Leaders program takes these notions to heart– thoughtfully and purposefully designed– and most importantly, culturally-relevant to SSFCU. Program goals are to provide interactive sessions that explore key areas focused on: 1 - Leading Self, 2 - Leading Others, and 3 - Leading the Business.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders	Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and SweetRush	The SHRM People Manager Qualification (PMQ)	Gold	2022	This entry submitted by SHRM and SweetRush is “The SHRM People Manager Qualification (PMQ).” PMQ covers all the responsibilities, tasks, challenges, and opportunities that new frontline leaders face as they transition from being an individual contributor to a manager/supervisor. Inspired by streaming TV-Netflix-Friends, with episodes and seasons rather than modules and lessons, PMQ teaches the 110 behavioral indicators and 27 performance objectives new frontline leaders need to learn, practice, and embrace. PMQ is story-driven with fully developed, relatable and authentic characters. Engagement stays high with interactivity and gamification. PMQ tackles this critically important subject through a 10-hour eLearning journey, is extremely effective, and so highly engaging and enjoyable, it’s bingeworthy! Distributed and sold by SHRM to their 300,000 members, PMQ is leadership development as it should be done; it will be leveraged by thousands of organizations with a profound impact—creating a new standard for online training.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders	TD Bank	Learning in a Rapidly Changing World: Our Journey to Continuous Learning	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by TD Bank is called "Learning in a Rapidly Changing World: Our Journey to Continuous learning". Transforming Leadership training practices within TD's contact center (North American Customer Operations) from classroom based, synchronous learning to independent self-paced learning, anchored in the 70-20-10 model of development. This submission will examine the transformational journey, how TD imagined, designed, developed, and delivered a best-in-class leadership program and transformed the way leaders united to common goals and practices, while making a meaningful impact on the culture of care, growth, and impact.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders	The Warehouse Group and Inspire Group	The Warehouse Group x Inspire Group - Emerge and Evolve	Bronze	2022	This entry, submitted by Inspire Group on behalf of The Warehouse Group, is a transformational leadership program, named ‘Emerge and Evolve’. Initially planned to be delivered entirely face-to-face, COVID-19 instead forced a pivot of delivery to include a blend of virtual and in-person deliverables, both synchronous and asynchronous. With participation by application-only, Emerge and Evolve is about to enter its third year of delivery, with a number of metrics already demonstrating its high level of efficacy.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders	Transamerica and GP Strategies	Leadership Essentials at Transamerica	Bronze	2022	In an important step forward for the learning and development (L&D) organization, Transamerica rolled out an innovative, digitally enabled, multi-modal eight-week leadership development program for all frontline leaders across the company. This program brings much needed skill development and a common leadership language to their broadly dispersed manager population with speed and scale—influencing all leaders in the organization.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders	WarnerMedia	WarnerMedia Management Essentials: Equipping Leaders To Lead Themselves, Lead Teams, & Lead The Business	Silver	2022	This entry, submitted by WarnerMedia, showcases a unique and scaled approach to front line manager development. The program, designed and stood up in under 90 days, introduces a blended learning approach to equip managers with critical and foundational skills for effective leadership. The 11-week global experience is designed to help leaders connect, focus, and empower their teams, while also helping managers thrive amid ongoing change and equip their teams to do the same.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders	Xceedance and Client Centered Consulting Pvt Ltd	Evolve 360 – Building Future Ready People Managers	Bronze	2022	This entry is being submitted by Xceedance along with Client Centered Consulting Pvt. Ltd. and is called 'Evolve 360'. This is a comprehensive 5 month learning journey for first time managers at Xceedance. The program has a 360 degree learning approach focused on developing leadership, functional and operational excellence. It includes a project based curriculum where managers get a chance to work and apply their classroom learnings on real time projects. Evolve 360 was first launched in June 2021 and was well received by the team at Xceedance which led to the successful completion of 4 cohorts so far. The end result was successful retention, creation of bandwidth and development of leadership competencies amongst our first time managers.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program	Accenture	Heart Smart - Unique or Innovative Leadership	Silver	2022	Heart Smart is an emotional intelligence learning journey comprising an EQ assessment, individual virtual debriefs with a certified EQ coach, virtual/local group workshops, individual coaching over a period of 9-12 months. Heart Smart focuses on accelerating emotional intelligence grounded in the EQ-i 2.0 model of Multi Health Systems (MHS) with 8 virtual workshops.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program	Accenture and World Economic Forum and Cognician	Responsible Leadership Challenge	Gold	2022	The Responsible Leadership Challenge (RLC) engages the World Economic Forum’s 10,000+ next generation leaders, inviting them to participate in a five-week series of online, interactive challenges; this provides tangible opportunities to implement responsible leadership behaviours to drive positive impact within their individual organizations, projects and communities. Following on from its successful launch in 2021, this unique and innovative experience was refreshed and improved in 2022, with focus on Global Shapers, a global network of changemakers under 30.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program	Accenture Solutions Private Limited	Agrani – Building Women Leaders at ATCI	Silver	2022	‘Agrani’ is a niche program that was meticulously designed and conceptualized for a specialized group of women executives at Accenture in India to cultivate a leadership mindset, brand-building capabilities, and hone abilities to create client-centric narratives and communicate with impact.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program	Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd	Quantum Leap Program	Silver	2022	Quantum leap is a unique and innovative leadership development program to enable Accenture’s leaders to evolve as a true transformative leader with an ability to deliver in the New, live Accenture’s unwavering commitment to inclusion and care deeply for the people.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program	adidas and Artgym Productions Ltd	Director Development Experience (DDE)	Gold	2022	This entry submitted by adidas and artgym is called “Director Development Essentials” (DDE). DDE is an intensive, 4-6 month self-driven learning experience, providing adidas Directors with practical tools and skills that can be applied in their day-to-day roles. Inspired by sport, and with the adidas Leadership Framework at its core, DDE enables Directors to execute adidas’ strategy and drive their winning culture by building and leading inclusive, high performing teams. The link between people and performance is crucial to adidas’ culture and strategy. DDE is a strategic, intensive learning experience linked to both people and performance. DDE is split into three distinct experiences: Mindset, Practice and Performance. DDE’s notable innovations are: encouraging participants to seek insights from the outside-in, creating a real opportunity to lead their team through continuous change and to teach others via a “TED-talk” like showcase in a public arena at the end of the program.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program	Allstate and Powers Resource Center LLC	Elevate Virtual Leadership Program.	Bronze	2022	This entry, submitted by Allstate and Powers Resource Center, LLC, is called "Elevate Virtual Leadership Program" It is a six module, eLearning and roundtable learning journey that focuses on how to lead your team effectively in a remote environment. The modules include professionally recorded videos from internal SME's and incorporates custom content and tools to help Allstate leaders manage this major transition and support their transformative growth plan. Creation of the program took place following focus group with close to 200 employees and leaders to determine the greatest need for learning and development. The program is being offered to over 1500 Claims leaders at Allstate with great results and high engagement levels. The end result is a SCORM-compliant eLearning program with facilitated Leader Round Table discussions by Allstate trainers to help leaders share best practices and how they are implementing their new skills.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program	American Association of Critical-Care Nurses and SweetRush	Fundamental Skills for Nurse Managers	Gold	2022	This entry, “Fundamental Skills for Nurse Managers” is submitted by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) and SweetRush. (More than 500,000 frontline critical care nurses are represented by AACN.) AACN recognized the need for a robust nurse manager leadership development program that prepares nurses to move from being an individual contributor to a leader, especially during the first daunting year of transition. With 16 hours of in-depth eLearning content, chunked into 40 concise, mobile-accessible lessons, the program had to be engaging, hold the learners’ attention, be accessible within their work environment, and speak to them authentically with relevant themes and storytelling. Fundamental Skills for Nurse Managers is an innovative scenario-based leadership program that features relatable avatar-characters and situations, supplemented by branching activities and job aids, and has proven to be remarkably effective! This is leadership training done right!
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program	Anglo American and The Creative Engagement Group (TCEG) and BTS	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Development Program_Connect	Silver	2022	In 2018 Anglo American launched a new purpose, to “reimagine mining to improve people’s lives”, coupled with a new sustainability strategy. This was under the backdrop of wanting to ensure the business was set up to capture the opportunities, and mitigate the challenges, of the future. Coupled with this, the business needed to keep its focus on operational excellence, capital efficiency, and reducing its debt position, a legacy of the commodity price crashes of 2015/16. Central to this success was leadership and an acknowledgement that “what got us here, won’t get us there”; a fundamental shift in leadership behaviors and capabilities was needed. A key layer of high-potential talent in the business was identified. These are individuals with the potential to take on senior level roles in the near future. This presented an opportunity for Anglo American to target and nurture this population, thus the “Connect” program was born.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program	Bayer and SweetRush and Third Factor	Rise & Thrive: A Unique Leadership Experience Exclusively for Bayer’s Leaders	Silver	2022	This entry, “Rise & Thrive,” is submitted by Bayer, SweetRush, and Third Factor. The “new normal” of remote/hybrid work descended on Bayer leaders; they needed help! New skills, behaviors, and mindset shifts were required. L&D recognized that learning also needed a “new normal” that had to be engaging, innovative, and dynamic. Rise & Thrive is a one-of-a-kind leadership program, built from the ground up, unlike anything seen before at Bayer. It features the foundations of habit-building: triggers, actions, and reflection on outcomes; TED Talk-style videos, Spotify playlists, weekly ‘curiosity’ dares, Yoda, and Mr. Miyagi. Bayer and SweetRush collaborated to create a fresh, relevant, and impactful leadership program that’s a model for effective microlearning—with a 94% NPS score and glowing reviews from leaders!
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program	BNY Mellon	BNY Mellon Risk & Compliance Executive Development Program	Gold	2022	To actively develop a diverse senior leadership team and inclusive culture for the Risk & Compliance (R&C) division, the R&C People Experience & Development team created the R&C Executive Development Program to provide experiential learning, education and exposure opportunities to rising, high-potential Director-level leaders. The program is unique in that it also influences culture from the top of the house by providing parallel education to the current R&C Executive Leadership Team to strengthen their mindsets on diversity, equity and inclusion. Now selecting it's third cohort, the program is seen as a model for other programs like this across BNY Mellon and is achieving its targeted outcomes.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program	BP	Leading in Operations	Gold	2022	Leading in Operations (LiO) breaks new ground for bp. It is the first leadership development program in bp to develop a comprehensive curriculum of leadership behaviours and content across all of bp's operations. A leadership development programme specifically built by operators for operators, it demonstrably improves operational leadership behaviours and is building a strong bp ops community. Using a blended mix of delivery that fits the unique operating environment of the participants it includes online learning, face to face events, coaching throughout the program, peer reflection, real life projects and practical problem solving. Importantly behaviour change is maintained beyond the duration of the programme through ongoing support into sustain. In the short time LiO has been available it has generated pull from the line, creating a strong brand that has seen uptake beyond the original target audience.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program	Capgemini and SweetRush	Connected Manager	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Capgemini and SweetRush, is called “Connected Manager.” After the 2020 pivot to virtual work, Capgemini’s middle managers found themselves leading international, multicultural teams—overnight. As the face and heart of Capgemini for their teams, these managers needed to learn how to engage, motivate, and retain their people in the new normal of hybrid and remote work. Connected Manager is a unique and innovative leadership development program designed to help managers engage and connect with their teams. Connected Manager prioritizes human connection and shifts mindsets while delivering a highly scalable leadership program. Relevant, high-impact content and hands-on live practice sessions with gamified, interactive branching scenarios prepare learners to lead a change that transforms their teams—and the business. Through teamwork, rituals, and interactive microlearning content, Connected Manager helps Capgemini’s learners experience connected, collaborative teamwork in a fresh, personalized, and exciting way—a bright spot of camaraderie and connection.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program	Cognizant	Early Career Talent Bootcamp	Gold	2022	A first of a kind Bootcamp designed for new associates joining Cognizant from technology schools. The program is designed to help new associates develop a deep sense of belonging for Cognizant and feel confident to create and deliver value for their stakeholders.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program	Comerica Bank	Comerica Bank, Year of Development-Driving Your Development	Bronze	2022	The 2021 Year of Development was an impactful, effective, and low-cost employee development program that provided frequent themed and targeted self-development communication and resources to managers and employees. The efforts resulted in increased learning hours consumed per employee and improved employee engagement scores.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program	Cross River Bank	Cross River Leadership summit	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Cross River Bank is called the Leadership Summit. It was created for all different levels of leadership and designed into three distinct events to bring together a group of leaders/managers that offer extensive opportunities to strengthen their internal networking, reflect on their leadership roles, clarify their responsibilities as a manager, enhance their teambuilding efforts, and engage with various levels of leadership, including executives of the company. This offsite Summit was a full day experience that concluded with presentations to an executive panel.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program	Grant Thornton LLP	Market Mover Program - Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Grant Thornton LLP, is called Market Mover Program. Using a goal-based learning approach, the Market Mover Program enhances Grant Thornton leaders’ ability to forge long-term relationships with C-Suite and Board decision-makers. This unique approach intentionally limited traditional facilitation and discussion and instead placed participants in the position of having to learn in real-time in front of client executives through interactions and immediate feedback. Across a series of experiential sessions, real C-Level decision-makers (CEOs, CFOs and COOs) are employed to provide coaching, feedback and critique of participants’ leadership abilities in real-time, based on live meeting interactions. The end result is a highly credible and engaging program that disrupted the status quo to accelerate a mindset shift and behavior change amongst the firm's leadership to be more client-focused.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program	Hyland	CAMPfire Community	Silver	2022	The Hyland Learning and Development Team is proud to submit the CAMPfire Community Program. This program is Hyland's informal, continuing education program for leaders. It was born out of need, but quickly gained the insight, devotion and support from leaders company wide. The program offers leaders the opportunity to select their own journey for development with asynchronous learning focused on leadership competencies; along with live events customized to company initiatives and leadership trends; as they discover the value in connecting and sharing with other Hyland leaders across the departments and the globe.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program	ICICI Lombard and Chrysalis	The Connected Manager	Gold	2022	The Connected Manager is an asynchronous intervention based on the principles of self-paced learning, customized to the needs of ICICI Lombard managers, managing teams in a hybrid environment. In the current form, The Connected Manager has two modules – Manager as a Virtual Coach and The Effective Meeting Manager. Each module counts as a Micro-Certification. The learning journey for both modules was designed into seven phases: • Phase 1 includes the Pre – Assessment and a Context Setting Video • Phase 2 to 5 comprises 4 master classes of 1 hour each, which includes Video Lectures, Readings, Quizzes, Caselets, and My Effectiveness Journal - Toolkit • Phase 6 has the Post – Assessment and the Leaderboard with Completion Certificate for each masterclass • Phase 7 has the Mastery certification which will be awarded based on the result of the overall needle movement in the internal performance and the productivity scores.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program	Imerys and Korn Ferry	Developing emerging leaders in unprecedented times: Agility and technology go hand-in-hand	Gold	2022	Imerys is committed to developing managerial capabilities across all levels and has been offering tailor-made development programs for years. The Imerys Leadership Program (ILP) is a bespoke course blending classroom, online and coaching sessions for our key talent emerging leaders. The mission of the program is to support key talents in a leadership development journey to cultivate their mindset and skills for current and future success within the business and organisational context within which they work. The 2020 cohort was a very particular one as the pandemic hit right before participants could meet for the first time. The Imerys L&D team had to quickly adapt to propose a fully virtual solution so that participants could develop their leadership capabilities another way. vILT sessions and virtual networking were instrumental in delivering a top a the line learning experience under uncontrollable circumstances and a very uncertain future.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program	Infosys	Building the Culture for the Future	Gold	2022	This entry by Infosys, titled the Building the Culture for the Future was designed to enable the senior leaders of the organization to shape and influence the culture of the future. Through a series of interventions, designed to address various facets of the complex change associated with culture transformation, the program has started having a positive impact on the areas identified for strengthening.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program	International Youth Foundation (IYF) and Infopro Learning	IYF SOAR Leadership Camp	Bronze	2022	This entry, submitted by International Youth Foundation (IYF). jointly submitted with Infopro Learning, is called "IYF SOAR Leadership Camp". A short pilot program divided into three modules each focusing on a specific leadership competency that contributes to the overall IYF goal of inspiring and equipping young people to realize the future they want.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program	Medtronic	Ignite Leadership Development Program for High Potential Directors/Sr Directors	Gold	2022	Ignite is an innovative leadership development experience for high potential directors and senior directors. The main objective of the Ignite program is to accelerate the development and readiness of future Vice President roles through an intentional and differentiated development program.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program	Merck & Co. and ?What If! Innovation (part of Accenture)	Merck Rise	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Merck & Co. and ?What If! Innovation, is called "Merck Rise." It is about Rise — a new leadership program for Executive Directors and Associate Vice Presidents at Merck. Through immersive experiences with best-in-class institutions, Merck leaders dive deep into subject matter around Innovation, Leadership, and the Future of Healthcare. The Rise journey pushes leaders to think more creatively, critically, and globally on what it takes to lead Merck tomorrow, while solving real and timely challenges facing the enterprise today.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program	National Association of REALTORS®	REALTOR® L.E.A.D. Courses	Gold	2022	When REALTOR® Leaders enroll in the REALTOR® L.E.A.D. course, they set out on a path to success. Developed by top REALTOR® leaders exclusively for REALTOR® leaders at any stage of their journey, these exciting new courses equip participants with the practical skills, concepts, knowledge, and practices needed for effective association leadership.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program	Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, Limited and GP Strategies	OCBC DARE Programme	Bronze	2022	Built around the Apex Leadership Competencies, the DARE development experience focuses on helping Assistant Vice-Presidents learn the fundamental skills all individuals need to develop an adaptable, sustainable and capable team that is ready for the challenges of the future. The GP Strategies design wraps those tools and skills around powerful, relevant drivers and mindsets that create the urgency and desire to implement new ways of performing their role and beyond.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program	Paylocity	Emerging Leaders Program	Bronze	2022	This entry, submitted by Paylocity, is called the Emerging Leaders Program. This immersive program seeks raw talent with leadership aspirations and invites them to journey through a two-year rotation-based experience that leads to placement in a leadership position. Participants are exposed to hands-on industry experience, leadership development courseware, engagement with senior leadership, and opportunities to drive change by solving real business problems.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program	PepsiCo and Third Thought	Senior Executive Accelerated Leadership Program - Journey to Tap Disruptions	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by PepsiCo, Inc and Third Thought Consulting is called "Journey to Tap Disruptions". It is a leadership learning journey focused on building forward-thinking mindsets and strategic thinking skills. This journey supported the exploration of longer-term trends and enhanced leader’s ability to ‘tap disruption’, envision the future and experiment. Prior to the global pandemic, this type of program would have taken place primarily in face-to-face sessions. Because this entire experience was virtual, it provided the opportunity to take a fresh look at the overall program and design it in a manner that would allow the learners to learn and apply different methodologies as they worked in small groups on four strategic challenges. The end result was a powerful program that delivered actionable insights for the organization.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program	PepsiCo India Holdings Pvt Ltd	General Manager Mindset program	Silver	2022	General Manager Mindset program was designed to enable cross functional business leaders to develop enterprise thinking mindset and to be able to work beyond functional silos like GMs. As India grappled with Covid and inflation, business growth required key leaders to think enterprise wide and the General Manager Mindset Development Program was designed as a 4 day bootcamp for cross functional leaders across make-move-sell value chain .The program focused on Enterprise thinking, Collaboration and networks. Using adult learning principles , the program focused on : 1. real life experience sharing with 12+ Global leaders sharing their GM journeys 2. Simulation and Assessments for reflection 3. Peer Learning through short , practical learning sessions in 60-90 mins sprints. The program was very well received with over 80% positive feedback and expanded networks for all our participants. The program also introduced new digital tools including collaboration tools like Miro , digital summaries.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program	PGIM and Impact	OutLEAD	Gold	2022	OutLEAD is a customized global and cross-business virtual experience to develop leaders across PGIM, to learn how to help others to reach their full potential and deliver on the business strategy. The program came to inception in 2020 to addresses the unique challenges of leading in our current virtual/hybrid work environment. OutLEAD was a new and creative program for PGIM that focused on driving inclusion, innovation and transformation through leadership action in a virtual environment.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program	Rolls-Royce	Leadership Fundamentals & Leadership Progression	Bronze	2022	Leadership Fundamentals and Leadership Progression are creative, blended learning programs for mid-level and senior leaders, designed to instil skills, and to embody the behaviors that will contribute to Rolls-Royce’s future success. This isn’t just a standard, classroom-led, tick-box exercise. Rolls-Royce has completely revitalized its entire global learning experience under its new Leatro brand, plus delivered a highly innovative, experiential Leadership Toolkit to support this program, unlike anything it’s ever developed before.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program	Sigma Chi Leadership Institute	Sigma Chi Leadership Institute's Authentic Leadership Certificate	Gold	2022	Authentic leadership is rooted in an ability to recognize and celebrate passion and purpose that leads to transformational change. In the Sigma Chi Leadership Institute’s (SCLI’s) Authentic Leadership course, students will learn how to apply their core values to everyday situations, actions, and decisions. Gaining a deeper understanding of themselves through a SOCIAL STYLES™ behavioral assessment and the main elements of emotional intelligence, students will assess their talent and aptitude in relation to various leadership opportunities within their community and their careers. The crown jewel of this course is the Authentic Masculinity Workshop, which explores societal norms and expectations regarding masculinity. Throughout this 20-clock-hour course, students will strengthen their capacity for self-management, resiliency, and versatility, ultimately resulting in a more integrated lifestyle and leadership framework.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program	Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and SweetRush	The SHRM People Manager Qualification (PMQ)	Gold	2022	This entry submitted by SHRM and SweetRush is “The SHRM People Manager Qualification (PMQ).” PMQ covers all the responsibilities, tasks, challenges, and opportunities that new leaders face as they transition from being an individual contributor to a leader. Inspired by streaming TV-Netflix-Friends, with episodes and seasons rather than modules and lessons, PMQ teaches the 110 behavioral indicators and 27 performance objectives new leaders need to learn, practice, and embrace in a unique and innovative way. PMQ is story-driven with fully developed, relatable and authentic characters. Engagement stays high with interactivity and gamification. PMQ tackles critically important subject matter through a 10-hour eLearning journey, is extremely effective, and so engaging and enjoyable, it’s bingeworthy! Distributed and sold by SHRM to its 300,000 members, PMQ is leadership development as it should be done; it will be leveraged by thousands of organizations with a profound impact—creating a new standard for online training.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program	Symetra and BTS USA	Leadership Commitments	Gold	2022	Symetra created Symetra Empowers, a strategic vision that defines a path towards long-term success by re-defining Symetra’s relationships with its customers, partners, and employees, as well as the organization’s engagement in the community. The new Leadership Commitments were created in service of Symetra Empowers to help define the behaviors needed to achieve the organization's larger transformational vision. They would serve as an anchor to create a common understanding of what Great Leadership looks like for all employees at Symetra.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program	Syngene International Ltd	Emerging Leaders Development Program (ELDP), Syngene	Bronze	2022	This entry, submitted by Syngene International, is called the 'Emerging Leaders Development Program'. The highlight of the learning program was to fuel professional growth and success through the power of trusted relationships with the senior leaders with a diversified approach to learning in a scientific community. In the Contract Research and Manufacturing organization, which is purely a science company, scaling up a long-term learning program that is just an L&D pureplay could be deterring. Designing a transformative learning journey identified innovative ways of leveraging and scaling up the ‘20%’ from the ‘70-20-10 learning model’ to build leadership capability, to meet organizational goals in a life care and biotechnology (scientific services) space, through the power of coaching and mentoring.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program	Tata Consultancy Services and INSEAD	Strategic Transformation Advisors Program - Elevate Wings 3	Gold	2022	As Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) embarks on the vision to move from being a service provider/ tech partner to being a strategic transformation consultant for its clients, the Talent Development team of the organization, designs and deploys a ‘one-of-its-kind’ leadership endeavour to groom Growth & Transformation leaders from within its ranks. Ivy League University Insead played a crucial role in the design of the program, based on the need laid out by TCS, and brought on some of the top professors to facilitate the Virtual Workshops and Coach participants towards becoming Growth & Transformation Consultants.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program	TCS	360⁰ Inclusive Feedback Leadership Programme – From Feedback to Feedforward	Gold	2022	The entry describes 360⁰ Inclusive Feedback Leadership Programme (360⁰ IFLP), an in-house state-of-the-art leadership capability building process. The 360⁰ IFLP is a mélange of people, processes and technology, aimed to provide every TCS leader with hyper-customized growth and developmental avenues. Covid-19 has redefined the way in which workplaces, and specifically leaders operate. The 360⁰ IFLP will work to develop the leaders of today for tomorrow’s world of work!
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program	TD Bank	Learning in a Rapidly Changing World: Our Journey to Continuous Learning	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by TD Bank is called "Learning in a Rapidly Changing World: Our Journey to Continuous learning". Transforming Leadership training practices within TD's contact center (North American Customer Operations) from classroom based, synchronous learning to independent self-paced learning, anchored in the 70-20-10 model of development. This submission will examine the transformational journey, how TD imagined, designed, developed, and delivered a best-in-class leadership program and transformed the way leaders united to common goals and practices, while making a meaningful impact on the culture of care, growth, and impact.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program	The Estee Lauder Companies	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program - People Leadership Program	Silver	2022	The People Leadership Program is an immersive blended learning journey designed to nurture, invest, and prepare our high-performing leaders with the strengths-based skills needed for success to run, recover, and transform with an eye on the future, all while navigating unprecedented circumstances. This program is inspired by ELC President and CEO Fabrizio Freda’s high performance leadership competencies that enables our strengths-based approach to people development. Each cohort is curated with leaders across brands regions and functions to create a truly global, yet intimate experience that inspires new ways of working together, building common visions, and forming new alliances – to further nurture ELC’s diverse and inclusive culture.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program	The Estee Lauder Companies	Best Advance in Leadership Development_People Leadership Program	Silver	2022	The People Leadership Program is an immersive blended learning journey designed to nurture, invest, and prepare our high-performing leaders with the strengths-based skills needed for success to run, recover, and transform with an eye on the future, all while navigating unprecedented circumstances. This program is inspired by ELC President and CEO Fabrizio Freda’s high performance leadership competencies that enables our strengths-based approach to people development. Each cohort is curated with leaders across brands regions and functions to create a truly global, yet intimate experience that inspires new ways of working together, building common visions, and forming new alliances – to further nurture ELC’s diverse and inclusive culture.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program	The Kraft Heinz Company	Operations Masters	Silver	2022	The purpose of the 2021 Operations Masters program is to support and elevate high performing and high potential site leaders across the globe through personal and professional development in functional capabilities and leadership skills while promoting the company values of “We champion great people” and “We dare to do better every day.” The high-level goals for the program were to increase business acumen, develop critical functional skills, improve leadership skills, and create an opportunity for participants to network with their global peers.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program	TIMEO PERFORMANCE and CrossKnowledge	Unleash the Great Coach within You – Coaching Masterclass	Bronze	2022	After researching and surveying over 200 leaders and managers, Timeo-Performance confirm that a coaching development program, created with Leaders & Managers, for Leaders and Managers is desirable, in demand and would be well received to ‘help the world of work be a better place’.The conditions for success were setup to provide the optimal learning experience throughout the coaching development program, ranging from technology to the excellence and accuracy of learning content and customised motivational Live online classroom sessions.
HCM	Leadership Development	Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program	Tish Robinson, Ph.D., renowned conflict transformation facilitator and professor at Hitotsubashi University of Business in Tokyo and Socratic Arts	Leadership and Team Conflict Transformation	Gold	2022	Leadership and Team Conflict Transformation is a self-paced, online course for managers who want to learn how to facilitate conversations between team members who are in conflict in a way that calms emotions, teases out underlying issues, and empowers disputants to find a mutually agreeable and sustainable solution. The course is optimized for mobile devices and uses observe and critique, modeling, problem-solving, and branching conversations around a series of authentic, cross-cultural dispute conversations. These activities enable learners to examine and apply the 7 Goals of Successful Conflict-Calming Conversations and supporting communication skills and techniques to surface diverse values and approaches to getting work done.
HCM	Leadership Development	Rising Stars	Sententia, Inc	Keith Lillico, Chief of Staff, GamiCon 2022	Bronze	2022	Keith Lillico served as Cheif of Staff for Gamicon, The Gamification Conference for Learning and Development. This is the only conference exclusively for the design and application of Gamification for corporate training, adult learning, employee motivation and productivity, innovation, and culture change. Keith's responsibilities included run-of-show, organizing staff and volunteers, and generally ensure the success of the conference. A completely gamified conference that is headlined by some of the world’s leading gamification strategists, researchers, and solution providers. Come prepared to play full-out as you enter the Wizard’s Academy and work with your guild to “fix” dull-dry, boring training programs. The gamified experience will take place in the real world as well as inside the BLUERABBIT app. Learn and experience gamification at a whole other level. Co-located with Training Magazine’s annual conferences, this event brings together individuals and organizations who seek to create engagement and productive outcomes with gamification.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	A.P Moller Maersk and Xebia	Building Service Reliability Engineering Capability for Maersk	Silver	2022	Maersk’s SRE learning journey is an organization-wide initiative aimed at achieving a culture transformation to improve customer experience, reliability, and business value. A multi-dimensional approach was adopted due to the diversity of audience and expectation of long-term business outcomes. This included utilizing the tried and tested “Prepare – Practice – Perform” methodology and ensuring that the training was tailored to different personas and addressed Maersk specific challenges. Gamification and whiteboards (Miro Board), among other tools were used to increase engagement and involvement. As part of the program, participants were expected to adopt SRE in their platforms which resulted in numerous successful projects with favorable learning and business outcomes. To ensure SRE adoption is sustained, an SRE Community was stood up, as well as reliability guardrails manifesto was established.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Accenture Solutions Private Limited	Accenture Capability Development - APEX Program	Gold	2022	APEX (Adaptive Progression Plan for Empowered Experts) Program is a professional and leadership development program for frontline associates. Its progressive framework is closely intertwined with the employee lifecycle in such a way that there are corresponding learning paths as talents gain tenure in their role. Future ready talents are prescribed standard learning plans while high-potential and high-performing associates go through an apprenticeship program called APEX Pathfinder. After one year of implementation, the cost savings from the program is approximately $370,000.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	adidas and Artgym Productions Ltd	People Leader Essentials (PLE)	Gold	2022	This entry submitted by adidas and artgym is called “People Leadership Essentials” (PLE). PLE is an entirely virtual, highly interactive global learning program which provides emerging leaders with on-demand learning with foundational capabilities to lead at Adidas. Each PLE program focuses specifically on 1 skill. The strategic objective of PLE is to ensure all adidas people leaders develop the people leadership skills and capabilities required to enable teams to succeed and create the adidas winning culture. With a target population of 11,000 emerging leaders at adidas, existing people leadership learning content was concluded not to be tailored enough to meet the target audience’s specific needs and the delivery method felt outdated. The result is a highly engaging program, based on skills that fit the emerging leader audience, a blueprint that enables new skills to be designed, developed and delivered within 4 weeks and a highly scalable delivery mechanism across regions.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Airbnb Inc. and Accenture	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development - A Skills-based Digital Learning Experience for Airbnb’s Claims Partner Ambassadors	Gold	2022	This is a nomination for a program delivered for Airbnb’s Claims organization and its partner organizations involved in Claims processing. It was driven by the need to improve the training efficiency and effectiveness of the Claims workforce. This case study demonstrates how Airbnb’s Learning organization transformed its traditional learning approach of workflow-based learning to digital and skills-based learning using Accenture’s Skills Framework. The program team was successfully able to define skills, identify the critical skills, map skills to proficiencies, create personas, and develop persona-based learning journeys for various Claims personas.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Albaraka Turk Participation Bank	Digital Transformation Training Program	Silver	2022	Albaraka Turk Participation Bank annually holds the Strategy and Vision meeting with the attendance of all the upper-level managers. During the meeting at the beginning of 2021, the main HR focus was decided as the employee's digital competencies and the development of new digital skills. Consequently, Training and Career Management Department declared 2021 as the Digital Transformation year and designed the Digital Transformation Training Program. To this end, a special project team was established to create the bank's digital competency map and to determine the new training paths to upskill, reskill and close the skill gaps.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	American Diabetes Association and American Heart Association and SweetRush	Know Diabetes by Heart™	Bronze	2022	This entry, “Know Diabetes by Heart™” is submitted by the American Heart Association, the American Diabetes Association, and SweetRush. When treating patients living with type 2 diabetes (more than 500 million adults worldwide), health care professionals have traditionally “stayed in their lane”, focusing on their specialty only. A shift to a new, holistic approach to treating the whole patient was needed to address both diabetes and its associated ailments—but this requires both a change and advance in the competencies and skills of health care professionals. Two world-renowned non-profits—the American Heart Association (AHA) and the American Diabetes Association (ADA) came together, along with vendor-partner SweetRush—to create the Know Diabetes by Heart™ initiative, which upskills health care professionals to embrace a new way of treating patients. Tailored to busy health care learners, this creative, multi-faced, and engaging program exceeded expectations and continues to save and improve many lives!
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Ameriprise Financial	4Cs of Service Culture	Silver	2022	The 4Cs of Service Culture at Ameriprise promote a cultural shift in bringing the customer’s perspective to the forefront of daily work and emphasizing the role of service as a competitive advantage. The skills outlined in the 4Cs framework and the strategically designed learning experiences drive the outcomes needed by stretching learners beyond standard soft skills to a comprehensive experience-engineering approach to service. Contact Center teams are provided dynamic, engaging practice opportunities that create a strong foundation for continued skill development on the job and through robust leader coaching practices. Results have been overwhelming positive from top-tier Net Promoter Scores by employees to significant improvements in Voice of Customer metrics to three consecutive years of J.D. Power Contact Center Certification.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	ASELSAN	ASELSAN Learning Journeys	Gold	2022	ASELSAN Learning Journeys are a structured, social and collaborative learning programs integrated with ASELSAN competency set.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Bank of America	Technology and Operations Colleges (GT&O University) Skill Plans for Career Mobility	Gold	2022	Various internal tools and content support career development and learning. However, the roles, skills, and learning are not always fully aligned for ease of use, optimal development impact, and career mobility for managers and team members. With that in mind, the GT&O University program team began work on Skill Plans – to support the skill practitioners who seek a deeper proficiency in the practical application of a skill.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Bank of America	Financial Advisor Advanced Planning Training	Gold	2022	The mission of the Financial Advisor Advanced Planning program is to deliver a best-in-class educational experience to the experienced financial advisor population. This is accomplished by implementing a scalable training model to increase speed to market for coaching and education sessions. Created a scalable model to increase speed to market for coaching and education sessions supporting our experienced financial advisor population as needs are identified. This model will continue to be utilized for other populations within the Enterprise in 2022 and forward as the new standard to support an adaption of micro learning for in role development training.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Bayer AG	Bayer AG - O2C Capability Framework	Silver	2022	Within 6 months (June- Dec 2020) the Bayer global ‘Order to Cash’ (‘O2C’) team created and launched an O2C Capability Framework, deploying a Strategic Workforce Planning methodology to identify skill gaps in the organization. The framework has the O2C 2023 strategy at its core, supported by information and data collected through external industry benchmarks plus interviews with key stakeholders within O2C and partner functions. Over the subsequent 6 months (Jan-June 2021), the O2C Academy was also developed and launched, as a one-stop-shop for functional learning.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Bayer AG, Crop Science division, and BTS Germany GmbH	Competency Development at Bayer Crop Science	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by BTS and Bayer Crop Science is called "Competency Development at Bayer Crop Science". It is about the conception and execution of a global Commercial Portal for the Sales, Marketing and Market Development departments with which we want to enhance Commercial employee expertise by equipping them with relevant, transparent and easy to access Commercial information and capabilities incl. people capabilities, frames and tools, across functions. It is tailored for various Commercial functions that have been identified as a result of this process and help Bayer Crop Science's employees on the job in the moment of need.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Borusan Mannesmann	Maintenance Development Program	Gold	2022	Maintenance Development Program develops mechanical maintenance and electrical maintenance competencies for our current and new maintenance employees.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Canada Post Corporation and LCI LX	Human Resources Business Partner Foundational Development Training Program	Silver	2022	Looking to fill in the learning gap described by Canada Post Corporation’s newly appointed HRBPs, this training solution provided practical information on the new learners’ roles, responsibility and expectations, and stimulated their engagement for the job, successfully bringing down the voluntary turnover associated with the job. The 5.5-hour long solution offers a blend of newly designed responsive, web-based learning micromodules, high-end motion design animation videos, real-life context scenario-based simulation, in addition to repurposing existing learning material from Canada Post Corporation. Since it has been deployed, the training program already helped improve the retention rate of HRBPs, and has collected a high level of positive response from its target audience, when surveyed.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	CAP Youth Empowerment Institute and EI Design Pvt Ltd	Lead the Change: An Online Training On Life Skills	Bronze	2022	Lead the Change, is a multi-level online game, designed specifically for out-of-school youth to achieve basic life skills and ensure success at internships or work opportunities. Designed on the principles of human-centered learning, the youth’s mission in this game is to become qualified social workers who will make a big difference in society by achieving the ‘Counsellor of the Year’ award at the Lead the Change foundation. The overall program focus lies in truly developing skills and competencies of the youth to make them employable.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Cardinal Health	Cardinal Health's ICON Learning Transformation	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Cardinal Health is called ICON Learning Transformation. ICON (Intelligent Care Order Network) is the name of our new user-friendly system Edgepark used for order intake & processing. This technology will create a transparent and efficient experience for customers – helping inform them, and the agents, where their order is in the process and when it will be delivered in an accurate and consistent way. The ICON Learning Transformation is a performance-based training approach allowing employees to demonstrate, or perform, specific functional role competencies in a manner that aligns and supports the organization’s goals and metrics.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	CEVA Logistics	CEVA LOGISTICS BLUE COLLAR DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM	Gold	2022	This application describes Blue-Collar Development Program, which is a competency based development program for blue collar employees as the backbone of all mission and operations of CEVA Logistics. The program was executed during pandemic period with an agile delivery method which is “Training in the Pocket” micro learning tool through sms messagging. It brought about highly successful business results in terms of Company KPIs and employee engagement.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Cigna and TTA (The Training Associates)	The Art of Storytelling: Learning to Give Incredible Presentations	Silver	2022	Cigna partnered with TTA to transform the way presentations were created and delivered across the organization. Together, TTA and Cigna leveraged one of TTA’s expert instructional design and learning strategy teams to develop a customized and comprehensive presentation skills program that brought their presentations to the next level by incorporating the art of storytelling. TTA developed a solution that left team members with real, tangible skills and the knowledge of how to apply these skills on-the-job. Not only did Cigna and TTA develop an engaging storytelling program, but also established a storytelling methodology for learners to build stories and a self-explanatory tool to help them apply this methodology. This program transformed the way Cigna team members communicated through presentations and produced overwhelmingly positive results and feedback across the entire organization.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Cisco	Written Communication Program - Changing the Lens on Technical Documentation Deliverables	Silver	2022	The Written Communication Program delivered across multiple tracks, has successfully trained around 535 + engineers in last couple of years, in the CX organization and contributed in kicking in the behavioral/skillset change in the engineers. The program helps change the perspective with which engineers from non-native English-speaking countries write technical documentation deliverables for their customers. These multi-day, instructor-led workshops are designed with the Cisco 4E model of continuous learning in mind and help to support the cohesive alignment towards ONEx strategy of customer delivery excellence. The workshops are innovative and completely experiential in nature, putting theory into practice through face-to-face role playing, break-out sessions with real-time feedback and peer-to-peer correction mechanism conducted via group discussions. The ongoing popularity of the program is a result of its high applicability in the learners' job roles, even when the learners come from disparate verticals and theaters within the whole of the CXC function.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Cisco and MPS Interactive Systems	EXCELerate	Bronze	2022	Helping technical experts at Cisco adopt a consultative mind-set and to build a pipeline for senior technical talent within the Customer Experience organization.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Clover Health and Hone	Clover Health's Manager Accelerator Program - Accelerated by Hone	Gold	2022	This entry focuses specifically on Clover Health's Management Acceleration program, which supports frontline people managers as they navigate their role as managers and leaders at Clover Health to become better, more engaging and more inclusive people managers. Developing a program targeting managers at three key levels (associate manager, manager, and senior manager) across the enterprise is tied closely to organizational objectives because managers at these levels are responsible for leading the majority of Clover’s employee population. Up-skilling this important cohort of managers in human skills was identified last year by leadership as one of Clover Health's critical success factors for future growth. Hone helped Clover Health build their inaugural Management Acceleration program that will expand to more learners in 2023.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Cognizant	Accelerate Accreditation Model (A2M) for FSE	Gold	2022	A unique model that empowers learners in the Full stack Engineering (FSE) community to swiftly achieve accreditations within a short span of time through a gamification approach, thereby enhancing the quantity and quality from the enablement offerings.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Cognizant	Master Data Management (MDM) Capability Development Program	Gold	2022	Master Data Management (MDM) - Capability Development program is the first of its kind program to build MDM capability within the organization. This program was built with an objective to develop a joint learning strategy to orchestrate a strong partner engagement model, maximize the number of MDM Practitioners/Architects and elevate the partner ranking of Cognizant as one of the top GSI in the Global MDM Ecosystem.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Cognizant	HUDDLE - Hire, Upskill, Develop, Deploy, Learn and Engage	Silver	2022	HUDDLE is one-of-a-kind program designed to upskill and deploy associates hired in their primary or foundational (N-1 / N-2) skillsets for niche and super niche technologies including data engineering, data analytics, master data management and data science areas in the Data+ practice. HUDDLE is an Academy-designed comprehensive training program spanning four to six weeks that helped upskill associates and filling open positions for 119 customers.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Cognizant	Internet of Things Skill and Competencies Development	Gold	2022	Internet of Things is expected to grow at 23% as predicted by IDC. It is imperative for businesses to work closely with system integrators to plan, deploy and manage initiatives. Hence a robust and comprehensive framework was created for Hyperscale’s, Solution providers and Next Gen IoT partners to build the right talent pool of associates aligning to market/client demands.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Cognizant Technology Solutions and Learnship Networks GmbH	Elevated to Success: Achieving Language Proficiency Through Customized Training	Gold	2022	Learnship and Cognizant Digital Business Operations (DBO Life Sciences) jointly present "Elevated to Success: Achieving Language Proficiency Through Customized Training”, an online, trainer-led business language program in (French, German and Spanish), customized to the learners’ needs and objectives and adapted to include industry and business specific content that's particularly relevant for the individual learners leading to B2 CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) level proficiency. The customized material made the lessons even more engaging, allowing the students to learn through industry specific content that they have started interpreting at work for a leading biopharmaceutical company.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Colgate-Palmolive Company and Avado	Digital & Data Acceleration Program	Gold	2022	As part of its 2025 Digital Transformation Strategy, Colgate implemented an 18-month organization-wide upskilling program to become more digital and data-driven in everything it does. Its initiatives are impacting media, marketing, commerce and ROIs, driving results to ignite growth and future-proofing Colgate’s people, talent and brands to grow in the digital age.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Dartmouth Health and Qstream	How Microlearning Helped Nurses Reduce Serious Glucose Events in a Rural Academic Health System	Gold	2022	This entry submitted by Qstream and Dartmouth Health shares "How Microlearning Helped Nurses Reduce Serious Glucose Events in a Rural Academic Health System ." Dartmouth Health enlisted the help of Qstream’s microlearning and knowledge reinforcement solution to improve diabetes management among their nursing staff. The month-long pilot led to a 25.1% increase in proficiency, a 66% reduction in nursing administration errors that contributed to serious glucose events and garnered overwhelmingly positive reviews from participants.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Dell Technologies	Dell Technologies Cloud Services Management	Silver	2022	Cloud Services Management in an expert level 5-day course in Dell’s Proven Professional Cloud Architect Certification track. The course is designed to provide technology professionals the knowledge and skills necessary to plan and design for robust cloud services and to prepare for the expert-level certification exam.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Dell Technologies and NIIT-Stackroute	DellEMC TechEdge: Engineering and Services	Bronze	2022	Dell Technologies is among the world’s leading technology companies helping to transform people’s lives with extraordinary capabilities. From hybrid cloud solutions to high-performance computing to ambitious social impact and sustainability initiatives, it impacts everyone, everywhere. “TechEdge” is a flagship learning initiative designed for mid-career technologists and shape them into technology leaders who can inspire younger technical talent and become thought leaders in future. Dell Leaders with StackRoute Experts designed and delivered a 7–8-month technical competence development program for high potentials identified in Dell Engineering and Dell Services streams. Focussed on improving technical Subject Matter Expertise (design, architecture, software Engg, and creating innovative solutions), Social and Consulting Skills and Orientation (customer and results-orientation, complex problem solving and reasoning ability, communication and presentation skills) and Leadership skills (setting direction, collaboration across virtual teams, business acumen).
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Deloitte LLP	BEAN – Social Intelligence Gamified	Silver	2022	Cross collaboration across all businesses including Consulting, Audit & Assurance, Tax and Risk and Financial Advisory highlighted strengthening one’s own Emotional Intelligence as a top imperative behavior at Deloitte. Making meaningful human connections was identified as a key success factor so it was important to build a scalable and virtual program that focuses on behaviors that personify the theme “Relationship Management” as well as address empowered well-being. The program focuses on the concept of Emotional Intelligence as a foundational building block and uses a gamified approach to reinforce the learning and to personalize the experience.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Deloitte LLP	ReadyAI – Certified to Serve Learning Program	Gold	2022	The ReadyAI – Certified to Serve Learning Program is aimed at upskilling practitioners under the AI & Data Operations business vertical and prepare them for any pipeline projects in the ReadyAI technology spectrum.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Deloitte LLP	Risk & Financial Advisory Upskilling and Cloud Certification Cohorts	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Deloitte, is called "Risk & Financial Advisory Upskilling and Cloud Certification Cohorts". Deloitte Risk & Financial Advisory (Advisory) launched its Cloud Certification cohort program in response to an upskilling need identified by Advisory leadership in 2021. The cohorts provide a guided learning program to certify up to 3,400 professionals by June 2022.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Deloitte LLP	Leadership X - Next Gen Leadership Program	Gold	2022	Leadership X-Next Gen Leadership is a virtual, instructor-led leadership competency development program, offered to tenured Tax Seniors who have spent at least 2 years at their job level. The program focuses on developing four identified leadership competencies: Self-Mastery, Learning Agility, Accountability, and Client-Centricity. These competencies align with five strategic business levers (Lead, Own, Grow, Innovate, Connect) of Deloitte Tax LLP’s business. Through this program, targeted learners can: - Develop their authentic leadership style and personal brand - Create SMART/courageous leadership development goals - Use strategies and techniques to build collaboration and connections within their teams and network - Practice techniques to become an effective team leader and business partner - Identify ways of creating a culture of accountability and client centricity. At the end of the program, learners create and present their unique actionable “Leadership Vision Statement” which they can apply on the job.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Deloitte LLP	GPS Engagement Economics	Silver	2022	In response to a gap in Government Public Services practitioners' understanding of how to effectively manage and impact engagement revenue, a scalable delivery model and virtual update of an existing in-person Engagement Economics course was developed. The live learning was turned into a virtual learning for easier nation-wide access. Faculty for the course was increased by 500% and classes were offered 1-2 times a week for 6 months and then transitioned to bi-weekly when market saturation peaked. During this 6 month period, the learning team hosted 52 offerings and trained over 1,100 practitioners across Deloitte, with facilitators providing over 2,000 hours of learning.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Equifax and Richardson Sales Performance	Building a Customer-First Organization with a Unified Sales Methodology	Bronze	2022	This entry, submitted by Richardson Sales Performance, is called "Building a Customer-First Organization with a Unified Sales Methodology." It's the story of transforming one of the top four largest consumer credit reporting agencies from a product-driven organization to a customer-first organization by delivering a more customized experience to the customer. A project of this scale was daunting because the company consists of so many segments, each of which includes various professional titles. The program consisted of focusing on the critical structure of a sales conversation and customer meetings and transforming the traditional role of a leader from being the expert who directs and tells to being a coach who inspires increased self-motivation to learn and improve results. The sum of these efforts was progress towards building the company’s “customer-first growth model” designed to put greater focus on serving the specifics of the customer’s needs.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Ernst & Young Global Limited (EYG)	Global Supply Chain & Operations Learning & Development Curriculum	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Ernst & Young Global Limited (EYG), is called the Global Supply Chain & Operations Learning & Development Curriculum. It details the design and development of the curriculum. Creation of the curriculum was driven by a need to provide consistent, consumable core learning to more than 3,000 global professionals in the EY SC&O team but also needed to to keep pace with the changing needs of clients quickly. The result is a broad and deep training program covering all aspects of SC&O to facilitate consistency and speed at getting people knowledgeable and onboarded on EY supply chain concepts, tools and techniques.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	F. Hoffmann - La Roche	Developing Competencies on Effective Collaborative Capabilities	Gold	2022	A self-formed and self-managed team from a business identified the need to develop collaborative capabilities for 13.000 employees in 110 countries. The capabilities identified are highly correlated with high-performers and they are consistently promoted by top-performing organizations. The team could also identify those capabilities that were used by 200 of the top-performing collaborators. A clear business case demonstrated the benefits of developing those capabilities.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Galardi Group Inc. and Upside Learning Solutions	Accuracy Trainer	Bronze	2022	Wienerschnitzel, founded in 1961 by John Galardi, is the world’s largest hot dog chain. Wienerschnitzel wanted to improve the accuracy of their staff at all the Wienerschnitzel stores, both for the orders they process and the subsequent processes that they have to follow to maintain standards. Wienerschnitzel partnered with Upside Learning to develop an accuracy game to address this requirement. The result was an engaging learning game which offered an opportunity to improve accuracy through repeated practice.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Google	Sales Excellence Program	Gold	2022	The Sales Excellence Program is a new function developed to create specialism and focus on sales coaching and practice. The team was built due to a gap in our sellers' understanding of business objectives and meeting effectiveness, resulting in hundreds of ineffective meetings occuring every single day in the U.S. alone. To address this, the Sales Excellence team was established with a mission to create a culture of coaching and practice rooted in the Google Way of Selling (Google’s sales methodology) and the Google Way of Sales Coaching (Google’s coaching methodology). As a result, the program has already delivered over 500 coaching sessions. 96% of sellers report increased confidence to drive an effective meeting and report multiple 7-8 figure deals that have been strongly influenced by partnership with the Sales Excellence team. The effort has been so successful that it is already expanding within the Americas and across the globe.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	HP and Accenture	Partner Skill Development	Gold	2022	HP University is supporting HP’s channel partners to move from transactional sales to contractual sales by enabling their employees with soft skills required for smooth transition.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	HSBC Electronic Data Processing India Pvt Ltd	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Gold	2022	With significant changes in the global financial sector technology has reshaped the expectations of customers. The need to be nimble, customer friendly and extremely cost conscious is driving this sector. In that context, Learning and talent Development has also been exploring ways of large transformation in both the operations end and the technology end of the bank. The need in retaining top talent and upskilling/reskilling our people manager for the future of work is becoming emergent. To address the critical need of developing People Manager capability, Keystone 3.0 was launched to support HSBC Strategy “Energising for Growth” and upskill 7000+ people managers across 7 countries.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Hy-Vee and Infopro Learning	Apples to Zucchini - Produce from A to Z	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Hy-Vee , jointly submitted with Infopro Learning, is called "Apples to Zucchini - Produce from A to Z". An engaging and gamified training program to support the task-based onboarding of new hires before they are ready to attend customers. These new hires include Produce Clerks and Produce Personal Shoppers at Hy-Vee stores across US. There are six gamified modules across the 18 categories and 185 products with multiple varieties across those categories.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Istanbul Grand Airport	Turkish Hospitality	Gold	2022	Culturally, great attention is paid to guests, hospitality and hospitality in Turkey. All personnel in the Turkish Hospitality Training Program live and share the culturally felt duty of welcoming visitors. Istanbul Grand Airport Turkish Hospitality Training Program has: - a general presentation, - 3 separate customized trainings, - case studies of the unit's activities, - mentoring field leaders and - a structure that works together with an on-site control mechanism for each individual. Internal trainers based in each unit will keep the curriculum relevant and supervise it. In-service trainers are trained from within our stakeholders (about 3200 persons who do not work directly for IGA but serve in the same location) and the continuity is supervised on-site. There are five pillars to the training curriculum. 1) Preparation/Cleaning 2) Welcoming 3) Care/Interest 4) Treat 5) Send-off.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Jindal Stainless Ltd. and Emergence Learning Solutions Pvt Ltd	Best Advance in competencies and Skill Development_Aspire & Achieve	Bronze	2022	The Aspire & Achieve is a blended journey which began with a strong belief in building the core capabilities of Jindal Stainless Ltd Associate/Deputy Managers and culminated with a life-long learning experience for the future. Enhance proficiency levels on the three competencies to emphasize career growth and establishing a common language and expression of Jindal Stainless were two major outcomes of this program. Aspire & Achieve was designed with a fine blend of human experience, learner’s psychology, and technology, and balanced with learner’s centric design and engaging instructor-led facilitation. It produced qualitative and quantitative Return on Expectation and Return on Investment (ROI).The learning experience must be simple, engaging, effective, and applicable to real-life situations. Always tie a learner's work life to their learning experience so that they can relate to it, feel connected to it, and learn better and faster.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Kaiser Permanente	Creating an Ethics and Compliance Professional Development Program	Silver	2022	Kaiser Permanente’s Ethics and Compliance Professional Development Program (ECPDP) aligns with the department’s Strategic Agenda to provide a holistic framework for individual and professional performance, to drive organizational performance, and to enable resilient, innovative, and engaged professionals. With the goal of elevating the employee experience to achieve success, the Ethics and Compliance Professional Development Program starts before the first day of an employee’s employment and continues throughout their career within the Ethics and Compliance Program leveraging self-guided, peer directed, and community driven activities to increase professional competency.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Majid Al Futtaim	Embracing Analytics & Technology at Majid Al Futtaim	Gold	2022	This award submission demonstrates the effectiveness of a group-wide Analytics & Technology program called DIGITAL EMBRACE. It has replaced an IN-CLASS delivered prior to COVID-19 being declared a global pandemic. Despite reservations around the effectiveness of a purely digital program, DIGITAL EMBRACE proved to be a success across all impact dimensions outlined in this submission.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Marico Limited and Enparadigm Performance Solutions	Lead with Impact: Young Leader Program	Silver	2022	Fourth year of the transition program for first time managers at Marico Limited, to coach them on competencies crucial to their new role. Conducted across their India, Vietnam, Bangladesh and Middle East teams, this is a blended learning journey with batch sizes of 25-30 undergoing a focused mandate for a twelve month period.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	McKinsey & Company	Reimagining the Strategy and Corporate Finance New Hire Program	Silver	2022	The revamped New Hire Program (NHP) is a highly technical, blended learning program that helps new Strategy & Corporate Finance consultants develop critical skills to measure, maximize, and articulate value creation, that they can immediately apply in their day-to-day work. The redesigned program provides a modular, scalable learning experience that aligns with evolving needs and strategic growth goals, and also provides important flexibility for the learning organization to pivot seamlessly from virtual to in-person delivery and back again. The team leveraged scaffolding and insights from cognitive neuroscience and cognitive psychology, such as John Medina’s Brain Rules, to develop an improved learning design that results in increased learner competence and helps faculty excel as facilitators.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	McKinsey & Company	Digital & Analytics (DnA) Growth Master Class	Gold	2022	The DnA Growth Master Class is a four-day interactive learning program created to upskill McKinsey employees on the highly complex technical skills of digital and analytics in marketing and sales to unlock growth, as a response to a significant increase in client work demand in this area. The learning program creates an immersive client environment where participants can safely experiment with real client challenges via a state-of-the-art business simulation supported by an extensive social ecosystem, on-demand e-learning, instructor-led training, immersive interactive tool demos, web-based learning and multimedia content. The program has been completed by more than 250 colleagues to date, receiving very positive end user feedback, high delivery efficiency, and has met McKinsey’s business goal to significantly grow the talent pool of experts in DnA Growth.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Merck	Clinical Trial Project Management	Gold	2022	Clinical Trials Project Management – This programme was developed to be delivered at pace and scale to enhance the organization's performance in relation to the management of key milestones within its Clinical Trials. The end goal was to shorten the time of this trials and bring medicines to the patient sooner.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Merck	Clinical Site Partnership	Gold	2022	Clinical Site Partnership Project has been developed “to increase levels of engagement across key clinical trial sites (Hospitals) to deliver innovative clinical research through sustained collaboration”. This learning and development programme focused on the development and enhancement of key skills to increase levels of collaboration and continuous improvement.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Merck Animal Health and The Summit Group	Key Account Management Curriculum / Learning Program	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Merck Animal Health jointly with The Summit Group, is for a new learning program on Key Account Management. In response to the shift of customer and market conditions, this program was created to proactively develop best-in-class Key Account Management (KAM) capabilities, adapted to the virtual/hybrid environment resulting from the impact of Covid. The curriculum leverages a proven and distinguished KAM program, tailored to Merck Animal Health’s culture & environment, and delivered via an adapted blended learning (“flip learning”) approach which allowed for accelerated roll out and scale, and sales organization engagement and acceptance. The curriculum incorporates live virtual training sessions, on demand learning, manager coaching and best practice sharing.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	MetLife and NIIT	MetLife Distribution Academy: Transforming how the Salesforce Works, Learns, and Performs	Silver	2022	The Distribution Academy is tasked with leading and coordinating the efforts to ‘raise the bar’ on distribution capability to address strategic imperatives, business priorities and strengthen MetLife’s distribution advantage.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Nova Space Inc. and Allen Interactions	Nova Space Professional Development Program	Bronze	2022	Nova Space and Allen Interactions developed the first space educational program designed for all learners, bridging the global space industry gaps by offering virtual, asynchronous, and interactive courses to individuals and to organizations. This program was designed to train effectively and efficiently, in large numbers, the space workforce of the future.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Novartis	Capability building program on Data Insights through Visual Exploration and Storyboarding (DIVES)	Bronze	2022	This entry summited by Novartis. DIVES is a capability development initiative intended to upskill TDMs and PDMs. The idea of DIVES was conceptualized in Q4’2019, and the core team was formed including members from Global development university and Data Management. There were focused groups discussion conducted for participants, participant’s managers & Stakeholders to understand the real time challenges faced by Data quality team. This is a skill-building program which was tailor-made to DM by using adult learning techniques and simulation experience by using real time case studies. We used gamification tools for learner’s engagement and Q stream tool (focus on reinforcement to retention of Knowledge, Information & Skills and leads to Job Proficiency) and learning bytes for knowledge refresher. Participants were part of learning communities to encourage peer learning. There were pre and post surveys and assessments to assess skills gaps and then measure the skills enhancement post the workshop.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Philip Morris International and EI Design Pvt Ltd	Quality Management System (QMS) Introduction Training	Bronze	2022	The QMS Introduction Training ensures that PMI employees, contracted employees, and consultants involved in QMS activities receive basic training covering QMS in general, how the QMS was built at PMI, and key information about QMS processes. The training uses short and easy-to-understand videos to explain the purpose of each process by applying different scenarios showcasing the application of these processes.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Renault and CEGOS	Business partnering program	Bronze	2022	The business partnering learning program has been designed for 400 controllers of the Renault’s finance departments. This highly interactive learning experience helps them change their mindset and develop their skills to become true business partners for the operational managers.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Roche and Metrix Group	Building global personalised healthcare capability	Bronze	2022	At Roche, personalised healthcare (PHC) means better health, at lower cost, for people and society, by shifting from a one-size-fits-all approach to the best care for each person. The PHC Competency Development team created solutions to build PHC capability of the global Medical Affairs network, including competencies and a range of learning experiences to build capability. This multi-year initiative was infused with innovation to model the change to PHC by using technology and data collection for learning personalisation throughout.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Roche Diagnostics International AG and TiER1 Performance	Roche_BestAdvCompetenciesSkillDev_Marketing Excellence Academy	Bronze	2022	Roche’s Marketing Excellence Academy is a global, best-in-class learning and development program based on the Roche marketing competency model that offers marketing professionals from varying backgrounds and regions a customized learning path for certification-level training. Those who complete the training are considered not just best Roche marketers but best-in-class marketers.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Sally Beauty and SweetRush	Pro-in-the-Know Advanced	Bronze	2022	This entry, submitted by Sally Beauty and SweetRush, is “Pro-in-the-Know Advanced.” Combining sophisticated instructional and visual design with fun, colorful, engaging characters in a challenging and motivating sales skill development program proved to be an innovative approach to win over this young audience. Challenging story-driven scenarios, fully developed 3D avatar customers and gamification make this learning program highly effective. In sales, no competency is more important than the three foundations of Sally Beauty’s Sales approach: connecting with, engaging, and inspiring one’s customer. Pro-in-the-Know Advanced immerses store associates in real-world scenarios that challenge them to upsell and build brand loyalty in every customer interaction. This program is a model of innovative competencies and skill development training for a challenging audience, and it proved to be highly effective!
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Sam's Club	Sam's Fresh Training - Expect Something Special in Fresh	Bronze	2022	This entry, submitted by Sam's Club, is called "Sam's Fresh Training - Expect Something Special in Fresh". Sam’s Club needed to advance its ability to provide a premium fresh experience for their members. They wanted to have members joining Sam’s Club because of the freshness of the items in Produce, Bakery and Meat. This event enhanced the skills of fresh assistant managers by allowing them hands-on experience along with coaching by subject matter experts to go back and trainer their peers to elevate the appearance and quality in the fresh areas in a Sam's Club.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Sanofi Vaccines and Innovative Learning Group	Effective, Efficient Quality Control Training through Competency-Based Learning at Sanofi Vaccines	Silver	2022	This entry, submitted by Sanofi Vaccines and Innovative Learning Group, Inc., is entitled “Effective, Efficient Quality Control Training through Competency-Based Learning at Sanofi Vaccines.” The submission details the Sanofi Vaccines initiative that uses competency-based learning (CBL) to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the training of Quality Control analysts. (Analysts are staff members who perform quality control tests on Sanofi vaccines, products, and materials.) The submission begins by comprehensively describing the business needs that led to the initiative and why competency-based learning was identified as an appropriate solution. The submission then discusses: the design of the CBL system and how the necessary learning and performance data were gathered; how the CBL system was developed, including the change management strategies that helped ensure initiative success; the initiative’s measurable business results and how they were identified; and, finally, a summary of lessons learned and what is next.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Santander UK and Accenture	Advancing Anti-Financial Crime Skills and Competencies at Santander UK	Bronze	2022	The entry, jointly submitted by Santander UK and Accenture, outlines the data-driven skill and competency development programme established as part of the Santander UK Anti-Financial Crime Academy (AFCA). The programme is formed of four core initiatives (enhanced learning metrics, learner journeys, learning needs analysis and the continuation of AFCA learning) to understand and advance colleagues' skills in deterring, detecting and disrupting financial crime. These initiatives were driven by the need for Santander UK to respond to emerging financial crime trends, new regulation and ever-changing financial crime risks, as well as the need to prioritise anti-financial crime training for audiences responsible for managing financial crime controls. Ultimately, the success of these initiatives has provided Santander UK with an industry-leading, evidence-based view of colleagues' anti-financial crime skill and competency levels, which enables the bank to better tackle financial crime and protect its customers.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	SAP	SAP’s Skills Assessment and Experiential Learning Programs	Bronze	2022	SAP's Skills Assessment and Experiential Learning programs have helped revolutionize the organization's ability to identify and address key skill gaps impacting sales colleagues around the world.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Saudi Aramco	Teacher/Trainer observation & Development System	Silver	2022	The Teacher/Trainer Observation & Development System (TODS) is an in-house development system for measuring the quality of instructional practice. It is specifically designed to provide a platform to monitor and drive instructors’ continuous professional development, thereby enhancing the quality of instructional delivery in ITD’s training programs. Since the introduction of TODS in 2017, ITD has seen a steady improvement in the quality of instruction and associated increase in other KPIs such as participant/customer satisfaction and success rates.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Saudi Aramco	Saudi Aramco NAHR Academy	Bronze	2022	Striving to achieve excellence in capturing knowledge and accelerating employees’ development, Saudi Aramco Vice President Mr. Dawood Al-Dawood has established NAHR Academy in mid-2021. In less than one year, this Academy managed to develop several training centers with the latest learning solutions serving more than 6000 employees as a field-based training provider.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Scotiabank and BTS	iLEAD Leading the Enterprise	Gold	2022	Scotiabank’s iLEAD Leading the Enterprise program strengthens leadership capabilities and enables executives to build their network so they gain a clearer understanding of the impact their decisions have on Scotiabank customers, employees and shareholders. Based on an analysis of current and future needs of the bank, the program provides senior executives with an innovative and experiential talent program that builds leadership capabilities across the enterprise. Developed in partnership with BTS, the program consists of a leadership assessment, a dedicated portal, customized simulations (business simulation, leadership simulation) and small group coaching sessions that focus on specific leadership behaviours that drive Scotiabank’s culture.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Shell and Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd.	Shell Chemicals Negotiations Framework	Silver	2022	The Shell Chemicals Negotiations Framework (SCNF) program is built on the need to develop a more customer-centric approach at Shell Chemicals. The SCNF is update to an existing program geared towards deeper skill building and wider reach to include core- and non-core audiences. The program is in a blended learning format that includes small learning nuggets to enable for ‘learning-in-the-flow of work’ and higher learning quality. The program has also helped in broader alignment across the organization of the understanding of the Negotiations Framework and sales process.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Shell Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd.	Causal Learning	Bronze	2022	The Causal Learning program is a 45-hour, virtual instructor-led training that focuses on building the competency for conducting effective causal investigations that promote learning and the development of corrective actions to improve performance in the workplace.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Shell PLC and MPS Interactive Systems	The IMPeccables	Gold	2022	Shell PLC and MPS Interactive Systems have collaborated to develop a gamified eLearning course that focuses on seven key elements of the critical competency of Integrated Master Planning (IMP), relating to investment decisions and value delivery. The player becomes a superhero in training; Captain Plano, who aims to join The IMPeccables team, unlocking superhero abilities while successfully completing learning activities in a quest to become the next champion Network Planner.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	SIX and SiyonaTech AG	SIX Spirit Culture Competence Game	Gold	2022	An adventure game with a quest narrative, positioning the learner as a mountaineer taking on challenging terrain. The game explores the idea of building happiness and fulfilment at work through strengthening culture. Concepts of social competence (communication, the stages of learning, giving and receiving feedback) and self-competence (mindfulness, resilience, values and beliefs) are presented through exercises, puzzles and reflections and a multi-level rewards system promotes learner engagement.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Soapy Joe's Inc.	Best advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Silver	2022	This entry, submitted by Soapy Joe's Car Wash, is a representation of the companies competency and development program. The program is custom and tailor made to fit the unique needs of the employees at Soapy Joe's while aligning with overall company mission, vision and values. It has been designed to support the companies high growth environment while providing meaningful career development opportunities for individuals that are typically underserved and overlooked in traditional retail environments. This program was developed over a 6 month period by the HR Director and an outside consultant that requested to remain anonymous. The end result is a program comprised of 3 main components (Core competencies designed by role / Development Conversation tool / 9 Box Succession Planning) that has effectively reduced turnover, increased internal development, and significantly impacted employee sentiment for training and development.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	SOCAR Turkey Enerji AŞ.	Strategic Capability Building Project	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by SOCAR Turkey is called "Strategic Capability Building Project". Strategic capability gaps were defined which SOCAR Turkey needs to focus on in order to successfully implement its’ strategy. Within the scope of the project, 5 focus areas / programs were determined. Target audience for each program is selected in order to build strategic development capabilities across the organization.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Societe Generale Global Solution Centre and EI Design Pvt Ltd	Cybersecurity in a Virtual World	Gold	2022	The last 18-24 months have seen a sharp increase in cybercrime as organizations across the globe have been forced to spend more time “online” – often on vulnerable networks due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This poses a challenge to organizations as more and more vulnerable access points are created. One of the best defences in this situation is to equip and fortify the first line of defence, which is the employees. Towards achieving this goal, a learning strategy was formed which consists of custom-built learning content to build awareness and equip employees with skill to identify and prevent cyberattacks.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and SweetRush	The SHRM People Manager Qualification (PMQ)	Silver	2022	This entry submitted by SHRM and SweetRush is “The SHRM People Manager Qualification (PMQ).” PMQ truly represents the best in competencies and skill development! It tackles a critically important subject through a 10-hour eLearning journey, is extremely effective, and so highly engaging and enjoyable, it’s bingeworthy. PMQ covers all the responsibilities, skills, challenges, and opportunities that new leaders face as they transition from being an individual contributor into their new role. Inspired by streaming TV-Netflix-Friends, with episodes and seasons rather than modules and lessons, PMQ teaches the 110 behavioral indicators and 27 performance objectives new leaders need to learn, practice, and embrace. PMQ is story-driven with fully developed, relatable and authentic characters. Engagement stays high with interactivity and gamification. PMQ is competencies and skill development as it should be done; it will be leveraged by thousands of organizations with a profound impact—creating a new standard for online training.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Sutherland Global Services	Sutherland Tech Academy for Enterprise and Technology Skills	Gold	2022	Sutherland Enterprise business provides support to complex and evolving solutioning to meet the client demands. This is a dynamic sector that requires continuous upskilling, cross skilling and re-skilling of the workforce, to keep the talent pool relevant to the market. Sutherland achieves this meticulously through the Tech Academy program that helps the Organization meet the next normal demands.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Sutherland Global Services	Instructional Design- Learning Series	Gold	2022	The Instructional Design (ID) Learning Series is a team development plan to increase the new hires’ speed-to-proficiency when it comes to development efficiency and at the same time, ensure consistency output quality and stakeholder satisfaction.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Swiss Re and SiyonaTech AG	Ownership Mindset Game	Gold	2022	Swiss Re, one of the leading global re-insurers, developed a new set of leadership imperatives/competencies to support and inspire leadership in all employees, not just those in management positions. A branching space adventure game was developed in which the user makes a series of choices that have consequences and mirror the leadership imperatives. In this fun other-worldly environment the key learning is delivered in a replayable and relatable way.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Tata Consumer Products Ltd. and Chrysalis	Catalyst: Become Future Ready and Engaged	Gold	2022	At Tata Consumer Products, we remain committed to investing in building people's capabilities and creating a sustainable high-performance work culture. To fulfil this commitment of capability-building, needs were identified at an organizational level through inclusion of Learning Goals in the annual initiative-setting process. Learning needs of over 1350 employees across management levels and functions were collated. Based on this information, content was curated & created to put together customized learning journeys under the banner of ‘Catalyst: Become Future Ready and Engaged’. The Learning opportunities offered included customized self-paced learning content (~10 hrs. per learner) that could be accessed at their choice of time, pace and place, and virtual instructor led training (~4 to 8 hours per attribute).
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	TSKB and K2C	GOO Competency Development Program	Gold	2022	GOO Competency Development Program is aimed develop future leaders by adapting to new skills & competencies and support strategic & cultural transformation of the company.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Turkiye Finans Participation Bank	DEVELOPMENT LEADERS PROGRAM	Bronze	2022	The Development Leaders Program is a program that aims to expand the bank's internal trainer pool, develop the trainer competencies of existing internal trainers and, in the next step, create master trainers to train internal trainers. The program is composed of topics parallel to the instructor competencies of the institution. Applications were received first from the participants, and then assessments and interviews were made and eliminations were made. All of the trainings are designed interactively with applications. A hybrid program enriched with virtual classroom, classroom, e-learning, video and books was implemented.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	UST and Udemy	UST Ascend	Bronze	2022	This entry, submitted by UST, is called "Ascend." UST’s Ascend program focuses on learning and development, in collaboration with Udemy Business. This unique program gives employees access to curated learning content which further enabled them to be a better version of themselves professionally and personally through a combination of hard skills and power skills.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	VMware and SUPER-MEGA-BOSS	VMware Pitch-a-thon	Bronze	2022	Innovation is all about impact. There are many types of impact, but a big focus for many of the engineers at VMware is having our ideas productized and used by customers. Because most of our innovation programs and events focus on prototyping or ideating, we needed to build skills to explain, pitch, and create and tell stories that generate buy-in and enthusiasm for ideas. Our program continues into its 5th season and has provided a core set of storytelling capabilities for our engineers.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Vodacom and BTS	Vodacom Discover Graduate Programme	Bronze	2022	This entry, submitted by Vodacom and BTS is called "The Discover Vodacom Graduate Programme". Vodacom has been recognised on multiple occasions as Graduate Employer of Choice as a result of their two-year graduate programme offered to graduates who join the organisation. This programme is delivered in a way that is engaging, energetic and relevant to these young professionals.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Whole Foods Market and Inkling Systems	Whole Foods Formalizes for all Departments and Levels with Skills and Competency Training in Operational Learning Pathways	Gold	2022	Whole Foods is facing a global talent shortage, and a fast paced business environment driven be new technologies and the COVID pandemic. The Whole Foods team needed to figure out how to make their stores run efficiently, with a consistent customer experience with unpredictable staffing, This required an innovative approach to certifying employees in specific skills and competencies across multiple departments so that the same employee could now fill in hours in different departments or areas that were short and they would get the opportunity to pick up extra hours which lead to better retention. The Whole Foods team rolled out Operational Learning Pathways that teach the competencies and skills required to be certified for all levels of roles across each of the 11 different departments in each store. The new strategy resulted in lower labor costs, more operational agility, better workforce effectiveness and flexibility and higher customer satisfaction.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Xcenda, LLC (an AmerisourceBergen company)	Executive Presence Workshop	Silver	2022	Executive presence is not a measure of performance but a measure of image; people who have executive presence telegraph an image of confidence and assuredness. Four field teams servicing a common client (“JBI”) were identified to benefit from improving executive presence. The goal of the training was to build the team members’ knowledge and demonstrate how to utilize their credibility, confidence, and interpersonal skills to have a positive impact on internal and external colleagues, thereby increasing executive presence and optimizing performance in their role as reimbursement and access support specialists.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development	Yildiz Holding	Data Navigators	Bronze	2022	Data Navigators is a digital upskilling program that designed to create in-house training in collaboration with academic instructors from universities to develop Data Translators among Yıldız Holding's employees. This program focuses primarily on digital transformation through digital upskilling and re-skilling for all levels and needs within the organization. Thanks to this program, Yıldız Holding has 15-20 new project plans to automate and digitalize processes within various departments in the organization and 45-60 million ₺ cost-saving advantage in the company. Thanks to these trainings, digitalization in Yıldız Holding has become a concrete reality that touches the lives of the employees and is a part of their business, rather than being just an agenda or a strategy of senior management.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	Accenture	Code of Business Ethics Curriculum: Strengthening Accenture’s Ethical, Inclusive Culture – One Story at a Time	Silver	2022	Accenture requires annual Ethics & Compliance training on the company’s Code of Business Ethics (COBE), ethical culture, complying with laws, mitigating risk within compliance areas and the fundamental behaviors expected of Accenture’s 699,000 people. This year, to manage risk of maintaining culture given unprecedented growth among a primarily virtual workforce, the E&C Learning Team took the COBE curriculum to the next level, by engaging learners with four interactivity-rich, story-based courses reflecting realistic scenarios and characters mirroring Accenture’s diverse culture: four COBE courses follow a project team over a client deal lifecycle, working together to mitigate risk and model the importance of acting with integrity. Employees are completing each successive COBE chapter with record-breaking speed—107,000 had completed COBE 3 before it officially launched—AND end-of-course survey data reflects success meeting all design goals: change behavior, show real-life experiences, meet learners’ expectations and model an inclusive culture.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	AIA Australia and MPS Interactive Systems	AIA Claims Management	Silver	2022	A program of web-based training modules to be used as a blended approach as part of the AIA Claims Capability Framework.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	Anglo American and The Training Room Online Pty Ltd	Learning and Development Best Advance in Compliance Training Business Integrity	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Anglo American and The Training Room Online (TTRO), is called Business Integrity. Although the solution addresses compliance training, the organisation was looking for a more engaging learner experience, one that empowered learners to do the right thing when faced with a difficult decision or judgement. The programme is scenario-driven, using relatable stories to make it relevant to the broad audience required to complete the programme. Branching is used throughout the programme, allowing learners to experience the consequences (and related emotions) of the decisions they have made at various points. The result is a SCORM-compliant e-learning package that is engaging to the learner and is relatable to a broad audience, while allowing the organisation to maintain its state of compliance.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	Anheuser Busch InBev (AB InBev) and EI Design Pvt Ltd	Security & Compliance Awareness Month 2021	Silver	2022	At AB InBev, we run various programs towards building cybersecurity and compliance awareness for its users, the October 2021 Campaign was one such initiative, aimed at raising awareness of digital security risks and empowering our colleagues to handle such adversities. A website which hosted various interactive, engaging and educative content was used. The features of the website included an interactive calendar with daily tips & videos, weekly contests & games, webinars and it concluded with a Pledge Day, where our colleagues made their pledges towards securing AB InBev and themselves.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	Anthem, Inc. and LRN Corporation	Do the Right Thing training	Bronze	2022	The annual Do the Right Thing training program helps associates understand the rules, regulations, laws, and policies that apply to them and their responsibility to follow them. • Living Our Code & Fighting Fraud addresses topics on Ethics, Compliance, Fraud, Waste and Abuse • Protecting Information – Everyone’s Responsibility addresses topics on Privacy, Information Security, and Global Security Associates choose between English and Spanish training. The training adapts based on a profiler and knowledge-based pre-assessment.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd. and Siyona Tech AG	Information Security - Best Compliance	Gold	2022	Julius Baer's Information Security Refresher 2021 comprises a 30-minute compliance eLearning course and a Christmas quiz. The eLearning is designed to refresh all Julius Baer employees on how to spot and prevent Information Security risks in the workplace. Presented through the eyes of a hacker looking to exploit weaknesses, the eLearning features animated video and a compelling storyline, together with scenario-based questions and gamification to present, test and reinforce the key messages. Delivered six months after the eLearning, the Christmas quiz uses an advent calendar format and tests recall of key facts and behaviors through fun Christmas-themed questions.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd. and Siyona Tech AG	JB Financial Crime Compliance	Gold	2022	The course is designed to create awareness among Julius Baer employees of the basic principles of anti-money laundering, counter terrorism financing, anti-bribery, corruption, and sanctions. Featuring a role and location selection filter, enticing storylines, and rich animations, the learner weaves their way through a Julius Baer building, meeting several employees as they face challenging scenarios and must take the lead on identifying red flags.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd. and Siyona Tech AG	Julius Baer Data Privacy Best Compliance	Gold	2022	Julius Baer's Data Privacy comprises a 40-minute compliance eLearning course. The eLearning is designed to develop an awareness among all employees of the importance of Data Privacy and Banking Secrecy, with the desired outcome that they were able to protect all client and employee information and could take the right course of action if a data breach or banking secrecy breach occurred. Using a team-based, four-level mission approach, the eLearning features an animated video and a developing storyline immersing the learner in the key aspects of Data Privacy and Banking Secrecy, together with scenario-based questions and awards-based gamification to present, test and reinforce the key messages.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	Booking.com and EI Design Pvt Ltd	Ethical-Decision Making in Customer Service	Silver	2022	In this course, you will learn better how to do the right thing and comply with our code of conduct by resolving four ethical dilemmas customer service professionals can face at work. In addition, this course will offer you the opportunity to discover our compliance and ethics resources as well as reporting channels.x`xx`
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	Charter Communications	Rethinking Compliance Training	Silver	2022	This entry, submitted by Charter Communications, explains how the company has rethought and redesigned each aspect of their compliance training program. This redesign has led to increases in user engagement and completion rates while decreasing costs for the company. Compliance can typically be a "necessary evil" but the new approach has presented the content that adds value to the company and strengthens the relationship between the employees and the company. The assignment of the compliance courses was also redesigned to provide more consistency and allow more accurate completion measurements. Overall, the newly designed program contains the highest rated courses in the company, has mitigated risk for the company, and has saved over $2.5M in it's first two years.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	Citrix Systems and Aptara Inc.	Safety & Security: An Overview	Bronze	2022	This entry, submitted by Citrix systems and Aptara is called "Safety & Security: An Overview". It is a compliance safety and security ILT that needed to be revamped into an interactive online course to support the safety training needs of Citrix's geographically diverse workforce. Safety and Compliance training can be a very dry topic completion rates of the instructor-led training were low because employees did not have time to attend in-person classes and did not find the content relevant. The goal of this training was to provide real-world examples with scenario-based interactivity focusing on information that is most important to the learner. Of the 9,000+ employees who took this training, 100% passed the end-of-course assessment and the course received an overall score of 4.7 out of 5.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	Cognizant Technology Solutions	Return to Office Induction Training	Bronze	2022	The COVID-19 pandemic posed its unique challenges, making work from home the new normal. People felt safer when they could stay home while also fulfilling their job roles and responsibilities, as part of the organization. In 2021, when Cognizant started the Return to Office initiative in a phased manner for UK and Ireland, there were apprehensions among the associates about their personal safety and that of their families. They also had questions about the precautionary measures being taken in the offices and how it might change the way they worked before COVID-19. This compliance training program was created as part of the Return to Office initiative for all the Cognizant associates returning to offices in UK and Ireland. The goals of this program were to make the associates aware of the importance of this initiative, what to expect when they are back in office, and prepare them for return.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	Colgate-Palmolive and SAI360	Annual Ethical Leadership Training Program	Gold	2022	Every year, Colgate develops a brand-new suite of custom, mandated, Ethical Leadership Training (ELT) courses for its employees - around the world - to complete. Because this program is the cornerstone of its essential, consistent, carefully crafted E&C messaging - and its thousands of global employees complete this training annually - it puts a tremendous amount of time and effort into its year-round development process, and advancing or “raising the bar” from the previous year’s program, focusing on: enhancing engagement, interactivity, relatability, applicability, visual stimulation, and impactful communication methods and storytelling. Its goal is not only to share the most up to date information about Company policies, procedures, and where employees can go for guidance and assistance, but to continue to do so in a BETTER, more engaging, memorable way each year.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	Deloitte LLP	Don’t Move That Data!	Gold	2022	The Reputation and Compliance Learning (RCL) team at Deloitte was faced with the task of reminding learners of policy and the importance of adhering to it. Status quo extrinsic motivators—i.e., just knowing the rules—needed to be enhanced. Early thinking in design strategy was to shift the appeal to intrinsic motivators by focusing on the personal consequences of learners’ ignoring policy so they could see the impact of their behavior through a different lens. To that end, the learning team designed a mysterious game show in which two animated characters representing the target audience are challenged to confront missteps by a slightly sardonic invisible host.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	Deloitte LLP	Everyday Dangers at Deloitte	Silver	2022	New hires at Deloitte may encounter risks related to managing confidential and private information starting on day one. To mitigate these risks and acclimate new hires to Deloitte’s culture, Deloitte’s Learning & Development team collaborated with Deloitte’s Global Learning team to create a streamlined learning experience that simulates a day in the life of a newly hired professional called, Everyday Dangers at Deloitte. This compliance training has launched in over 100 countries to a hundred thousand new hires across Deloitte’s global network of member firms, with the goal of protecting the organization’s reputation and businesses.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	Endress+Hauser and Constellar Consulting Pvt. Ltd	Code of Conduct	Bronze	2022	Endress+Hauser and Constellar Consulting are happy to submit "Code of Conduct" WBT as an entry in this category. Ethical behavior and integrity are considered to be the main pillars of the company culture at Endress+Hauser. To strengthen these and to keep pace with the dynamics of the changing environment, the legal team revised the Code of Conduct and also upgraded the WBT. This 'adaptive' and 'gamified' WBT allowed the learners to decide their own personalized learning path by proving their existing knowledge about each code. An engaging game-like visual design, a host of relatable characters, and a chance to beat their colleagues to stock up on some appealing awards triggered learner participation and engagement to a large extent thus fulfilling Endress+Hauser's learning and business goal. Its successful reception by all target audience has proven the need for adaptive learning approach while developing digital trainings, especially compliance courses.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	Google	Google’s Foundational Ads Certification	Bronze	2022	Google’s 2022 Foundational Ads Certification program ensures sales team compliance while delivering a high-quality user experience. Google’s business organization needed a personalized yet universally applicable ads product learning experience that used learner seat-time efficiently, while also providing compliance assurance so all sellers could articulate the unique value of key products.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	Incyte Corporation and NXLevel, Inc.	Compliance Escape Room Workshops	Gold	2022	NXLevel collaborated with Incyte Compliance to design technology-supported Compliance Escape Room workshops targeted to the highest risk situations and decisions experienced by its sales, marketing, and medical teams. Separate workshops were developed for the Oncology and Dermatology teams, each with three virtual escape rooms. The workshops were facilitated by Incyte Compliance Business Partners over a two-day period during the company's North America Annual Meeting in March 2022.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	Johnson & Johnson and LHT Learning	Johnson & Johnson Enterprise HCC Annual Training	Gold	2022	The 2021 Enterprise HCC Annual Training course was redesigned from the ground up in 2021 using streamlined pathing, interactive elements, and scenarios focusing on the importance of health care compliance, government contracting and pricing compliance, and the risks that non-compliance poses for J&J’s businesses.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	Johnson and Johnson and Infopro Learning	Johnson & Johnson Technology GxP Overview	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Johnson and Johnson, jointly submitted with Infopro Learning, is called "Johnson & Johnson Technology GxP Overview". An engaging and interactive compliance program for the Johnson and Johnson IT workforce to give them an overview of the concepts that they should be familiar with while working in a regulated environment within Johnson & Johnson IT.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	Kimberly-Clark and Judge Learning Solutions	Quality, Regulatory & Compliance Transformation	Silver	2022	As part of Kimberly-Clark’s commitment to deliver safe, high-quality products to its consumers, the QRC Transformation team was tasked with strengthening quality, regulatory compliance and product safety capabilities, mindsets and behaviors across the company. Judge Learning Solutions was hired to design, develop and translate company-wide training for quality and regulatory compliance.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	Lockheed Martin Corporation and Infopro Learning	Lockheed Martin – Field Team ESH Awareness Training	Gold	2022	This entry by Lockheed Martin Corporation jointly submitted with Infopro Learning is a 40-minute module aimed at spreading awareness of Environment Safety and Health best practices for field team members working on Lockheed Martin, customer, and partner sites. This awareness and understanding would ultimately contribute to the reduction in the number of safety related incidents across the organization.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	McKinsey & Company	Making mandatory risk training engaging and impactful	Gold	2022	When faced with creating mandatory risk awareness and management training, the McKinsey team knew that compliance-related, mandatory training is often perceived by learners as a dry, check-the-box exercise. Therefore, they strived to conceive and design a learning experience that would actively engage learners. The outcome is a 30-to-40-minute, media-rich, immersive, and highly interactive digital module that reinforces both awareness of key risk management behaviors, and the principle that risk management is the responsibility of all firm members.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	McKinsey & Company	Digital, Technology, and Analytics Risk Simulation	Gold	2022	Today, nearly all of McKinsey’s more than 4,000 partners lead client work with a significant technology component. To engage these leaders as they face the compliance risks that come with the pace of change and complexity in this arena, the learning team introduced the Digital, Technology, and Analytics (DnA) Risk Simulation, a gamified app that can be played on a mobile phone or laptop and completed in approximately 15 minutes. The app exposes McKinsey partners to a range of risks in technology engagements to help them further build their radar for what tech risk can look like—all while keeping each scenario presented short, digestible, and highly realistic. Rich feedback for learners includes a personalized “risk profile” as well as information about the user's choice of a “thinking fast” or “thinking slow” approach to each scenario, as informed by Daniel Kahneman's iconic book on unconscious bias in decision making.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	Mercer	Mercer Foundations of Operational Controls	Gold	2022	Interactive and entertaining on demand learning providing a holistic view of Risk and Control Objectives across every level at our company.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	Pegasystems Inc. and EI Design Pvt Ltd	Remote Working Challenge	Silver	2022	This training introduces remote working guidelines with an intent to help learners apply them to respective remote working environments. Best practices and key concepts are driven through relatable examples at three different locations. These are followed by scenario-based questions set in a variety of remote locations to ensure the applicability of these guidelines in the best way possible.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	Pfizer Inc. and Sponge Learning	Pfizer – 2021 Anti-Corruption and Anti-Bribery Training	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Sponge Learning on behalf of Pfizer Inc. relates to Pfizer's 2021 global Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption Training (known internally as ‘MAPP’). This training is periodically delivered to all colleagues and specific contractors, to remind them of key laws (e.g., The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the FCPA), and Pfizer’s policies and procedures regarding bribery and corruption. To guarantee colleagues could better understand and apply MAPP guidance, Pfizer's Compliance Training Team worked with Sponge Learning to make the training more streamlined, role-based, relevant, and innovative in design to boost engagement and retention. The new 2021 training addressed years of learner feedback. It enabled a more risk-based approach, where scenarios change based on an individual’s confirmation of their relevance. It was also the first time that advanced data analytics were implemented as part of MAPP training, to measure effectiveness and inform targeted follow-up micro-learning for continuous learning.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	Qatar Airways Group and Upside Learning Solutions	SAT (Special Assistance Team) Refresher Training	Gold	2022	Qatar Airways and Upside Learning developed an online refresher training program to sensitize and upskill SAT volunteers who support survivors and victims’ families in emergency situations. The training program was designed with a story-based approach to create an immersive learning experience. It allowed SAT volunteers to face challenging situations up front and practice responding with a sensitive, empowering, and humanitarian approach.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	Qatar Airways Group and Upside Learning Solutions	Fire Warden	Gold	2022	Qatar Airways is one of the youngest global airlines to serve all six continents and is also one of the world’s fastest-growing airlines, connecting more than 160 destinations on the map every day. Due to COVID restrictions, Qatar Airways had the requirement to digitize the Fire Warden classroom training without compromising the do-act approach the classroom course had. Partnering with Upside Learning, Qatar Airways developed a scenario-based game to address this requirement.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and EI Design Pvt Ltd	Mobility Policy	Silver	2022	Regeneron Mobility services is accountable for 10,000+ mobile devices, with a defined program to manage costs and consumption. The policy ensures that important security and service costs are managed effectively. Compliance with the Mobility Policy has a direct impact on the program’s success. The eLearning module developed to educate mobile device users on the policy has ensured every mobile user is able to comply with and understand the importance of the proper use of Mobile devices and services.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and EI Design Pvt Ltd	Incident/Major Incident Management	Silver	2022	Within Regeneron’s technology organization, multiple groups in multiple business units contribute to triage, break-fix, and service restoration when there is an issue. Historically, it has been a challenge to align on process with the aim of making our customer experience 100% consistent. This training module is an engaging, interactive way to manage more uniform best practice execution in handling service disruptions.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	Ricoh and NIIT	California Workplace Compliance	Silver	2022	California Workplace Compliance is a set of five scenario-based micro eLearning modules of 10-15 minutes each. The goal of the overall program is to increase awareness of California Workplace laws among the Ricoh managers and thereby increase compliance.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	Schneider Electric	How do we conduct business ethically when facing corruption and bribery risks?	Bronze	2022	In the tough arena of compliance mandatory trainings, ‘How do we conduct business ethically’ is a comprehensive 3-year multi-purpose anticorruption program entirely built in-house to be as close as possible to the learners needs. It answers the legal requirement of training the exposed population on anti-bribery and business ethics yearly while being pragmatic and business oriented. It follows best-in-class learning experience design, leveraging the AGES model as well as adaptable and inclusive delivery and still manages to be entertaining, interactive, and efficient thanks to a blended approach. It is, most of all, endorsed by the Executive Committee, the Subject Matter Experts, the learners (high satisfaction rate), and the anticorruption authorities (audit).
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	Schneider Electric	Schneider Essentials –The Annual mandatory training campaign for employees to Know, Grow and Protect the Company	Bronze	2022	Starting from 2019, Schneider Electric rolls out an annual compliance training campaign to all its employees. This campaign is branded as ‘Schneider Essentials’ and is aiming to create a strong culture of common ‘must-knows’ on both compliance and cultural topics to know, grow and protect the company. Each year the campaign runs from March to end of September. These global trainings are provided in 17 languages in Schneider’s Learning Management System, and each takes about 30mins to complete. In 2021 being the third year of deployment, Schneider Essentials training covers topics on: - Our Principles of Responsibility (Code of Conduct) - Cybersecurity - Building a culture of respect and - Sustainability at the Core of our purpose In addition, for our employees that are customer-facing or at higher risk of exposure (about 40,000 employees), an anti-corruption course is deployed as part of the annual Schneider Essentials program.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	Shell Plc and NIIT	Industry Life Saving Rules	Gold	2022	The Industry Life Saving Rules program familiarizes workers in the industry with the actions they can take to protect themselves and their colleagues, regardless of the worksite.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	Silver Oak Health and Tesseract Learning Pvt Ltd	Best Advance in Compliance Training	Bronze	2022	Silver Oak Health is one of the leading Employee Assistance Program (EAP) service provider in India. Silver Oak uses intellectual property from best known Clinical Psychologists and research institutions around the world to develop digital products in India and provides affordable solutions to customers. The present world is a world of inclusion and not isolation. However, we cannot ignore the fact that the concept of classification has helped the systems identify the areas that require attention to appreciate the equal opportunity policy. One big hurdle that stopped the inclusion of women into the workforce is gender stereotyping and sexual harassment. Hence, it is important to address this issue by evolving the Anti-sexual harassment policy at the National, state, organizational and individual levels. The focus was to develop an engaging online course to create awareness on sexual harassment for both managers and employees with an innovative strategy.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	SPX FLOW and LRN Corporation	SPX FLOW - Interactive Code of Conduct	Gold	2022	SPX FLOW innovates with customers to create safe and sustainable solutions to solve complex challenges for the nutrition and health and industrial end markets. From pumps, valves, and mixers to entire engineered systems we help our customers create food, medicine, clean water and other products we all use every day. We aspire to be a worldwide leader in sustainable solutions which ensure the controlled and measured movements of life’s essential elements. All of this requires a solid internal code of conduct to guide our organization to accomplishing these goals. The training is an interactive infographic based on the code of conduct that is taken by SPX FLOW’s workforce of more than 4,500 employees on an annual basis. Because compliance needs and initiatives change over time, SPX FLOW wanted an immersive, modular code of conduct training course that could be cost-effectively updated to address specific compliance needs of the organization.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	Suncor Energy and MPS Interactive Systems	Suncor Evacuation Awareness	Gold	2022	An interactive learning program that entrenches the concept of evacuation awareness and safety protocols among Suncor employees.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	Swiss Re and Siyona Tech AG	The World is Watching - Advance in Compliance Training	Gold	2022	Swiss Re’s The World is Watching is a short compliance eLearning solution designed to help Swiss Re employees understand what international trade controls are, the humanitarian aims they are intended to achieve, and how each person can play their part in reporting violations. Using a ‘breaking news’ reporting format, the learning depicts an unfolding news story where sanctions are imposed following human rights violations in a fictional country, ‘Pacifica’. Animated video and scenario-based questions are used to present, test, and reinforce the key messages.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	Swiss Re and Siyona Tech AG	Fraud on the Glacier Express	Gold	2022	Swiss Re’s Fraud on the Glacier Express is a short compliance eLearning solution designed to quickly refresh all Swiss Re employees on how to spot and prevent Fraud in the workplace, using the classic fraud triangle as an analytical framework. It features animated video and a compelling Agatha Christie-inspired detective mystery storyline, together with scenario-based questions and gamification to present, test and reinforce the key messages.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	Swiss Re and Siyona Tech AG	Privileged Access Management	Gold	2022	Swiss Re’s Privileged Access Management is a short compliance eLearning solution designed to quickly refresh Swiss Re system administrators and user access administrators on how to mitigate risk for users having Privileged Access in the organisation. Using the concept of an alter ego (users who can have both standard and privileged, the solution is presented in the format of a Marvel Comics with a standard Swiss Re user who has superpowers (privileged access). Using comic book style animated videos, missions and gamification, learners need to create a forcefield around Swiss Re. The learners are made aware that with great power comes great responsibility, which is used as the theme of the learning.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	Syngene International Ltd and Tesseract Learning Pvt Ltd	Best Advance in Compliance Training	Bronze	2022	Syngene International Ltd. is an integrated contract research, development, and manufacturing organization providing scientific services – from early discovery to commercial supply. The main objective of developing this compliance training was to educate employees about LEAN Sigma and Six Sigma principles and apply them to lead successful process improvements and deliver meaningful results to the organization. The course was expected to build the capability of all Syngene employees in all total quality management principles of LEAN and Six Sigma and align them to LEAP (Leveraging Excellence to Ascend and Perform), a new operational excellence initiative implemented by Syngene.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	Takeda and Sponge Learning	Refreshing Takeda’s Global Code of Conduct Ethics & Compliance Training	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Sponge Learning on behalf of Takeda, is called 'Refreshing Takeda’s Global Code of Conduct Ethics & Compliance Training'. Using TikTok videos and Buzzfeed quizzes, the Global Code of Conduct (CoC) e-learning guides Takeda’s 50,000+ employees through their day-to-day duties to ensure that the organisational values are upheld. In short, the CoC ensures that the highest standards of ethical behaviour are maintained throughout the organisation. In February 2021, Takeda partnered with Sponge Learning to refresh the CoC learning to update the content, maintain a focus on Takeda’s values and boost learner engagement.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	Target and Roundtable Learning	Target Upgrades Compliance Training With Virtual Reality	Gold	2022	Target recognized the need to implement a scalable, accessible, and highly-interactive ethics training program that empowers team members to make ethical decisions on their own when facing conflict. The solution was a custom training program that helps team members follow Target’s Code of Ethics and understand how to recognize and report ethical concerns. In January of 2021, Target partnered with Roundtable Learning to build a custom 360° VR pilot program.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	Tech Mahindra Limited	Compliance trainings for Prevention of Sexual Harassment	Silver	2022	TechM has zero tolerance to sexual harassment, and the Prevention of Sexual Harassment (POSH) policy is gender agnostic and ensures that every employee enjoys a safe, secure and discrimination-free workplace. A safe workplace attracts great talent and allows innovation to flourish. TechM has developed different learning modules to help employees understand the nuances of the POSH policy right from key aspects of the policy to scenario based learning where they can understand how to respond when they are witness to sexual harassment at work as a third-party observer. There needs to be a cultural shift in the way with which workplace misconduct is dealt with. One such step is empowering employees who are bystanders to workplace misconduct like sexual harassment to speak-up. Once employees have spoken it is up to TechM to listen, understand and change - for a stronger workforce, a healthier economy and a better world.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Compliance Training	The Adecco Group and LearnUpon	How the Adecco Group built a transformative global Integrity & compliance training program to support its 35,000+ colleagues using LearnUpon	Bronze	2022	The Adecco Group is undergoing a major transformation from a decentralized organization to a centralized Global Business Unit driven business model with shared technologies, processes, and ways of working. With its reputation as one of its most valuable assets and a business built around sensitive topics such as people data - the business sought to introduce a new learning solution to bring all its learning together in one place and provide the Integrity & Compliance program with a global platform for training its 35,000+ colleagues (employees). In March 2020, the Adecco Group launched with LearnUpon. Since then, the organization has transformed its approach to global Integrity & Compliance Training to support its colleagues in maintaining the highest standards of ethical conduct and ensuring the business meets its legal obligations, with learning that is fun and interactive.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	Abdi İbrahim and K2C	Abdi İbrahim Learning Transformation & Strategy	Gold	2022	As one of the strategic initiatives according to the new company strategy, L&D activities in the company is fully transformed with the new L&D strategy. The new strategy is blended learning and scoping all L&D units.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	Accenture Solutions Private Limited	Accenture Capability Development – HRO BPS - The Training Revolution	Silver	2022	A thriving learning strategy designed to deliver training solutions for a large logistics transformation project. The learning team hired, trained & continuously improved the performance of over 2000+ resources in the span 2+ years resulting in successful business outcomes & client delight.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd	India Market Unit Learning	Gold	2022	The India Market Unit Learning strategy is a robust framework created in line with its business strategy and ambitions of meeting aggressive revenue targets and the cultural tenet of driving “deep personal differentiation” for each IMU employee by enabling them to acquire market-relevant skills aligned to their career aspirations. All the trainings offered are created in strategic alignment with the India MU 3-year growth strategy. The India MU Talent Transformation framework, created in line with this strategy, provides holistic learning opportunities for its employees beyond the formal learning channels through informal and on the job interventions.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	Allied Universal	Allied Universal Institute	Silver	2022	ALLIED UNIVERSAL Challenges employees to excel, to be the best every singe day, to be PHENOMENAL®. To promote this goal, Allied Universal provides learning, and development opportunities designed to support individual advancement while reinforcing the collective strength of Allied Universal teams throughout the world. Personal development is guided by The AU Institute®, the umbrella under which all formal learning and development opportunities exist. It engages a robust platform to PREPARE, DEVELOP and ASSESS employees throughout every stage of their careers. A big part of the AU Institute® is The Academy. The Academy is an online curriculum tailored to help employees grow in their current role and prepare them for future success at Allied Universal. Starting from Day one, employees are enrolled in a role-specific Academy, which includes new employee orientation, functional skills training, business and site-specific curricula and leadership development.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	Ameriprise Financial	Ameriprise Learning Transformation Journey	Silver	2022	With the major shift from in-person to virtual learning already complete through the worldwide events of 2020, the Advice and Wealth Management business needed the Learning & Development team to add value through the intersection between business priorities and field learning needs in support of their mission to help the field build skills necessary to help clients feel confident about their financial future. In 2021, their strategy solved for the immediate needs of the business through learning assets that supported learning in the flow of work, shorter videos and learning modules to support learning in the moment of need, while building the capabilities to support their ongoing transformation of learning. This included flagship programs that provide blended development experiences to support field advisors, staff, and leaders at every stage in their development.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	Axis Asset Management and Enparadigm Performance Solutions	Creating a Market Winning Learning Strategy	Silver	2022	An exhaustive 12-month sales journey that focused on establishing a learning strategy for the sales team around the organisation’s performance values and building capability aligned to these values. The program focused on enhancing attributes of professional effectiveness, core selling skills, people management and stakeholder management for Individual Contributors, Frontline Managers and Regional Leadership (Regional and Zonal Managers).
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	Bakioglu	Bakioglu 360-Degree Development System	Silver	2022	Bakioglu HR team designed the "Bakioglu 360-Degree Development System" in order to develop employees for today's and tomorrow's competencies. The 360 Program is a collaborative development process in which participants can develop their competencies by seeing themselves through the eyes of their stakeholders. The participant obtains a 360-degree analysis of his/her competencies, consisting of his/her managers, subordinates, customers, stakeholders and his/her own evaluation by the individual report obtained at the end of the process.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	Bank of America	The Foundational Banking Skills Learning Strategy	Gold	2022	The Foundational Banking Skills Learning Strategy is an integrated learning curriculum for client-facing employees in Bank of America’s network of 4,200+ financial centers. Leveraging a core learning program for seven roles across four distinct lines of business, reduces variability and helps promote a client centric culture. Execution of this program has led to increased productivity, overall employee satisfaction and preparedness for role, as well as a defined career path.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI)	Best Advance in Creating Learning Strategy	Gold	2022	BRI has been serving Indonesia for 127 years, supporting economic growth and serving customers from small economic community levels throughout Indonesia. Throughout its journey, BRI shows its commitment to prioritizing service to the micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) segment. BRI consistently provides the best service by fostering, empowering, and supporting MSMEs to optimize their competence in improving the welfare of families and surrounding communities. Carrying the vision of becoming "The Most Valuable Banking Group in Southeast Asia and Champion of Financial Inclusion" by 2025, BRI has implemented brilliant breakthroughs in overcoming business predicament through enabling the mobility of businesses in promoting their products.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	Bayer AG	Bayer AG - O2C Learning Strategy	Silver	2022	Between June 2020 – June 2021, the Bayer global ‘Order to Cash’ (‘O2C’) team developed a new Learning Strategy for the function, comprised of an O2C Capability Framework and an O2C Academy. Aligned to the broader O2C 2023 strategy and supported by information and data collected through external industry benchmarks and stakeholder interviews, the team identified the key skills and competencies needed by the organisation and developed solutions to support employee growth in these areas.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	BAYER AG - Division Consumer Health and The Quantic Group	Transforming Learning for Life (TL4L) - Learning Strategy	Silver	2022	This entry submitted by Bayer Consumer Care and TheQuanticGroup, is called Transforming Learning for Life (TL4L). It is the umbrella brand for new ways of learning across all commercial roles at Bayer Consumer Health. The TL4L learning strategy created the foundation and direction against which to design, develop and implement the TL4L program. The desired outcome is a continuous transformation in the way people learn that equips the commercial organization to deliver against the divisional strategy “Fit-To-Win”.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	Bayer AG, Crop Science Division and BTS Germany GmbH	Creating a Learning Strategy for Bayer Crop Science	Bronze	2022	This entry, submitted by BTS and Bayer Crop Science is called "Creating a Learning Strategy for Bayer Crop Science". It is about the conception and execution of a global Commercial Portal for the Sales, Marketing and Market Development departments. With the Commercial Portal we want to enhance Commercial employee expertise by equipping them with relevant, transparent and easy to access Commercial information and capabilities incl. people capabilities, frames and tools, across functions. It is tailored for various Commercial functions that have been identified as a result of this process and help Bayer Crop Science's employees on the job in the moment of need.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	BD and True Office Learning	Developing a more effective Code of Conduct training strategy because “We Do What is Right”	Silver	2022	In alignment with two BD core values “We do what is right” and “We are all accountable”, and in its mission to provide practical, understandable and innovative solutions that help educate associates on compliance risks and actively encouraging ethical behavior, BD developed a custom Code of Conduct training and implemented it using the Scholar training platform, and IQ Analytics (by True Office Learning). The result was a markedly improved training that saved annual seat time, helped employees achieve topic mastery, and mitigated risk through targeting low performing segments.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	Bennett, Coleman and Co. Ltd. (Times Group) and upGrad for Business	Behavioral Skilling	Gold	2022	Bennett Coleman and Co Ltd (BCCL / The Times Group) has consciously and consistently invested in creating a learning ecosystem that is aligned with the organization’s business imperatives, to provide personalized Learning & Development opportunities and more importantly, accelerate career growth for the talented employees. Learning programs and calendars empower the employees with both convenience & choice to curate personalized learning journeys, across devices and on-the-go. This initiative is a step in that direction with the extended learning - upGrad for Business.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	Capital One	A Move Toward Greatness	Gold	2022	The story here will present a learning strategy that aims to move an entire enterprise toward greatness via a holistic approach to learning and development, one that addresses the technical, professional, and the personal. Capital One’s learning story will illustrate that they do this in order to maintain a competitive edge in an increasingly competitive industry, offering opportunities for associates to realize their full potential, ultimately fulfilling a commitment set out from their earliest days as a company: help great people to continue being great and to do great things. Capital One admits a strategy toward holistic greatness may seem elusive, indefinable, perhaps even abstract, suggesting their learning strategy is edgeless or overly ambitious. They also admit that a strategy toward greatness is a bold statement and an even bolder undertaking. However, they believe that this strategy is neither abstract nor overly ambitious. Instead
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	Cognizant	ADM Skill Curve	Gold	2022	ADM skill curve was conceived with the mission of improving Digitally certified associates from 40% to 45% in ADM. ADM skill curve program was launched to make sure every associate understands the ADM Business Digital terminology - Advance /Modern construct and to motivate the associates to achieve the Modern skill category.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	Cognizant	North America Graduate Hire Training	Bronze	2022	In the war for talent, organizations leading in cutting-edge technology services cannot rely on hiring custom-fit talent to support their growth. “Creating Talent” was the mantra adopted by Cognizant and aligned to this was one of the strategic programs – the North America Graduate Hire Training Program. This program was built in collaboration with multiple stakeholders – Line of Business leaders, HR Operations teams, Recruitment and L&D teams within Cognizant. The program was designed to increase the availability of local talent with the right skills and accelerate the organization's growth. True to its objective, the program resulted in creating a pool of skilled resources, who were ready to be deployed within the first four weeks of training completion.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	Cognizant	Therapeutic Area (TA) Training Strategy	Bronze	2022	Therapeutic Area (TA) knowledge is extremely critical for all associates working in Life Sciences (LS), as it helps in comprehending complex disease related information documented in medical reports that are handled by the LS associates. It was identified that due to the lack of adequate TA knowledge, associates working in Cognizant LS were unable to meet the performance standards. Hence, a TA training approach was developed to include nine strategies that were deployed in a structured manner, through multiple delivery channels and formats. The strategies were 100% successful in achieving its goals leading to TA knowledge enhancement, overall quality improvement and business growth.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	Cognizant	Creating a High-Impact Learning Culture @ LSDBO	Silver	2022	The Life Sciences Digital Nexgen Academy (LSDNA), which is the central training team for LSDBO (Life Sciences Digital Business Operations), took charge of driving the learning culture in the BU based on the business need. The team defined 4 focus areas and 12 strategies to build an impactful learning culture. The strategies were designed and developed keeping the learner needs and business outcomes in mind. Key success metrics were identified to measure and monitor with an aim of building a culture of self-directed learning and associate empowered development in LSDBO. The BU has seen an improvement in the learning culture, which has supported business results and overall organizational goals.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	Concentrix	Concentrix L&D Strategy 2021	Gold	2022	As we approached 2021, a clear need to invest even more in our employee learning & development emerged. Uncertain times as the pandemic continued to impact the world and a new set of Leaders to be developed in the new virtual world made this need an inspiring challenge for the L&D team.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	Cyient Ltd. and upGrad for Business	Digital Immersion Program	Gold	2022	Digital Immersion program focuses on building the capability of global Sales and Delivery leaders to sell Cyient’s digital solutions offerings to clients through knowledge of Digital Tech Trends and framework of narrative, to grow digital business by 5X by 2025.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	Daimler Trucks North America LLC and Infopro Learning	Aftermarket Parts Training	Silver	2022	This entry, submitted by Daimler Trucks North America LLC, jointly submitted by Infopro Learning, is called "Aftermarket Parts Training". To enable the success of the training program, Infopro Learning recognized DTNA’s need to constantly skill and reskill its employees and dealerships. Infopro Learning focused on offering a transformative training program with measurable outcomes. The training was customized keeping in mind the industry challenges, technology disruptions, and potential organizational challenges.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	Dell Technologies Education Services	Dell Technologies Modernized Learning Initiative	Gold	2022	The goal of the Dell Technologies Modernized Learning Initiative is to change how Education Services does business to enable digital learning - the key to transformation. It is made up of four pillars: Topic-Based Micro Learning, Experiential Learning, Personalized Learning and Next-Generation Curation. The Modernized Learning Initiative has shown that change takes time, and it is important to think long-term and strategically, while staying agile enough to adapt to new challenges.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	Deloitte LLP	Senior Consultant Development Journey (SCDJ)	Silver	2022	The Senior Consultant Development Journey (SCDJ) was conceptualized with a vision to create a pipeline of next-level ready practitioners through year-on-year progression, deepening their professional and leadership skills. The intent of developing in-house talent in a phased approach was to allow the Senior Consultant practitioners the time and clarity to strengthen their core and create a highly engaged pool of professionals that has a strong understanding of Deloitte culture and core consulting skills for creating a better impact on clients, people, and the organization. The SCDJ framework is based on an assess-create-and-apply development formula that encourages professionals to self-assess their professional and leadership skills, build their development plan along with their performance coaches, and work toward their goals with access to on-demand education and experience opportunities.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	Delta Air Lines and AllenComm	ACE (Amplify Customer Experience) 1 and 2	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Delta Air Lines and AllenComm is called ACE (Amplify Customer Experience) 1 and 2 and is the new training for new-hire Reservations Specialists at Delta. Redesigned from the legacy 40-day instructor-led experience, it is a 19-day hybrid curriculum with formal, informal, and experiential strategies that complement business goals and metrics: eLearning that sets foundations and emphasizes learner critical thinking during challenging decision-making; self-study activities to build self-sufficiency; self-evaluations that serve up recommended digital refreshers modules; personalized reference toolkits, action planners, and goal-setters; repeatable pulled timed games for practicing core concepts; social simulations; instructor-led sessions and debriefs; and live, daily customer call sessions with tutor support and post-call self-evaluations and goal-setting. The opportunity to revolutionize Specialist onboarding at Delta has already led to targeted business results and increased new-hire proficiency.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	EPAM and getAbstract	EPAM - Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy 2022	Silver	2022	Supporting EPAM’s robust learning and development mission by reinforcing reading habits and educational opportunities for employees, particularly for leadership and soft skills. The getAbstract program provides continuous learning through reading materials designed to maximize knowledge retention and leverage skills and competencies that are both industry-relevant and trending.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	Farm Credit Services of America and Vivayic	RAMP New Hire Program	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Farm Credit Services of America (FCSA) and Vivayic, Inc., is called the RAMP New Hire Program. It is a formal training program for new FCSA teammates as they enter their roles. This entry highlights Phase 1 of the program’s development, where the organization and vendor coordinated to develop the program model, learning outcomes and visual identity.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	General Motors Africa and Middle East and GP Strategies	LEARN Learning Strategy	Silver	2022	The General Motors Middle East retail training organization used the shift to a more digital delivery as an opportunity to rethink their entire training enterprise. Their learning strategy started with design thinking, then an overhaul of the curricula, and finally a blended deployment. Dramatically reducing in-person training saved time and money for GM and its dealers while improving learner satisfaction, maintaining high quality, and driving business results.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	Google Cloud	Google Cloud_Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy_ LEAP (Learning, Enablement, and Action Program)	Gold	2022	Google Cloud’s LEAP learning strategy ties learning initiatives to key business strategies and sales rhythm of the business through regular sales planning cycles. This strategy is a repeatable, predictable, scalable, and flexible approach that has benefited its sales and L&D organizations.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	HCL Technologies Ltd	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	Gold	2022	Talent Development CoE is a true Learning Partner for diverse business forms within the Organization. HCL believes in keeping pace with the 21st century. Keeping in mind the scenario of rapid changes driven by changing business landscape and the pandemic, Talent Development CoE designed learning strategy and associated learning programs for the employees in five talent segments to upskill and develop leaders, managers, and individual contributors, in line with strategic direction of HCL.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	HP and Accenture	Annual Sales Certification	Gold	2022	The purpose of the Annual Sales Certification is to build the knowledge and skills that are crucial for the salesforce to win more and sell more. Through role-based training and an assessment process, the intent of the certification is to help the salesforce to engage in deeper customer and partner conversations and increase their value.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	HSBC GSC and Technology	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	Gold	2022	The Learning strategy aims to support HSBC’s vision of transforming the “bank fit for the future and develop future-ready mindset & skills of our people, through four Learning strategic pillars: 1.Foster learning agility of the organization - 2. Transform leadership & people management capabilities 3. Identify, develop and manage top talent 4. Synchronize values and business Outcome This document will explore the Learning Strategy and learning deployment to fulfill organisational objectives and Business outcomes, in the face of the evolving Business landscape.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	IBM	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy IBM AI Skills Academy	Gold	2022	To advance IBM’s strategy of hybrid cloud and AI, the AI Skills Academy provides employees learning opportunities around up-skilling and re-skilling via role-based education to infuse AI into client offerings. The AI Skills Academy provides learning to various roles and specializations throughout IBM.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	INTERAMERICAN	AGENCY ACADEMY	Gold	2022	Agency Academy is the result of INTERAMERICAN’s new learning strategy. Agency Academy was designed for the Agency distribution channel in order to increase productivity, enhance sales capacity, attract new talents, and facilitate adaptation to the new working environment
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	IQVIA and NIIT	Build vs. Buy Strategy	Bronze	2022	As one of the world’s leading healthcare companies, IQVIA has been on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic which has amplified the need for a resilient, highly skilled, and prepared workforce. This initiative is a transformative strategy to fulfil current and future talent needs for critical skills in short supply
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	Istanbul Grand Airport	IGA Onboarding Program	Gold	2022	IGA started operating in 2019 with more than 3000 employees. So, it was very critical to employ as many employees as need to start operating and also train and engage them with Airports Department Training Instruction, International Civil Aviation Organization-ICAO and Airports Council International-ACI standards in a short time. In this context, human resources and operation teams worked together to develop an onboarding program that develops core competencies and creates a corporate culture that will guarantee the future of İGA’s organization. İGA Onboarding Program, is a development program that begins with the recruitment process and continues until the end of the first year. In addition, the employee's suitability for work is also evaluated within this period.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	Jack in the Box and Inkling Systems	Jack in the Box delivers a learning feast with digital, on-brand employee training	Gold	2022	For twenty years, Jack in the Box relied on a homegrown learning solution that presented numerous challenges around creating, updating, and distributing content. With increasing market pressures like a highly competitive quick service restaurant segment, the need to reduce costs while providing a consistent customer experience and the need to move faster with Limited Time Offers and new menu items, Jack in the Box knew they had to modernize and transform their learning strategy and technologies. To respond to these market pressures, Jack in the Box partnered with Inkling to use their modern digital training and knowledge platform, transform their learning content and rethink their training processes. This new, modern learning strategy resulted in 100% adoption of the new strategy and system across all 2200+ locations, reduced costs, better speed and agility, more effective shoulder to shoulder training and more efficient launches of new menu items/limited time offers.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	KocSistem Bilgi ve Iletisim Hizm. A.S.	Akademi Plus Career&Development Management Approach	Gold	2022	“Academy Plus” the first and only, new generation and multidimensional learning and career development management approach in Turkey. Akademi Plus offers the “development and growth opportunities” that will affect the current and future lives of employees with its innovations in Career and Development Management processes, with an individual, tailor-made, transparent and flexible approach based on the grow mindset approach. With Akademi Plus, the career advancement of employees depends on the progress in their development. They are given the message that “It is now up to YOU to advance in your development and career!”Our new Career and Development Management Approach is designed to “Add Plus to Your Career” with the motto “Discover – Learn – Grow” in order to plan and manage this journey.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	L'Oreal Travel Retail and Growth Engineering Ltd.	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy: My Beauty Club	Gold	2022	The world’s largest cosmetic company and a market leader in online learning solutions joined forces to create a mobile-focused learning strategy. Their app solution, ‘My Beauty Club’ has improved L’Oréal Travel Retail’s learning outcomes, increased retention rates and raised the return on investment from their training spend.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	LACTALIS and CrossKnowledge	The implementation and growth of Lactalis digital learning Academy	Gold	2022	Considering the growth of the company, offering affordable digital learning tools was a necessary substitute to transfer effectively and align the Group’s core values, models, and culture between hundreds of thousands of employees all over the world. At this stage, early 2017, there was no established learning strategy. The target was to enable the L&D team to embrace the new way of creating & deploying courses through digital means.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	MetLife and NIIT	MetLife Distribution Academy: Transforming how the Salesforce Works, Learns, and Performs	Gold	2022	The Distribution Academy is tasked with leading and coordinating the efforts to ‘raise the bar’ on distribution capability to address strategic imperatives, business priorities and strengthen MetLife’s distribution advantage.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	Mondelez Global LLC and BTS Group AB	Mondelez Global Mindset Shifts	Gold	2022	Mondelez sought to create a consistent language and understanding of the behavioral and mindset shifts required to achieve the organization’s objectives across three critical levels. The team focused on implementing modularized content across the enterprise and enable each new learning program, such as transition coaching and capability planning strategies, to be aligned to the new mindset and behavior shifts. The final output is a clear, globally reliable, and level-dependent understanding on how Mondelez’s leadership will bring the organization’s strategy to life.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	Salesforce	The Global Enablement 2-2-2	Gold	2022	The Global Enablement 2-2-2 Program creates a Relevant, Actionable, Measurable and Predictable learning motion for the sales organization at Salesforce. The program provides learning content to be consumed over 2 days within the first 2 weeks in the first 2 months of the every quarter. The predictability of the learning ensures that selling time is protected, sales leader have a consistent expectation and both corporate and local needs can be fulfilled. The program has resulted in significant business results including pipe generation uplift, increased revenue and a renewed culture of learning at Salesforce.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	NEXA and CrossKnowledge	The NEXA way of Learning	Bronze	2022	The educational strategy designed to meet Nexa's need for a change of heart was called Nexa way of learning. It was designed to reduce or eliminate manual and inefficient training management processes, promote a digital and agile learning culture, with autonomy, and easier access to knowledge. It also brought a new way for training specialists to view the learning processes with a modern and friendly uptake.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	OCP and IMD	OCP ABS IMD Beyond an ambitious next-level talent development program	Gold	2022	In 2018, OCP was a decade into an ambitious transformation program to capture higher value-added downstream business opportunities. To develop new talent and skillsets and pilot an innovative learning strategy, it co-created the “Beyond” program, a 24-month talent development journey, with Morocco’s Africa Business School (ABS) and IMD. The program interwove theory and practice to help OCP transform and accelerate its shift to the next S-curve.[1] Beyond accelerated OCP’s growth agenda by prioritizing its strategic initiatives; building a foundation of academic learning that addressed gaps in knowledge, skills and mindset; and then having participants apply their learning on 44 strategic projects. This tight link to OCP’s transformation agenda was fundamental to Beyond’s impact and success, and underpinned the decision to launch a second cohort and to extend the concept across the entire organization.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	Orangetheory Fitness and Inkling Systems	Orangetheory Fitness Keeps Growth Healthy Throughout the Pandemic with a New Training Strategy	Silver	2022	Orangetheory Fitness has a 100% franchise driven business. Their area development model grants franchise owners rights to geographic areas instead of just individual locations. Orangetheory also has to serve 5 different generations of employees across six major roles, all with unique learning needs while constantly competing for the best talent. This unique set of circumstances drove the creation of an innovative, agile and modern approach to delivering operational knowledge and training to their 15,000 employees across 1,400 locations and 26 countries. Their new strategy included a new structure for creating and distributing content, an employee lifecycle approach to training and unique training experiences tailored to the needs of different roles and generations. The Exceptional results included a 40% reduction in content development & distribution time, 5% increase in net promoter scores, a spike in mobile usage and the ability to add 185 new locations throughout the pandemic.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	Paylocity	Sequenced Year End	Silver	2022	This entry, submitted by Paylocity, is called Sequenced Year End. The program was designed to meet the unique challenges of the Year End season. Through repetition of topics and increasing complexity in activities, Account Managers were well-prepared to resolve the challenges brought forth by clients during this time.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	PepsiCo, Inc. and MPS Interactive Systems	PepsiCo GBS – Winning Hearts & Minds	Silver	2022	The Winning Hearts and Minds program is an engagement and educational initiative that aims to inculcate advocacy for and proficiency of PepsiCo’s Global Business Services (PEP GBS) offerings and value proposition among PepsiCo employees.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	Schindler Group and DelphianLogic	Digital Marketing Academy (Phase 1)	Silver	2022	This entry is submitted by Delphianlogic and Schindler Group. The Digital Marketing Academy is Schindler Global Marketing team’s initiative to set up a Digital Marketing Academy to support the global marketing workforce at Schindler in understanding and addressing the modern marketing demands. The intention is to offer the learners a fully digital learning journey that will support the marketing community in terms of onboarding, upskilling, and refresher training across Key Geographies, as well as offer all employees at Schindler the opportunity to cross-skill and grow laterally or vertically across departments.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	Shell and Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd.	Sitez for Operations	Gold	2022	Sitez for Operations is a competence development program for new operators joining the refinery sites Pernis and Moerdijk that aims to bridge knowledge gap between schooling and work and build learners’ knowledge and skill on the various procedures that they are expected to perform at the sites. This application is for the creation of a new learning strategy for the program that aligned to the organizational and learning needs.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	Shell PLC and MPS Interactive Systems	Shell Mobility Competency Program	Bronze	2022	We intend to submit an application for our highly successful and appreciated Shell Mobility Competency Program, an ever-evolving venture to enable our Shell Mobility team, across multiple profiles and locations.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	Tata Communications	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	Bronze	2022	At Tata Communications, we have always believed that learning is vital to drive innovation, productivity, and business impact. As an organisation, we strive to equip the employees with the right tools, technology & environment, to foster a culture of continuous learning and provide an enhanced learner experience. Our new organisation strategy detailed our ambition to become a global digital ecosystem enabler. In order to archive this goal, we need maintain an ecosystem of continuous skill development and readiness. In this answer, we emphasise on how our Learning Strategy is designed to provide this ecosystem and help the business and employees contribute to the organisation strategy successfully,
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	Tata Consumer Products Ltd. and Chrysalis	Catalyst: Become Future Ready and Engaged	Silver	2022	At Tata Consumer Products, we remain committed to investing in building people's capabilities and creating a sustainable high-performance work culture. To fulfil this commitment of capability-building, needs were identified at an organizational level through inclusion of Learning Goals in the annual initiative-setting process. Learning needs of over 1350 employees across management levels and functions were collated. Based on this information, content was curated & created to put together customized learning journeys under the banner of ‘Catalyst: Become Future Ready and Engaged’. The Learning opportunities offered included customized self-paced learning content (~10 hrs. per learner) that could be accessed at their choice of time, pace and place, and virtual instructor led training (~4 to 8 hours per attribute).
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	Tech Mahindra Limited	Learning as a Service	Gold	2022	At TechM, enabling continuous learning is part of its core strategy. It aims to improve the range of learning offerings, create a self-learning culture and develop well-rounded professionals. This is enabled through the “Learning as a Service” model powered by #NAD Learn platform. This internal learning ecosystem that leverages latest technologies like Artificial Intelligence, organizes internal and external content and relies on support platforms to sustain dynamic business growth and help employees reach their career aspirations. This Integrated Leadership Talent Ecosystem aligns Talent Development and Talent management to provide a continuous leadership pipeline to lead anticipated growth. Employees can take charge of their career with holistic learning offerings across multiple technical as well as functional (domain), behavioral and professional skills. The focus is on developing and deploying a structured process of imparting the hard and soft skills needed to succeed in the ‘new normal’.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority (TDRA) and Cognizant Technology Solutions	Digital Capabilities and Awareness Strategy	Silver	2022	This entry is submitted by Cognizant. Cognizant proposed the development of a Digital Government Academy that will administer a range of training programs for stakeholders including the public - a learning strategy to support a society of lifelong learners. As part of the larger change management strategy, Cognizant proposed to reinvent the virtual academy by transforming it into a more robust Digital Government Academy. The academy aims to host multiple learning tracks and cater to the learning needs of different tiers of learners, from basic public information to special skills around specific use cases. This academy will also provide incentives for learning and options for monetizing the training channels. The strategy also recommends a comprehensive system for evaluating the effectiveness of the available training materials and understanding the long-term effects of this deployment from various practical angles.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	The Million Dollar Roundtable and WeLearn Learning Services	From Concept to Reality - Bringing the MDRT Capability Program to Life	Silver	2022	This application focuses on the creation of the learning strategy that underpins the MDRT Capability Program. When MDRT engaged WeLearn Learning Services, they had established a Body of Knowledge (BoK) and selected an LMS system - however the strategy for the form which the Capability Program would take needed to be defined. Working together, the learning team created a learning product model for a digital-first, interactive multi-media learning experience to support MDRT's 82,000 members globally.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	Thermo Fisher Scientific’s PPD Clinical Research Services	Development and Implementation of a Learning Strategy to support a best in class learning culture.	Silver	2022	The PPD Clinical Research Services’ learning strategy was entirely intended to support a key business goal for 2021, which was emphasized by the CEO during calendar year 2021, prior to Thermo Fisher Scientific’s acquisition of PPD: “Continue to build talent through career development, training and internal movement”. The enterprise learning (EL) team strategically aligned with functional business partners to enhance learning across the business and to scale for a massive growth in learning demand.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	UBS AG	GWM Learning strategy – let’s grow together	Gold	2022	The GWM Learning Strategy of UBS supports the business to nurture our people so they can better execute against our strategy. With our three pillars (Professional Development, Line Manager Development and Career Mobility) we offer a wide-range of learning opportunities, which help each and everyone to achieve their own career aspirations.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy	Whole Foods Market and Inkling Systems	New Operational Learning Pathways Strategy Helps Whole Foods Carry Out It’s Mission and Stay Different in Difficult Times.	Gold	2022	Whole Foods Market has built its success on being a mission based company committed to providing its customers the best healthy, organic food through responsible sourcing, environmental stewardship, community giving and the best customer experience. The pandemic and the global talent shortage are two of the biggest challenges to that mission today. In response, Whole Foods decided to revise their learning strategy to meet these challenges and build agility into their learning processes to support any new challenges they may face in the future. The foundation of this new strategy is a set of standard Operational Learning Paths that provide employees across all stores at all levels in all departments with the right knowledge and skills to support the Whole Foods Market mission and to grow the business. The new strategy resulted in lower labor costs, more operational agility, better workforce effectiveness and flexibility and higher customer satisfaction.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating an Extended Enterprise Learning Program	Airbnb and Accenture	Best Advance in Creating an Extended Enterprise Learning Program - A Skills-based Digital Learning Experience for Airbnb’s Claims Partner Ambassadors	Gold	2022	This is a nomination for a Skills-based Learning Program for Airbnb and its partner organizations. This program was driven by the need to improve the training efficiency and effectiveness of Airbnb’s Claims function and its partner organizations who support Claims services. With this program, Airbnb’s Learning Organization transitioned from a workflow-based Instructor-led Training (ILT) curriculum to a modern and future-focused online curriculum. The foundation of the program was a Skills-based learning approach which was aligned to Airbnb’s future Claims vision. The program reimagined learning for various Claims personas and launched a learner-centric, modular, digital, and engaging learning experience designed to enhance the learner experience and improve time to competence.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating an Extended Enterprise Learning Program	Akamai Technologies	Akamai Channel Partner Product Certification Program for Service & Support	Gold	2022	Akamai Technologies is the leading provider of Internet Security and Web Acceleration-as-a-Platform service. The Akamai Advanced Partner Program was established in 2020 to provide training and accreditation to Akamai Channel Partners who wished to increase their revenue potential beyond selling Akamai solutions into also configuring those solutions and providing front-line troubleshooting support. This entry details the product certification program created and deployed, as well as the resulting business impact.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating an Extended Enterprise Learning Program	ALSTOM and Crossknowledge	Alstom University, from cost center to profit center	Bronze	2022	With its digital learning ecosystem and its network of over 800 subject matter experts, Alstom University propose tailor-made or off-the-shelf blended learning programs to serve the training needs of the the Sales & partnerships team. This team is now able to propose to its customers blended programs. When the program is accepted, the program architects of the Sales & partnerships team take over and create the program along with the subject matter experts using the whole digital learning ecosystem.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating an Extended Enterprise Learning Program	Bridgestone Americas and SweetRush	Consumer Tire Education	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Bridgestone and SweetRush, is called “Consumer Tire Education.” Consumer Tire Education (CTE) is an innovative blended learning program for extended-enterprise sales associates. CTE is a holistic “learning ecosystem” that provides all the sales, customer service, tire technology, and product knowledge training to elevate associates from “Newbies” to “Masters” of tire sales. To attract and engage this audience not under Bridgestone’s control, special attention was given to intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and learner engagement, integrating sophisticated games and gamification, 3D characters and animation, storytelling, humor, and entertainment while meeting all learning objectives. CTE utilizes nearly all the tools in the L&D tool chest, including eLearning, mobile learning, video, AR, VR, and instructor-led training, and has proven to be the perfect formula for this largely millennial and Generation Z audience, resulting in an innovative and uniquely effective extended enterprise learning program.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating an Extended Enterprise Learning Program	Daimler Trucks North America LLC and Infopro Learning	Aftermarket Parts Training Program	Silver	2022	This entry, submitted by Daimler Trucks North America LLC, jointly submitted with Infopro Learning, is called "Aftermarket Parts Training Program". To enable the success of the training program, Infopro Learning recognized DTNA’s need to constantly skill and reskill its employees and dealerships. Infopro Learning focused on offering a transformative training program with measurable outcomes. The training was customized keeping in mind the industry challenges, technology disruptions, and potential organizational challenges.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating an Extended Enterprise Learning Program	Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation and Thought Industries	A force of healing and hope through the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation and Thought Industries	Bronze	2022	Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation (HBFF) needed to evolve a dated, Web-based learning program for US Navy and Marine Corps personnel in ongoing recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs. The solution was to partner with Thought Industries (TI) to create a modern, mobile friendly, engaging experience for the participants. Data collected since the implementation of the new system has shown an increase in member engagement and higher satisfaction ratings.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating an Extended Enterprise Learning Program	Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) and Accenture	Enhanced Care People Enablement Program	Gold	2022	The government of B.C. and ICBC initiated the Enhanced Care program to introduce a new auto insurance model for British Columbians. The new model would address challenges ICBC had been facing for several years, including reducing its ever-escalating operational expenditures and lowering rising premiums and claim costs. Importantly, it would also make auto insurance more affordable and sustainable as well as expand care for all customers by providing them enough benefits to potentially cover them for their lifetime. ICBC partnered with Accenture to design a multi-pronged, multi-phased people enablement program that enabled rapid upskilling and adoption of this new model for internal employees as well as the extended enterprise.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating an Extended Enterprise Learning Program	Jack in the Box and Inkling Systems	Jack in the Box delivers a learning feast of modern digital training for their franchises	Gold	2022	For twenty years, Jack in the Box relied on a homegrown learning solution that presented numerous challenges around creating, updating, and distributing content. With 94% of its 2,240 locations franchise owned and operated, the pandemic and increasing market pressures, Jack in the Box knew they had to modernize and transform their learning strategy and technologies for their extended enterprise. They were able to take advantage of device agnostic delivery through Inkling, so Franchisees were not forced to invest in additional technology and they were able to roll out the new programs through grassroots marketing to executives and franchise owners. The new program resulted in 100% adoption of the new strategy and system across all 2200+ locations, reduced costs, better speed and agility, more effective shoulder to shoulder training and more efficient launches of new menu items/limited time offers.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating an Extended Enterprise Learning Program	MetLife and NIIT	MetLife Distribution Academy: Transforming how the Salesforce Works, Learns, and Performs	Gold	2022	The Distribution Academy is tasked with leading and coordinating the efforts to ‘raise the bar’ on distribution capability to address strategic imperatives, business priorities and strengthen MetLife’s distribution advantage.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating an Extended Enterprise Learning Program	Boston Scientific, Endoscopy Division	Boston Scientific Endoscopy Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection (ESD) Learning Curriculum for Physicians	Bronze	2022	This entry, submitted by Boston Scientific Endoscopy, is called the ESD (endoscopic submucosal dissection) curriculum and is comprised of 14 eLearning modules, and two hands-on lab sessions conducted by expert faculty using a faculty guide. It is the first time in the US that a comprehensive approach to ESD training has been undertaken to increase adoption rate of the procedure to provide better outcomes for patients. The 'science of learning" was used to breakdown this complicated procedure and provide eLearning and hands-on practice for the most crucial steps of the procedure. ESD is complicated to learn and this scalable, repeatable program has helped adoption across the US.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating an Extended Enterprise Learning Program	Netskope and LearnUpon	How Netskope fuels hyper-growth by creating a one-stop-shop to train its extended enterprise	Gold	2022	As a business experiencing exponential growth, Netskope needed a one-stop-shop where it could deliver, manage, and track onboarding and product training for its customers, partners and employees. By investing in a learning solution (LearnUpon LMS) and creating a blended learning strategy, Netskope now successfully trains 10,000+ members of its extended enterprise in a scalable way.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating an Extended Enterprise Learning Program	Orangetheory Fitness and Inkling Systems	Orangetheory Fitness Keeps Franchise Growth Healthy Throughout the Pandemic with a New Training Strategy	Gold	2022	Orangetheory Fitness has a 100% franchise driven business. Their area development model grants franchise owners rights to geographic areas instead of just individual locations. Orangetheory also has to serve 5 different generations of employees across six major roles, all with unique learning needs while constantly competing for the best talent. This unique set of circumstances drove the creation of an innovative, agile and modern approach to delivering operational knowledge and training to their 15,000 employees across 1,400 locations and 26 countries. Their new strategy included a new structure for creating and distributing content, an employee lifecycle approach to training and unique training experiences tailored to the needs of different roles and generations. The Exceptional results included a 40% reduction in content development & distribution time, 5% increase in net promoter scores, a spike in mobile usage and the ability to add 185 new locations throughout the pandemic.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating an Extended Enterprise Learning Program	PepsiCo, Inc. and MPS Interactive Systems	Mastering Online Food Ordering and Delivery	Bronze	2022	The foodservice industry has changed significantly with consumers shifting to online delivery. This training program aims to help PepsiCo Foodservice sales reps and customers understand the huge market potential in online ordering and delivery, and enable PepsiCo customers to build a competitive and credible online presence.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Creating an Extended Enterprise Learning Program	Popeyes and Inkling Systems	Popeyes Drives 92%+ Compliance Training Rate for Enhanced COVID Procedures (ECP’s) Across Extended Enterprise of 99% Franchise owned locations.	Gold	2022	When the COVID pandemic hit in early 2020, Popeyes had to pivot on a dime to completely transform and adapt their standard operating procedures to keep their employees and customers safe and comply with Federal, State and Local health guidelines. This was a potentially existential threat to their business and they turned to their learning team to come up with program to roll out Enhanced COVID Procedures to their entire extended enterprise of 100,000 employees, across 3100 stores, 99% of which are franchised locations. With the help of Inkling, the Popeyes team was able to create and roll out Enhanced COVID Procedures (ECP’s) across their entire system in less than three weeks. The rollout of the ECP’s was successful, achieving overall adoption and compliance of 92.3% system wide and enabled Popeyes to keep all of it’s locations open throughout the pandemic.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Accenture	Solution IQ Program	Bronze	2022	Leadership in the Accenture Solution Innovation group identified the need for a common hub to provide online, self-paced training to Solution Architects across various roles, levels, and functions. The learning challenge was clear—to create a comprehensive curriculum that is self-led, adaptive, consumable, engaging, effortful, and accessible irrespective of geographies or offerings. The Solution IQ program provides the viable learning solution enabled by Desire2Learn, a learning experience platform to deploy the courses.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Accenture	Digital Heart Smart - Custom Content	Gold	2022	Digital HeartSmart will help learners become more aware of their current emotional skills and behaviors. This learning journey help employees to develop their emotional intelligence and elevate their overall performance in the workplace. The program is made up of multiple coaching guides, called 'cogs' for short. Every week, the learner will be presented with a different Law of Emotion (there are 10 in total), each of which focuses on a different aspect of emotional intelligence.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Accenture	Mandatory eight-hour safety and health (MESH) training program	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Accenture is called "Mandatory eight-hour safety and health (MESH)" training program. This program on safety and health is mandated by the government of Philippines and is essential for all (approx. 80,000) Accenture employees operating from the country. For ease of retention and navigation, this self-paced program is divided into seven topics, including a gamified assessment. Since this is a compliance training that must be completed each year, utmost care has been taken to present content in an engaging yet comprehensive manner through use of images, icons, graphics, GIFs and illustrations. The navigation is free style, including taking the assessment up first - successful completion of the assessment marks the course as "Complete". The design for MESH incorporates the best learning practices in training and development to excite, inspire and actively engage the learner to maximize the post training impact.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Accenture Solutions Pvt. Ltd.	Introduction to UAP	Silver	2022	The Introduction to Unified Agent Portal (UAP) training program is a web-based, self-paced learning program designed to educate Accenture Technology employees about the salient features and capabilities of UAP (an Accenture IP software/application for Contact Center Agents and Supervisors) in order to raise awareness among Accenture Technology members and help increase opportunities for pitching the software to potential clients.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	ADM and AllenComm	East Plant Onboarding and Case Study Process Modules	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by ADM and AllenComm, is called “East Plant Onboarding and Case Study Process Modules.” It is a series of web-based learning courses that welcome and orient new hires to the ADM East Plant and the 5 key processes that the texturized vegetable proteins (TVP) go through to become high-quality products for customers. Given the high turnover of East Plant employees, the learning experience needed to reinforce the importance of following procedures. Each process module is framed around a case study; a “worst-case scenario,” where learners engage with hypothetical scenarios, based on real-life incidents, to not only examine the 5 key processes but also to make specific recommendations that would have prevented each case study incident. The result is a series of SCORM-compliant courses that are rich with multimedia and engaging, story-driven activities that efficiently built proficiency and have led to significant measurable performance improvements.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	AIG and Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd	Accident & Health (A&H) Direct and Digital Marketing Program	Silver	2022	The global A&H business requested General Insurance Learning & Development build a bespoke program for global marketers, many of whom were experienced but new to AIG, in order to impart AIG’s campaign marketing process, procedures and systems. This comprehensive of six modular learning experience focused on realistic interfaces, tasks, simulations, and scenarios. Employees create, review, modify, and execute campaigns using realistic data inputs to increase transfer learning and post-learning application.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Airbnb Inc. and Accenture	Best Advance in Custom Learning - A Skills-based Digital Learning Experience Program for Airbnb’s Claims Partner Ambassadors	Gold	2022	This is a nomination for a Skills-based Learning Program for Airbnb and its partner organizations. This program was driven by the need to improve the training efficiency and effectiveness of Airbnb’s Claims function and its partner organizations who support Claims services. With this program, Airbnb’s Learning Organization transitioned from a workflow-based Instructor-led Training (ILT) curriculum to a modern and future-focused online curriculum. The foundation of the program was a Skills-based learning approach which was aligned to Airbnb’s future Claims vision. The program reimagined learning for various Claims personas and launched a learner-centric, modular, digital, and engaging learning experience.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Aliaxis and DelphianLogic	Social Media Guidelines MicroLearning Series	Silver	2022	This entry is submitted by DelphianLogic and Aliaxis. Aliaxis is a global leader providing people around the world with sustainable innovative solutions for water and energy. As with any business in today’s world, social media is a critical avenue to create awareness about Aliaxis’ brand, generate interest in Aliaxis’ solutions and products, and increase Aliaxis’ reputation. Responding to the need to align their employees with the social media guidelines at Aliaxis, the EMEA Brand and Digital Marketing team developed for their Marketing and Communications professionals, and those employees who use social media on a daily basis, this series of microlearning modules to build understanding of the use and development of social media assets, strategies, tools, and content for B2B marketing.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Ameren and MetaMythic	Ameren Defender Mission Briefing - Cyber-Security Awareness Course	Gold	2022	This entry submitted by Ameren and MetaMythic is called the "Ameren Defender Mission Briefing". It is the introductory cyber-security awareness course for Ameren employees, introducing employees to their primary responsibilities through a comprehensive overview of Ameren’s digital technology Acceptable Use Policy. Since corporate policies and cyber-security concepts can be abstract and complex to many employees, the course uses visualization, interaction, and immersive storytelling to connect with employees. The course pulls inspiration from special forces training and highly-skilled fictional characters such as James Bond to demonstrate to the learner that they are an important agent for defending Ameren, regardless of their job or role. The course was developed on an aggressive timeline to meet end-of-year budget constraints. The tools used were Storyline 360, After Effects, Illustrator, and custom Javascript. The end result is a SCORM-compliance foundation course that will be augmented in the future with additional topical micro-trainings.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Anglo American and NIIT	Open Pit Mining Best Practice Principles - Bulk Quality Assurance	Bronze	2022	The Bulk Explosive Quality Assurance Best Practices course is part of a series of e-learning interventions designed to teach Open Pit Mining Best Practice Principles which employees must understand and follow, for efficient and sustainable mining.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Anglo American and NIIT	Business Structure Performance Model	Gold	2022	The Business Structure Performance Model is a learning simulation where learners are supported by expert videos and other performance support assets to help General Managers who manage mine sites at Anglo American understand and implement the Anglo American Operating Model (AAOM) in their day-to-day job to improve safety, efficiency, and productivity.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Anglo American and The Training Room Online Pty Ltd	Learning and Development Best Advance in Custom Content Learning Psychological Safety 2022	Silver	2022	This entry, submitted by Anglo American and The Training Room Online (TTRO), is called Psychological Safety. It is a three-part e-learning solution for presenting and promoting the principles of Psychological Safety in the workplace. The aim is to encourage behavioural change to foster a psychologically safe work environment across multiple departments and levels of employment in a way that also complements existing safety training initiatives. Thus, materials that were originally designed for instructor-led training have been adapted for a customisable online platform in a way that demonstrates the objectives of the training by using a mix of familiar images and text-based instruction, interactive activities, and immersive video for a learning experience that is both physically and psychologically safe. The result is a SCORM-compliant e-learning package that is accessible for varying levels of competency and adaptable for language translation.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd. and Siyona Tech AG	JB Data Privacy Advance in Custom Content	Gold	2022	Julius Baer's Data Privacy comprises a 40-minute compliance eLearning course. The eLearning is designed to develop an awareness among all employees of the importance of Data Privacy and Banking Secrecy, with the desired outcome that they were able to protect all client and employee information and could take the right course of action if a data breach or banking secrecy breach occurred. Using a team-based, four-level mission approach, the eLearning features an animated video and a developing storyline immersing the learner in the key aspects of Data Privacy and Banking Secrecy, together with scenario-based questions and awards-based gamification to present, test and reinforce the key messages.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd. and Siyona Tech AG	JB Information Security - Advance in Custom Content	Bronze	2022	Julius Baer's Information Security Refresher 2021 comprises a 30-minute compliance eLearning course and a Christmas quiz. The eLearning is designed to refresh all Julius Baer employees on how to spot and prevent Information Security risks in the workplace. Presented through the eyes of a hacker looking to exploit weaknesses, the eLearning features animated video and a compelling storyline, together with scenario-based questions and gamification to present, test and reinforce the key messages. Delivered six months after the eLearning, the Christmas quiz uses an advent calendar format and tests recall of key facts and behaviors through fun Christmas-themed questions.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd. and Siyona Tech AG	JB Financial Crime - Advance in Custom Content	Gold	2022	The course is designed to create awareness among Julius Baer employees of the basic principles of anti-money laundering, counter terrorism financing, anti-bribery, corruption, and sanctions. Featuring a role and location selection filter, enticing storylines, and rich animations, the learner weaves their way through a Julius Baer building, meeting several employees as they face challenging scenarios and must take the lead on identifying red flags.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Bayer and SweetRush and Third Factor	Rise & Thrive: A Unique Leadership Experience Exclusively for Bayer’s Leaders	Gold	2022	This entry, “Rise & Thrive,” is submitted by Bayer, SweetRush, and Third Factor. The “new normal” of remote/hybrid work descended on Bayer leaders; they needed help! New skills, behaviors, and mindset shifts were required, and L&D recognized that custom learning content also needed its own “new normal” that had to be engaging, innovative, and dynamic. Rise & Thrive is a one-of-a-kind leadership program, custom-built from the ground up, unlike anything seen before at Bayer. This Bayer-exclusive program features the foundations of habit-building: triggers, actions, and reflection on outcomes; TED Talk-style videos, Spotify playlists, weekly ‘curiosity’ dares, Yoda, and Mr. Miyagi. Bayer and SweetRush collaborated to create a fresh, relevant, and impactful leadership program that’s a model for effective custom microlearning—with a 94% NPS score and glowing reviews from leaders!
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Bayer AG and G-Cube Webwide Software Pvt Ltd	Human Rights & Sustainability Training Program for Bayer worldwide	Bronze	2022	The first step in Bayer’s commitment to human rights is creating awareness of both the problem and Bayer's commitment to the solution. As such, Human Rights and Sustainability program at Bayer was developed with real stories from within and outside of Bayer's walls to both highlight the problem and spread awareness of the many ways that all Bayer employees, big and small, can help contribute to the solution.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	BLUE SHIELD OF CALIFORNIA	Information Security: Storytelling, interaction, and retention via animated cartoons & ARCS model	Gold	2022	Transformed 90-minute custom compliance course that nobody was watching (Information Security Refresher) to a 20-minute overhaul using the ARCS Motivational Model for content, & new development tools. Used Adobe Character Animator for storytelling via animated cartoon, and embedded in Articulate for scenario-based interaction. Learners reported wanting all the other compliance courses to be this engaging. In addition to improving the learner experience, using realistic text-to-speech (Well-Said Labs) reduced development time 25%.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Bombardier Inc. and EI Design Pvt Ltd	Understanding and Preventing Undue Pressure	Bronze	2022	The training is designed to provide knowledge, resources and support for managing undue pressure. It creates awareness about the different forms and impact of undue pressure on employees and equips them with strategies and solutions to manage it. The content is personalized for the work environment at Bombardier and relatable case studies, thoughtfully designed interactions, and impactful imagery are leveraged to make the experience valuable.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Cisco and MPS Interactive Systems	EXCELerate	Silver	2022	Helping technical experts at Cisco adopt a consultative mind-set and to build a pipeline for senior technical talent within the Customer Experience organization.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Colgate-Palmolive and BTS Group	Know the Business (KTB)	Bronze	2022	Know the Business (KTB) is a foundational course designed to give learners a foundational understanding of financial acumen with a focus on bringing to light key Colgate strategic and financial priorities enabling proactive actions to deliver better results.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Colgate-Palmolive	Design to Artwork	Gold	2022	The business partnered with Global Learning to create a custom self-directed experience that outlines the new Design to Artwork framework using a mock Colgate product, “Fresh Splash.” Targeted animated videos explain key points in this streamlined process - from entering a Project Initiation Form into the BEAT system, to strategically running Design Rounds with key players and creating master artwork bundles. Performance supporting deliverables like software simulations, process guides, job-aids and infographics include Fresh Splash or real Colgate products to help learners link the new ways of working to their past processes and experiences.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Colgate-Palmolive and SAI360	Global Anti-Bribery: A Trip Around the World eLearning Course	Gold	2022	Colgate’s custom “Global Anti-Bribery: A Trip Around the World'' eLearning course takes learners on an amazing, picturesque learning journey to four key locations where the Company maintains a business presence. These include Singapore; Johannesburg, South Africa; São Paulo, Brazil; and Paris, France. In these locations, learners interact with Colgate employees facing dilemmas related to various aspects of bribery and corruption, and help them resolve their issues… picking up valuable nuggets of information through these engaging stories and scenarios that they can relate to and apply on the job themselves too!
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	ConEdison and Encora	Standards of Business Conduct	Silver	2022	Con Edison wanted to make its employees aware of the key Standards of Business Conduct so that they can make appropriate decisions when they experience an ethical dilemma in their day-today work situations. The following were the primary learning objectives of the course: • Identify key Standards of Business Conduct risks through example scenarios • Enable the learners to understand their responsibilities to contact The Ethics Helpline to ask questions or raise concerns when they are unsure about the correct course of action to take in a particular situation Encora proposed a scenario-based design strategy to demonstrate to the learners through examples how to handle ethical situations by using the Standards of Business Conduct guidelines.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	CWB Financial Group and Xpan Interactive Ltd	Recruiting Teal Talent	Gold	2022	Canadian Western Bank (CWB) takes an intentional and thoughtful approach to recruiting professionals with the best ability, fit, and motivation. CWB calls such top professionals "Teal Talent." This seven-part training program takes the learner through the entire journey of recruitment, from forming the recruitment strategy to inclusive onboarding. The main objective was to tell an engaging story, which was applicable to the day-to-day life of People Leaders at CWB. In order to achieve this goal, the project teams plotted the story and character arcs of the entire journey for the main characters involved in the Recruitment process. Modules were structured in a manner that allowed common recruitment questions to be asked and answered by the characters, ensuring that learners get comprehensive exposure to the recruitment process. In ensuring representation to all, this course was also translated into French, Canada's second official language.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Daimler Trucks North America LLC and Infopro Learning	Aftermarket Parts Training Program	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Daimler Trucks North America LLC jointly submitted with Infopro Learning, is called "Aftermarket Parts Training Program". To enable the success of the training program, Infopro Learning recognized DTNA’s need to constantly skill and reskill its employees and dealerships. Infopro Learning focused on offering a transformative training program with measurable outcomes. The training was customized keeping in mind the industry challenges, technology disruptions, and potential organizational challenges.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Deloitte LLP	Specialist Audit Foundations	Silver	2022	Specialist Audit Foundations is a series of 6 eLearning courses for Internal Specialists, professionals in other businesses, that support Audit engagements. These courses aim to provide Specialists with an overview of Audit processes and guidelines, key activities that are part of the overall audit process, professional responsibilities of an audit engagement team, the key roles within an audit engagement team, ways to document effectively, assess risks, identify effective internal controls, and the various concluding and reporting responsibilities.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	ECCO and Docebo	Launching ECCO Leather Goods in the World of ECCO	Silver	2022	The launch of a new leather goods brand within the ECCO group. Breaking boundaries with a different brand identity and collection, to be communicated to all of the retail staff worldwide attracting ‘new utopians’ – the target audience of the new business unit.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	eClerx Services Limited	Digital Learning @ eClerx Markets	Bronze	2022	To enable the business to grow and sustain a large influx of new hires, by creating a digital self-paced course for learners to upskill themselves. The focus was on saving trainer bandwidth, improving the learner’s time to production and ensuring better engagement during learning by using micro-learning videos, assessments and simulation.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Ernst & Young, LLP and Aptara Inc	EY-P 1YA	Gold	2022	This entry submitted by EY and Aptara is called "EY-P 1YA. The EY-P 1YA program is a set of 10 highly interactive and engaging courses to train the young and dynamic first-year associates (1YAs) at the EY-Parthenon group for their current and future roles in the organization. Two different graphic approaches were used: photographic and illustrative. Functionalities of various common desktop applications have been simulated across the courses to keep the learner experience close to real life. Unique custom interactivities and games have been leveraged to keep the learner interested, engrossed, and wanting to learn more. The EYP-1YA program was a great success as it was very well received by the target audience.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Glencore and Xpan Interactive Ltd.	Tailings Manager Academy	Silver	2022	This entry submitted by Glencore and Xpan Interactive Ltd. is called the Tailings Manager Academy (TMA). The TMA has three levels of instruction based on the roles being trained. Level 3 is the most comprehensive, with 12 modules and an exam following the completion of all modules. Levels 1 and 2 are tailored to audiences that don't need all technical information. Following some incidents with tailings facilities across the world, Glencore sought to make a first-of-its-kind safety program around tailings management. This university style program designed by international experts provides case studies, graphic examples, expert testimony through expert moments and a thorough examination of tailings management throughout the lifecycle of a tailings dam -- from planning to closure. Given Glencore's international reach, this Academy is offered in several different languages.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Google	Tools Advanced Program	Bronze	2022	The Tools Advanced program was developed for Google's global sales tools community to equip them with the skills and knowledge to prepare their teams, verticals, and offices for success. In the wake of COVID-19, the entire program was redesigned from a live, two-day, in-person event to a fully virtual immersive three-week online program, combining live-streamed leadership talks, self-paced video content, community building, virtual networking, and peer-to-peer feedback. The program leveraged peer-to-peer learning and practice opportunities to empower participants to create their own content and deliver tools trainings to scale their learnings to a much wider audience. The end result was the creation of evergreen video content for new Tools Champs joining the community and a +51% average confidence increase for learning objectives + 92% CSAT.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	HARMAN International and SiyonaTech AG	HARMAN Profit Challenge - Advance in Custom Content	Gold	2022	A gamified challenge using a guided discovery learning approach was used, where the learner is taken on a series of missions, following the HARMAN product lifecycle. They meet colleagues in different departments who are facing challenges and are required to help teams in making the most effective decision in each situation. The missions are designed to educate managers about how their decisions impact profitability, to help them learn to identify opportunities for cost savings, increased revenue, the profitable differentiation of products and product lines, and to build managerial competency to drive the business toward our growth goals.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Hatch and Xpan Interactive Ltd	Achieving No Harm: Hazard and Risk Management at Hatch	Bronze	2022	This entry, submitted by Hatch and Xpan Interactive Ltd., is called "Achieving No Harm: Hazard and Risk Management at Hatch." It is a set of two complementary courses that focus on Hatch's goal of No Harm. The two courses include some slightly different treatments, where the first course is more photo-based with a 3D intro and exercises, the second course has a more illustrated animation style. Both courses include scenarios and activities that help learners apply the concepts being presented. With Hatch's focus on safety at the office, onsite, and at home, different scenarios were included to cover all these contexts. This two-course suite is part of Hatch's overall Health and Safety Training Curriculum, under continued development. The challenges include ensuring appropriate and sensitive examples that serve and include Hatch's global reach and audience.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Herbalife Nutrition	Nutrition and Product eLearning for Herbalife Nutrition Independent Distributors	Silver	2022	The in-house Instructional Design team at Herbalife Nutrition consolidated the breadth of nutrition and product training content into a beginner and advanced eLearning curriculum to deliver a variety of micro-courses in 11 languages across 44 countries to independent distributors. Working with corporate doctors and experts plus regional staff to localize the content, the modules were created in Articulate Storyline and Vyond to deliver animated, interactive and fun micro-courses, delivered through a mobile-first learning app called HN Grow. The corporate doctors and experts have championed HN Grow during their live and virtual training presentations to encourage continuous learning about products and nutrition. The metrics show these are the most widely used subject categories among HN Grow users.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Hope for the Day and WeLearn Learning Services	Making The Things We Don't Say - Ok to Say	Bronze	2022	This entry, submitted by WeLearn and Hope for the Day is called Making the Things We Don't Say - Ok to Say. This is an online course, that brings Hope For the Day's flagship education program on mental health and suicide prevention into an asynchronous online format. The objective of creating this version of the program was to reach individuals and corporations who could not participate in facilitated classroom or live VILT sessions. The end result is an online learning experience that captures the ethos of Hope For the Day, the seriousness of its message, and the Hope for the Day voice letting the audience know it is ok not to be ok.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Hopper Inc	Bunny Bootcamp: Travel Agent Training Program	Bronze	2022	This entry is submitted by Hopper and is called Bunny Bootcamp. Bunny Bootcamp is a publicly-available travel agent training course offered by Hopper. This job-readiness program is designed for individuals with little or no experience in the travel industry, who have a love for travel and aspire to become a travel agent. This program is company-agnostic. This means that it’s not designed exclusively for the needs of Hopper, but rather encompasses the basic technicals skills Hopper's industry experts believe most travel companies would require before considering someone's candidacy as a travel agent. Bunny Bootcamp is available online, on-demand, and fully self-guided with over 160 hours of content, videos, and software simulation activities, along with access to group forums and a private Slack channel.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	HP and Accenture	Human Rights Policy - Employee Awareness	Bronze	2022	The Human Rights Policy – Employee Awareness video highlights the goals and details of HP’s Sustainable Impact goals around human rights. The video is provided to HP Sales Reps to understand the importance of human rights and share the sustainable impact story with HP’s customers.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	HP and Accenture	Let's Get Social on LinkedIn	Silver	2022	Let’s Get Social in LinkedIn is a course to provide the key learning techniques to successfully build a brand and reputation on LinkedIn to connect with customers or partners.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	HP and Accenture	Strategic Account Manager (SAM) Learning Path	Silver	2022	This entry is for a learning path targeting Strategic Account Managers (SAMs) and comprising of a number of different learning interactions to enable the SAMs to drive forward the outcome-based selling transformation HP is implementing.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	HP and Accenture	Practicing Outcome Based Selling	Silver	2022	This entry is for the Practicing Outcome Based Selling virtual workshop, which is part of the learning path for Strategic Account Managers (SAMs). The aim of this course is to practice the early part of the sales process and applying outcome-based selling principles.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	HSBC and GP Strategies	HOST IAM	Silver	2022	The highly stylized, interactive Identity and Access Management (IAM) web-based course features a space-themed, choose-your-planet mission home page, a missions-based gamification, optional pre-test, android avatar, and a gamified summary assessment. Designed for the global IT team, the course is an engaging, immersive experience that makes the IT IAM controls information accessible and digestible.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and SweetRush	IFRC Stay Safe: Critical Incident Management Simulation	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by the IFRC and SweetRush, is called “IFRC Stay Safe: Critical Incident Management Simulation.” The Crisis Incident Management (CIM) simulation is an immersive, dynamic custom learning solution that follows the first few critical hours following a major event. Using only their (simulated) mobile phone and knowledge of the IFRC’s CIM process, learners must act quickly to gather facts about the situation, inform others, mitigate risk, assemble and lead a CIM team, and make life-or-death decisions that affect not only themselves but also the safety and security of others. Above all, this adrenaline-packed experience provides learners with an opportunity to fail—and learn from their mistakes—in safety.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Intuit Inc and Aptara Inc	Intuit QuickBooks Payroll	Bronze	2022	The entry, submitted by Intuit and Aptara is called "Intuit QuickBooks Payroll" It is a set of 42 highly interactive and engaging topics to train Intuit employees and their customers, who are small to medium-size business owners, on the newly launched QuickBooks Payroll app. Since the topic was a dry subject of Accounting and Payroll, three different tools were used to increase the graphic and interactivity quotient: Rise, Vyond, and Storyline. The content base was on Rise and interactivities were integrated through videos, comic strips, and gifs crated in Vyond and assessments, simulations, and other interactivities in Storyline. A superhero theme along with a story runs across all the courses to keep the learner engaged throughout the topics. Unique custom interactivities and games have been leveraged to keep the learner interested, engrossed, and wanting to learn more.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	KFC Corporation and LRN Corporation	KFC AUM & RGM Fundamentals Training	Gold	2022	The AUM & RGM Fundamentals training program prepares new leaders to run KFC restaurants. Building upon previous entry-level supervisor training, general managers are taught to think like an owner through a blended program of courses, videos, simulations, and in-depth on-the-job discussions and practice.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Leeds School of Business (University of Colorado, Boulder) (LSB) and Infopro Learning	Leeds Executive MBA pilot project	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Leeds School of Business (University of Colorado, Boulder) (LSB), jointly submitted with Infopro Learning, is called "Leeds Executive MBA pilot project". Leeds School of Business wanted to focus on five key goals for the creation and implementation of this program. The goals were to: 1. Maintain engagement throughout the program via a visually intuitive interface. 2. Facilitate peer-to-peer and faculty-to-peer networking. 3. Ensure a consistent, branded learning experience across the EMBA curriculum. 4. Maximize the value of Canvas. 5. Create a scalable baseline design for courses in the Fall B semester.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Mack Trucks Academy and Kick Learning, LLC	Mack Trucks “Getting to Know the General Freight Customer”	Silver	2022	This entry is for a 60-minute eLearning to introduce Mack Trucks salespeople to the general freight trucking market and to prepare them to sell Mack trucks in this growing market.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Merck	Business Acumen for Product Development Team (PDT) Leaders	Bronze	2022	Product Development Teams (PDTs) are a critical business function for our company. They develop an integrated strategy for our drug development pipeline of products from the clinical trials to commercialization and they are accountable for driving the execution of the strategy to realize results, in a stage-appropriate, and fiscally responsible manner. This, in turn, supports the launch of new drugs to the market. There was a key need to upskill 69 PDTs around Business Acumen to support their decision making and execution.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Merck KGaA and Cinecraft Productions	Merck THRIVE - Best Advance in Custom Content Learning	Gold	2022	In 2020, Merck began a cultural transformation known as the THRIVE initiative to help the organization become more agile and innovative. To support the THRIVE initiative and prepare its senior leaders, Merck partnered with Cinecraft Productions to develop a 15-minute eLearning course titled, THRIVE Through Change. The course was designed with a blended learning approach, integrating eLearning, interactive storytelling, animated video, and PDF resources.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Mindwise and Kick Learning, LLC	ACT for School Staff: Responding to Suicide Risk in Students	Gold	2022	This entry is for a 60-minute online training module that teaches school staff how to recognize and effectively intervene with students at risk for suicide. This intervention includes using the ACT model: Acknowledge, Care, and Tell.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Accenture	ISO 14001 EMS Field Guide	Bronze	2022	The ISO 14001 EMS Field Guide is a self-paced, highly interactive learning program that covers the fundamentals of Accenture’s ISO 14001 certification. The Guide includes the essential concepts, terms, processes, and tools associated with ISO 14001 certification as well as practical information on the development and maintenance of our Environmental Management System (EMS). The course fills an important need within Accenture because, to maintain our ISO 14001 certification, every employee must comply with the EMS guidelines.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Nova Space Inc. and Allen Interactions	Nova Space Professional Development Program	Gold	2022	Nova Space and Allen Interactions developed the first space educational program designed for all learners, bridging the global space industry gaps by offering virtual, asynchronous, and interactive courses to individuals and to organizations. This program was designed to train effectively and efficiently, in large numbers, the space workforce of the future.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Novartis and Siyona Tech AG	Novartis "The Launch" - Advance in Custom Content	Silver	2022	Highly interactive gamified training for P&O (HR) Business Partners worldwide. When new drugs go to market P&O BPs support the launch by planning people-resources across a 5-year launch; the role is becoming more proactive and collaborative and this is a cultural change. The Launch delivers innovative best-practice guidance using four gameshows and four real world scenarios: it is objective-focused, visual, playful, and memorable.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Philip Morris International and EI Design Pvt Ltd	Quality Management System (QMS) Introduction Training	Gold	2022	The QMS Introduction Training ensures that PMI employees, contracted employees, and consultants involved in QMS activities receive basic training covering QMS in general, how the QMS was built at PMI, and key information about QMS processes. The training uses short and easy-to-understand videos to explain the purpose of each process by applying different scenarios showcasing the application of these processes.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Pipeline Infrastructure Ltd and MRCC	Best Advance in Custom Content	Bronze	2022	Pipeline Infrastructure Ltd. was looking to transform its existing face-to-face mode of conducting technical training into a highly engaging, and interactive one, that could be widely accessed by all groups of employees of PIL from various locations over multiple devices. MRCC helped PIL with course designs and lesson plans that were at the heart of engaging and specific content development. This helped PIL to service the unique and varied needs of training, by building an effective curriculum that effectively aligned with learner needs and organizational situations. Upon completion of the course, the users were able to acquire knowledge of the technicalities involved in the use of machines and instruments on a daily basis. Their assessment scores helped them understand how far they had reached with their training while actively learning about other processes, keeping the learning ongoing and seamless.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	PNC Bank and Flint Learning Solutions	All Access: Non Apparent Disabilities	Silver	2022	This entry, submitted by PNC Bank in partnership with Flint Learning Solutions is called the All Access: Non-Apparent Disability Learning Journey. It was developed in support of the Accessibility Office’s enterprise-wide initiatives for 2021 including the recruiting strategy to hire and develop employees who have a non-apparent disability. The course offers information on disabilities that are not obvious or immediately evident to others. The learning content shares examples of how to interact with others who have disabilities that are non-apparent, including (but not limited to):  Autism  Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)  Anxiety  Depression  Brain injuries  Chronic pain  Gastro-intestinal conditions  Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)  Low vision  The learner experience was designed with an activity-first approach. This eLearning module is a 15-minute, scenario-based learning journey which includes scenarios about the employee/customer relationship, the manager/ employee relationship and the employee/employee relationship.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Pope & Associates, Inc., DBA Pope Consulting and EI Design Pvt Ltd	The Inclusive Workplace	Bronze	2022	Organizations that are intentional about creating inclusive workplaces that position them to attract, develop, support and, more importantly, retain diverse talent from all backgrounds will undoubtedly have a competitive advantage. This course is your guide to creating and fostering an ecosystem of diverse ideas, backgrounds and perspectives for a high-performing and culturally inclusive workplace.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Practising Law Institute	Informal Legal Writing	Gold	2022	Much of the writing done by lawyers is informal and digital but training in law schools and firms focuses on formal writing, such as memos, briefs, and contracts. The difference between formal writing and informal writing (e.g., emails and texts) is not just in the formality or the structure—it’s in the very nature of the communications. The Informal Legal Writing on-demand program provides lawyers with instruction on the skills needed to write effectively using “informal” digital technologies.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Qatar Airways Group and Upside Learning Solutions	SAT (Special Assistance Team) Refresher Training	Gold	2022	Qatar Airways and Upside Learning developed an online refresher program to sensitize and upskill SAT volunteers who support survivors and victims’ families in emergency situations. The program was designed with a story-based approach to create an immersive learning experience. It allowed SAT volunteers to face challenging situations up front and practice responding with a sensitive, empowering, and humanitarian approach.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Qatar Airways Group and Upside Learning Solutions	New Understanding, New Hope: Mental Health Awareness	Gold	2022	Qatar Airways believes in providing a psychologically safe and healthy workplace that promotes emotional well-being among employees while taking all reasonable steps to minimize threats to employees’ physical and mental health. Qatar Airways partnered with Upside Learning to create a story-based program that follows the lives of five personas at various stages of the mental health continuum. Each story is unveiled with activities that let learners identify signs and symptoms, debunk myths, suggest wellness habits, practice coping skills, and introspect their own mental health with the broader view of creating awareness and building a healthier, more compassionate society.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Qatar Airways Group and Upside Learning Solutions	Fire Warden	Bronze	2022	Qatar Airways is one of the youngest global airlines to serve all six continents and is also one of the world’s fastest-growing airlines, connecting more than 160 destinations on the map every day. Due to COVID restrictions, Qatar Airways had the requirement to digitize the Fire Warden classroom training without compromising the do-act approach the classroom course had. Partnering with Upside Learning, Qatar Airways developed a scenario-based game to address this requirement.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Raytheon Technologies and Vertex Professional Services	Raytheon's Program Management MasterClass	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Raytheon Technologies in partnership with Vertex Professional Services, is called "Raytheon's Program Management MasterClass." It is a a wholly unique and innovative series of interview style video segments that changed the way program managers experience training. Program Management MasterClass is a 17 lesson video series where two of Raytheon’s highest performing program managers, Bryan Rosselli and Kim Ernzen, speak in interview style, relying on their personal experience, covering relevant topics, including leading teams, balancing stakeholder interests, and managing program execution. Additionally, the course also contains an interactive workbook users can utilize to facilititate their learning alongside the videos. This initiative not only addressed Raytheon’s critical business need to fill a pipeline of competent program managers, but also equipped current program managers with the necessary skills to manage their complex programs more effectively.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	RHB Banking Group and Upside Learning Solutions	RHB Culture Components	Gold	2022	RHB Banking Group is one of the prominent multinational financial services providers in Malaysia. This e-learning module is intended to create awareness among its employees on Culture Components. It is designed and developed with the aim to provide exploratory content to its employees on having a culture of unity, diversity and excellence that formed a basis for the Culture Components of the Group.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Ricoh and NIIT	Customer Engagement Standards	Silver	2022	The Service Delivery Customer Engagement Standards define Ricoh’s vision for how they can partner with our customers to empower their goals and impact on business. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Ricoh identified the need to equip their Service Delivery Team Members (Managed Services Team Members, Service Technicians, and Call Center Team Members) with important soft skills needed to address the many new dynamics caused by the pandemic such as servicing customer needs remotely.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Ricoh and NIIT	Start 2.0	Gold	2022	START 2.0 is a new hire onboarding program that allows newly hired sales professionals at Ricoh to start their sales training on the first day of employment.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Sage	Bee SaaS	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Sage is called Bee SaaS. It's a modular, five-part highly engaging, bite-sized eLearning to solve a business wide problem clarifying what SaaS means to colleagues. Through a very distinctive, fun theme colleagues were able to identify what SaaS meant to them within their roles. The solution used a gamification approach based on learner evaluation feedback. To compliment this learning, a digital badge was offered to build momentum of engagement and recognition.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Shell and Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd.	Mechanical Engineering Foundation	Gold	2022	The Mechanical Engineering Foundation program is a 32-hour, self-paced Onboarding program for the Mechanical Engineering discipline in Shell.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Shell plc and NIIT	Fatigue Management	Gold	2022	The Fatigue Management curriculum is of two levels – one is designed for everyone at Shell to prevent and reduce fatigue at work for each employee personally as well as for their colleagues. The second is designed for leaders and supervisors responsible for HSSE barriers/controls to develop, implement and evaluate a Fatigue Risk Management Plan (FRMP) for a site.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Swiss Re and Siyona Tech AG	Fraud on the Glacier Express	Gold	2022	Swiss Re’s Fraud on the Glacier Express is a short compliance eLearning solution designed to quickly refresh all Swiss Re employees on how to spot and prevent Fraud in the workplace, using the classic fraud triangle as an analytical framework. It features animated video and a compelling Agatha Christie-inspired detective mystery storyline, together with scenario-based questions and gamification to present, test and reinforce the key messages.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Swiss Re and Siyona Tech AG	SIX Spirit Culture Competence Game	Silver	2022	An adventure game with a quest narrative, positioning the learner as a mountaineer taking on challenging terrain. The game explores the idea of building happiness and fulfilment at work through strengthening culture. Concepts of social competence (communication, the stages of learning, giving, and receiving feedback) and self-competence (mindfulness, resilience, values, and beliefs) are presented through exercises, puzzles and reflections and a multi-level rewards system promotes learner engagement.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Swiss Re and Siyona Tech AG	Ownership Mindset Game	Gold	2022	Swiss Re, one of the leading global re-insurers, developed a new set of leadership imperatives to support and inspire leadership in all employees, not just those in management positions. A branching space adventure game was developed in which the user makes a series of choices that have consequences and mirror the leadership imperatives. In this fun other-worldly environment the key learning is delivered in a replayable and relatable way.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Swiss Re and Siyona Tech AG	Privileged Access Management	Gold	2022	Swiss Re’s Privileged Access Management is a short custom content eLearning solution designed to quickly refresh Swiss Re system administrators and user access administrators on how to mitigate risk for users having Privileged Access in the organisation. Using the concept of an alter ego (users who can have both standard and privileged, the solution is presented in the format of a Marvel Comics with a standard Swiss Re user who has superpowers (privileged access). Using comic book style animated videos, missions and gamification, learners need to create a forcefield around Swiss Re. The learners are made aware that with great power comes great responsibility, which is used as the theme of the learning.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Swiss Re and Siyona Tech AG	The World is Watching - Advance in Custom Content	Gold	2022	Swiss Re’s The World is Watching is a short eLearning solution designed to help Swiss Re employees understand what international trade controls are, the humanitarian aims they are intended to achieve, and how each person can play their part in reporting violations. Using a ‘breaking news’ reporting format, the learning depicts an unfolding news story where sanctions are imposed following human rights violations in a fictional country, ‘Pacifica’. Animated video and scenario-based questions are used to present, test and reinforce the key messages.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	System Simulations, Inc.	Cover All the Bases	Silver	2022	An engaging baseball-themed learning system is created to help increase Nissan Aftersales J.D. Power scores and customer satisfaction.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	System Simulations, Inc.	2023 Nissan ARIYA e-Learning	Silver	2022	Nissan is launching a new Electric Vehicle (EV) that’s significantly different from its other vehicles. In addition, there’s an all-new phase reservation and pre-order procedure. A highly engaging eLearning with high retention is required to prepare Nissan Sales Consultants for the vehicle release.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Takeda and Sponge Learning	Delivering a Custom Solution for Takeda’s Code of Conduct Compliance Training	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Sponge Learning on behalf of Takeda, is called 'Delivering a Custom Solution for Takeda’s Code of Conduct Compliance Training'. Using TikTok videos and Buzzfeed quizzes, the Global Code of Conduct (CoC) elearning guides Takeda’s 50,000+ employees through their day-to-day duties to ensure that the organisational values are upheld. In short, the CoC ensures that the highest standards of ethical behaviour are maintained throughout the organisation. In February 2021, Takeda partnered with Sponge Learning to refresh the CoC learning to update the content, maintain a focus on Takeda’s values and boost learner engagement.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Tata Consumer Products Ltd. and Chrysalis	Catalyst: Become Future Ready and Engaged	Gold	2022	At Tata Consumer Products, we remain committed to investing in building people's capabilities and creating a sustainable high-performance work culture. To fulfil this commitment of capability-building, needs were identified at an organizational level through inclusion of Learning Goals in the annual initiative-setting process. Learning needs of over 1350 employees across management levels and functions were collated. Based on this information, content was curated & created to put together customized learning journeys under the banner of ‘Catalyst: Become Future Ready and Engaged’. The Learning opportunities offered included customized self-paced learning content (~10 hrs. per learner) that could be accessed at their choice of time, pace and place, and virtual instructor led training (~4 to 8 hours per attribute).
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	The Million Dollar Roundtable and WeLearn Learning Services	A Storyteller's Guide to Networking	Gold	2022	The MDRT Capability program is a new, digital-first, professional development program. WeLearn and MDRT partnered to create a portfolio of learning products that were designed to meet the MDRT members at every moment of learning need.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	The Wonderful Company and Ninja Tropic eLearning	Pace 360 Safety Program	Gold	2022	The Wonderful Company is a privately held $5 billion company with such notable brands as FIJI Water and Wonderful Pistachios. How did they go 2 months accident-free and reduce overall accidents per mile? They needed custom online training that created a common language across staff around safe driving in a format that was memorable, visually appealing, and usable. For this project, they had a diverse audience - language, educational level, and profession and there was a need to tie the content and messaging to familiar faces within the company. They could not assume people were compelled to sit through their content. So they focused on creating great experiences for users. Short-form microlearning videos - aligned to vehicle types, in different languages, with unique animated “hosts” that people recognized. One employee’s story - Their testimonial is “this training saved my life”.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Unilever and NIIT	Unilever Compass Fundamentals Learning Programme	Bronze	2022	The Unilever Compass is a new strategic framework at Unilever which demonstrates how its purpose-led, future-fit business model drives superior performance, consistently delivering financial results in the top third of its industry and making sustainable living commonplace. To support this, a new online program called ‘Compass Fundamentals Learning Programme’ was created. This was designed to be part of the rollout strategy to foster the understanding and application of the framework for everyone at Unilever, regardless of their role.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	US Bank and Accenture	Accenture Best Advance in Custom Content Learning USB WLT Program	Gold	2022	U.S. Bank embarked on a journey to simplify the borrowing experience for wholesale banking customers and improve employee experience through a holistic end-to-end transformation to nCino, a cloud platform. Accenture’s learning team drove the adoption of nCino for the Wholesale Lending Transformation (WLT) employees through various learning channels. The goal was to enable employees to acquire the skills and knowledge to successfully use nCino to perform their role. Accenture’s training approach ensured users received targeted training and performance support before, during, and after go-live. We created Web-based training to provide a modular, targeted and focused intervention for key concepts. System simulations provided a safe environment for learners to try system activities. Instructor-led training provided a deep-dive of key processes and workflows. On-the-job performance support was provided using job aids and in-app guidance via WalkMe provided comprehensive, real time, step-by-step guidance to end-users directly in nCino.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Veeam	One Team, 100% Channel	Silver	2022	This entry is called "One Team, 100% Channel." It is a 5-part, eLearning designed in Articulate RISE that offers a consolidated view to provide deep and meaningful context regarding Veeam's Go-to-Market as well as the best practices and regional nuances that are essential for all AMER Sellers to action in their daily sales activities and engagements. The creation of this course was based on the business need to provide a holistic picture of the evolution of our Channel strategy since Veeam's beginnings and how each Veeam Team member plays an important role in its success. It was designed to be visually engaging and in corporate brand standards, yet interactive for the learner no matter their role. In addition, each learner can take new information and understanding based on personal needs through interactivity, methods of engagement with content and downloadable takeaways - making this course unique against others with similar purpose.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Volvo Trucks Academy and Kick Learning, LLC	Volvo Trucks “Getting to Know the Regional Haul Customer”	Gold	2022	This entry is for a 90-minute eLearning to introduce Volvo salespeople to the regional haul trucking market and to prepare them to sell Volvo trucks in this growing market.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Custom Content	Webroot, Inc. and Infopro Learning	Webroot Security Awareness Training (WSAT)	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Webroot, Inc. , jointly submitted with Infopro Learning, is called "Webroot Security Awareness Training (WSAT)". This training was created as off-the-shelf and custom training content to primarily populate the Webroot Security Awareness Training Platform (WSAT), an xAPI based windowless platform, that lets you choose between: a. The Phishing campaign had 250 templates for phishing attacks. Upon launching a campaign, the platform can track whether people clicked the bad emails. The report talks about how many people were fooled. b. The training campaigns had 100+ training programs. Learners can use these programs to create a campaign across four topics–Security Awareness, IT, Business, and Compliance.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Establishing Governance to Guide Learning Decisions	Anglo American plc	Technical Learning Governance Model	Gold	2022	In 2019 Anglo American made the decision to focus all its technical training within one new function. The new academy team then successfully designed and deployed a governance model which was an adaptation of an operating model that the company’s internal leaders understood (the Anglo American Operating Model). The first time a non-site function had done this – yet it proved extremely effective in terms of learning effectiveness (proven by a whole-academy impact evaluation) and improving the learning culture (proven by an assessment by Bersin & Associates).
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Establishing Governance to Guide Learning Decisions	Deloitte LLP	Learning Incentivization Program (LIP) and Certification App for CBO	Gold	2022	In 2021, Deloitte Consulting LLP’s Business Operations (CBO) practice designed and developed an in-house application for learners to apply for organization-sponsored certifications and overlaid it with the Learning Incentivization Program (LIP) to attract, retain, and upskill talent on advanced cloud and non-cloud certifications. This initiative, supported by a cross-functional team of Talent and business practitioners, elevated the professional qualification of our workforce by matching it with the hyperscale technology demands.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Establishing Governance to Guide Learning Decisions	Google	Joint Learning Plans	Gold	2022	Training can be one of the first things that’s deprioritized or viewed as a compliance tool, especially in today’s complex environment as learners navigate a global pandemic, virtual work environments, and historically low work-life balance and well-being where every minute of time is precious. With that in mind, it is increasingly critical to root training plans and priorities in mutually beneficial outcomes and joint accountability to maximize learner investment in training & ultimately their growth. In order to address this challenge, Joint Learning Plans were established to increase alignment on key development priorities alongside joint OKRs with each regional sales organization. This effort resulted in driving 84% global completion of joint learning goals (compared to an average of 20-30% across other Learning & Development organizations)
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Establishing Governance to Guide Learning Decisions	Project Lead The Way and Inkling	PLTW: Riding the Subway to Better STEM Curriculum Governance	Silver	2022	Project Lead The Way helps thousands of teachers and millions of students with Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) curriculum and learning. When the pandemic hit in early 2020 they needed to adjust all of their professional development training for teachers and their curricula for students to a blended learning model to accommodate in person, remote/virtual learning and hybrid models. They did this with a unique Governance model called a “subway” map approach to help teachers and students know exactly how to follow and adapt the lessons and activities to work in each of the three different environments. These color coded “subway maps” not only helped guide teachers and students on different types of blended learning journeys, but also instructed teachers on the best paths for how to adapt their learning decisions for the best learning experience for their students.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Learning Measurement	adidas	adidas Learning Measurement Strategy	Bronze	2022	This entry describes how the Global Sales Academy within adidas has managed to create and execute a learning measurement strategy within adidas’ sales training organization over the past few years. This consisted of defining a framework, rolling it out to local training teams, developing digital tools to scale the framework and making the learning results visible to the wider organization. By doing this, GSA is now able to show the positive impact of its training programs, prove its value to the Global Sales organization and improve the quality of training using a data-driven approach.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Learning Measurement	Ameriprise Financial	A Measurement Strategy Worth Talking About \| Ameriprise Financial	Gold	2022	The award-winning programs owned by AWM Learning and Development team and the Ameriprise Learning ExperienceSM platform are recognized in the financial services industry and among leading learning and development organizations, including Brandon Hall Group. The desire to measure learning at the program level and show that training programs led to behavior change, reinforcing participants are applying the skills they’ve learned, necessitated a new chapter in the learning measurement strategy. Launched in 2022, the next chapter of AWM Learning and Development’s story aims to consistently measure, communicate, and improve the learner experience while continuing to build on existing efforts to tie performance to lagging business outcomes.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Learning Measurement	Ameriprise Financial, Inc.	Sustaining a Best-In-Class Measurement Program for Customer Service Training	Gold	2022	The entry, submitted by Ameriprise is called "Sustaining a Best-In-Class Measurement Program for Customer Service Training". The Ameriprise, Service and Operations K&D team has won a number of awards over the years and having a measurement strategy approach has been the foundation of their success. In 2022, this team has moved into a sustain model where they are now managing the measurement strategy end-to-end versus having a third party consultant provide support.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Learning Measurement	Cox Communications, Inc.	Learning Impact: Cox Business University (CBU) Outside Sales New Hire Program	Bronze	2022	This entry, submitted by Cox Communications, is called "Learning Impact: Cox Business University (CBU) Outside Sales New Hire Program". The learning impact measurement model created to for the CBU program established a chain of evidence, connecting what is learned in the classroom, to what is discussed in the "boardroom". New hires were struggling and attrition was high. The Learning Team collaborated with Cox Business to identify the performance issues of new hires and created a program to effectively equip new hires and increase retention of new employees. The measurement model provided visibility throughout the program, providing the Learning Team and Cox Business leaders with actionable insights on the learner experience and skills application. The data was reviewed against key performance indicators and business results, establishing end-to-end visibility of the impact of learning on organization goals. The measurement model is the "north star" for learning impact measurement at Cox Communications.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Learning Measurement	General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT)	Evaluating Leadership Development Training via Four Modes of Measurement	Bronze	2022	This entry, submitted by General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), is called "Evaluating Leadership Development Training via Four Modes of Measurement." The GDIT team provides evaluation support to the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), Division of Learning and Organizational Development’s (DLOD’s) leadership training program, the CDER Dynamic Leaders Program (CDLP). Aligned to the Kirkpatrick Training Evaluation Model, GDIT evaluates courses and the overall program to understand the impact CDLP training has had on broader CDER organizational goals and objectives. The GDIT team analyzes, synthesizes, and summarizes evaluation results and develops course-specific as well as CDLP program reports, measuring and tracking performance results and organizational impact. The team provides findings and recommendations and actions for improvement at the end of each level.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Learning Measurement	Jindal Stainless and Emergence Learning Solutions Pvt Ltd	Best Advance in Learning Measurement_ Aspire & Achieve	Bronze	2022	Aspire & Achieve was a Blended Learning experience based upon the microlearning principles, and was a unique blend of different modalities, addressing all needs of a modern and a millennial learner at JSL, a manufacturing giant. The learning partner crafted an evaluation model using the Kirkpatrick Model, which entails reaction(feedback after every lab), learning(MyQuest platform based upon Action-Feedback-Trigger model to practice and emphasize on their learning), behaviour(competencies were further broken down into observable behaviors) and Results(Reduction in time, Saving money& efficiency in production).. Through Aspire & Achieve, JSL has been able to drive tremendous results in terms of cost-saving, increase in production, improving efficiency by saving production hours, and by inculcating a culture of proactive feedback, positive communication, self-reliance, and building new skill
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Learning Measurement	Johnson & Johnson and LHT Learning	Measuring Effectiveness of Johnson & Johnson Global Health Care Compliance (HCC) Annual Training Program	Silver	2022	Johnson & Johnson’s newly designed approach to measuring its HCC Annual Training program provides statistical confidence in learner’s mastery of the subject matter well beyond a standard required to demonstrate the reliability of corporate learning.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Learning Measurement	MetLife and NIIT	MetLife Distribution Academy: Transforming how the Salesforce Works, Learns, and Performs	Gold	2022	The Distribution Academy is tasked with leading and coordinating the efforts to ‘raise the bar’ on distribution capability to address strategic imperatives, business priorities and strengthen MetLife’s distribution advantage.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Learning Measurement	Mowi Canada West and Vivo Team Consulting Inc.	Mowi Canada West \| Vivo Team - Leader Effectiveness: The Key to Building a Culture of Safety and Productivity	Gold	2022	Vivo Team worked with Mowi Canada West leaders over 2 years delivering live-instructor led sessions, group coaching, and people analytics. Mowi wanted to be able to measure and evaluate their program as is appropriate for Mowi’s learning strategy and the business needs and situations of the widely diverse and remotely located teams. The company experienced many stress factors throughout this period including COVID-19 and government regulatory issues.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Learning Measurement	North Shore Environmental Consultants Inc. and Vivo Team Consulting Inc.	North Shore Environmental Consultants: Measuring Behavior-Based Performance	Gold	2022	North Shore Environmental Consultant leaders worked with Vivo Team, who delivered a leadership development program over 5 months containing live-instructor-led sessions, group coaching, a learning experience platform, and people analytics. North Shore Environmental Consultants wanted a data-centric leadership development program for their senior leaders who were managing diverse and dispersed field teams.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Learning Measurement	Salesforce	Reinventing Performance Measurement with The Enablement Accountability Performance Matrix (APM)	Gold	2022	Performance management and learning impact analysis remains a vexing and complex problem for many learning organizations, with Salesforce being no exception. The Enablement Accountability Performance Matrix boldly claims to be a significant step forward connecting learning and business impact relying on automated data-science models. Bringing together learning professionals, business leaders and data scientists, the APM, for the first time in Salesforce history, makes a clear and compelling case for direct business impact of enablement programs.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Learning Measurement	SAP	Learning2Go	Gold	2022	This entry focuses on learning measurement techniques of SAP's "Learning2Go" program--a fully integrated, two-pronged enablement approach that has brought together SAP’s virtual and digital learning programs under a single umbrella, providing all SAP employees cutting-edge enablement—anywhere, any time and when they need it most.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Learning Measurement	VIA and CrossKnowledge	Leveraging Measurement from an L&D perspective at Via	Gold	2022	In 2021, the HOD (Human and Organizational Development) area was restructured. In addition, the formalization of a corporate environmental policy reflects the commitment to improve its positions related to the activity and reinforces the need to restructure information management, implement results dashboards and constantly recycle improvement practices in internal teams. With its new strategy and culture, the Corporate Education area was redesigned, bringing a dedicated look at indicators. This position was dedicated to designing new models for measuring and monitoring learning data. The model evolves daily, with investment in employee development and integration between systems.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Learning Measurement	ZE Power Engineering and Vivo Team Consulting Inc.	ZE Power Engineering and Vivo Team \| Behaviorally-Based Performance Data Improves Business Results	Gold	2022	Vivo Team worked with ZE Power Engineering leaders and their teams over one year delivering live-instructor-led sessions, group coaching, and people analytics. ZE Power Engineering wanted a data-centric team development program for their workforce that was a mix of field and office staff. The company experienced many stress factors throughout this period including COVID-19.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Learning Technology Implementation	Accenture and Sipadan Servicios Informaticos	Training Integral Management (GIF) Tool	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Accenture (jointly with Sipadán), is called "Training Integral Management (GIF) Tool ." In our journey to Intelligent Operations, the Accenture Learning Team in Spain has implanted "GIF", a web software for the control, digitization, and optimization of all the phases, stages and processes through which the management and delivery of training takes place, regardless of its training modality (in person-training, virtual or online). Optimizing, automating, and controlling the flow of information, documentation and communication between internal clients, suppliers, instructors and employees.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Learning Technology Implementation	Accenture Solutions Private Limited	Accenture Capability Development - Digital Adoption Platform	Gold	2022	Implementation of digital adoption platform (DAP) by using WalkMe to provide an effective way of capturing process knowledge from the clients during knowledge transfer, help train internal Accenture advisors on client processes & application during training and support the advisors on job. WalkMe, helped us to digitize the knowledge capture, execute learning interventions, and provide continues learning and performance support seamlessly on every aspect of the application and the processes.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Learning Technology Implementation	Ameriprise Financial	Learning Transformation: Scaling Skills	Silver	2022	Ameriprise Financial continues a committed journey to transform learning from a mandated approach to one that is learner-led and focused on continuous skill development. Amid the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, significant progress was made with learning technology at the core. Improvements to existing technologies produced measurable benefits and outcomes for the organization and supported individual learners in their moment of need.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Learning Technology Implementation	Arkas Holding	A-Live	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Arkas Holding is called A-Live. It is a Learning Management System. The LMS platform is unique, aiming to convey Arkas' valuable know-how in the industry, to move them forward professionally, to train qualified human resources, to provide a standard in all training programs and to manage all of them. We replaced all of our trainings that were previously in-class with hybrid models, ensuring all training content to be immediately accessible 24/7, through desired media (mobile, desktop, etc.).
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Learning Technology Implementation	Australian Sports Commission and Kineo	A modern multi-tenancy learning solution for Australian Sports	Bronze	2022	This entry, submitted by Kineo APAC on behalf of the Australian Sports Commission details the implementation of a learning management system (LMS) that provides autonomous learning centres for each National Sporting Organisation while allowing syndication of a generic learning content library, developed and aggregated from lead agencies within the sector. The goal for this project was to seamlessly transfer learners from a legacy system, including all legacy data, to the new learning platform and to provide shared learning content from Sport Australia (part of The ASC) and other sector agencies.The ASC made a significant investment with Kineo to deliver a customized Totara Learn (T13) LMS solution with an extension to Totara’s core certifications to accommodate course sharing.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Learning Technology Implementation	Bank of America	Learning Marketplace	Gold	2022	Bank of America realizes that our most important resource is our people and that attracting and retaining exceptional talent from around the world is a key aspect of driving responsible growth. The Learning Marketplace supports our company’s corporate strategy, commitments and values by providing our people a platform to continue their development and support career mobility.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Learning Technology Implementation	Bayer AG, Crop Science division, and BTS Germany GmbH	Implementing a Learning Technology at Bayer Crop Science	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by BTS and Bayer Crop Science is called "Implementing a Learning Technology at Bayer Crop Science". It is about the conception and implementation of a global Commercial Portal for the Sales, Marketing and Market Development departments with which we want to enhance Commercial employee expertise by equipping them with relevant, transparent and easy to access Commercial information and capabilities incl. people capabilities, frames and tools, across functions. It is tailored for various Commercial functions that have been identified as a result of this process and helps Bayer Crop Science's employees on the job in the moment of need.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Learning Technology Implementation	Bon Secours Mercy Health	BSMH Adaptive Learning	Bronze	2022	This entry is submitted by the Bon Secours Mercy Health (BSMH) Learning and Technology Solutions department. The Adaptive Learning initiative provides every BSMH learner with custom-tailored mandatory courses based on their unique learning needs, an enriched learning experience, a reduction in the overall time spent on mandatory learning, and allows for reinvestment of saved hours to ministry priorities such as patient care, staffing, and professional development.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Learning Technology Implementation	CEMEX and Learnship	CEMEX learners empowered by “Glocal” approach to language development	Gold	2022	Best Advance in Learning Technology Implementation submitted jointly by CEMEX and Learnship called “CEMEX learners empowered by “GLocal” approach to Language Development” focused on enhancing business language communication competence within CEMEX global locations to enable effective collaboration across geographies through a structured and progressive program offered by CEMEX University. A global training solution from Learnship was offered through CEMEX University, allowing local business units to deploy the program in their own unique way to meet the specific needs of each participant. Combining strategy from CEMEX’s Global headquarters in Monterrey, Mexico, with local implementation in over 25 countries, this “GLocal” approach has been an enormous success.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Learning Technology Implementation	Competitive Capabilities International	Be Curious: CCi’s Case for Change	Silver	2022	This entry, submitted by Competitive Capabilities International (CCi) is called “Be Curious: CCi’s Case for Change”. The learning tech implementation of CCi Learning Solutions transformed people and business practices and supported team member realization of CCi values – namely collaboration and shared learning. The learning tech implementation was driven by key business challenges as well as digital and cultural transformation ambitions. The implementation of this learning technology garnered positive qualitative and quantitative results with the most impactful outcomes of CCi Learning Solutions’ implementation being its contribution to time/cost savings (ROI of 932% to date), knowledge management (34 active content creators), and culture in the business.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Learning Technology Implementation	Deloitte LLP	Consulting Learning & Development HQ: Where to turn to learn	Gold	2022	As Deloitte Consulting LLP grew and diversified rapidly, each part of the business built independent L&D websites/tools specific to their needs. The result was a disconnected web of resources that was causing confusion for practitioners instead of showcasing the leading learning resources Consulting offers. To address this challenge, the Consulting Learning & Development (L&D) team took a practitioner-centric approach to uncovering learning needs and communication preferences, collaborated across a very matrixed organization, and utilized innovative web design to develop and launch the Consulting L&D HQ website. This easy-to-navigate online storefront was designed to “pull in” practitioners by building awareness of the outstanding learning Deloitte offers and quickly connecting them to relevant development opportunities based on their needs and in their flow of work.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Learning Technology Implementation	Deloitte LLP	ActionBot - Innovating Learning in the Flow of Work	Bronze	2022	Continuing our learning modernization to address challenges identified in 2020, and carrying over in 2021, implemented ActionBot, a learning technology which provides on-demand, in the moment answers to users’ questions and points users to learning resources for more information. By embedding directly in the recently launched audit software platform, a digital subject matter resource was created, giving auditors access to information on how to use the platform while completing their audit tasks in the flow of everyday work. The goal and results detailed, show that needed information was obtained and work continued without more time-consuming, traditional instructor led training, without tedious searches through knowledge repositories and with fewer support requests, compared to previous audit software platform releases.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Learning Technology Implementation	Enlyte and LearnUpon	How Enlyte implemented a new learning technology solution with LearnUpon to support extended enterprise learning across its family of businesses	Silver	2022	Mitchell, Genex and Coventry formally announced the creation of their new parent brand, Enlyte, in October 2021. With learning a core part of the new organization’s vision, mission and values, Enlyte sought to introduce a new enterprise-wide learning solution that would combine the existing breadth of knowledge and resources across the three businesses. As an organization familiar with system implementation through their own software development practices, the team at Enlyte recognized the need for a strong technology partner capable of meeting their unique needs while bringing the three companies’ together. Because LearnUpon built on its standard implementation approach to create a custom, white glove implementation package to meet Enlyte’s needs, LearnUpon was the perfect choice. LearnUpon was launched in November 2021, just one month after the public announcement of the new Enlyte brand, providing a consistent employee and customer experience.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Learning Technology Implementation	ICICI LOMBARD GIC LTD and EDCAST	Best Advance in Learning Technology Implementation	Gold	2022	The application is about launch and Implementation of Learning Experience Platform- LXP and branded as IL Learning at ICICI Lombard. The service provider is EdCast and implemented at ICICI Lombard. The applicationdocuments the complete journey from identification and closure of partner, crafting the project and design, launch of IL Learning and measuring the effectiveness. IL Learning is a comprehensive learning portal for employees in every business. It is the single gateway for all internal, external, paid, traditional and informal content. It focuses on putting the learner in the centre of the learning and knowledge-sharing process with an easy UI and modern content.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Learning Technology Implementation	ITAU SOCIAL and CrossKnowledge	Polo, a digital learning environment of Itaú Social	Silver	2022	In 2017, Itaú Social developed a structured learning model that guided the implementation of a platform and continues to guide the creation of courses (digital, in-person and hybrid) with the aim of enlarging the supply of free-charge training courses for the segments of the public prioritized within the scope of the initiative. This model aligns Itaú Social’s learning strategy with the contents provided, offering guidelines and parameters for the development of professional development strategies, ensuring conceptual and methodological cohesion between Itaú Social and the partners in regard to content and better service for participants, including: professionals in K-12 Education (teachers, school administrators, public administrators, secretariat technicians) and in Civil Society Organizations that provided expanded learning opportunities for children and youth (managers, technical-administrative team, social educators).
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Learning Technology Implementation	Jack in the Box and Inkling Systems	Jack in the Box Spices Up Their Training with a New Modern Learning Platform	Silver	2022	For twenty years, Jack in the Box relied on a homegrown learning solution that presented numerous challenges around creating, updating, and distributing content. With increasing market pressures like a highly competitive quick service restaurant segment, the need to reduce costs while providing a consistent customer experience and the need to move faster with Limited Time Offers and new menu items, Jack in the Box knew they had to modernize and transform their learning strategy and technologies. To respond to these market pressures, Jack in the Box partnered with Inkling to use their modern digital training and knowledge platform, transform their learning content and rethink their training processes. This new, modern learning strategy resulted in 100% adoption of the new strategy and system across all 2200+ locations, reduced costs, better speed and agility, more effective shoulder to shoulder training and more efficient launches of new menu items/limited time offers.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Learning Technology Implementation	Johnson & Johnson	Learning Design System	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Johnson & Johnson, is called the Learning Design System. The Learning Design System is a collection of guidelines and templates for designing and developing learning products for company employees. It contains information on the following areas: Learning Experience Design, Visual Design, eLearning Development, Quality Assurance, and Accessibility.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Learning Technology Implementation	LOREAL and Sitel Group	SPARK Webinars – App for high-frequency employee engagement through COVID-19 and beyond	Silver	2022	Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, L'Oreal’s offline business has been strongly impacted, and its online business is also transforming to face a new reality. To keep L'Oréal employees motivated and engaged, Sitel Learning Solutions Group implemented a high-frequency webinar functionality to SPARK, a highly successful social learning application. The high frequency and full range of Webinar learning and sharing would skill-up employees, equipping them with the agility needed to face this new business transformation. SPARK Live-Webinar was considered the best training technology for L’Oreal during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially for cross-region-operated subsidiaries, making Corporate Learning more efficient and innovative.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Learning Technology Implementation	Medtronic and Adeption	Digital Learning Technology Implementation at Medtronic	Gold	2022	Medtronic implemented a digital learning platform, hosted by Adeption, in June of 2019. The digital platform was piloted with the Emerge program for high potential individual contributors as a digitally-enabled new way of delivering leadership development and learning. Medtronic took a chance with introducing the digital platform as an innovative approach to learning in a historically traditional in-person learning culture. The organization has seen great success in introducing the technology (and new learning philosophy) and has since further deployed the technology across the global enterprise.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Learning Technology Implementation	MetLife and NIIT	MetLife Distribution Academy: Distribution Excellence Through Digital and Social	Gold	2022	The Distribution Academy is tasked with leading and coordinating the efforts to ‘raise the bar’ on distribution capability to address strategic imperatives, business priorities and strengthen MetLife’s distribution advantage.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Learning Technology Implementation	PepsiCo, Inc. and MPS Interactive Systems	Frontline Leader Onboarding Platform	Silver	2022	The Frontline Leader Onboarding Platform supports end-to-end onboarding of PepsiCo frontline employees with customized onboarding roadmaps and gamification elements.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Learning Technology Implementation	Ping An Smart City	The Implementation and Application of Online Learning Technology in Enterprises	Gold	2022	Combined with more than 30 years of experience on fast-growing digital transformation of Ping An Group of China, PingAn ZhiNiao has created a one-stop digital solution to talent training with "consultation + platform + content + operation". Through planning consultation, intelligent platform, curriculum system construction and professional operation services, it helps corporates on talent training, empowering business development and promotion of digital transformation and upgrading.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Learning Technology Implementation	RE/MAX, LLC and Docebo	RE/MAX University Reinvented	Bronze	2022	RE/MAX University is a platform designed to meet the unique training needs of independent contractors and franchise owners who serve them in the real estate space. Our platform is designed to meet the learner where they are at with the content that will help them power their business.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Learning Technology Implementation	Redacted and Cognota	Leveraging Learning Operations Software to Increase L&D Efficiency and Productivity	Silver	2022	The L&D team of “Confidential Client” operating in the healthcare industry were moving from a decentralized to a federated model. This required standardization of processes and governance over the production of learning materials. “Confidential Client” introduced Cognota, a learning operations platform, to standardize processes, centralize collaboration, materials, and workflows, and gain insights into the capacity of L&D and the demand for training.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Learning Technology Implementation	Tata Consultancy Services	PlaySTAK – A Technical Solution to create a 'Learning by Doing' culture and promote a 'Hack Mindset’	Gold	2022	PlaySTAK is a one-click, gamified, machine-first ecosystem that focuses on rapidly building and spotting digital ninjas via hands-on interventions. The program has helped Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) foster a culture of agile problem solving and competitive hands-on development - must-have for executing digital transformation projects. It also enabled TCS associates to accelerate their career progressions and business teams to find the right fit for their requirements.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Machine Learning and AI	Ping An Smart City	The Implementation and Application of Online Learning Technology in Enterprises	Gold	2022	Combined with more than 30 years of experience on fast-growing digital transformation of Ping An Group of China, PingAn ZhiNiao has created a one-stop digital solution to talent training with "consultation + platform + content + operation". Through planning consultation, intelligent platform, curriculum system construction and professional operation services, it helps corporates on talent training, empowering business development and promotion of digital transformation and upgrading.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Training Programs that Require Global Accessibility Standards	Commonwealth of Learning and EI Design Pvt Ltd	Universal Design for Learning (UDL)	Gold	2022	Commonwealth of Learning (COL) creates micro-courses for building 21st century skills for teaching, learning and employability. As part of their offerings, this is an introductory course on Universal Design for Learning (UDL) that provides a foundation for developing accessible courses and demonstrates the potential of UDL to make teaching resources and practices more responsive to students’ diverse needs and contexts.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Training Programs that Require Global Accessibility Standards	PNC Bank and Flint Learning Solutions	All Access: Non Apparent Disabilities	Bronze	2022	This entry, submitted by PNC Bank in partnership with Flint Learning Solutions is called the All Access: Non-Apparent Disability Learning Journey. It was developed in support of the Accessibility Office’s enterprise-wide initiatives for 2021 including the recruiting strategy to hire and develop employees who have a non-apparent disability. The course offers information on disabilities that are not obvious or immediately evident to others. The learning content shares examples of how to interact with others who have disabilities that are non-apparent, including (but not limited to):  Autism  Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)  Anxiety  Depression  Brain injuries  Chronic pain  Gastro-intestinal conditions  Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)  Low vision  The learner experience was designed with an activity-first approach. This eLearning module is a 15-minute, scenario-based learning journey which includes scenarios about the employee/customer relationship, the manager/ employee relationship and the employee/employee relationship.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Advance in Training Programs that Require Global Accessibility Standards	Sutherland Global Services	Simulation-Based Activity with Global Accessibility Standards for an E-Commerce Program	Gold	2022	All digital Content design and Development like eLearning, scenario-based learning, case studies etc., for Internal and external customers, developed for the learning benefit of the employees needed to cater to the Global Accessibility standards. As a first step, Sutherland did due diligence and incorporated the results of the analysis on an e-commerce program, developing a simulation-based activity e-learning that became the basis for creating a structured accessibility process for the whole organization.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Approach to Implementing a Learning Experience Platform (LXP)	Bain & Company	Focus On The Promise: An LXP Implementation For The Culture	Gold	2022	Spurred by a change in employee demographics and keeping their employees competitive in their field, Bain & Company's Digital Learning Experience team (DLX) began searching for an LXP vendor. After a comprehensive search and RFP process, the team chose an industry-leading vendor and started a 12-month implementation, including a 6-week early access testing phase and a successful launch. From conception to execution to steady-state, DLX used a data-driven, customer-centric approach that resulted in the delivery of an LXP suited to the needs of Bain. As a result, the LXP maintains high monthly active usage, receives a high NPS, and offers a clear path to the future of learning at the organization.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Approach to Implementing a Learning Experience Platform (LXP)	Chevron Corporation	iLearn, powered by degreed	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Chevron, is called "iLearn, powered by degreed." iLearn, powered by degreed, is Chevron's new Learning Experience Platform, which functions as the engagement layer of the learning ecosystem. It is designed to help employees quickly and easily discover, share, and track many types of learning resources – from courses, to videos, to articles, and more – from across the enterprise. It has become Chevron's new "front door to learning," and it has gained engagement and adoption through targeted, functional engagement.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Approach to Implementing a Learning Experience Platform (LXP)	Cognizant	My Learning Studio	Gold	2022	My Learning Studio is Cognizant’s global learning platform. It empowers employees to connect, collaborate, and contribute by providing them with: • A plethora of learning resources • Recommendations to prepare for future assignments/projects • A structured learning journey via personalized pathways • Several activities such as hackathons, events, quizzes, and more • Marketplace to offer and consume learning services and content • Rewards and recognition for completing learning milestones
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Approach to Implementing a Learning Experience Platform (LXP)	ICC Academy and Kineo APAC	The International Chamber of Commerce meet multiple audience needs with a modern LXP solution	Bronze	2022	ICCA implemented a single system to manage their business strategy. The resulting customized LXP had flexibility in the back end to accommodate different revenue streams; B2B and B2C clients, user-friendly ecommerce and manual operations. The ICC Academy and Kineo collaborated to create a one- of-a-kind LMS platform that caters to the evolving needs of professionals worldwide,. Taking into consideration customer feedback, the ICC Academy’s learning offering is now highly personalised. With its user-friendly interface and a range of features designed to augment e-Learning experiences, including allowing candidates to pursue a complete certification pathway or simply select ad-hoc courses of a specific programme, the platform enables business to drive growth through individualised learning.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Approach to Implementing a Learning Experience Platform (LXP)	Zoom	Zoom Learning Center	Gold	2022	The Zoom Learning Center's mission is to centralize customer learning and expand offerings to include on-demand and just-in-time learning - allowing users to learn anywhere, anytime, and in a way that works best for them. To accomplish this, Zoom formed a brand new team and purchased a learning experience platform that could support system integrations, various learning tools and modalities, customized UIs, robust reporting capabilities, and marketable features (e.g. badges and certificates). Five months after securing the LXP, the Zoom Learning Center launched with 14 learning plans, 43 courses, and 67 "Show Me" videos educating on Zoom's UCaaS product suite and accessible for all Zoom users no matter their account type or user role.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Association Professional Development Program	(ISC)² and D2L	Expanding Professional Development on a Global Scale	Bronze	2022	(ISC)² worked with long-term partner and learning technology leader D2L to expand its Professional Development Institute (PDI) - a massive, scalable training program for professional members of cybersecurity. The on-demand online format has enabled hundreds of thousands of cybersecurity professionals across 175 countries to continue their professional development education. (ISC)² now offers 60 courses, in multiple languages and continues to expand its catalogue to keep providing the best value for members.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Association Professional Development Program	American Association of Critical-Care Nurses and SweetRush	Fundamental Skills for Nurse Managers	Gold	2022	This entry, “Fundamental Skills for Nurse Managers” (FSNM) is submitted by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) and SweetRush. More than 500,000 acute and critical care nurses are represented by AACN, the world’s largest specialty nursing organization. If a nurse transitions from nurse to nurse manager, learning the skills required to make that transition, particularly during the first year, is daunting. AACN recognized the need for a robust professional development curriculum that prepares and supports nurses during this crucial transition. With 16 hours of critical content, the program had to be engaging, hold their attention, be accessible within their work environment, and speak to them authentically with relevant themes and storytelling. FSNM is an in-depth and innovative program that is scenario-based, features relatable avatar-characters and situations in 40 concise, mobile-accessible lessons, supplemented by branching activities and job aids. It’s effective and has received high marks from learners.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Association Professional Development Program	American Diabetes Association and American Heart Association and SweetRush	Know Diabetes by Heart™	Gold	2022	This entry, “Know Diabetes by Heart™” is submitted by the American Heart Association, the American Diabetes Association, and SweetRush. When treating patients living with type 2 diabetes (more than 500 million adults worldwide), health care professionals have traditionally “stayed in their lane,” focusing on their specialty only. A shift to a new, holistic approach to treating the whole patient was needed to address both diabetes and its associated ailments—but this requires both a change and advance in the competencies and skills of health care professionals. Two world-renowned non-profits—the American Heart Association (AHA) and the American Diabetes Association (ADA) came together, along with vendor-partner SweetRush—to create the Know Diabetes by Heart™ association professional development program, which upskills health care professionals to embrace a new way of treating patients. Tailor-made for these busy learners, this creative, multi-faced, and engaging program exceeded expectations and continues to save and improve many lives!
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Association Professional Development Program	Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada) and MPS Interactive Systems	Show Up Like a Coach for Effective Performance Management	Gold	2022	A comprehensive 8 course online and on demand program on leadership skills development for emerging leaders (less than 10 years of experience) from all accounting and finance sectors – audit, industry, practitioner, public sector, not-for-profit, and focused on developing leadership skills. This entry is for the first course of the program, Show Up Like a Coach for Effective Performance Management. The solution included a mix of self-paced learning modalities with real-life scenarios and reflection activities to encourage contextual and active learning application of the concepts. It also included social learning activities, such as poll questions and the ability for the learners to view responses from other participants to enable them to analyze the industry trends and self-reflect on what areas they need to focus on to develop their skills and competencies to become better leaders.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Association Professional Development Program	International Carwash Association	LEAD - Car Wash Manager Training	Bronze	2022	This entry, submitted by International Carwash Association is called "LEAD- Car Wash Manager Training. LEAD is an online, car wash specific management training program for retail car wash organizations. The program was developed to create consistent, entertaining training that combined core skills with on-the-job training. It provides an industry credential to car wash managers to demonstrate their professionalism and commitment to the profession. It was designed to fill a gap in management training that plagued many retail organizations. The outcome is 30 SCORM-compliant courses that are easily accessible and implementable for organizations of all sizes.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Association Professional Development Program	Microsoft Corportation India Private Ltd. and Ernst and Young Associate LLP, NASSCOM, Monster and GitHub	Future Ready Talent - Virtual Internship Program	Gold	2022	Future Ready Talent (FRT) program is designed in line with the Skill India vision to empower India’s youth with technology skills for employability. Under the program, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), FutureSkills Prime—a NASSCOM and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) digital skilling initiative, Ernst & Young (EY), GitHub and Monster along with Microsoft provides a holistic skilling platform, connecting talent to opportunity. The program has been designed keeping the learner at the center. With its Learn-Apply-Implement framework, the program offers students an end-to-end experience, from digital skilling to working on critical projects in a sandbox environment, to mentoring with industry experts and access to potential employers.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Association Professional Development Program	Million Dollar Roundtable	The MDRT Capability Program	Bronze	2022	The MDRT Capability Program is a digital-first professional development program focused on five key areas of learning for MDRT's members. The program is designed for early-career MDRT members to help them develop and enhance the skills they need to grow their practice as insurance and financial services professionals. The program contains over 42 courses and has Assessment-Based Certificates (ABCs) and 10 unique digital badges for domain-level achievement, and one digital badge for program completion. The program is a robust offering that enables MDRT to support the lifelong learning of their 82,000 members globally.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Association Professional Development Program	Money Management Institute and University of Virginia Darden School Foundation	Executive IQ by Money Management Institute	Gold	2022	This innovation accelerator program was designed and delivered in collaboration with UVA Darden Executive Education & Lifelong Learning, Microsoft and PwC. This entry is jointly submitted by Money Management Institute and UVA Darden Executive Education. Limited to select senior leaders in the financial services industry, the Executive IQ program combines multiple learning modalities along with university-backed curricula with real-world case studies from prestigious consultancies and Fortune 500 companies. This flagship program makes the industry the classroom, and every participant's experience an essential part of the program.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Association Professional Development Program	NFPA and AllenComm	NFPA Public Safety Drone Guide Online Training	Silver	2022	This entry, submitted by the National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA) and AllenComm, is called "NFPA Public Safety Drone Guide Online Training." Using this modular eLearning course, practitioners can review and practice applying NFPA’s 2400 Standard to ensure their Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) program supports public safety operations safely, efficiently, and effectively, ultimately reducing their liability exposure. The two sections of the course—administration and operations—bring to life the NFPA 2400 Standard through a multimedia-rich experience including 360-degree navigation menus, video, and interactive 3D models and environments. In addition to keeping learners engaged, these interactions demonstrate principles and allow learners to apply concepts in simulated missions, driving home the value of the standard and its adoption amongst users. Optimized for desktop and mobile, this course offers an immersive experience no matter where or how it is viewed by its diverse audience.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Association Professional Development Program	NTPC Limited	Shaping the Lives of Young Professionals by Enhancing Technical Competencies and Life Skills	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by NTPC Limited is titled "Shaping the Lives of Young Professionals by Enhancing Technical Competencies and Life Skills " This application under “Best Association Professional Development Program”, is a description of specially designed, first of its kind, on-line Vocational Training program conducted for Engineering Students of India wherein 1244 engineering students participated from across of the country through virtual mode. The program aimed at fulfilling the needs of participants related to their career aspirations, employability and holistic wellbeing. The program resulted into significant tangible and intangible benefits for the Participants as well as for Industry Association. As per the post program survey, 44% of all eligible participants have got placements in prestigious companies.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Association Professional Development Program	Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and SweetRush	The SHRM People Manager Qualification (PMQ)	Gold	2022	InSight SAP is a voluntary, internal learning opportunity offered by the P&O Learning Team. There was no program before InSight SAP, that helped P&O employees to understand company’s insights in that instructional design and format, which makes it a unique learning experience. The main goal is to develop and deepen the level of business acumen for employees in P&O-functions. This includes strengthening the entrepreneurial mindset as well as learning from business in order to create a high level of customer awareness and acceptance as well as reduce complexity of certain business topics for the P&O community.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Association Professional Development Program	Sutherland Global Services and Skillsoft	Accelerating Learning Development Program for Sutherland Global	Gold	2022	This entry submitted by SHRM and SweetRush is “The SHRM People Manager Qualification (PMQ).” PMQ truly represents the best professional development created by an association! It tackles a critically important subject through a 10-hour eLearning journey, is extremely effective, and so highly engaging and enjoyable, it’s bingeworthy. PMQ covers all the responsibilities, tasks, challenges, and opportunities that new leaders face as they transition from being an individual contributor into their new role. Inspired by streaming TV-Netflix-Friends, with episodes and seasons rather than modules and lessons, PMQ teaches the 110 behavioral indicators and 27 performance objectives new leaders need to learn, practice, and embrace. PMQ is story-driven with fully developed, relatable and authentic characters. Engagement stays high with interactivity and gamification. PMQ is professional development as it should be done; it will be leveraged by thousands of organizations with a profound impact—creating a new standard for online training.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Association Professional Development Program	TDRA and Cognizant Technology Solutions	UAE Digital Government Capability & Skill Program	Silver	2022	At Sutherland, the key focus of employee skilling is through Professional Development programs that enables employee to continue excelling along with their current competency. As a continuous journey to upskill/ reskill people on digital talent, Sutherland partnered with Skillsoft and introduced Curated/customized learning aspire journeys/pathways/channels globally, suiting the learning need of employees via Percipio- Skillsoft personalized, immersive and accessible learning platform. The Skillsoft Percipio Learning Experience Platform has more than 30,000 courses targeting specific skills, competency and learner proficiency content that enable employees to sustain performance to industry standards. The novelty of this collaboration is to engage learners with interactive videos, practical simulations through sandbox and cloud labs, Live mentor support and audio files for learning. Courses are designed to allow them to learn in various modality and accessible from anywhere, anytime, and any device. The blended learning programs draw the career enhancement and pathway for growth of the employee.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Association Professional Development Program	SAP SE	Learning And Development Program - InSight SAP - Foster Business Acumen for P&O	Silver	2022	As part of the UAE’s digital development plan in the post-pandemic era, UAE’s National Digital Government Strategy 2025 was put in place to ensure that the UAE Government evolves to become digital by design and transitions their public and private sectors towards higher levels of digital maturity. The UAE Digital Government Capability & Skill Program is an end-to-end professional development program to increase the adoption of digital enablers and skilling. It is primarily focused on capability and skill-building to upskill TDRA’s diverse audience groups for enabling digital transformation. It is a holistic and digital learning program comprising innovative, engaging, interactive, and personalized learning strategies. In a nutshell, Cognizant’s Digital Learning team aimed to help the UAE meet two specific goals, as highlighted below, of the 2025 vision: Upskill the Federal Government workforce on digital government capabilities Ensure digital adoption across the target audience spectrum
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Certification Program	Accenture	Master Data Architecture	Gold	2022	Master Data Architect (MDA) Certification Program, launched in collaboration with MIT Professional Education (MIT PE), is one way we, at Accenture are equipping our people with the critical skills to power successful cloud transformations. The program offers the opportunity to explore various industries and become a data industry expert. It’s organized into two tracks: technical and industry specific.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Certification Program	Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI)	Best Certification Program	Gold	2022	BRI has been serving Indonesia for 127 years, supporting economic growth and serving customers from small economic community levels throughout Indonesia. Throughout its journey, BRI shows its commitment to prioritizing service to the micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) segment. BRI consistently provides the best service by fostering, empowering, and supporting MSMEs to optimize their competence in improving the welfare of families and surrounding communities. Carrying the vision of becoming "The Most Valuable Banking Group in Southeast Asia and Champion of Financial Inclusion" by 2025, BRI has implemented brilliant breakthroughs in overcoming business predicament through enabling the mobility of businesses in promoting their products.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Certification Program	BPJS Ketenagakerjaan	Best Certification Program	Bronze	2022	BPJS Ketenagakerjaan (Social Security Agency for Employment) was established on January 1st, 2014 in accordance with the mandate of Law No. 24 of 2011 concerning the Social Security Provider (BPJS Ketenagakerjaan, 2017). BPJS Ketenagakerjaan objective of cover all workers (formal and informal) in Indonesia by providing five benefits for the participants: 1. Death Benefit (JKM) 2. Occupational Accident Benefit (JKK) 3. Old Age Saving Benefit (JHT) 4. Pension Benefit (JP) 5. Unemployment Benefit (JKP) In 2021, there were in total about 52.41 million of BPJS Ketenagakerjaan’s participants. It is expected to continue growing in the future. To expand its coverage and protection to all workers in Indonesia (formal and informal), BPJS Ketenagakerjaan builds cooperation with various parties. In 2021, the number of participants increased 1.25 percent, from 51.76 million in 2020 to 52.41 million in 2021. Total Revenue (Asset) in 2021 is IDR 483,78 Trillion or $ 33.4 Million.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Certification Program	Celonis SE	Celonis MasterClass - Become a Celonis Master!	Bronze	2022	The MasterClass Certification Program is a hybrid, case-based training where Celonis experts guide participants through the End-to-End pre-sales & post-sales Celonis Execution Management System cycles. It plays a highly strategic role in the Celonis Go-to-Market Strategy, which relies on qualifying industry experts to disseminate the Celonis Execution Management System across various industries and locations. The MasterClass ensures Celonis partners deliver projects up to Celonis quality standards; simultaneously, it awards its Celonis expertise with a credentialing program. Since its launch in June 2021, the MasterClass certification program has been a massive success in learning outcomes and partner feedback, and it's quickly expanding and adapting, becoming ever more crucial to the Go-to-Market company-wide strategy.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Certification Program	Cisco and MPS Interactive Systems	Performance One	Silver	2022	Providing the technical and non-technical experts at Cisco across business groups with a common delivery framework to develop migration proficiency and uniformity in deliverables for customer success.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Certification Program	Cisco and MPS Interactive Systems	Performance One	Silver	2022	Providing the technical and non-technical experts at Cisco across business groups with a common delivery framework to develop migration proficiency and uniformity in deliverables for customer success.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Certification Program	Cisco and MPS Interactive Systems	Performance One	Silver	2022	Providing the technical and non-technical experts at Cisco across business groups with a common delivery framework to develop migration proficiency and uniformity in deliverables for customer success.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Certification Program	Cognizant	“Pharmacovigilance (PV) Individual case safety report (ICSR) Equip” Training Program	Gold	2022	“Pharmacovigilance (PV) Individual case safety report (ICSR) Equip” is a training program which is developed by the Life Science Digital Nexgen Academy (LSDNA), the central L&D team of the Life Sciences business unit, considering the critical requirement in the PV industry to provide well-trained PV professionals to meet the growing demand. This is a 2 months structured onboarding training program for the associates who are hired in advance (not in the usual ‘just in time’ way of the anticipated requirement/demand), to equip them with the necessary foundational knowledge, skills and attitude. This program has deployed 100% of the trained PV professionals to meet the immediate business need and has received good feedback and appreciation from business leaders and associates, with a net promoter score of 99%.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Certification Program	Cognizant	Global Strategic Alliances Partnership Certification Program	Gold	2022	Alliance Partnership is the strong link between Cognizant and its various Strategic Partners through variety of integrated multi-channel, high-impact marketing initiatives that strengthen partnerships, build brand, and accelerate business development. The Strategic Alliance team is chartered to develop new high-margin growth opportunities across the technology landscape by identifying offerings with strong product/market fit in the vertical sectors Cognizant serves. The primary focus of strengthening the Strategic Partnership was to elevate Cognizant’s ranking in Partner ecosystem is terms of overall certifications achieved across partners leading to target attainment, deal facilitation various engagement and partner programs as well as customer engagements reducing cost of delivery, maximizing revenue growth.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Certification Program	Cognizant	Project MAIA 2021	Gold	2022	Project MAIA 2021 - A global AWS certification program executed in collaboration between Amazon Web Services, technology Vertical within Cognizant and Cognizant Learning & Development. Nominations from MDU/MCUs and Service Lines were included as part of this program.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Certification Program	Colgate-Palmolive and Circus Street	Total Digital Certification Program	Bronze	2022	As part of Colgate’s commitment to winning in a connected world, Colgate is accelerating our up skilling with a new certification program for digital practitioners. In collaboration with Circus Street, a leader in online digital learning, Colgate has designed a new program to cover digital frameworks, concepts and techniques.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Certification Program	Conduent Business Services	Train the Digital Trainer certification program	Bronze	2022	A practical, blended learning certification program for internal trainers that support client accounts around the globe. The program is designed to (i) ensure that internal trainers have the right skills to design and facilitate engaging virtual classroom sessions, (ii) ensure consistently excellent training delivery and, (iii) give trainers the recognition they deserve. The program is completed in two parts: completion of a training program and then, to become certified, successfully facilitating a 30-minute training session which is assessed against 30 criteria by members of the Train the Digital Trainer core team.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Certification Program	Dell Technologies Education Services	Dell Technologies PowerMax and VMAX All Flash Solutions Expert Certification	Bronze	2022	The PowerMax and VMAX All Flash Expert certification program was designed to align effectively to the learning needs of the organization. This exam was designed for Technology Architects, Implementation Engineers, and Storage Administrators.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Certification Program	Equitable Advisors	Best Certification Program – Credentialed Holistic Financial Coach	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Equitable for the Best Certification Program, outlines how Equitable has partnered with Columbia University to design a customized coaching experience and credential: the Credentialed Holistic Financial Coach program. Addressing the desire of Clients for their Financial Professionals to address more than just finances, this designation is designed to integrate the traditional planning their Financial Professionals are already doing with Ivy-League coaching and will be internally profitable by year-end. Note: If selected as a winner, we are willing to have elements of this application published after clearing it with our legal and PR departments.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Certification Program	Ericsson	Set to Win-Learning Program- Best Certification Program	Bronze	2022	The “SET” in SET2WIN stands for Sell with Expertise and Thought Leadership. It's a credential based program and there are three sets of certification badges – one is focused on assessing foundational knowledge, another is centered on verifying the on-the-job application of learning by bringing selling skills and our portfolio together in the flow of work, and the third focuses on paying it forward by contributing with collaboration and impact to the wider sales community.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Certification Program	Flanders Business School vzw and TOPSIM GmbH	From Apprentice Lawyer to Entrepreneurial Lawyer	Bronze	2022	In the program “From Apprentice Lawyer to Entrepreneurial Lawyer” the participants are taught what entrepreneurship means. They are shown the framework conditions and given tools to find out what drives them in terms of their professional activity and whether the role of entrepreneur suits them. The business simulation TOPSIM – Scale Up is used to transfer theory into practice and to deepen the knowledge.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Certification Program	Fnac Darty and Cegos	Customer excellence	Silver	2022	The Customer Excellence training program recognizes, values and develops the sales and customer relations skills of employees working in stores, call centers and delivery through a certification process that is recognised at national level. It facilitates cross-sector business mobility and develop their employability, in anticipation of business developments.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Certification Program	Google	Google Ads Certifications on Skillshop	Bronze	2022	Skillshop is a one-stop-shop for Google Ads product online training and certifications. Google Ads Certifications on Skillshop validate that learners have what it takes to plan and execute successful marketing campaigns and get the best from Google Ads products. Certifications can be a great asset when navigating the digital marketing and advertising industry, and they can give learners an edge whether they're on the hunt for their next big opportunity or hiring people for their team.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Certification Program	Google	The Leadership Briefing: An Aspiring Manager Program	Silver	2022	This entry, submitted by Google's Marketer Training Team is called "The Leadership Briefing: An Aspiring Manager Program." It is a 6-month, self-paced certification program with a mix of asynchronous modules hosted on Google Classroom and synchronous virtual meetups hosted using Google Meet. This flexibility allowed dozens of learners from a variety of roles and timezones to all engage fully when they were ready to learn. There were no existing learning programs at Google for aspiring managers and new managers were consistently underperforming in their first year. The Leadership Briefing certificate was created to fill this gap - to build a bench of future managers ready for a role in people management and to offer rising talent meaningful development and career progression. The end result was a program that amplified confidence through self-awareness and capability through practice of manager skills, all leading to greater manager readiness.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Certification Program	HCL Technologies Ltd	Best Certification Program	Gold	2022	Best Certification Program Learning: The transition from individual contributor to manager is a challenging process- it is a transition from Managing Self to Managing Others. Talent Development Center of Excellence (CoE) introduced IMPACT- Individual Contributor to Manager (Adapt\|\| Capitalize\|\| Transform) learning journey which has been designed to help individual contributors transition to being effective team managers by frontloading them with relevant Self-Management, People-Management and Business competencies.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Certification Program	HSBC and ROI Training	Google Accelerated Certification Program (GACP)	Bronze	2022	This entry, submitted by ROI Training jointly with HSBC, is called "Google Accelerated Certification Program (GACP)" for a global audience. It's a 9-week program to certify and upskill 2000 staff in Cloud Architecture, Data/Smart Analytics, and Application Development across global cohorts. HSBC's Cloud Strategy provides the opportunity to enact transformative change across both the business and Information Technology, enabling HSBC to anticipate and respond to customer needs at a cadence, scale and innovation level that was not previously possible. In order to provide its people with the knowledge necessary to support a Cloud First strategy, this certification program was created. The result is, 2000 staff has been trained, 98% of participants recommend this program to others and 78% passed the exams and attained professional certification. This program has helped the learning to be real and tangible, delivering value to the bank and its learners.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Certification Program	IBM	IBM Center for Cloud Training: expanding professional knowledge and expertise through training and certification of in-demand cloud skills.	Gold	2022	IBM identified a global cloud skills gap and, in response, IBM Center for Cloud Training (ICCT) is leading a revolution in cloud certification to help fill that gap. IBM training equips professionals with the knowledge and expertise in all things IBM Cloud to help businesses take advantage of an increasingly complex digital landscape. ICCT's progressive role-based learning process currently encompasses 11 certifications at three levels of expertise, as well as in-demand specialty training across the most valuable areas of IBM Cloud computing.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Certification Program	Jacobs	Advanced 360 Coach Certification	Silver	2022	This entry, Advanced 360 Coach Certification, looks at Jacobs and the need to create a formal certification program to support coaches that debrief 360 assessment profiles. In response to coaches not feeling adequately prepared to debrief 360° assessments, Jacobs created a certification that allows coaches to better understand the process from the client’s perspective, practice in a safe environment and get support from the broader coaching community.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Certification Program	Mack Trucks Academy and Kick Learning, LLC	Mack Battery Electric Vehicle Certified Electric Technician Training	Bronze	2022	This entry is for a 5-part blended learning certification path for Mack Trucks technicians to become certified on the decommissioning (turning the electricity off) and commissioning (turning the electricity back on) Mack electric trucks so they can perform service work and repairs on the vehicle safely.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Certification Program	National Pork Board and Vivayic, Inc.	National Pork Board Transport Quality Assurance Program	Silver	2022	This entry, submitted by National Pork Board and Vivayic, Inc., is called the Transportation Quality Assurance Program. It is a multi-faceted certification program for United States pork producers. This entry showcases version 7.0 of the program, where emphasis was put on the handler/transporter and providing a consistent educational experience that focused on their key roles and responsibilities in regard to animal welfare, transportation and load-out, and pork safety. The end result is a certification program for both first-time certifiers and re-certifiers that allow learners to participate in a customized learning experience in-person or online with creative visuals, interactive scenarios, and real-life animations.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Certification Program	Reynolds American Inc	Reynolds American Inc POSITIVE Certification Program	Silver	2022	The Reynolds American Inc POSITIVE certification program is designed to improve the ability of marketing employees to personally succeed, certify the possess the knowledge and skills necessary for success, and play a critical part in the company's mission of building a better tomorrow. POSITIVE accelerates the ramp of a successful onboarding experience and prepares both new and existing marketing employees for success in dynamic and completive CPG categories. The program is conducted through e-learning, emphasizing bite-size learning all of which is accessible through their mobile device from anywhere an employee may be. Six modules cover the most critical elements of success for marketing at BAT/RA Inc with a final outcome resulting in employees feeling prepared for success and connecting their work to the mission of the company.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Certification Program	ServiceNow	Certifying Technical Experts in a Virtual World	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by ServiceNow, is called "Certifying Technical Experts in a Virtual World." It is a 13-week program designed to certify technical experts who provide best practice advice and guidance around the ServiceNow platform, reducing risk to their organization, and recommending technical architecture solutions that solve complex business requirements. The CTA program leverages a flipped-classroom and collaborative learning approach to help learners develop technical and professional skills, and build a network that helps them accelerate their impact on the job - all virtually.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Certification Program	Social Media College	Diploma of Social Media Marketing	Gold	2022	The Diploma of Social Media Marketing has been designed to deliver a comprehensive, highly practical, performance-focused learning experience, delivered by industry experts in an engaging and interactive format. The Diploma is delivered in face-to-face settings, live virtual classrooms and as an asynchronous online experience by over 35 partner Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) in Australia. It has integrated social learning in dedicated Facebook or WhatsApp groups and a private Facebook alumni group. It is the only Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) accredited qualification in Social Media Marketing and was written and accredited in 2020/21.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Certification Program	T. Garanti Bankasi A.S.	Cash Management Certificate Program	Gold	2022	It is aimed to improve the sales competencies and product knowledge of the branch personnel selling the products in order to increase penetration in the cash management products offered by the bank. For this purpose, the Cash Management Certificate Program that includes the stages of examination, training, and certification for all branch roles serving Corporate and Commercial customers on cash management products and in which competencies can be measured and developed, and qualifications can be proven has been designed.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Certification Program	TCS	The Workplace Coach training program	Bronze	2022	The Workplace Coach training program has been crafted with the individual, group and organization in mind. It is tailored to effectively support individuals and group’s positive shifts and their development in the context of work, career along with personal lives. It enables its participants to become increasingly aware of underlying assumptions and beliefs, attitudes and feelings which translate to practices and responses.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Certification Program	TCS	iConnect & Mentor Capability Building - Nurturing a community of mentors	Silver	2022	The entry describes, a Mentor Capability Building Framework with a holistic blend of self-paced WBTs, EQ Assessments, Virtual Trainings, Webinar (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) & Action Learning to help mentors to develop their mentoring skills. The framework consists of a learning path that is successive and progressive with three levels of certifications namely Silver, Gold and Platinum (incubation phase).
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Certification Program	The World Health Organization's (WHO) African Regional Office (AFRO) and BCL	Expanding access to the WHO’s Mid-Level Manager program	Gold	2022	AFRO, with the help of BCL, dramatically broadened access to its Mid-Level Manager program by moving it online and optimizing the instructional approach, increasing enrollments and certifications by a magnitude of 100.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Certification Program	Türkiye Finans Participation Bank	DATA SCIENCE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM	Silver	2022	In today's world, with the diversity of social, mobile and device data, as well as new technologies and tools, data science plays a much wider role than ever before. It has become a necessity to support the development of "data scientist" competencies, which are of critical importance for organizations. “Data Science Certification Program” has been designed within this scope. The Data Science Certificate Program was designed as a program in which theoretical knowledge is followed by applications, various resources and assignments are shared between training sessions, and quizzes are made from time to time. The program took place on a 6-month schedule. It has been a program that both achieves its goals and can be effective in the eyes of senior management, as the participants were able to reflect the knowledge they gained in the program to the business processes.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Certification Program	UBS AG	LEAD – Leadership Excellence Accelerator Diploma	Bronze	2022	The Leadership Excellence Accelerator Diploma (LEAD) is a huge success story. UBS Leaders join the program with the aim of becoming best Front Staff Leaders in the Financial Industry by driving their business- and personal growth and fostering their global community. The program delivery of hybrid methodology is a huge success and contains inspiring training-, coaching-, peer exchange sessions.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Certification Program	UBS AG	SAAP - Senior Advisor Accelerator Program	Bronze	2022	The SAAP Program is our newest flagship program for Front Staff (Client and Financial Advisors) and the first year was a huge success. We help our employees to better understand future trends and to better serve our clients by providing them with the right tools at the right time. The SAAP is a 6 months Learning Journey, which includes webinars with top-notch leaders like Parag Khana or David Shrier and 2 Summits with McKinsey, CapGemini, Exo Works, Dan Shapiro or Hintsa. This first edition was delivered in a Hybrid version and was sponsored by the Head WM CEEGI, Head Global Lending and was supported by the GWM Co-President Iqbal Khan.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Certification Program	VIA and CrossKnowledge	Programme of Excellence at Via	Silver	2022	With the restructuring of the HOD area and the formalization of a corporate environmental policy, Via is even more committed to improving its activities and management. Needs were identified to improve customer service (internal and external) and to incorporate new technology into the business. For this, a strategy of training employees was adopted, through the development and implementation of more strategic projects. The Lean Six Sigma methodology was chosen for this training, as it has been established in Brazil for a few years and focuses on continuous improvement, by bringing viable assessments and analysis into any business strategy, enhancing sustainable and profitable deliveries.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Certification Program	Volvo Trucks Academy and Kick Learning, LLC	Volvo Battery Electric Vehicle Certified Electric Technician Training	Silver	2022	This entry is for a 5-part blended learning certification path for Volvo Trucks technicians to become certified on the decommissioning (turning the electricity off) and commissioning (turning the electricity back on) Volvo electric trucks so they can perform service work and repairs on the vehicle safely.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Certification Program	Whole Foods Market and Inkling Systems	Better Enterprise-Wide Certifications Delivered by Operational Learning Pathways Decreases Costs and Stress and Increases Performance and Satisfaction.	Silver	2022	Whole Foods is currently facing a global talent shortage, and a fast paced business environment driven by new technologies and the COVID pandemic. The Whole Foods team needed to figure out how to make their stores run efficiently, with a consistent customer experience with unpredictable staffing. This required an innovative approach to certifying employees across multiple departments so that the same employee could now fill in hours in different departments or areas that were short and they would get the opportunity to pick up extra hours which lead to better retention. The new strategy the Whole Foods team rolled out was to create standard Operational Learning Pathways for all levels of roles across each of the 11 different departments in each store. The new strategy resulted in lower labor costs, more operational agility, better workforce effectiveness and flexibility and higher customer satisfaction.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Certification Program	Zuora, Inc.	Certifications For Subscription Success	Gold	2022	This entry submitted by Zuora University, on behalf of Zuora, Inc. is called "Certifications for Subscription Success." The certification program is designed to be audience specific, role-based, and tiered in its structure. The content of the certification aims to train and certify customers, partners, and employees of Zuora, Inc. in how to use and implement Zuora products. Creation of the certification program was driven by a corporate goal to enable the implementer/partner ecosystem to deliver more partner primed implementations, as well as, enable the end user/customer ecosystem to successfully use all Zuora products and add ons. The certification program, after two years in development, now has 9 certifications which has been completed by 1300 customers, employees, and partners.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Customer Training Program	Baxter Healthcare	Baxter_Best Customer Training Program_PATH-PD Catheter Insertion Course	Gold	2022	PATH is India's 1st online PD Catheter insertion program that aims to help nephrologists learn the skill of PD catheter insertion. This program is designed with support from the Peritoneal Dialysis Society of India (PDSI) and leading interventional nephrologists of India. This program addresses theory as well as practical aspects in learning all about PD catheter insertion. The online nature of this training program allows nephrologists the flexibility to take the modules at their own pace and convenient time.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Customer Training Program	Berkley Design Professional and Docebo	BDP Risk® Offers Mutually Assured Success	Bronze	2022	Berkley DP is a professional liability insurance company that serves architects and engineers. Berkley DP customers receive access to exclusive risk management materials—workshops, webinars, on-demand courses, and a vast library of articles, guidebooks, templates, and checklists—custom designed to help them avoid claims, improve management practices, and enhance business performance. What’s more, course completions offer professional associationapproved continuing education units and qualify for premium credits.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Customer Training Program	Broadcom and LearnUpon	Scaling for enterprise: How the Agile Operations division at Broadcom creates learner-friendly onboarding training for thousands of customers	Gold	2022	Serving large enterprises, many of which are Fortune 500 companies, Broadcom invests massively in ensuring its large-scale customers adopt and have success with its products. However, with many of its customer having hundred or even thousands of users with each one needing training, the business needed a scalable, learner-friendly way to onboard and educate its thousands of enterprise customers. This led to Broadcom building and implementing a “revolutionary” learning strategy by creating great content that was delivered in a learner-centric way through LearnUpon's LMS.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Customer Training Program	Celonis SE	Celonis Academy - Customer Training Redesign	Gold	2022	The Celonis Academy's goal is to enable customers, partners, and the general public on all things related to the Celonis Execution Management System. The Celonis Academy has won two coveted Brandon Hall Awards for Excellence in Best Customer Training Program, achieving Bronze in 2020, then leapfrogging to a Gold Award in 2021. In late 2021, the award-winning Customer Training Program went through a complete redesign and LMS migration process to improve the learning experience, better serve learners' needs and improve learning outcomes. This application concerns the efforts involved in this process, as well as the benefits the Celonis academy is already reaping from it.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Customer Training Program	Cocnentrix	Skill Factory – Best Customer Training Program	Gold	2022	The program was curated in view of the skill gaps identified within the different Lines of Business (LOBs) across the Health Care division. The duration and frequency of these training sessions were customized to fit the needs of the staff.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Customer Training Program	Dell Technologies Education Services	Dell Technologies Learning Accelerator Program	Gold	2022	Today’s business environment requires organizations to work through fundamental shifts in their IT and business strategies. Customers must address changing business needs, tools, and processes while making the necessary investments in technology and people. They need a cohesive learning solution, with role-based training plans specific to the individual team member level. The Learning Accelerator Program assesses current skills, future business objectives, critical technology changes, organizational learning culture and team member skills. Using those insights, customized training plans are developed to identify and address skill gaps. Through the program, customers can move forward with confidence that they are making the right investments in their technology lifecycle to enable the best current and future business outcomes.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Customer Training Program	Docebo	Docebo Builds Well-Oiled Release Readiness Machine	Gold	2022	As a SaaS organization, Docebo is committed to continuously innovating their products to meet their customers’ needs. With continuous innovation, however, comes the need for continuous change management and education. In 2021, Docebo set out to build a comprehensive, multi-faceted release readiness strategy to help customers keep up with the pace of innovation and master the new features released to them on a monthly basis.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Customer Training Program	Ecopetrol and Hypercubus	Genius	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Ecopetrol jointly with HYPERCUBUS, is called "Genius". Genius is an implementation project of Degreed's LXP (Learning Experience Platform), through which Ecopetrol carries out the process of Upskilling and reskilling for the employees of the Business Group. In order to promote corporate continuous learning, The LXP arranged this platform for the access, use, and appropriation within Ecopetrol.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Customer Training Program	EmPRO Insurance and G-Cube Webwide Software Pvt Limited	EmPRO Insurance builds an eLearning simulation that educates medical professionals on every step of a medical malpractice case	Silver	2022	An immersive simulation in which learners act as the CMO of a fictional medical professional liability insurance company and navigate through several simulated malpractice lawsuits.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Customer Training Program	Fannie Mae and Docebo	Fannie Mae HomeView™	Gold	2022	Fannie Mae HomeViewTM is a free of charge first-time homeownership education course to provide homebuyers with comprehensive, easy to understand information to prepare for successful homeownership. The National Industry Standards-aligned course provides information and guidance on everything from budgeting to closing on a home loan and maintaining a home. Fannie Mae is committed to supporting sustainable homeownership and believes that broadening access to quality education is key to empowering the next generation of homeowners.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Customer Training Program	GS1 and Infopro Learning	GTIN Modernization	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by GS1, jointly submitted with Infopro Learning, is called "GTIN Modernization". The GS1 Healthcare team was looking to modernize a few of their existing courses in the GS1 Fundamentals curriculum. The program was modernized to make the training modules in the existing courses engaging, effective, and have a desirable impact on the audience.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Customer Training Program	Hunter Douglas	Customer Sales Growth - Shutter Workshop	Silver	2022	This entry submitted by Hunter Douglas is called "Shutter Workshop". In the wake of the pandemic, the Hunter Douglas Learning & Development Training Team quickly adapted what was a regional Instructor Led Training event into a successful four-part Virtual Instructor Lead Training series. While doing so proved to be a fiscally responsible solution for the organization, we also discovered that the audience attained the key business outcomes much the same in a kinesthetic ILT learning environment. The end result was a series of four classes, offered throughout the year that were delivered in a dynamic small group environment using auditory and visual product learning and demonstrations. An additional measurement of success was established by tracking account-level sales activity of attendees vs. non-attendees, as well as targeting customers who sold competitive shutter products.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Customer Training Program	KUKA and Cognizant Technology Solutions	Best Customer Training Program	Gold	2022	This entry is submitted by Cognizant along with KUKA Robtics. As part of the customer training program, Cognizant created an engaging and responsive learning program based on the principle of microlearning to train the global customer service executives of KUKA on the various aspects of customer service. The Web-based Training (WBTs) covered real-life scenarios and had business simulations enhanced with relevant text, explanatory audio, and rich visuals.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Customer Training Program	Landmark Group- Babyshop	SEED - A journey from customer service to customer experience	Gold	2022	This entry submitted by Landmark Group- Babyshop is called " SEED - A journey from customer service to customer experience". This is a training program designed to enhance the customer experience offered by Personal Shopping Experts (PSE) thereby building a sustainable competitive advantage for Babyshop in the children’s retail landscape. This program is aligned with the technical and behavioral competencies of the PSE role and linked to business goals and career progression.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Customer Training Program	McKinsey & Company	Digital Transformation Leadership Essentials (DTLE)	Silver	2022	DTLE provides leaders with the knowledge, skills, mindsets, and guidance to effectively launch, execute, and scale digital transformations in their organizations. This program provides a blended, immersive learning journey for the C-suite executives setting the strategy for their organization’s digital transformation as well as the business domain leaders who are responsible for championing digital transformation in their respective parts of the business.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Customer Training Program	McKinsey & Company	Building Adaptability Skills	Silver	2022	Adaptability is a rapidly scalable program that builds adaptability (the “learning and resilience muscle”) at the individual, team, and enterprise levels. The blended learning program is a plug-and-play combination of digital, self-paced learning; behavior and social reinforcement through a mobile app; and optional, live, virtual workshops. Topics covered include mindsets, behaviors, team norms and behaviors, and enterprise-wide reinforcement techniques. The program can be deployed to all members of an organization, or to a subset.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Customer Training Program	PepsiCo, Inc. and MPS Interactive Systems	Mastering Online Food Ordering and Delivery	Gold	2022	The foodservice industry has changed significantly with consumers shifting to online delivery. This training program aims to help PepsiCo Foodservice sales reps and customers understand the huge market potential in online ordering and delivery, and enable PepsiCo customers to build a competitive and credible online presence.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Customer Training Program	SWIFT sc	SWIFTSmart – The financial community’s transformational shift towards digital learning	Bronze	2022	The financial industry is facing many challenges: fast technology evolution, staff turnover, cyber threats and increasing competition are only a few of those. Whereas skilled human capital is critical to preserve risk-free operations, training and travel budgets are increasingly under pressure, and classroom course attendance steadily declines. SWIFTSmart is SWIFT’s digital learning platform. Aimed at 11,000 financial institutions in more than 200 countries, it provides an innovative and shared industry solution to promote on the job efficiency and risk reduction.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Customer Training Program	Thermo Fisher Scientific’s PPD Clinical Research Services	Best Customer Training Program; Digital University	Bronze	2022	The PPD Clinical Research Services’ digital and decentralized solutions team collaborated with enterprise learning to launch Digital University in January 2021. This business wide training program provides teams with the knowledge and skills required to position the business for the growth of digital and hybrid clinical trials.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Customer Training Program	UL, LLC.	Hands on Training in a Virtual World	Bronze	2022	This entry, submitted by UL Knowledge Solutions, is called "Hands-on Training in a Virtual World." This virtual instructor-led training was born out of necessity due to Covid-19. How does on continue to offer hands-on trainings, when forced to do them virtually? This project highlights how UL Knowledge Solutions (ULKS) navigated this important transition to actually improve trainings through a process that ultimately created pre-learning, engaging activities and a brand new online activity guide.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Customer Training Program	Wrike	Wrike Discover	Bronze	2022	Discover is Wrike’s customer training platform. It offers courses geared toward helping customers adopt Wrike while leveraging work management best practices using it as they work their way through each course. Each Discover course takes around 12-15 minutes to complete and is a combination of highly engaging video, knowledge checks, and interactive practical exercises in which customers implement specific actions in their actual Wrike account. Wrike’s Discover courses improve conversion rates from prospects to paid accounts (conversion is 21.1% higher for Discover users), increase customer adoption (by 102%), and save months’ worth of time delivering training for our customer-facing teams.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Hybrid Learning Program	Abbott and BTS	Leading with Impact	Silver	2022	Abbott understands that managers play critical roles creating workplaces with engagement, inclusion and an environment of trust. That’s why the company developed a four-module training program, rolling it out to all people managers in 2021 – reaching more than 17,000 managers globally. The program – Leading With Impact – leveraged self-paced content with video, games and Go Do exercises that allowed participants to solidify teachings along with live, virtual peer pods to help them learn from colleagues and extend their networks across the company. More than 97% of managers completed the program’s first round. Abbott saw managers who completed the program have both more engaged teams and significantly higher scores on 92% of our employee survey questions.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Hybrid Learning Program	Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI)	Best Hybrid Learning Program	Gold	2022	BRI has been serving Indonesia for 127 years, supporting economic growth and serving customers from small economic community levels throughout Indonesia. Throughout its journey, BRI shows its commitment to prioritizing service to the micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) segment. BRI consistently provides the best service by fostering, empowering, and supporting MSMEs to optimize their competence in improving the welfare of families and surrounding communities. Carrying the vision of becoming "The Most Valuable Banking Group in Southeast Asia and Champion of Financial Inclusion" by 2025, BRI has implemented brilliant breakthroughs in overcoming business predicament through enabling the mobility of businesses in promoting their products.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Hybrid Learning Program	Colgate-Palmolive and Upside Learning Solutions	Demand Planning Essentials	Bronze	2022	A blended learning experience, comprising 24 components of various media formats, that introduces Demand Planners to Colgate-Palmolive’s Demand Planning process and systems and helps them apply best practices to their subsidiary.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Hybrid Learning Program	Dell Technologies	Graduate Development Program	Bronze	2022	This entry, submitted by Dell Technologies, is called "Graduate Development Program". The Graduate Development Program (GDP) is a 3-year learning program for recent university graduate employees designed to develop a next-generation talent pipeline of future leaders. The program offers pan-Dell knowledge, cross-functional networks, and targeted capability-building that prepare its members to navigate strategically and seamlessly across business silos in service of delivering world-class technology solutions to Dell customers. The program launched in 2018 in 5 global locations. Today GDP is comprised of 15 site-based programs, has 2,500 members, and delivers over 400 development and networking experiences annually. GDP is unique and innovative in its global architecture and blended learning programming. The flexible structure accommodates hybrid, physical and fully remote work environments ensuring GDP is accessible to all eligible employees regardless of where they live. GDP delivers the programming through three learning modalities: applied learning, leader talks, and core skills workshops.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Hybrid Learning Program	Firstsource	Enabling Growth with Digital Learning Transformation at Firstsource	Silver	2022	This entry titled Enabling Growth with Digital Learning Transformation at Firstsource is submitted by Firstsource Solutions. It is a summary of how Firstsource embarked on an enterprise-wide digital learning journey enabling about 28,000 people to reduce ramp-up times and improve the learning experience. This was an iterative, agile approach of empowering learners as well as SMEs. This introduced a digital culture with the company progressively adding different tools, employing a “string of pearls” strategy. This allowed different teams to try new tools and approaches which were then scaled up and adopted across the enterprise.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Hybrid Learning Program	HCL Technologies Ltd	Best Hybrid Learning Program	Bronze	2022	Leaders in Action is a program designed for the Functional Leaders who are at the helm of managing client relationships, act as a conduit between the Executive Leaders and People Managers, enable tactical execution with a Strategic mindset. The program design and deployment has multiple modalities woven in to ensure its reach and absorption basis a global audience and embedded learning styles.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Hybrid Learning Program	IQVIA and NIIT	Monitoring Performance Training	Gold	2022	The Monitoring Performance Training (MPT) program is a hybrid learning program to accelerate time to competency for Clinical Research Associate new hires at IQVIA. Clinical Research Associates are a pivotal job role at IQVIA because they are on the frontlines of clinical trials. The need to onboard more CRAs at a faster pace became even more pronounced during the COVID-19 pandemic as IQVIA was at the front lines of the vaccine trials.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Hybrid Learning Program	MAS and Immersive Solutions	Best Hybrid Learning Program	Bronze	2022	This entry, submitted by MAS and Immersive Solutions, is called 'MAS role-based coaching cards'. These cards are flexible in design making it easy for managers and employees develop their skills from any location, and in a time that suits them. Insurance is not the easiest industry to work in and having these resources available makes it a fun and dynamic way to learn, build capability and instill confidence of individuals and teams. The end result is a fully interactive coaching and development system, that is complementary to the MAS performance framework and scalable across the different parts of the business. Easily maintained and updated, they ensure MAS employees retain currency and relevance within their role and MAS business, and support all levels of development need, whether new to role or requiring to upskill/reskill.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Hybrid Learning Program	MetLife and NIIT	MetLife Distribution Academy: Transforming how the salesforce works, learns, and performs	Gold	2022	The Distribution Academy is tasked with leading and coordinating the efforts to ‘raise the bar’ on distribution capability to address strategic imperatives, business priorities and strengthen MetLife’s distribution advantage.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Hybrid Learning Program	Mister Car Wash and Absorb Software Inc.	Mister Learn	Silver	2022	Introducing Mister Learn revolutionized training at Mister. Mister Learn is an online training platform that offers a standardized curriculum for all Mister employees. With a fully functioning, cost-efficient learning program deployed across the US in close to 401 locations and almost 6500 field employees now, Mister Learn is just scratching at what's possible to establish a culture of learning.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Hybrid Learning Program	VMware	Business Value Acumen (BVA) Program	Silver	2022	The EMEA Sales Enablement Center of Excellence team worked with the Strategic Pursuits Practice (SPP) team and the Learning Programs Team to develop a Business Value Acumen Program that encompasses the principles used by the SPP team. The main goal of the program is to share the key and most valuable tools and processes used by SPP team and enable sellers to self-serve. This program aligns to VMware’s overall strategy to adopt a strong customer-focused approach for VMware and its customers. This program helps account teams to understand the customers business end-to-end and their overall strategy. It gives sellers the mindset and tools needed to transition from being tactical sellers to more professional, strategic sellers.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Hybrid Learning Program	Panda Restaurant Group	Great Operations (GO) Curriculum	Gold	2022	The Great Operations (GO) curriculum is one of Panda’s largest leadership programs that focuses on mindset (view), skillset (competence) and toolset (systems and processes) to develop outstanding restaurant leaders and drive the sustained growth of the brand. Successful completion of each level (e.g. 100, 200, 300, 400) earns the opportunity to be promoted to subsequent level of Operations management. Prompted by the challenges of training new managers during the COVID-19 pandemic, the GO curriculum was reimagined and delivered as a hybrid learning experience.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Hybrid Learning Program	Pharmavite	Vital Leader Program	Bronze	2022	The Vital Leader Program was designed to help newly appointed people managers develop the critical knowledge and skills to lead Pharmavite through a period of massive transformation and growth for the organization. With the ongoing pandemic and the inability to have in-person workshops, our people managers were not able to participate in the face-to-face Vital Leader Program. The entire program was redesigned to be delivered virtually to a hybrid workforce since we had people managers on our manufacturing floor as well as those working remotely and managing a remote workforce. While content stayed the same, the learning design had to be reconsidered so it could lend itself to a virtual delivery, while maintaining learner experience. The hybrid program involving onsite and remote managers considered all the challenges of remote work and technology and accommodated needs of different shifts.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Hybrid Learning Program	Presbyterian Medical Services and Absorb Software Inc.	Supervisor Training and Resources (STAR) Program	Silver	2022	Leadership development program for new and existing supervisors that work on-site and remotely. The program supports onboarding new supervisors and upskilling and reskilling tenured supervisors, with the goals of improving retention of employees and increasing engagement throughout the organization.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Hybrid Learning Program	Ricoh and NIIT	Start 2.0	Gold	2022	START 2.0 is a new hire onboarding program that allows newly hired sales professionals at Ricoh to start their sales training on the first day of employment.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Hybrid Learning Program	San Diego Gas & Electric and Ernst & Young	SDG&E Envision CIS Training and Change Management Program	Gold	2022	SDG&E’s new CIS system was a company-wide, multi-year system transformation that impacted over 2,000 end users. This entry highlights how SDG&E’s end user learning program was designed, why organizational change management was critical, and how the successful deployment of end user training ensured users were sufficiently prepared to transition to the new systems.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Hybrid Learning Program	Saudi Aramco	Accelerated Development Program for Young Professionals (ADPYP)	Silver	2022	This entry submitted by Saudi Aramco focuses on Accelerated Development Program for Young Professional program in Electrical field. The main objective of the program is to enhance the technical competencies of company entry level engineers and professionals in an accelerated manner.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Hybrid Learning Program	Sutherland Global Services	An Adaptive Training Design for Hybrid Learning	Silver	2022	As a response to the business impact brought about by the pandemic, the training team of Sutherland Global services put together a solution that will prepare the organization and the client to effectively face the aftermath of the COVID 19 predicament. The initiative covers the design, development, deployment, and evaluation of an adaptive training model that caters to a travel and hospitality program. The goal was to facilitate a faster ramp time, reduction of speed to competency, increase learner autonomy while ensuring efficient training staff utilization.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Hybrid Learning Program	Tata Consumer Products Ltd. and Chrysalis	Catalyst: Become Future Ready and Engaged	Silver	2022	At Tata Consumer Products, we remain committed to investing in building people's capabilities and creating a sustainable high-performance work culture. To fulfil this commitment of capability-building, needs were identified at an organizational level through inclusion of Learning Goals in the annual initiative-setting process. Learning needs of over 1350 employees across management levels and functions were collated. Based on this information, content was curated & created to put together customized learning journeys under the banner of ‘Catalyst: Become Future Ready and Engaged’. The Learning opportunities offered included customized self-paced learning content (~10 hrs. per learner) that could be accessed at their choice of time, pace and place, and virtual instructor led training (~4 to 8 hours per attribute).
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Hybrid Learning Program	The Boston Consulting Group and Attensi	Unlocking Knowledge Resources at BCG	Silver	2022	A two-part global hybrid training program for consultants, teaching them how to navigate and get the most out of BCG’s internal and external knowledge resources. Part 1 sees the Consultants play 2 hours of gamified simulations which build excitement and a sense of mastery through 15 modules emulating firm’s knowledge resources environment, guiding consultants to complete a range of realistic, client case-related tasks. Part 2 is an hour of on-site facilitator-led debrief.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Hybrid Learning Program	The Kraft Heinz Company	People as Competitive Advantage	Bronze	2022	The Kraft Heinz People as a Competitive Advantage is a program built upon the Josh Bersin Academy (JBA) People as a Competitive Advantage program. It was developed to close capability gaps among HR employees and was tailored to have Kraft Heinz-specific approaches and topic discussions to be relevant for Kraft Heinz. The program was run a as a Hybrid Learning program where HR employees working both on-site and remote participated together.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Hybrid Learning Program	The Warehouse Group and Inspire Group	The Warehouse Group x Inspire Group - Emerge and Evolve	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Inspire Group on behalf of The Warehouse Group, is a transformational leadership program, named ‘Emerge and Evolve’. Initially planned to be delivered entirely face-to-face, COVID-19 instead forced a pivot of delivery to include a blend of virtual and in-person deliverables, both synchronous and asynchronous. With participation by application-only, Emerge and Evolve is about to enter its third year of delivery, with a number of metrics already demonstrating its high level of efficacy.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Hybrid Learning Program	UBS AG	LEAD – Leadership Excellence Accelerator Diploma	Gold	2022	The Leadership Excellence Accelerator Diploma (LEAD) is a huge success story. UBS Leaders join the program with the aim of becoming best Front Staff Leaders in the Financial Industry by driving their business- and personal growth and fostering their global community. The program delivery of hybrid methodology is a huge success and contains inspiring training-, coaching-, peer exchange sessions.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Launch of a Corporate Learning University	Accenture	Accenture_Best Launch of a Corporate Learning University_Insurance Academy	Gold	2022	Insurance Academy is Accenture’s first ever Corporate Learning University for the insurance domain. It is designed to upskill inhouse employees working in insurance and equip them to provide world class services to our insurance clients. This virtual University provides employees with an innovative and engaging learning journey, covering everything from the basics of insurance to the more advanced specialized tracks. The University further supplements the learning process by allowing employees to interact with industry experts and create a peer network to collaborate, discuss, and find solutions for all their insurance queries. By providing a holistic network of learning options, this University holds the power to create a skilled workforce that can help Accenture to meet its business goals and establish a strong footprint in the world of insurance.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Launch of a Corporate Learning University	Anglo American plc	The Anglo American Technical Academy	Gold	2022	Technical training within a global mining organization isn’t just complex, it’s mission critical. Established in late-2019, 2021 saw the Anglo American Technical Academy come of age. The organization was set up to function like an entrepreneurial start-up within a 105-year-old business. Despite initial skepticism around the business, the team delivered on an exceptional scale. They engaged with a complex network of stakeholders, rapidly developed courses, and inspired strong take-up and learner satisfaction. An externally conducted audit demonstrated a step change in the learning culture, and a learning impact evaluation quantified the substantial impact the academy and its team achieved in terms of safety and performance – despite the challenging remit.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Launch of a Corporate Learning University	HAGER and CrossKnowledge	The creation of Hi! Hager university, a space for people and business growth	Gold	2022	The creation of Hi! Hager university one year ago, created a space for people and business growth with academies, online and hybrid learnings and communities, open to everyone in the company. It is firmly based on the insight that when the people grow, the Company grows. Hi! Hager University is a powerful initiative to develop the strategic capabilities the company needs for the future.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Launch of a Corporate Learning University	InMobi	InMobi University	Silver	2022	InMobi University is an online learning platform aiming to educate about the programmatic mobile advertising ecosystem. It has courses for both the publisher and marketer side of the business and in less than has year has become a valuable resource for InMobi employees, prospects and clients.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Launch of a Corporate Learning University	KPMG India	Taxila Corporate University	Gold	2022	A dual focus on business strategy and leadership development led to the conception and launch of Taxila (pronounced as Tak-shee-la), KPMG in India’s- corporate learning university. It caters exclusively to Partners and Associate Partners (the senior most leaders) population of the Firm. Four facets of leadership- self, people, technology, and client leadership form the foundation of Taxila’s programs. Using a ‘3M learning framework’- three kinds of learning programs are designed and deployed at the Taxila University.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Launch of a Corporate Learning University	NEQSOL Holding	NEQSOL Academy	Gold	2022	NEQSOL Academy is launched for creating a mature and high-impact learning culture and providing maximum interaction of employees, cooperating with world-class business schools in order to stay at the forefront of innovation and adapt to fast-changing business environment. NEQSOL Academy is helping NEQSOL employees forge new ways of thinking and build new capabilities to navigate rapidly evolving global trends.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Launch of a Corporate Learning University	PwC	PwC Audit Curriculum - Virtual Classroom Version	Silver	2022	This entry, submitted by PwC, is called the "PwC Audit Curriculum - Virtual Classroom Version". In March 2020, all of the in-person classroom elements of the PwC Audit Curriculum (160 hours) were required to be converted to virtual classroom in a 6 week timeframe. This curriculum includes a number of instructional design methods e.g., instructor presentations, instructor-led discussion, individual exercises, group exercises, board games, software simulations, roleplays etc. that all needed to be converted for virtual delivery. The end result was a 100% virtual curriculum which maintained all of these instructional design methods by making best use of technology available and which was launched at the end of the 6 week timeframe.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Launch of a Corporate Learning University	Rolls Royce	Leatro	Gold	2022	Rolls-Royce is changing the way its employees learn, forever. To pioneer the power that matters – to do what’s not been done before – everybody must learn for tomorrow, not just today. Launched in 2021, Leatro is Rolls-Royce’s global learning brand, and the home of all learning for its people. The Leatro brand is now present across all digital and face-to-face learning globally, representing high-quality, thought-leading, and accessible learning.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Launch of a Corporate Learning University	The Estee Lauder Companies and Cornerstone	Learning in the Flow of Work with a Corporate Learning University Refresh	Bronze	2022	Building on The Estée Lauder Companies' 75-year legacy as a world-class learning organization, the ELC Learning Hub platform was designed to serve as the new single, digital destination for all things enterprise learning at ELC – featuring a variety of open sourced, self-directed and tailored blended learning opportunities to gain new skills and advance professional development.  ELC’s mandatory employee training courses are hosted on this easy-to-use technology, along with LinkedIn Learning, and many other enterprise learning modules, on-demand courses, live events, interactive learning communities and more. The hub will also feature personalized recommendations, powered by AI-technology, to help explore relevant learning opportunities aligned to interests and roles.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Launch of a Corporate Learning University	Wells Fargo & Company and Pluralsight	Wells Fargo’s Technology College Launch	Bronze	2022	The Technology College was launched in December 2020, with enhancements continuing to provide industry leading technology learning to Wells Fargo’ Employees. The Technology College provides core and common training across technology roles and domain subject areas and ensures alignment of relevant content to Job Families & technology career paths and domains based on strategic technology roles.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Learning Program Supporting a Change Transformation Business Strategy	Abbott and BTS	Leading with Impact	Bronze	2022	Abbott understands that managers play critical roles creating workplaces with engagement, inclusion and an environment of trust. That’s why the company developed a four-module training program, rolling it out to all people managers in 2021 – reaching more than 17,000 managers globally. The program – Leading With Impact – leveraged self-paced content with video, games and Go Do exercises that allowed participants to solidify teachings along with live, virtual peer pods to help them learn from colleagues and extend their networks across the company. More than 97% of managers completed the program’s first round. Abbott saw managers who completed the program have both more engaged teams and significantly higher scores on 92% of our employee survey questions.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Learning Program Supporting a Change Transformation Business Strategy	Accenture Solutions Private Limited	Accenture Capability Development - NGCO Excellence Camp	Gold	2022	The Next Generation Customer Operations ‘NGCO’ Excellence Camp is a training program designed to enable customer operations teams to ready to scale in the most efficient and effective way by creating an outsourcing bench project that caters to various deals in their hiring requirements. The objective is to deploy employees and be project ready in the customer contact space, which meant trained employees prepared to handle omni-channel voice, email, or chat support tasks, regardless of geography of the client. The team is given two (2) weeks to onboard and train these employees before being deployed to projects.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Learning Program Supporting a Change Transformation Business Strategy	Accenture Solutions Private Limited	Accenture Capability Development – H2R (Hire to Retire) Training Playbook	Gold	2022	The ‘Hire to Retire’ Training Playbook was designed to cater towards managing seamless knowledge transfer and standard knowledge retention practices, as per pre-defined standards and ensuring minimal people dependency during a transformational journey.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Learning Program Supporting a Change Transformation Business Strategy	Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd	Turbo.AI Onboarding, Integration & Learning Journey	Gold	2022	India Applied Intelligence has set out on an ambition to become #1 AI Employer in India and achieving 10x growth by providing innovative and sustainable candidate experience during hiring and upon joining. The Turbo.AI Onboarding, Integration & Learning Journey is an onboarding, learning and integration experience, aligned to this ambition, for pre-hires and new joiners in the India Applied Intelligence Hub with an aim to increase conversion of new hires, improving retention of the talent, providing the required skills and onboarding, creating great first impression of the employer branding, and reducing costs with scalable interventions. It is a carefully crafted journey for new joiners with myriad touchpoints and milestones.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Learning Program Supporting a Change Transformation Business Strategy	ANHEUSER-BUSCH and Accenture	AB INBEV and Accenture Workday Training Hub	Bronze	2022	The Workday Training Hub is a SharePoint-based learning solution designed as a one-stop shop for information, resources, FAQs, and trainings related to Workday, organized on the basis of roles and categories.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Learning Program Supporting a Change Transformation Business Strategy	Apple Federal Credit Union	Enhancing the Digital Experience through an Online Banking Conversion	Bronze	2022	This entry, submitted by Apple Federal Credit Union is called "Enhancing the Digital Experience through and Online Banking Conversion." This entry details a learning program that was designed, developed, and delivered in support of the organization’s conversion to a new online and mobile banking platform. The learning program is comprised of four separate audiences, each with a unique learning plan based on the specific learning needs. The result produced a prepared and knowledgeable workforce that facilitated a smooth conversion for the organization’s membership.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Learning Program Supporting a Change Transformation Business Strategy	Atlantic Union Bank	Out of the Classroom and Into the Workflow: The Transformation of Branch Banking Onboarding and Training	Silver	2022	Together, Talent Development and Consumer Banking teams transformed a traditional classroom-based training program to support onboarding and upskilling of bank branch employees. While the initial impetus of the program redesign was to reduce/eliminate travel due to the pandemic, the business also wanted a long-term solution that would be sustainable in an ever-changing environment, scalable as the company grew and personalized to the needs of the employee.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Learning Program Supporting a Change Transformation Business Strategy	Atlas Copco and Infosys ltd.	Act! global SAP template implementation program	Silver	2022	This entry is about how the global learning program successfully supported the technical business transformation at Atlas Copco covering different functions and streams impacting 500+ key users and 7000+ end users across the globe to adopt new ways of working and work efficiently.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Learning Program Supporting a Change Transformation Business Strategy	B. Braun Familienholding SE & Co. KG and Haufe Akademie GmbH & Co. KG	Openness to Change	Bronze	2022	Medical technology companies must transform themselves in order to remain competitive. This in turn requires a digital mindset in the company and the willingness of all employees to change. With the digital learning journey "Openness to Change" developed together with Haufe Akademie, B. Braun, as one of the world's leading medical technology providers, has laid the foundation for cultural change throughout the company.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Learning Program Supporting a Change Transformation Business Strategy	Bank of America	CSA & Lending Specialist Redesign	Gold	2022	In 2019, Bank of America launched a new strategic model focused on enhancing how financial centers contribute to responsible market growth and ensuring clients receive a consistent and superior experience. The model redefined how financial center based mortgage lending specialists assist clients, requiring a transformation of the role and the corresponding new-to-role education.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Learning Program Supporting a Change Transformation Business Strategy	Bank of America	Digital Home Equity Line of Credit Training	Gold	2022	Digital home equity line of credit training is a learning curriculum for client-facing lending specialists who support Bank of America’s network of approximately 4,200 retail financial centers. This initiative is integral to the bank’s goal to improve the Home Loan process for both clients and employees by making the application process more streamlined and convenient.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Learning Program Supporting a Change Transformation Business Strategy	Bank of America	Corporate Employee Banking and Investing: New-to-Role Program for Employee Relationship Managers	Gold	2022	Corporate Employee Banking and Investing (CEBI) is a group within Bank of America Consumer Banking specializing in providing workplace benefits and solutions to corporate clients’ employees. The launch of the Employee Relationship Manager new-to-role program in 2020, marked the inception of a formal training infrastructure for roles within Corporate Employee Banking and Investing. With the current companies participating in the program, CEBI Employee Relationship Managers have an opportunity to reach and grow relationships with nearly three million employees who work for these corporate clients.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Learning Program Supporting a Change Transformation Business Strategy	Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI)	Best Learning Program Supporting a Change Transformation Business Strategy	Gold	2022	BRI has been serving Indonesia for 127 years, supporting economic growth and serving customers from small economic community levels throughout Indonesia. Throughout its journey, BRI shows its commitment to prioritizing service to the micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) segment. BRI consistently provides the best service by fostering, empowering, and supporting MSMEs to optimize their competence in improving the welfare of families and surrounding communities. Carrying the vision of becoming "The Most Valuable Banking Group in Southeast Asia and Champion of Financial Inclusion" by 2025, BRI has implemented brilliant breakthroughs in overcoming business predicament through enabling the mobility of businesses in promoting their products.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Learning Program Supporting a Change Transformation Business Strategy	Carl Zeiss AG and Education4Industry GmbH	Digital Transformation @ ZEISS Program	Gold	2022	This entry, submitted by Carl Zeiss AG, supported by the provider Education4Industry GmbH, is called "Digital Transformation @ ZEISS". The program aims to develop the ZEISS executives into "Digital Leaders" and to teach them the most important topics of digitization. This involves an international target group of more than 1500 people. The amount of time, each individual manager could spend on training was limited, so a particularly high level of efficiency in the delivery of the learning material and intense program supporting communication was required. The result is a 12-week digital learning program including innovative and collaborative learning formats.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Learning Program Supporting a Change Transformation Business Strategy	Cognizant	Gen C - Cognizant Pre-skilled Entry Talent Model	Bronze	2022	This program enabled providing pre-skilled entry level talent by changing the hiring, skilling as well as the talent utilization operating model of the organization.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Learning Program Supporting a Change Transformation Business Strategy	Cognizant	Non-Voice to Voice Transformation – A Partnership	Bronze	2022	A Learning initiative that improved organization’s credibility and ability to deliver against odds.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Learning Program Supporting a Change Transformation Business Strategy	Cognizant	Cognizant Digital Engineering – Leadership Development	Silver	2022	A wholistic leadership development plan to enable the leaders across all communities of Digital Engineering. The impact of this plan would be instrumental in establishing the community model, engaging the associates, delivering superior value to the clients and thereby position Cognizant as a leader in Digital Engineering.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Learning Program Supporting a Change Transformation Business Strategy	Cognizant	LearnFINITY-Together We Grow, Together We Learn	Silver	2022	A new skilling and engagement initiative to create a vibrant and interconnected technical community to foster learning and cultivate growth for the community associates.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Learning Program Supporting a Change Transformation Business Strategy	Colgate-Palmolive and Avado	Digital & Data Acceleration Award Program	Bronze	2022	As part of its 2025 Digital Transformation Strategy, Colgate implemented an 18-month organization-wide upskilling program to become more digital and data-driven in everything it does. Its initiatives are impacting media, marketing, commerce and ROIs, driving results to ignite growth and future-proofing Colgate’s people, talent and brands to grow in the digital age.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Learning Program Supporting a Change Transformation Business Strategy	Colgate-Palmolive and PurpleMedia	Driving Digital in Indirect Trade	Silver	2022	This entry, submitted by Colgate-Palmolive and PurpleMedia, called “Driving Digital in Indirect Trade” (‘DDIDT’), was created in support of the Indirect Trade transformation initiative that forms a key part of Colgate’s Growth Strategy plan. Through B2B digital commerce and new digital technologies, DDIDT aims to make Colgate's Indirect Trade business future-ready and a continued source of competitive advantage. It’s a multi-part blended/spaced learning program for middle/leadership-level Customer Development Managers of IDT channel markets across over 40 countries, giving learners the tools and knowledge to create "digitization roadmaps" setting out 3-5 year action plans based on 6 workstreams, each relating to a different aspect of digitization. The program is delivered to cohorts of learners in a 3-month timed cadence comprising elements including animations, interactive PDFs, e-learning modules, reflective planning, facilitated online live webinar and workshops. DDIDT has already resulted in the creation of 80+ initiatives and pilot projects.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Learning Program Supporting a Change Transformation Business Strategy	Cushman & Wakefield and Accenture	PeopleSoft to Workday Change Transformation	Gold	2022	In line with transforming its HR operations and simplifying its complex, global HR payroll system landscape, Cushman & Wakefield needed to migrate 12,000 employees – ranging from maintenance and janitorial staff to corporate employees – from a legacy payroll platform (PeopleSoft) to Workday. Cushman & Wakefield, Accenture, and Cognician built a robust, multi-faceted training and engagement program to prepare stakeholders for the behavior change.
HCM	Learning and Development	Best Learning Program Supporting a Change Transformation Business Strategy	Deloitte LLP	Winning as One Deloitte	Bronze	2022	Winning as One Deloitte is an opportunity for practitioners to develop a client-focused, cross-business approach to helping clients with their issues and better positioning themselves to expand Deloitte’s footprint. The program connects present and future leaders across the organization, building and strengthening Deloitte across all four of its businesses. The program focuses on shifting one’s mind

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