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| Program | Area | Category | Entrant | Entry Title | Medal | Year | Blurb |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Learning and Development Program | Cognizant | ELEVATE Program for Frontline Leaders (FLL) | Bronze | 2023 | |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in a Diversity Recruiting Strategy | McKinsey & Company | Next Generation Women Leaders Conference | Bronze | 2023 | McKinsey considers it a moral and strategic imperative to advance gender equality in its workforce and in society more broadly. Launched in 2012, Next Generation Women Leaders (NGWL) connects talented early-career women across the globe to the firm by serving as both a professional development opportunity and a recruiting tool. Over the course of the event, participants hear about the journey of women business leaders and the lessons they’ve learned along the way while also getting the opportunity to build a strong international network of peers. In total, McKinsey has hired more than 1,000 women from NGWL, many of whom have come from outside traditional recruiting channels and would have not necessarily had the opportunity to get to know the firm outside of this event. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in a Diversity Recruiting Strategy | Mondelez International | US Early Careers Program: Taste The Future of Our Next Generation | Bronze | 2023 | To grow a deep, diverse and engaged talent pool, the Early Careers Recruitment Approach was revisited to delivering a sustainable recruitment program for summer interns that ensured not only a diverse representation but also maximised the conversion of the hired talent into full-time roles. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in a Diversity Recruiting Strategy | Randstad | Randstad Best Advance in Mentoring to Develop Diverse Leaders in the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion program | Bronze | 2023 | In Randstad's efforts to create an Equitable Diversity Inclusive and Accessible workforce, they have created mentorship and sponsorship programs with a goal to ultimately see an increase of diversity in leadership, employee engagement for all demographics, and expand exposure for Randstad's diverse employees. To accomplish this, Randstad has a total of 8 BRGs, an Executive Diversity Council, and Community Impact programs that all drove program development, engagement, and outcome monitoring for Randstad's programs. The attached summary highlights activities and efforts to foster Equity Diversity Inclusion and Accessbility. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in a Diversity Recruiting Strategy | Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd | Accenture Career Reboot program for Women | Bronze | 2023 | Career Reboot program has been designed to enable a platform for women professionals who have been on a career break for 2 years or more and are looking for a comeback to restart their career journey |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in a Diversity Recruiting Strategy | Tech Mahindra Limited | Impact Sourcing Model | Gold | 2023 | TechM’s Impact Sourcing Model is the focused hiring of socio-economically disadvantaged individuals with an aim of uplifting lives. It is in alignment with TechM’s purpose to ‘drive positive change in the lives of our communities. Only when we enable others to rise will we rise. #TogetherWeRise.” Through its Impact Sourcing Model, TechM has hired employees from economically, socially, physically disadvantaged and other ancillary categories like war widows, refugees, war veterans, and retired people. In addition to viewing the Impact Sourcing Model as a service to the community, TechM has seen traditional business benefits like higher retention and engagement through the optimum implementation of the model. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in a Diversity Recruiting Strategy | Corteva Agriscience and Hult EF Corporate Education | Opening career pathways at Corteva Agriscience | Gold | 2023 | This entry, co-created and submitted by Corteva Agriscience and Hult EF Corporate Education, is called "Opening career pathways at Corteva Agriscience". Corteva is committed to diversity, with our internship program being one of the pillars to increase minorities representation. Talent Acquisition was tasked with recruiting more diverse profiles in the Brazil internship program. By providing EF English training to interns, Corteva was able to remove the pre-requisite for English proficiency and, combined with other practices, achieve 100% diversity in the Brazil internship program. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in a Diversity Recruiting Strategy | Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd | Bridge (Internship) Programs for Social Impact hiring | Gold | 2023 | Bridge programs include our internship programs (Inclusive Internship Program & Aarambh) which have been designed to upskill and recruit talent from (A) economically weaker sections (B) people with disabilities & (C) the Transgender community. The program by design is to create a bridge for talent who could be put through basic employable & domain skilling curriculum and then be absorbed as full-time hires. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in a Diversity Recruiting Strategy | Chevron and Potentia Workforce | Chevron Neurodiversity Hiring Program | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Chevron and Potentia Workforce, is called the Chevron Neurodiversity Hiring Program. The program is one of the company’s diversity-focused recruiting initiatives that targets neurodiverse individuals, a largely underrepresented spectrum of talent, to bring diverse perspectives and skillsets into the workforce. The program places neurodiverse participants in job roles that align with their capabilities and give them an opportunity to make valuable work contributions. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in a Diversity Recruiting Strategy | Activision Blizzard | Level Up U | Silver | 2023 | In October 2021, Activision Blizzard announced its goal to invest $250 million over the next ten years to accelerate opportunities for diverse talent in gaming and technology. Level Up U, a 12-week immersive program that prepares and develops professionals for engineering positions at Activision Blizzard, grew directly out of this embrace of the responsibility for creating new opportunities for game developers–beyond the existing, traditional options, and to do so at scale. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in a Diversity Recruiting Strategy | Accenture | Accenture Midwest Early Identification Entry-Level I&D Recruiting Strategy | Silver | 2023 | The Accenture Midwest Early Identification Entry-Level I&D Recruiting Strategy is centered around three key programs for students to increase representation of African American/Black, Hispanic American/Latinx, and female talent: a one-week Midwest Externship for all groups and two targeted evening programs, Women in Technology Power Panel, and Midwest LatinX Power Panel. The programs aim to overcome three key gaps that can impede underrepresented candidates’ success in the recruiting process: familiarity with careers in consulting, consulting related skills and understanding of how technologies can solve business problems. In FY22, this I&D Strategy drove 35% of Midwest Market Unit Entry-level hiring, exceeding the annual goal, and has contributed towards Accenture’s publicly announced goals for gender parity and increased representation of African American/Black and Hispanic American/Latinx people by 2025. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development for Racial/Ethnic Minorities | Deloitte | GPS inCompass Business Development (BD) Cohort | Gold | 2023 | The Government and Public Sectors (GPS) inCompass Business Development (BD) Cohort was created to address the gaps in leadership representation and development opportunities provided to women and racially and ethnically diverse practitioners. The program is part of a long-term senior leadership commitment with bottom-up diversity, equity, and inclusion activities to foster a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace culture. The inCompass BD Cohort focuses on key requirements for career advancement at Deloitte: business development. This includes identifying opportunities in the market, understanding different acquisitions strategies, driving opportunities through the sales and proposal processes, and contributing to strategic pricing. By providing racially and ethnically diverse practitioners with greater support to pursue business development training and opportunities to advance their careers, inCompass also helps GPS to create a diverse pipeline of leaders who will help drive the future of the GPS business. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development for Racial/Ethnic Minorities | Lloyd's and GP Strategies | Lloyd’s Accelerate Program | Gold | 2023 | Lloyd’s Accelerate Program is a customized, modular program with the purpose of raising the representation of different ethnicities across the insurance sector. The program provides employees of minority background the opportunity to explore their own authentic leadership styles as well as how to influence, network, and carve their own career path. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development for Racial/Ethnic Minorities | Vector and Capability Group | Poetry for Purpose | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Capability Group and Vector, is called Poetry for Purpose. It is a 10 module programme for Pasifika employees, who have demonstrated leadership capability and potential, but not necessarily in the traditional workplace sense. The design of the programme brings together leadership expertise, the Pasifika "learning mat" methodology, and the power of creative poetry to create a unique programme for emerging Pasifika leaders in the corporate sector. The results have been overwhelmingly positive, with participants, line managers and Chief Executives rating the programme's results positively and an estimate of 60% of previous participants being promoted to a more senior role. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development for Racial/Ethnic Minorities | Boehringer Ingelheim, Inc. and Her New Standard | AMPLIFY…so all voices are heard! | Silver | 2023 | This entry, a joint collaboration submitted by Boehringer Ingelheim and Her New Standard, is called AMPLIFY…so all voices are heard! Today’s competitive environment requires organizations to develop leaders who bring a wide variety of professional and personal experience to the table. This program supports individuals from under-represented identity groups to be nominated by senior leaders across all functional areas of the organization, help them prepare for additional responsibility, develop their leadership skills, and ultimately, build diverse talent into the succession plans. Women of color face unique challenges in the workplace and AMPLIFY helps these women address challenges unique to multi-cultural women in the workplace and build strategies for greater confidence, presence and assertiveness in the workplace. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development for Racial/Ethnic Minorities | Deloitte LLP | Consulting Experience Portfolios | Silver | 2023 | The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Experience Portfolio aims to provide an equitable and continuous career experience for racially and ethnically diverse, as well as gender diverse personnel across the Consulting business, including the Analyst, Manager, and Senior Manager levels. These experiences include Learning & Development, Mentorship/Sponsorship, Leadership Exposure, and additional opportunities to meet fellow colleagues in a pod-based structure. After the success of the Springboard Program (for Senior Manager level), two additional programs were developed: Launch (Analyst level) and Compass (Manager level). |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women | HDFC ERGO GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED | WeLead and Winspiration | Bronze | 2023 | In a male dominated industry such as Insurance, women lack representation in leadership roles, despite being twice as likely to spend time on DEI, speak out against discrimination and educate themselves about the challenges in the workforce. WeLead is a Women Leadership Development Program designed to unleash the leadership potential of women employees in senior management roles and to help them get ready for their future growth. This was established to create a diverse working environent it will also create role models for women colleagues to look up to. WINspiration’, another women's talent program, puts Alumni of ‘WeLead’ in the driving seat and become mentors to our high-performing women colleagues in middle management. With internal women talent turning mentors and mentees, WINspiration brings in a 360-degree value addition to women at HDFC ERGO. These two create a sustainable diversity leadership pipeline. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women | Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd | Women in Tech.Next | Bronze | 2023 | The Accenture Advanced Technology Centers in India (ATCI) is committed to accelerating gender diversity and creating an equal workplace through unique technology and leadership upskill programs that support the growth and development of our women. The initiative is empowering women across all career levels to gain expertise in next-gen technologies and be part of the Accenture technology leadership teams. Technology upskill programs include Quantum Impact, High-Tech Women Edge, CyberHER and leadership development programs include GWILP(Grow Women in Leadership Program) and Apex. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women | Randstad | Randstad Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women | Bronze | 2023 | Randstad's CEO worked with their direct reports to institute a program to help drive an increase in women at the leadership level and completed that task with workstreams, council development and third-party support to provide added data to convey the right narrative to the leadership team. Through a series of carefully thought-out plans and ongoing focus on the overall goal they made an impact. While it was not overnight, women continue to thrive at Randstad through leadership development programs and hiring initiatives. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women | Roads and Transport Authority | Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women - Future Leaders Program (Leadership Development and Women Empowerment Initiative) | Bronze | 2023 | In translation to the women empowerment policy, the future leaders programs (FLP) is developed as women empowerment leadership program to develop women capabilities, increase engagement, and qualify them for leadership positions in the future. The program is designed and developed in alignment with RTA strategic goals and divisional strategies, with critical focus on quantifying and developing the women leadership competencies as per the approved framework. The program design included 2 pre and post assessments, 6 modules (Strategic Thinking and Planning, Strategic Decision Making, Future Foresight, Managing People, Leading Human Capital, and Leading Digital Transformation), 3 1:1 coaching sessions for every participant and module to reflect the acquired knowledge on the proposed initiatives and projects, and evaluation committee has been formed to evaluate the projects and their execution feasibility studies, and approve the high business impact projects. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women | UST | UST Leadership Development for Women | Gold | 2023 | UST's 2nd edition of the WinIT program aims to empower its women ussociates through a comprehensive journey of self-exploration, technical validation, knowledge exchange, mentorship, and networking. This holistic program delves into various facets of technology, leadership, and introspection. The program fosters a growth mindset, urging women to enhance their competencies and proficiencies in both personal and professional domains, with the assistance of LinkedIn Learning and Pluralsight. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women | Oceania Football Confederation and Capability Group | Women in Football Capacity Building | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Capability Group and Oceania Football Confederation, is called "Women in Football- Capacity Building". It is two programmes- a Capacity Building Programme for staff, volunteers and other women in the community, and a Train the Trainer programme to upskill Women's Development Officers and Just Play Officers to deliver it, across 11 Pacific Island nations. The programmes have reached approximately 500 women across the Pacific Islands to date. The programmes have empowered women in a traditionally male dominated sport to lead and contribute, with increased confidence and interest to get involved in football and the community. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women | Tech Mahindra Limited | Women Leadership Program | Gold | 2023 | Tech Mahindra’s Women Leadership Program (WLP) - CROWN program was created to encourage gender diversity at the leadership level. The program gives opportunity to women employees to learn, implement the learnings in live assignments and take up higher roles matching their career aspirations. This 9-month journey of blended learning comprising classroom interventions, WebEx, leader talk sessions, self-learning through online sessions is designed for women in middle management roles with guaranteed stretch roles on graduation. The key differentiating aspect of this program being that potential leadership roles are asked to be identified before nominating women for this program given the best performers a chance to transform their career and get on the fast-track to leadership. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women | Tata Consultancy Services | Empowering Women Leaders through Leraning Programs | Gold | 2023 | |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women | Shell and Corporate DNA Consulting | Powering Women (Mid Career) | Gold | 2023 | Shell is sharing its Powering Women programme as best practice for designing and delivering a gender targeted development programme for women at mid-career level. The programme supports Shell’s commitment to building a more diverse and inclusive culture. It is an investment in the growth of Shell’s women with the desired longer-term aspiration to shift the needle on the under-representation of women in senior leadership positions across the organisation in alignment with Shell’s Powering Progress agenda. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women | Accenture Solutions Pvt. Ltd. | Women Leadership Development Program (WLDP) | Gold | 2023 | Accenture’s Women Leadership Development Program (WLDP) is a flagship program, which was launched to: • Bridge the gap in gender diversity at Mid to Executive career levels • Help participants to envision their leadership pathway at Accenture, • Equip participants with the skills to be successful on that journey and encourage them to stay the course. Last year, about 120 aspiring and high performing women colleagues participated in the 6-month intensive learning journey. A recent program impact assessment undertaken showed 84% of the participants of the WLDP program were promoted to the executive career levels, which acted as one of the key contributors in bridging the gender diversity at those levels. This year, the program has been scaled to engage ~280 participants from across Business Units within Accenture Operations, India in line with our commitment to have a stronger impact on accelerating Equality and model an inclusive culture. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women | HCLTechnologies | Developing Future Leaders at HCLTech | Gold | 2023 | Developing Future-ready leaders @ HCLTech framework is designed in a way to focus on addressing the growing needs of business to induct the women on changing technologies and leadership trends, equipping them to create a strong network with senior leadership team, and addressing the challenges which a women leader faces as they climb the leadership ladder. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women | Anglo American | Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women: Amplify | Gold | 2023 | The Amplify Leadership Program at Anglo American is revolutionizing women’s leadership development with its dynamic, interactive curriculum and inclusive approach. By tackling tough conversations and fostering valuable connections, this trailblazing initiative empowers female leaders to confidently embrace their authentic leadership styles and make a lasting impact within and beyond the organization. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women | MetLife | EXCELERATE | Gold | 2023 | The EXCELERATE program, submitted by MetLife, is a multi-faceted, unique blended approach to talent development designed to increase leadership readiness to accelerate the career mobility for women and increase representation at the officer level. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women | Reprise Digital and Advantage Performance Group | elevateHER Women’s Leadership Development Journey | Gold | 2023 | Reprise Digital, a division of The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. (IPG) and a global digital marketing agency, partnered with Advantage Performance Group to deploy Paradox Strategies’ Being the Boss mobile app powered by 1st90, as part of elevateHER, a strategic leadership development initiative to increase representation of women leaders in senior leadership ranks across the globe. The Being the Boss learning journey, combined with internal mentorship and custom curated workshops, has effectively advanced the company’s need to support and develop women leaders globally. This program targeted specific development needs of women leaders at mid-level management and promoted a culture of diversity, helping to support women in their holistic needs for advancing in leadership roles. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women | Deloitte | GPS inCompass Business Development Cohort | Gold | 2023 | The Government and Public Services (GPS) inCompass Business Development (BD) Cohort was created to address the gap in leadership representation and development opportunities provided to women and racially and ethnically diverse practitioners within Deloitte’s Government and Public Services industry. The program is part of a long-term senior leadership commitment with bottom-up diversity, equity, and inclusion activities to foster a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace culture. The inCompass Business Development Cohort focuses on key requirements for career advancement at Deloitte, business development, which includes identifying opportunities in the market, understanding different acquisitions strategies, driving opportunities through the sales and proposal processes, and contributing to strategic pricing to name a few. By providing women with greater support to pursue business development training and opportunities to advance their careers, inCompass also helps GPS to create a diverse pipeline of leaders how will help drive the future of the GPS business. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women | Bank of America | Women Leader Enterprise Development Program | Gold | 2023 | Research shows that women’s career progression significantly slows in the middle levels of the organization. To address this issue, Bank of America has invested in female mid-level leaders by implementing two enterprise women’s leadership development programs — Women’s Executive Development Program and the Women’s Next Level Leadership Program — to enhance their leadership skills and advancement potential. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women | Larsen & Toubro Limited | L&T - Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women | Gold | 2023 | L&T envisions to become an organisation dedicated to Customer service, Nation Building, breaking boundaries of what is possible, setting international benchmarks. We depend on the Entrepreneurial spirit of the employees to lead by innovation and fuelled by desire of continuous learning. At the core, there is culture of Trust and Care. Our purpose is to meet expectation of all stakeholders – internal and external – including Customers, Supply Chain Partners, Employees and Society. Being Diverse and Inclusive help us in being more innovative. It also help us understand our customers better. Over years, we have consciously improved our Regional, Cultural and Generational Diversity. We are now working on improving Gender Diversity. To reach our Vision, we have a Strategic Fiver year Plan, we call Lakshya. Currently we have Lakshya2026, where we have taken target to reach 10% Gender Diversity. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women | Bank of America | Cherie Blair Mentoring Women in Business Program | Gold | 2023 | Women in developing and emerging economies have the drive and ambition to become successful business entrepreneurs, but lack access to the business skills, technology and capital they need. Since 2012, Bank of America has partnered with the Cherie Blair Foundation on its Mentoring Women in Business program to connect almost 10,000 women in developing and emerging countries with more than 1,000 experienced Bank of America mentors. This partnership highlights Bank of America’s commitment to women around the world. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women | AstraZeneca | Diversity by Design | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by AstraZeneca, is called "Diversity by Design". This initiative is an experiment to reimagine traditional gender-based approaches to developing underrepresented talent. It is open to people who identify as women (including transgender before / during / after transition), it prioritizes people where their country of origin is outside a US/European headquarter hub location. Taking into consideration the career level at which gender representation starts to decline, Diversity by Design is open to those from entry level positions to mid-level leadership to ensure that diversity within the talent pipeline is developed as early as possible. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women | Svitzer and BTS | Svitzer - Catalysts for Change Female Leadership Program | Gold | 2023 | The C4C leadership program is a development initiative designed by Svitzer in collaboration with BTS to address the underrepresentation of women in leadership roles. The program was developed in response to business conditions and needs, including low female representation in senior leadership positions, a lack of female role models, and high female attrition rates. The program's design includes a 360-degree assessment, coaching pods, three immersive experiences, and on-the-job application of learnings. Measurable benefits include an increase in NPS scores, improvements in 360-degree behavioral ratings, reduced female attrition rates, and promotions for program participants. The program has also led to a more positive workplace environment and better connections between female employees across Svitzer. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women | Verizon | 2021-2022 Women of the World [WOW] Program | Gold | 2023 | WOW, originally created as Women in Wireless and now transformed into a global program as Women of the World, is designed to support and engage women throughout Verizon in their career journeys. In 2021, WOW was relaunched as a virtual program, with every business unit and function participating. WOW has become one of the most recognized brands within Verizon, and has become a flagship program for the V Team (Verizon employees). |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women | LexisNexis Legal & Professional | The LEAD Program | Gold | 2023 | This entry by LexisNexis Legal & Professional is called "The LEAD Program". It is a nine month leadership development program for rising female talent with the primary goal of which increasing self confidence and leadership capability of the women participants. A secondary goal, through involving male allies as mentors, was to raising the topic of gender equality across senior leadership within the organization to continue to foster and drive an inclusive culture. Creation of the program combined this unique mentoring approach with other blended learning best practice principles, using external coaches, virtual workshops, peer group learning, onLine learning and in person celebrations. The results show a significant uplift in self confidence across the women leader participants, a change in understanding and leadership approach across the male allies and demonstrates to the whole organization full commitment to this topic and creating a more inclusive culture. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women | WNS | Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women | Silver | 2023 | Centurion – a WNS Talent Management Program for Future Women Leaders – is an accelerated program for high potential women employees, to nurture them for leadership roles through a structured development journey including academic program, cross functional insights, role enrichment and mobility, competency development, coaching and leadership engagement. Centurions are put through a multi-faceted development roadmap which gives them exposure to the various business dimensions and operational factors. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women | Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd | Paving the Way for Women in Leadership: Women leadership programs that empower and inspire | Silver | 2023 | In the past 18 months, Accenture Operations, India has implemented a series of programs to develop women leaders across levels and provide them meaningful careers. Today, through these programs, we are providing opportunities to women across five career levels, (leading up to the Managing Director level), to experience differentiated and accelerated careers. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women | Escorts Kubota and Enparadigm Performance Solutions | Project Udaan – Shaping the Wings of Leaders | Silver | 2023 | The learning journey, titled “Project Udaan” (lit: flight, the process of flying), comprised of instructor-led simulation-based workshops, self-paced eLearning retention modules, psychometric behavioural assessments and functional goal-linked projects – aimed to identify, develop & create a talent pool of women leaders within the organisation |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women | Mars, Incorporated | Mars Inc_Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women_Women Leaders Influencing & Navigating the Future of Mars (WIN) | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Mars, Inc, is called "Women Leaders Influencing & Navigating the Future of Mars (WIN)". The WIN program is designed to prepare Mars’ senior women leaders to grow as executive leaders, hone their signature voice, master corporate-level networking, and secure executive sponsorship and identify and collaboratively influence the systemic barriers facing all women leaders within Mars. 6 months in duration, WIN is a three module, blended experience delivered in both virtual and face-to-face sessions. The program aims to equip Senior leaders and their line managers with the right knowledge & skills according to their responsibility level, allowing them to take action to move women leadership forward at Mars through best-in-class experiences to create lasting behavior change for an inclusive culture. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women | SLK Software Pvt. Ltd. | SLK Women in Leadership (WIL) Program | Silver | 2023 | This entry submitted by SLK Software Pvt. Ltd is called SLK Women in Leadership (WIL Program). It is a holistic, multi-touchpoint, experiential learning journey spreading across 12 months and uses Psychometric Assessments, Simulations, ILT, Coaching, Mentoring and Action Learning Projects. The objective of the program was to create a steady pipeline of women employees for leadership roles to ensure a good diversity percentage at the leadership levels. This year-long intervention resulted in more than 65% of the participants moving into bigger roles and taking on greater responsibilities. 35% participants were promoted and 5% moved into aspirational Overseas Assignments. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women | Salesforce and BTS | Leading TMP: Salesforce Leadership Development Program | Silver | 2023 | A hybrid in-person and remote program designed to increase gender diversity in Tech, Marketing, and Product leadership by enabling women to enhance their leadership skills, expand their network, and ultimately advance to more senior roles within Salesforce. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Leading Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Initiatives | PT Indo Kordsa Tbk | Promoting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion In PT Indo Kordsa Tbk | Bronze | 2023 | Working in Indo Kordsa, the diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) are embraced by giving equal opportunity to everyone to grow, breaking stereotypes and bias, and providing support according to everyone's unique needs. A vibrant tapestry of backgrounds, traditions, and perspectives could enrich our world, bring different perspective and contribution. Together as diverse reinforcers we embrace DE&I and are fully included to Reinforce The Life. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Leading Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Initiatives | HCL Technologies | Leading the DE&I Initiatives | Bronze | 2023 | HCLTech’s purpose is “to bring together the best of technology and our people to supercharge progress.” They are supercharging progress for everyone, everywhere – their clients, partners and their stakeholders, their people, communities, and the planet. HCLTech’s leaders are dedicated to designing initiatives and programs to focus on addressing the growing needs of business via data-driven insights and technology advancements to provide industry best solutions. |
| Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Leading Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Initiatives | Randstad | Randstad Best Advance in Leading Diversity Equity and Inclusion Initiatives | Bronze | 2023 | The attached provides a glimpse into how Randstad advances Equity Diversity Inclusion and Accessbility. Randstad has established strategies inclusive of market data and trends as associated with the targeted demographic needs within its organization, grassroots and national resources as well as support from internally dedicated Equity Diversity Inclusion and Accessibility specialists to ensure equitable outcomes. | |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Leading Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Initiatives | Med Learning Group | Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Ophthalmology: Health Disparities in Ocular Disease | Gold | 2023 | This activity targets healthcare gaps related to awareness of health disparities in the prevention and treatment of ocular diseases and the importance of diverse representation within clinical trials and the ophthalmology workforce, impacting outcomes through assessing for factors that can contribute to disparities in vision health and strategies to overcome them. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Leading Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Initiatives | Schneider Electric | Inclusive by Design: Schneider Electric’s Approach to Enhancing Global Family Leave | Gold | 2023 | This entry describes the approach taken by Schneider Electric to enhance its existing Global Family Leave Policy. This entry highlights the key partnership between the Rewards and DEI teams to ensure the enhanced policy was inherently inclusive and market attractive. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Leading Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Initiatives | Tata Consultancy Services | Driving Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion through Inclusion without Exception | Gold | 2023 | NA |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Leading Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Initiatives | Concentrix | Best Advance in Leading Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives | Gold | 2023 | At Concentrix, diversity and inclusion is the foundation of our organization. It’s so important that it’s included in CONCENTRIX vision statement; We will be the greatest customer service engagement company in the world, rich in Diversity and Talent. Concentrix's DEI aim is to eliminate deep-rooted racial injustice, unlawful discrimination, disparities of power, and mistreatment at work. Concentrix works to build an inclusive environment that respects differences and fosters inclusion. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Leading Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Initiatives | Wipro Limited | Inclusion is a way of life | Silver | 2023 | This entry submitted by Wipro Limited is called "Inclusion is a way of Life at Wipro". We are committed to integrating diversity into all aspects of our work and encouraging all Wiproites to be their authentic selves at all times and the document is an intent to showcase how we achieve this. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Leading Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Initiatives | Allianz Technology SE | Best Advance in Leading Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Initiatives for Allianz Technology SE | Silver | 2023 | Best Advance in Leading Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Initiatives: The talent market is vast & the fierce talent competition in the Indian operating market makes it a driving factor to focus more on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion as a key aspect to attract & retain the best talents of today like Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z. The topic also gains importance for Allianz Technology SE India as an organization which is an Employer of Choice & has become a critical success driver from a Talent Management perspective. It has become the topic of interest for progressive leadership to build an inclusive organization to earn deeper and committed workforce. The efforts of having a diverse & included workforce largely impacts in sustaining the competitive business through increased productivity, gaining customer confidence, & eventually leading to desired profits. Therefore, the business case for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion is stronger than ever. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Leading Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Initiatives | Azerconnect LLC | INSPIRE.LEAD.CREATE : Azerconnect Woman Empowerment Program | Silver | 2023 | INSPIRE.LEAD.CREATE" Women Empowerment Program as a strategic initiative came forward to strengthen position of the women leaders and to create workplace opportunities for women in leadership roles across Azerconnect LLC as a UN Women Empowerment Principles (WEP) signee Company The objective of "INSPIRE.LEAD.CREATE" Women Empowerment Program is to position the company as a pioneer in the establishment of employment equity, diversity, and inclusion in our company by adopting proactive and forward-thinking initiatives to close the gender gap, supported by critical KPIs The program targeted ambitious goals in various areas to improve gender equity thanks to robust actions with top management sponsorship. It brought about factful and inspiring contributions which created a strong base for future initiatives. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Measuring Diversity, Equity or Inclusion | PepsiCo | Tracking and Projecting DEI Representation to Measure the Impact of DEI Agenda and Guide Its Growth Target | Bronze | 2023 | This application, submitted by PepsiCo, describes a methodology on measuring the current representation of DEI cohorts (global woman, US Black, and US Hispanic) as well projecting their representations into future years based on historical growth trend and market availability of knowledge workers. Such measurement and future trajectory information is subsequently used to assess the impact and progress of PepsiCo’s DEI agenda, as well as guiding the growth targets for the coming years at both enterprise level and business sector level. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Measuring Diversity, Equity or Inclusion | British American Tobacco Plc. | BAT - Best Advance in Measuring Diversity Equity or Inclusion 2023 Voluntary Ethnicity data campaign | Bronze | 2023 | This submission details BAT’s Ethnicity Data Collection as an effort to collect ethnicity data from 7 key countries based on BATs strategic markets. Collecting and analyzing quality employee data is a key part of building an effective inclusion strategy. Focusing on ethnicity data prepares BAT to proactively assess the organization against trends coming from regulators, investment communities, society, and employees. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Measuring Diversity, Equity or Inclusion | Tata Consultancy Services | Measuring Diversity Equity and Inclusion through Diversity Maturity Matrix and Culture Survey | Gold | 2023 | |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Mentoring to Develop Diverse Leaders | Dentsply Sirona and Chronus | Developing & Advancing Diverse Leaders through Mentorship | Bronze | 2023 | Dentsply Sirona is committed to cultivating an inclusive working environment that inspires and empowers employees to do their best work and bring new ideas to the table. In 2022 we launched the Inclusive Mentorship Program, further demonstrating our dedication to providing pathways for our teams to learn and grow. This program encourages mentorship connections at all levels to help diverse individuals identify career goals, broaden skillsets, and expand their network, leading to career advancement. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Mentoring to Develop Diverse Leaders | Cimsa | W-GROW | Bronze | 2023 | Çimsa places great importance on the development of young women. In pursuit of this goal, the "W-GROW – Young Women Engineers Development Program" was implemented, which aimed to empower and develop young female engineers in their final year of university who may face challenges in accessing education, development opportunities, and expanding their professional networks. This six-week knowledge training and talent development program was delivered through Çimsa Academy platform, our digital learning platform designed specifically for Çimsa employees |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Mentoring to Develop Diverse Leaders | Bank of America | Bank of America Diverse Leaders Sponsorship Program | Gold | 2023 | The Diverse Leader Sponsorship Program is a six-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, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Mentoring to Develop Diverse Leaders | Kordsa Teknik Tekstil A.Ş. | Women Strengthening Engineering Mentoring Program | Gold | 2023 | The program is organized by Kordsa with the aim of providing mentoring support to female engineering students who are at the beginning of their careers in the male-dominated engineering and industrial sector. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Advance in Mentoring to Develop Diverse Leaders | Kordsa Teknik Tekstil A.Ş. | Women Reinforcing Engineering Mentorship Program 3rd Round | Silver | 2023 | The program is organized by Kordsa with the aim of providing mentoring support to female engineering students who are at the beginning of their careers in the male-dominated engineering and industrial sector. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Corporate Outreach to Promote Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Communities | McKinsey & Company | Juntos Conference ("Conferência Juntos" in Portuguese) | Gold | 2023 | Promoting racial equity is a central pillar of McKinsey’s talent attraction and recruiting strategy. Seeing an urgent need to shape the diversity, equity, and inclusion ecosystem in Brazil, the firm launched the Juntos Conference in 2018. Now in its fifth edition, the conference has connected upward of 14,000 Black students and young professionals with more than 90 speakers and 35 sponsoring companies. It supports this community through networking, personal and professional skill development, and insight from senior Black professionals and leaders, thereby raising racial equity in the Brazilian labor market. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Corporate Outreach to Promote Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Communities | IBM | IBM 20+ HBCU Cybersecurity Leadership Centers Initiative | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by IBM is called "IBM 20+ HBCU Cybersecurity Leadership Centers Initiative". It is a single Microsoft Word document with links to URL references embedded within. Creation of this initiative was driven the overwhelming need in the U.S. to fill cybersecurity jobs and the IBM continued commitment to Historically Black Colleges and Universities to increasing diversity in the workforce. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Corporate Outreach to Promote Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Communities | Accenture | The BOLD Student Mentorship Program | Gold | 2023 | The Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC)/Black Student Mentorship Program (BSMP)/Black Student Mentorship Program (BSMP) is an early-career, employee-led program pairing Black post-secondary students with Accenture consultants for one-on-one mentorship, community building, and holistic professional and personal development for 3 months. The program was created to solve for the gap in a lack of networking opportunities with business professionals for coaching and mentorship for students from marginalized groups. BSMP worked to help student mentees build confidence and their own professional networks. BSMP alumni work at 49+ unique employers from startups to top finance and consulting firms. With 80% of alumni (through December 2021) accepting roles at consulting firms including 12 being hired directly by Accenture Canada. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Corporate Outreach to Promote Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Communities | Capgemini Technology Services India Limited | Captivate – Women Returnee Program | Gold | 2023 | At the end of 2018, at Capgemini in India, we were at reasonably lower number of women in our total workforce. The percentage was even lower when we went to higher grades, and this was a big concern for us. With technology progressing rapidly and business environment changing constantly, we had a vision of having an even more diverse and innovative workforce to meet our business goals. With this in mind, Captivate was designed to attract more diverse talent from amongst untapped talent pool and create a positive impact on the organization culture that Capgemini continually strives to build. Captivate is a career comeback initiative to support skilled women professionals who have been away from work and want to make a transition back into the workforce. It is Capgemini’s effort to address their experience gap and provide another route to get talented women back into the workplace. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Corporate Outreach to Promote Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Communities | HDFC Bank and Centum Foundation, a CSR arm of Centum Learning | HDFC-Centum Best Corporate Outreach to Promote Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Communities | Silver | 2023 | The "Best Corporate Outreach to Promote Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Communities" entry submitted by HDFC Bank Parivartan with Centum Foundation showcases their successful project named "Building capacity of youth and women for self-reliant economy." This project aims to provide skill-building training across five job roles to enhance employability and develop skills among youth and women in underprivileged sections of Delhi NCR. The project provides job placement and creates sustainable livelihood opportunities for the trainees, thus empowering families and contributing to the country's holistic economic and social development. The project emphasizes innovative and market-driven skill development programs, equipping participants with relevant soft and hard skills that lead to guaranteed employment or entrepreneurship opportunities. The project's remarkable success is attributed to its steadfast support in placement and retention, fostering a resilient and self-sufficient community that embodies the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Strategy | HCL | Best DE&I Strategy | Bronze | 2023 | HCLTech’s purpose is “to bring together the best of technology and our people to supercharge progress.” They are supercharging progress for everyone, everywhere – their clients, partners and their stakeholders, their people, communities, and the planet. HCLTech’s leaders are dedicated to designing initiatives and programs to focus on addressing the growing needs of business via data-driven insights and technology advancements to provide industry best solutions for curating DEI strategy and roadmap. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Strategy | Singapore Telecommunications Limited | Best Diversity Equity and Inclusion Strategy | Bronze | 2023 | The Singtel Group takes a comprehensive and multi-faceted approach to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) across the organization. This approach encompasses internal initiatives, international partnerships, and various awareness-raising efforts, all of which are underpinned by a culture of accountability. Through the adoption of inclusive leadership practices and talent management policies, the Singtel Group aims to cultivate an environment that fosters DEI and enables all employees to reach their full potential. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Strategy | Mondelez International | Disability inclusion Strategy in Mondelēz International Brazil | Bronze | 2023 | Mondelēz Brazil created a more inclusive and diverse workforce by setting clear goals for attracting talent, create a better accessibility for people with disabilities in their facilities and ensuring a culture of Inclusivity, with a clear understanding of challenges and DEI mindset. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Strategy | BNSF Railway | Advancing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at BNSF | Bronze | 2023 | This entry, is submitted by BNSF Railway and is called Advancing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at BNSF. BNSF’s Vision, Values, Evidence of Success and Leadership Model have a foundation in respect, equality, inclusion and reaching our tremendous potential, both personally and professionally. After social unrest over the past several years, BNSF recognized the need to accelerate progress in representation and inclusivity. The strategy developed encapsulates the direction, action and commitment BNSF has towards advancing diversity, equity and inclusion. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Strategy | Saudi Aramco | Saudi Aramco: Strategizing Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion in the Middle East | Bronze | 2023 | Saudi Aramco, a global energy and chemicals leader with over 70,000 employees, developed its Corporate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) Strategy with the objective of creating an inclusive workplace environment for diverse talent. The Strategy contains six powerful strategic priorities that aim to catapult the Company in the areas of recruitment, retention, advancement, leadership, and being a DE&I role model in the Middle East and beyond. Their DE&I initiatives have made impressive gains in all of these areas, including increased representation of women and people with disabilities, an enhanced employee value proposition, and a more welcoming and engaging workplace culture for all employees. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Strategy | Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd | Accelerating Equality for ALL | Gold | 2023 | This submission, 'Accelerating Equality for ALL', reflects the work of Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd in enabling an equal and inclusive culture where everyone feels they belong and can 'come as they are'. Inclusion and diversity is embedded in everything Accenture does—in the decisions we make and actions we take—and is a key enabler of Accenture’s business results. Accenture’s unwavering commitment is a testament to its people, who truly own the Inclusion & Diversity (I&D) agenda through their actions every day. This collaboration between Accenture’s people, clients and communities continues to accelerate progress and fosters a culture of equality where everyone can grow and thrive. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Strategy | Bank of America | Bank of America Diversity and Inclusion Learning Strategy | Gold | 2023 | 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, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Strategy | ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited and Chrysalis | Ignite Wave | Silver | 2023 | Ignite Wave is the latest edition of the Ignite Program, launched in 2022. IGNITE wave aims at ‘co-creating’ and ‘co-achieving.’ It aims at involving people and collaborating with them to make better future plans. Hence it becomes very important for the attendees of IGNITE wave to be involved in the program as much as the team has been involved preparing it. It is a follow-up program where input from that years IGNITE are shared with different Bands within the organisation, like Bands III, IV, and V, along with Vision and Agenda for the coming year, with Vishwas Survey results if conducted, more initiatives which are to be launched, people’s KPIs, and other updates from the previous years. The latest edition concentrates intensively on DEI – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Strategy | A1 Hrvatska, d.o.o. | A1 STEMfemme | Silver | 2023 | A1 Hrvatska launched diversity program A1 STEMfemme focusing specifically on female students underrepresented in ICT career paths, bringing thus A1 Hrvatska at the forefront of the positive driving force improving the world of work. The initiative offers support to university students trough two-month long paid traineeship, with dedicated mentor and education program and working on the latest developments in STEM and IT. The program is aimed at empowering young women in STEM fields, to help them take their first career steps and to increase diversity at A1 Hrvatska. Following a comprehensive campaign and broad interest for our program, we carried out a selection process to find the best candidates for our company and after the program, part of candidates were employed as interns in A1 Start (internship program). |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Strategy | Cimsa | Equality is our Priority | Silver | 2023 | We prioritize the principle of "Equality at Work" in all processes and provide equal opportunities to female and male employees. We structure the total reward packages, salaries, and benefits of male and female employees in similar positions at the same level in accordance with the principle of Equality at Work. We do not discriminate based on gender in compensation. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Governance of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion | Kordsa Teknik Tekstil A.Ş. | KORDSA’S DEI INITIATIVE: BEING PLURAL ALL AROUND THE WORLD | Bronze | 2023 | Kordsa’s initiative aims to cultivate an all-embracing and courteous corporate culture by eradicating individuals' inherent workplace biases and fostering a comprehensive comprehension of fundamental gender concepts throughout the company. The program has been thoughtfully devised to promote an atmosphere of diversity and inclusion. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Governance of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion | Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd | Making Inclusion & Diversity (I&D) a Business Priority through the I&D Council | Bronze | 2023 | Accenture’s Advanced Technology Centers in India (ATCI) I&D Council was formed to embed inclusion and diversity across ATCI’s core business functions. It includes senior leaders who are passionate about creating an equal workplace for our people in the largest Accenture entities in India. Using a programmatic approach, the council's intentionality and purpose make inclusion and diversity a key priority beyond quantitative metrics. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Governance of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion | Wipro Limited | Inclusion & Diversity Governance at Wipro | Gold | 2023 | This entry submitted by Wipro Limited is called "Inclusion and Diversity Governance at Wipro". We are committed to integrating diversity into all aspects of our work and encouraging all Wiproites to be their authentic selves at all times and the document is an intent to showcase how we have developed a strong governance model to ensure that we are promoting and supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion in operations, policies, and practices. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Learning Program for Unconscious Bias Awareness | MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care (MJHS) and Harbinger Group | “Caring for Holocaust Survivors with Sensitivity at the End of Life” Unconscious Bias Awareness Online Learning Program | Gold | 2023 | The “Caring for Holocaust Survivors with Sensitivity at the End of Life” unconscious bias awareness online learning program is provided by MJHS. It has been developed to sensitize and prepare healthcare professionals working with Holocaust Survivors and their families, as well as other trauma survivors, to recognize their own unconscious bias, respond in an empathic way to post-traumatic stress symptoms, and deliver patient-centered trauma-informed (PCTI) care to patients at the end of life (EOL). |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Learning Program for Unconscious Bias Awareness | TPI Composites Turkey | Unconscious Bias Awareness Activities in TPI Turkey | Gold | 2023 | Unconscious bias awareness learning program designed to address the gender imbalance within our organization and create a more diverse and inclusive workplace. Business goals were to attract and retain more women especially in blue-collar roles, increase gender diversity across the organization and improve overall workplace efficiency and innovation. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Learning Program for Unconscious Bias Awareness | Department of Civil Servant Development, Taipei City Government | Gender Equity Innovation and Empowerment Program for Civil Servants | Gold | 2023 | Implementation of this program has contributed enormously to eliminating unconscious bias among the civil servants of Taipei City Government (TCG) and members of the public. It has increased gender awareness in the city, and its implementation both in municipal administration and in the workplace will help to bring Taipei closer towards becoming a gender-inclusive city. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Learning Program for Unconscious Bias Awareness | Department of Civil Servant Development, Taipei City Government | Gender Equity Innovation and Empowerment Program for Civil Servants | Gold | 2023 | Implementation of this program has contributed enormously to eliminating unconscious bias among the civil servants of Taipei City Government (TCG) and members of the public. It has increased gender awareness in the city, and its implementation both in municipal administration and in the workplace will help to bring Taipei closer towards becoming a gender-inclusive city. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Learning Program for Unconscious Bias Awareness | T-Mobile | T-Mobile Best Learning Program for Unconscious Bias Awareness 2023 DECIDE | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by T-Mobile, is called DECIDE: The Neuroscience of Breaking Unconscious Bias. This multi-faceted DE&I Learning Program prepares learners to actively break unconscious biases to make more informed, effective, and confident decisions. Through Virtual Instructor Led Training, e-learning solutions and more, DECIDE approaches the topic of unconscious bias from a neuroscience perspective by establishing, first, that unconscious bias is part of being human, a function of having a brain. As such, the DECIDE training focuses on how to remove unconscious bias from processes, not people and to help them discover ways to make unconscious bias work for them, not against them. Creation of the course was driven by T-Mobile's Equity in Action Plan and commitment to invest in its people. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Learning Program for Unconscious Bias Awareness | Bank of America | Bank of America Unconscious Bias Awareness Program | Gold | 2023 | Bank of America’s overall Diversity and Inclusion strategy provides an enterprise-wide, horizontal approach to Diversity and Inclusion program goals and design/development and delivery. The goal of the Unconscious Bias Awareness Program is to create a consistent, robust, and flexible program to increase unconscious bias awareness, building skills and competency in managing and mitigating bias overall, while creating an inclusive culture where courageous conversations are encouraged and supported. There is specific 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, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Learning Program for Unconscious Bias Awareness | Wells Fargo & Company | Workplace Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: Unconscious Bias Awareness learning program | Silver | 2023 | Unconscious Bias awareness is part of our enterprise diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) strategy. Inclusive behaviors are at the core of how we conduct ourselves, work with our colleagues, hold courageous conversations, and make decisions within the framework of workplace diversity, equity and inclusion. To do this, it’s crucial to provide DE&I training and resources on mitigating unconscious bias, micro-behaviors, increasing advocacy and cultural competency. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Learning Program for Unconscious Bias Awareness | HCL Tech | Best Learning Program for Unconscious Bias Awareness | Silver | 2023 | Created our new-age Unconscious Bias Awareness Program- ‘Fostering Inclusion’ with an overarching dual focus on supercharging allyship and cultural intelligence. The program is curated with a dual focus of placing building blocks of allyship in the depths of HCLTech’s work culture along with empowering employees with traits of cultural intelligence. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Learning Program for Unconscious Bias Awareness | ASELSAN | ASELSAN Breaks the Bias on Parenthood | Silver | 2023 | ASELSAN values innovation, excellence and diversity. As part of its commitment to creating a more inclusive and respectful workplace culture, ASELSAN has developed a series of seminars on unconscious bias awareness. The seminars aim to raise awareness of the different types of biases that can affect our decisions, interactions and performance at work, and how to overcome them. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Learning Program that Supports and Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion | Boys & Girls Clubs of America and Infopro Learning | Introduction to Racial Equity | Bronze | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Infopro Learning, is called "Introduction to Racial Equity." A highly interactive and engaging scenario-based course designed to provide an overview of Racial Equity by introducing participants to foundational concepts and systems that contribute to inequities. This course aims to align participants with BGCA’s DEI goals. After completing the course, participants can outline specific commitments based on what they learned about Racial Equity. They will also identify opportunities to apply their learnings into practice in their roles at their Club. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Learning Program that Supports and Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion | myGwork and EI, Powered by MPS | LGBTQ+ Allyship in the Workplace | Bronze | 2023 | Designed for its customers, myGwork needed to ensure that the learning module, LGBTQ+ Allyship in the Workplace would address varied learner goals and integrate easily into different learning strategies. Essentially, the organization had to create a learning strategy for critical DE&I topics that would be as wide-reaching, easily integrated and impactful as possible. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Learning Program that Supports and Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion | Mondelez International | Building a culture of Belonging in MEU Supply Chain | Bronze | 2023 | The European Supply Chainfunction of Mondelez focussed on building knowledge and understanding in the DEI space for Leaders and People managers so they could role model the right behaviors, advocate and challenge non inclusive behaviors to create a culture of belonging for all colleagues |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Learning Program that Supports and Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion | WEConnect International and Artha Learning Inc | Diversify Your Supply Chain to Drive Your Business Growth | Bronze | 2023 | The "Diversify Your Supply Chain to Drive Your Business Growth" initiative was formulated by WEConnect International, in partnership with Artha Learning Inc., to address supplier diversity and gender-inclusive sourcing in the Central and South America region. The program aimed to reach at least 60 business buyers from 6 Central and South American countries: Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, and Honduras. The program’s blended approach allows it to be customized to each country’s SD&I landscape—with three, 2-hour virtual sessions, each followed by a 20-min reinforcement eLearning module. The program’s evaluation data so far—for Guyana, El Salvador, and Costa Rica—indicates incredible results with regards to the program’s acceptance and immediate impact (Level 1 feedback and Level 3 SD&I actions taken so far). Level 4 evaluation is currently being carried out. And the program is currently underway for Guatemala, Honduras, and Ecuador. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Learning Program that Supports and Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion | Reliance Matrix and Inspire Human Resources | DEI Foundations | Bronze | 2023 | This entry, submitted for Reliance Matrix, with support from the solution provider Inspire Human Resources, is a virtual, live learning program on building inclusion. The program is called DEI Foundations. This learning program established a foundation for all team members at the enterprise to understand, and commit to supporting, the organization's vision of an inclusive workplace. It included remarks from senior leadership and the DEI Council, videos, small and large group activities, mini-lecture, self-reflection, and a commitment to action. This 3-hour program is a cornerstone to DEI initiatives at the enterprise. The program ensured that all team members understood the inclusion culture concept, the ways that every individual helps shape that culture, skills to enhance inclusion and mitigate biases, and how to act as an ally. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Learning Program that Supports and Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion | General Dynamics Information Technology and Transportation Security Administration | TSA Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility for Supervisors | Bronze | 2023 | In support of TSA’s continued efforts to foster a culture of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility, GDIT and TSA developed a 7-hour course for supervisors to sustain a culture that embraces DEI&A. The course is a blended/instructor-led course that was custom-made to meet the needs of TSA’s supervisory personnel. The course encompasses three lessons that provide classroom-based facilitation and activities. A systematic development process was used to create the course, starting at learning analysis, design, development, and evaluation with the conduct of dry-runs and operational try-outs of the course as part of implementation. The TSA DEI&A course includes several innovative strategies such as video-based threaded storytelling, self-reflection, and Socratic questioning to provide opportunities for supervisors to generate a deeper understanding of the importance inclusivity in the workplace, by becoming self-aware of their own perspectives and how they may influence their role as supervisors. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Learning Program that Supports and Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion | Tata Consultancy Services | Supporting DEI Learning through Diversity Basics | Gold | 2023 | |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Learning Program that Supports and Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion | Colgate-Palmolive and SAI 360 | A Culture of Belonging | Gold | 2023 | In an inclusive workplace, employees feel valued for their contributions and have the same opportunities for advancement as their coworkers. A Culture of Belonging is designed to help Colgate Palmolive employees learn about working inclusively with people who aren’t exactly like them, and how to find value in the different perspectives they bring to work. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Learning Program that Supports and Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion | AKBANK | AKBANK Social Impact Academies | Gold | 2023 | Akbank, as one of Turkey's leading brands serving in every region of the country, has prioritized sustainability, equality and diversity issues on its strategic agenda and has set the goal of creating social impact through education. With this vision, it has established the "Akbank Social Impact Academies." Akbank aims to bring together priority segments in need with quality development solutions through the Social Impact Academies. Based on the conducted needs analysis, three priority target groups were identified at the beginning of the project, and three different Social Impact Academy programs were designed for these target groups: • Akbank Youth Academy for young individuals • Akbank Transformation Academy for SMEs (Small and Medium-sized Enterprises) • Akbank Family Academy for Akbank employees and their close ones, whom they consider as "family" |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Learning Program that Supports and Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion | Fidelity Investments and Handcrafted Learning | Handcrafting interactive, accessible eLearning experiences that measurably build allyship behaviors | Gold | 2023 | In early 2021 Fidelity Investments launched its first ever D&I report, publicly committing to increasing headcount among members of underrepresented groups and expanding programs that foster a culture of inclusion. Handcrafted Learning partnered with Fidelity to design and develop a series of custom learning experiences that were highly interactive, met world-class accessibility standards, and made a measurable impact on Fidelity’s culture of 60,000+ employees. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Learning Program that Supports and Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion | Activision Blizzard | Level Up U | Gold | 2023 | In October 2021, Activision Blizzard announced its goal to invest $250 million over the next ten years to accelerate opportunities for diverse talent in gaming and technology. Level Up U, a 12-week immersive program that prepares and develops professionals for engineering positions at Activision Blizzard, grew directly out of this embrace of the responsibility for creating new opportunities for game developers–beyond the existing, traditional options, and to do so at scale. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Learning Program that Supports and Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion | Macy's Inc. and ETU | Immersive Simulation for DEI Skill Benchmarks & Insights | Gold | 2023 | Macy’s was already providing DE&I training through standard formats, such as eLearning and ILT, but did not have data on DE&I skills and specific DE&I needs of the organization. A central goal of the program was to benchmark and gather valid data to understand ● Training’s impact on the organization ● Learner development with respect to skills and behaviors ● Skill gaps that require remediation Macy’s partnered with ETU to provide a more immersive experience that enables Macy’s employees to practice and upskill in specific DE&I skills and behaviors. Learners engage in realistic, challenging scenarios that are aligned with the business and provide personalized, immediate feedback based on decisions made. Macy’s had previously invested in unconscious bias training, which helped everybody understand that we all have biases, but it did not really help employees actually improve in the desired behaviors. As an organization, |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Learning Program that Supports and Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion | Export Development Canada and Pardeux eLearning | EDC - Inclusion, Diversity and Equity Learning Program | Gold | 2023 | This Entry is for a Learning Strategy that was designed and implemented to support the Inclusion, Diversity & Equity (ID&E) Strategy at Export Development Canada. The overall goal of the program was to help bring about a sustainable culture of inclusion and belonging where all employees feel valued, respected, accepted, and safe to be their authentic selves. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Learning Program that Supports and Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion | Optum Global Solutions | Applying universal learning design to onboard speech- and hearing-impaired talent in Optum Global Solutions | Silver | 2023 | Optum Global Solutions hired and onboarded people with speech and hearing impairment (SHI) through pilot-focused approach and develop a sustainable inclusive culture at the organizational level. This application highlights how a universal design approach was applied to create an accessible and engaging learning program to onboard the SHI talent. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Learning Program that Supports and Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion | Capital One Financial Corporation | Promoting a Culture of Belonging through Capital One’s Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging Learning Initiative | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Capital One Financial Corporation, is called "Promoting a Culture of Belonging through Capital One’s Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging Learning Initiative." Established in 2020, Capital One established three learning programs under their Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging Initiative: the Customer-Facing Associate Mobility (CFAM) Program; the Advancing Black & Hispanic Leaders (ABHL) Program; and the Executive Education Program. Throughout their existence and in 2022, all three learning programs have positively impacted Capital One associates, and each program has continued to be thoughtfully developed and grounded in the commitments they were originally designed to support. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Learning Program that Supports and Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion | Center for Equity and Inclusion (CEI) and EI, Powered by MPS | Reframing Racism | Silver | 2023 | CEI worked with EI to create an eLearning version of its signature Reframing Racism workshop, intended to assist people in understanding how racism operates and what they can do about it. The four-hour course, split into seven modules with clear progression and tracking, covers different tools and frameworks for identifying and disrupting racism. Personalized activities to apply those tools and frameworks are provided based on the learners’ racial ethnicity group (BIPOC/Multiracial and white) as each group could perceive the content differently. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Learning Program that Supports and Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion | MetLife | INDEAVOR Team Experience | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by MetLife, is called “INDEAVOR Team Experience.” It is an immersive team learning experience which interrupts “normal” habits and behaviors, replacing them with specific tactics that lead to greater trust, inclusion and collaboration. Participants are introduced to tactics and the “whys” behind them, practice incorporating them into daily work, and share their experiences, receiving reinforcement and guidance. INDEAVOR addresses a key business priority for MetLife: empowering one another to succeed by championing inclusion and seeking diverse perspectives. It also promotes a diverse leadership pipeline, one goal of the company’s Global Talent Strategy, and fosters an inclusive environment, a strategic driver within the company’s 2023-25 HR Strategy. By focusing on teams, it takes DEI beyond the individual level to improve team performance as a whole. Metrics indicate the program is succeeding on many fronts, and it continues to be refined and enhanced according to specific feedback and observations. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Learning Program that Supports and Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion | Wells Fargo & Company | The Evolution of Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) Learning at Wells Fargo | Silver | 2023 | This framework describes the journey Wells Fargo has taken to enhance Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DE&I) Learning within the company. Prior to 2021, Wells Fargo had three DE&I courses with sporadic engagement. Wells Fargo now has a variety of comprehensive multi-dimensional DE&I trainings that encompass a global approach to DE&I learning. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Learning Program that Supports and Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion | DXC Technology | DXC Dandelion | Silver | 2023 | The DXC Dandelion program is an initiative to hire, train and retain neuro-diverse individuals, and to create a supportive working environment in which everyone can contribute and feel appreciated. The program builds the technical and life skills necessary to enable neuro-diverse people to develop real IT careers. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Learning Program that Supports and Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion | Molson Coors Beverage Company | Tap2Lead | Silver | 2023 | Tap2Lead is a leadership development program focused on growing and retaining early, diverse talent at Molson Coors aligned to their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) strategy. The objective of the program is to help participants focus on a Personal Development Plan (PDP) goal to unlock their potential so they can thrive in the job they have and realize new and exciting possibilities for the future. Participants will gain visibility into their aspirations, connect with Molson Coors’ core values, access tools to support their development, and identify growth opportunities that fit both their career and development needs, as well as develop and retain talent for the future. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Use of Employee Resource Groups to Address Diversity, Equity & Inclusion | Vena Solutions Inc. | Vena Solutions Inc. Best Use of Employee Resource Groups - Grow Stronger Together | Bronze | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Vena Solutions Inc., demonstrates how the organization has deployed a robust Employee Resource Group strategy which supports the overall business objective to build and maintain an inclusive workplace culture where everyone has the freedom to be themselves. What sets this program deployment apart from others is the intentional way it was operationalized for cross-group collaboration, enabling the organization to tell powerful stories about intersectionality and how the many intersections of one's identity shape their lived experiences. The opportunities created by the Employee Resource Group network enable community building, self-led and group learning, and allyship in action. All of these levers are fundamental to Vena’s ability to truly live its organizational DEI mission of Growing Stronger Together. |
| HCM | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards | Best Use of Employee Resource Groups to Address Diversity, Equity & Inclusion | Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd | Mental Wellness Employee Resource Group (ERG) | Silver | 2023 | The mental health ally network actively and visibly role model Accenture’s core values and behaviors of diversity and inclusion and foster a truly human workplace to reduce stigma. They create a community by being vocal, passionate, and action-oriented advocates of change tirelessly working to identify concerns, initiate conversations and provide support through their on-ground presence. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Advance in AI for Business Impact | IBM | HiRo: Revolutionizing Promotions Process | Bronze | 2023 | Built on the IBM Watson Orchestrate, the digital worker HiRo transformed the promotions process by handling tasks such as information compiling and formatting, replaced spreadsheets with a pro-active real-time view of employee data that auto-calculates whether employees meet pre-defined promotion criteria. HiRo also recommends steps that need to be taken by employees and managers to fulfill baseline requirements in the future and helps create coaching opportunities and learning paths. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Advance in AI for Business Impact | Concentrix | Expanding Quality Assurance to Deliver Better Outcomes Through CX Quality Insights | Silver | 2023 | Concentrix developed the Cx Quality Insights (CxQI) Model, a redesigned Quality Assurance Program that combines human expertise with artificial intelligence to provide timely and relevant business insights that improve Customer Experience. CxQI also streamlines the implementation of AI technology, allowing for rapid deployment across diverse client industries. As a result of this transformation, Concentrix can deliver greater customer experience in a highly efficient manner, while also quickly realizing the benefits of its investment in AI technology. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Advance in Business Automation | Accenture Solutions Private Limited | Accenture Capability Development – DocM (Document Management System) | Bronze | 2023 | The DocM “Document Management” tool has been designed to exchange and manage reviews of DTPs (Desktop Procedures) effectively. The implementation of the tool has been positioned to eliminate manual intervention and bring standardization; channelize all communications within the tool and produce constructive reports to show efficacy of the DTP governance model with the Client and Accenture team. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Advance in Business Automation | Doğuş Bilgi İşlem ve Teknoloji Hiz. A.Ş. | DCP (Digital Collar Personnel) and Digital HR Transformation | Bronze | 2023 | DIYA was established as a digital HR support function created with RPA technology. The aim is to transform the existing work processes into a more efficient, faster, scalable, repetitive, error-free, 24/7, and technological structure using artificial intelligence and recent technologies in order to position the HR team in more value-added jobs in Doğuş Teknoloji's fast-growing employment. Launched in 2021, DIYA has brought financial efficiency, error-free work quality, and speed to the company in the past 2 years, without requiring additional control processes. DIYA supports Doğuş Teknoloji's vision of digitalization in all its functions as per the sector in which it specializes. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Advance in Business Automation | Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) | Best Advance in Business Automation | Gold | 2023 | BRI has been serving Indonesia for 128 years in 2023, supporting economic growth and serving customers from small economic community levels throughout Indonesia. Along its journey, BRI shows its commitment to prioritizing service to the micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) segment, including ultra micro (UMi) business. BRI consistently provides the best service by fostering, empowering, and supporting MSMEs to optimize its 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 by enabling the mobility of businesses in promoting its products. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Advance in Business Automation | KFC Turkey | Business Automation in HR | Gold | 2023 | Automation of HR processes helped KFC Turkey to achieve its business objectives by streamlining recruitment process, improving data accuracy, and speeding up the hiring process. This allowed to expand workforce quickly and efficiently, which was essential for growth strategy. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Advance in Business Automation | Deloitte LLP | External Vendor Training Management System Automates Training Processes for Deloitte Professionals | Silver | 2023 | The Vendor Training Management System (VTMS), a Deloitte Technology Academy initiative, is a tool designed to help make participation and management of external vendor and alliance relationship technology training programs and certifications simpler for Deloitte professionals and provide a more streamlined approval process for their respective managers. The platform provides an easy-to-use interface for training requests, approvals, certification voucher management and financial budgeting and analysis. The tool also provides greater scalability for external technology training and certifications as the market demand for these skills continues to grow. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Advance in Business Automation | GoHealth | GoHealth Best Advance in Business Automation: Center of Excellence (COE) | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by GoHealth, is called "Center of Excellence (COE)." The COE Supports the success of our sales team by developing clear onboarding workflows, providing thought leadership and direction, establishing, and promoting best practices while leveraging assets to deliver the appropriate training content. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Advance in Business Automation | Capgemini | Capgemini delivers enhanced employee experiences and sustainability at speed through its new personalized HR Service Delivery platform | Silver | 2023 | Capgemini’s ServiceNow® HR Service Delivery (HRSD) Gold Build Platform enables individual employee needs to be answered in a way that ensures both Capgemini and its clients’ organizations are stronger and more sustainable moving forward. Capgemini's platform is built on ServiceNow® HRSD technology, a market-leading HR management application that improves the employee service experience by automating HR interactions and providing a single platform for all HR services. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Advance in Business Strategy | Mercer | Better Together GSD RightShoring | Silver | 2023 | A cutting edge program had been meticulously crafted to successfully implement RightShoring of c150 Superannuation activities (under Mercer Super) for 580k members in Australia with an impressive $35 billion as Fund Under Management. A robust and comprehensive Change Management framework was developed and implemented, aligned to the strategic business goals. The organization experienced enhanced agility, increased efficiency and improved performance across all levels. The strong focus on learning measured and knowledge management practices ensured the teams were empowered the right skills and expertise creating a culture of continuous improvement and innovation. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Advance in Business Strategy | DXC Technology and NIIT-StackRoute | Enterprise Architect for an Agile Business | Silver | 2023 | DXC Technology is a global enterprise that wanted to upskill their practising architects to enhance their digital dexterity in solving business problems with empathy, full stack vision, and deep technical expertise. The need was for a unique learning intervention to enable these professionals to help design an evolving enterprise architecture to support new business demands and articulate the EA value proposition and overall impact of EA in terms of business benefits. This 18-week intervention enabled them to oversee the entire systems architecture, business processes, and IT infrastructure to help reduce the complexities involved in digital transformation. Most importantly, the aim of the program was not to build tool, cloud, or security proficiency, but to understand the implications of all these in EA and how EA brings value to digital transformation. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Advance in Managing a Remote Workforce | Kordsa Teknik Tekstil A.Ş. | Smart Working at kordsa | Bronze | 2023 | In collaboration with Sabancı Holding and Boston Consulting Group, Kordsa has established 2023 aspirations under the Future of Work initiative. In response to the unprecedented impact of the pandemic, Kordsa has established an employee-led dynamic working group to facilitate hybrid work arrangements. Kordsa's overarching philosophy under the Future of Work Concept is to "Reinforce today for tomorrow," with dedicated teams working to deliver a comprehensive strategy encompassing all pillars. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Advance in Managing a Remote Workforce | Nexa Resources and Wiley CrossKnowledge | Conexa: Driving Change in Training Mindset | Bronze | 2023 | Nexa is currently undergoing a cultural transformation process, which, in the first stage, involved the review of processes and structures within Human Resources. Consequently, the global Human Resources team structure was reshaped and this resulted in a different approach in order to create synergies and agility regarding deliveries. Therefore, this reorganization changed the way of designing and delivering global programs and local Training and Development solutions. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Advance in Managing a Remote Workforce | İşbank | New Generation Working Models & MaxiOfises | Bronze | 2023 | This entry, submitted by İşbank, is called "New Generation Working Model & MaxiOfises". With the rapidly widespreading digitalization triggered by the pandemic, companies started to change their working models according to the shifting business needs and technological developments while offering more flexible and agile working conditions that employees can work anywhere as well as increasing customer satisfaction and productivity. As İşbank, the largest private bank in Turkey, the “New Generation Working Model” was structured enabling hybrid working depending on the operational needs and ongoing tasks of the departments. Also, 12 regional offices titled as “MaxiOfis” were opened in eight cities which aim to hire potential qualified employees living outside of the cities located Head Office and to close human resources gaps in the Headquarters. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Advance in Managing a Remote Workforce | Wienerschnitzel | Hot off the Grill | Bronze | 2023 | At the start of the pandemic, most of our usual lines of communication to store level management were interrupted, leaving only email which was seldom read. Using zoom and our LMS, we launched a weekly webinar was open for all management level staff to attend which provided weekly updates on changing regulations, store operations, new products, as well as a focus on employee recognition. It was so well received by executives and store level management that it’s been hosted weekly for over 3 years running. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Advance in Managing a Remote Workforce | National Grid | National Grid - Future of Work | Bronze | 2023 | In our submission attached, you will find our team's written description of our strategy for managing a remote or hybrid workforce. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Advance in Managing a Remote Workforce | Concentrix | MetaX Concentrix Virtual Campus | Bronze | 2023 | MetaX is a Concentrix virtual campus that is aimed at providing an immersive community experience for its teams, resulting in improved engagement, proficiency, social connections, and retention across a brand ambassador’s (Advisorstaff) journey. This will enable more permanent hybrid work and improved CX. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Advance in Managing a Remote Workforce | Turkcell Global Bilgi | "Ahenk" (Hormany) Working Model | Gold | 2023 | “Ahenk” (Harmony) has been designed as a new working model that incorporates different working models within the scope of an unique digital employee experience vision. Practices at every stage of the employee experience, from recruitment to the exit process, are designed in accordance with a new working model under this brand. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Advance in Managing a Remote Workforce | Tech Mahindra Limited | Distant Yet Connected | Gold | 2023 | Managing a remote or hybrid workforce is challenging for organizations in today's rapidly changing business landscape. In order to ensure seamless business continuity despite the challenging times, Tech Mahindra has in place a solid strategy headlined with NXT. Now to manage the distributed workforce effectively. One critical aspect in doing so was to facilitate through innovation and technology of TechM's Makers Lab. TechM also rolled out effective policies to establish clear expectations and performance metrics for remote or hybrid teams to ensure accountability and maintain a high level of performance. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Advance in Managing a Remote Workforce | WorkTango | WorkTango Masters the Art of Remote/Hybrid Work: A Commitment to Creating a Successful Virtual Workplace | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by WorkTango, is called "WorkTango Masters the Art of Remote/Hybrid Work: A Commitment to Creating a Successful Virtual Workplace". WorkTango takes a holistic perspective when it comes to the employee experience, and this entry will demonstrate how they use their own powerful product to support their management approach to their highly distributed workforce. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Advance in Managing a Remote Workforce | Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd | Future of Work - Omni-connected Model | Gold | 2023 | ATCI’s comprehensive Future of Work program is aimed at providing flexibility to employees while keeping their well-being and safety at the core of our strategy. And at the same time, focusing on client centricity by ensuring quality in our client deliverables. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Advance in Managing a Remote Workforce | Concentrix | Maximizing New Hire Engagement via HOMEr (CNX Virtual Assistant) | Gold | 2023 | Concentrix internally developed HOMEr, an advanced SMS-based Virtual Assistant that proactively engages with new hires by using relevant messaging as a primary mode of communication during the onboarding, training, and job-start-up processes. With pre-defined journeys, dates, and rules based on key milestones, HOMEr auto-generates appropriate text messages as early as when remote staff first signs their offer letters and provides easy access to company information and resources. HOMEr has proven to provide significant improvements in managing early attrition, communicating in a timely manner, and improving overall new hire engagement, experience, training, and job satisfaction. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Advance in Managing a Remote Workforce | Azerconnect | FLEXcellence: Azerconnect Hybrid Working Program | Gold | 2023 | FLEXcellence with the motto “We are flexible to excel, shine and outshine from anywhere!” is a comprehensive transformation program for the hybrid working transition of Azerconnect with innovative practices related to well-being and productivity and was developed based on employee and business needs. All initiatives were implemented with very detailed project plan and cross-functional project teams enriched by constant feedback. A hybrid working model has been created that is specially adapted to the telecom sector and, more importantly, for Azerconnect. It resulted in positive progress in significant targeted areas, such as employee retention, employee engagement, employer branding, cost optimization, and company financials. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Advance in Managing a Remote Workforce | MetLife and NIIT | MetLife Distribution Academy: Transforming the Way Sales Force Works, Learns, and Performs | Gold | 2023 | The Distribution Academy has responsibility for training and enabling the sales performance of MetLife and distribution Partner Sales Associates to create a distinctive competitive advantage for MetLife. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Advance in Predictive Analytics | Kordsa Teknik Tekstil A.Ş. | Kordsa People Predictive AI | Bronze | 2023 | The Human Resources metrics and the employee data are essential components of effective HR management. Kordsa People Predictive IA is designed to support HR Teams in reaching and using up-to-date and accurate data and reports in a more efficient way to manage their strategy and make it in line with the corporate goals. Besides providing up-to-date dashboards for mostly used data, the system also supports the strategies of the HR team with predictive analysis and gives suggestions about the actions that should be taken in the current stage and future |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Advance in Predictive Analytics | Tech Mahindra Limited | Attrition Prediction Model | Gold | 2023 | TechM’s Attrition Prediction Model is a technological tool for the People Function to predict the likelihood of an employee quitting the organization. Losing this talent to attrition is a financial and non-financial loss for the organization. It reached its full potential in the post-pandemic period and with the advent of the ‘Great Resignation’ when the ability to predict attrition was a business differentiator. This early-warning system was built using two machine Learning techniques- Logistic Regression and Random Forest. The Business HR team used the tool to conduct stay interventions, and has been shown to give an accuracy of close to 80%. In the future, work is being done to incorporate Deep Learning techniques into the tool for enhanced accuracy to continue business growth. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Advance in Predictive Analytics | TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED | TCS Performance Management - SPEED | Gold | 2023 | NA |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Advance in Predictive Analytics | Genentech, a member of the Roche Grup and meQuilibrium | Prediction is the Key to Prevention | Silver | 2023 | This is USRG’s story of the development of predictive and remediation capabilities that brought advanced predictive analytics into the core of HR and business unit functions laying the foundation for ongoing advancement in workforce predictive research. The pandemic and associated disruptions made clear that workforce and organizational resilience and well-being are integrated, interdependent and essential to business growth. USRG knew that its ability to perform in the pharmaceutical space was dependent on the resilience and wellbeing of their workforce and urgently needed a way to understand, predict and remediate the impact of dramatic change and ongoing disruptions. USRG recognized that they were lacking intelligence and predictive analytics capabilities. It became mission critical to have real-time workforce intelligence, by business unit, and function, and the solution was to work partner with meQuilibrium and develop a “predictive barometer” of workforce resilience and well-being risks to inform corrective actions the company could implement. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Advance in Predictive Analytics | Kroger | Supermarket Predictive Staffing Tools | Silver | 2023 | This entry, from The Kroger Co, is pertaining to our two Supermarket Predictive Staffing Models. One model provides a week by week predictive view of the upcoming 8 weeks of expected hiring needs within each grocery store and specific departments within that store. The second model is a predictive tool meant to anticipate the number of people need to be trained over the six training program cycles throughout the year to keep our store leadership roles optimally staffed. The models in coordination allow Kroger to make data-driven recruitment and hiring efforts to prevent the difficulties that come with being overstaffed or understaffed. These tools have both been developed internally by the HR Data Science team with no allocated budget for their creation. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Advance in Predictive Analytics | Genpact | aiPlay - unlocking the data-scientist in citizens | Silver | 2023 | In the pursuit of true data-democratization and to cater to the need for innovative advancement in Predictive Analytics, Genpact has built a no code ML platform called ''aiPlay'' that is dedicated to developing innovative solutions to make "citizen data science" a reality for the company. The application is an easy-to-use, no-code, auto-ML solution that enables non-technical employees to quickly develop prediction models. The application utilizes a number of models like Deep Neural Network, Cat Boost, SVM, Random Forest, and Light GBM on tabular data, trains the model automatically and recommends the best fit along with results including confusion matrix, probabilities, cut-off analysis, feature importance scores and other essential bits for model explainability. Its intuitive user interface allows to then make predictions from the trained model. It has enabled operating teams deploy prediction models across service lines, without writing a single line of code! |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Approach to HCM Innovation | Standard Chartered PLC and Accenture | Colleague Experience Driven Agile HR Transformation | Bronze | 2023 | Standard Chartered set out to replace its legacy HR platform with a cloud SaaS solution (SAP SuccessFactors) to deliver a future ready HR solution. As part of the delivery, Standard Chartered was targeting the following outcomes: Creation of a consumer leading HR colleague experience, Definition of global HR standards to drive standardization and cost reduction in operations, Utilisation of SAP – SuccessFactors to deliver against SAP first technology strategy, and setting foundations of solution and process to allow acceleration of continuous improvement and innovation across HR, specifically a reinvented Talent & Recruitment offering and Workforce planning. Together, Accenture and Standard Chartered partnered to deliver a 3-year programme which delivered against the outcomes and set Standard Chartered up with a path for future HR growth using people as the driving factor. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Approach to HCM Innovation | Allianz SE and Allianz Technology SE | The Allianz Group Metaverse Onboarding Experience – Innovating HCM Through Disruptive Technology | Gold | 2023 | Allianz Group Strategy, Marketing, Distribution Academy (GSMD Academy) is an optimal one-stop-shop learning resource and engagement tool for Allianz SE employees, people leaders, and experts from Allianz’s 70 operating entities across the globe. Allianz Consulting delivers management consulting services and experiences related to emerging technologies across the full value chain and globally to over 70 Allianz operating entities. With a virtual onboarding approach Allianz Consulting and GSMD Academy joined forces to deliver a full virtual and immersive learning approach, enriched with valuable onboarding information, videos, and interactive 3D gamification elements. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Approach to HCM Innovation | Accenture | Supply & Demand Balance Signal: AI-Informed Supply Decision Enabler for Enterprise Talent | Gold | 2023 | The Supply & Demand (SD) Balance Signal is an AI-based solution that integrates demand, supply, and productivity factors to offer businesses an agile and data-driven approach to support supply actions such as hiring, role rotations, and upskilling. By leveraging interpretable AI, the model reveals the contributing factors behind the signal, which in turn are translated into actionable supply indicators for informed decision-making. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Initiative for Philanthropy and Corporate Giving | Plan International and EI, Powered by MPS | FAIR Fish Online Course | Bronze | 2023 | Plan International partnered with EI to develop a digital course on Responsible Recruitment, under its FAIR Fish product, as a sustainable learning resource for combatting forced labor and human trafficking. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Initiative for Philanthropy and Corporate Giving | EPAM Systems, Inc. | EPAM Upskill Me Learning Program | Bronze | 2023 | As a leader in biotechnology, in 2021, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals launched an innovative employee program to improve data literacy—the ability to read, write and communicate with data in context—and empower Regeneron’s teams to harness the power of data in support of their mission to bring medicines to patients faster. Regeneron sought to leverage collaborative training methods to (a) help employees develop the skills to influence and collaborate using data, (b) ensure regulatory compliance of data, and (c) make data-informed decisions. The program has transformed Regeneron’s data literacy mindsets and practices creating more insightful collaborations. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Initiative for Philanthropy and Corporate Giving | TURKISH AEROSPACE | FUTURE TALENTS PROGRAM | Bronze | 2023 | On February 6, Türkiye experienced one of the most deadly disasters of its history; a huge earthquake occurred, it was followed by another one which is as large as the first. Turkish Aerospace started to take necessary actions for the people living in the region, and prepared itself to be helpful especially for children, and most engaging and interactive activities of the Future Talents Program were organized and offered to them in order to divert their attention away from the depressing event. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Initiative for Philanthropy and Corporate Giving | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Tidal Wave Auto Spa Annual Charity Day | Gold | 2023 | Tidal Wave Auto Spa is a national car wash brand with over 150 locations. Tidal Wave Auto Spa has hosted an Annual Charity Day every third Friday of each September since 2008. 100% of the proceeds are given to local nonprofits that support adults and children with special needs. In 2022, Tidal Wave Charity Day was hosted at 111 sites across the United States. To date, the company has given back over $1 million. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Initiative for Philanthropy and Corporate Giving | Vivayic | Commitment to Field of Hope | Gold | 2023 | Vivayic, Inc. has partnered with the non-profit Field of Hope for 10 years, and in doing so, has produced teacher guides and supplemental resources that aid high school teachers in delivering a culturally relevant and exceptional learning experience to over 41,000 secondary level students in Uganda. This project serves as an annual community service commitment and has fostered team building, camaraderie, and volunteerism for a fully remote team operating across the U.S. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Initiative for Philanthropy and Corporate Giving | Mahindra & Mahindra Limited and Centum Foundation, a CSR arm of Centum Learning | Mahindra-Centum Best Initiative for Philanthropy and Corporate Giving | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Mahindra & Mahindra Limited in partnership with Centum Foundation, presents the 'Best Initiative for Philanthropy and Corporate Giving': "Livelihood Generation through Farm Mechanization." This self-sustaining project is designed to empower rural communities, particularly women, by enhancing their skills in tractor operation and agricultural equipment usage. The program champions community upliftment by employing local individuals as trainers, mobilizers, and staff, sourcing tractors for rent within the community, offering comprehensive practical and classroom training for villagers, and assisting trainees in obtaining driving licenses. Furthermore, trainees actively support marginalized farmers by cultivating their land as part of On Job Training (OJT). Implemented across Jaipur, Nagpur, and Zahirabad, this groundbreaking initiative establishes a sustainable, community-driven model for rural development, setting a new benchmark in corporate philanthropy and making a lasting impact on the lives of the participants. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Initiative for Philanthropy and Corporate Giving | Reckitt and GP Strategies | Dettol Hygiene Quest—A Hybrid Learning Program to Build Long-Lasting Hygiene Habits for Children | Gold | 2023 | Dettol Hygiene Quest is a hybrid learning program that brings together interactive play with story-led learning. Anchored in meaningful storytelling, the experience drives real-world health outcomes by empowering children to play, practice, and learn. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Initiative for Philanthropy and Corporate Giving | Wipro Ltd | Best Initiative for Philanthropy and Corporate Giving | Gold | 2023 | Wipro Limited has introduced the TalentNext initiative in 2016, an India-wide CSR program keeping Digital Transformation as core towards improving the overall engineering education. Wipro's TalentNext initiative partners with universities and colleges to provide training and development programs to science and engineering professors and students (B.Tech, B.E, BSc, BCA) on industry demanding skills such as JAVA J2EE, JAVA Full Stack and Emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, IoT, Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity and RPA. The program covers hands-on assignments, projects and logic building/problem solving activities. These programs aim to improve the students' technical skills, preparing them for the workforce and meeting the changing needs of the industry. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Initiative for Philanthropy and Corporate Giving | Molson Coors Beverage Company | Creating Pathways for Equitable Access to Higher Education | Silver | 2023 | Molson Coors took an innovative approach to creating equitable access to higher education across North America with added emphasis in its three corporate hometown communities: Chicago, Denver, & Milwaukee. In addition to scholarships for underrepresented communities, through the Project Justice initiative, Molson Coors provided more than $500,000 to 22 community and technical colleges to remove financial barriers to lower income and students of color. This allowed students' needs to be met and for them to be able to complete their education while creating a future diverse talent pipeline for the company. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Program for Upskilling Employees | Hexaware Technologies Limited | Evolve Certification | Bronze | 2023 | The submission briefs about Hexaware’s major upskilling initiative Evolve which supports building an organization-wide career framework and achieving the overall business objectives through workforce skill enhancement. The submission also includes the need for the program with an idea of the overview, areas of impact, challenges faced, and goals achieved. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Program for Upskilling Employees | Mondelez International | Digital Commerce at Mondelez International | Bronze | 2023 | Covid-19 accelerated the shift to eCommerce and with Gen-z as growing target audience, the trend is only increasing. For these reasons eCommerce acceleration was identified as a top strategic priority for Mondelēz in their “Vision 2030” strategy, to be unlocked by creating a Digitized Enterprise |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Program for Upskilling Employees | Capgemini and SweetRush | Advance | Bronze | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Capgemini and SweetRush, is “Advance.” Advance is an upskilling program that addresses a critical business need: future-proof Capgemini’s Global Delivery Excellence group with a talent pipeline of senior leaders, who are capable of steering highly complex, high-profile, and high-revenue projects across the finish line. Advance directly meets its audience’s needs, an elite team of hard-to-reach, highly skilled executive leaders, with a leadership development experience that embraces their experience, needs, and preferences. A 17-week, competency-based blended learning, Advance combines large and small group social learning activities with 1:1 mentoring and asynchronous adaptive learning, offering a performance-driven experience that is tailored to meet each individual learners’ needs. With executive leaders not only championing but actively participating with learners through every step, the program supports the upskilling of the next generation of Global Delivery Excellence executives as they prepare to advance to the next level of their careers! |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Program for Upskilling Employees | SAP | SAP’s Skills Assessment and Personalized Learning Program | Bronze | 2023 | SAP’s Skills Assessment and Personalized Learning program—a yearly self and manager assessment that provides data used to create highly personalized learning plans and (at a macro / executive level) make informed decisions regarding overall learning strategy and resource planning. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Program for Upskilling Employees | Accenture Solutions Private Ltd. | EXCEL Higher Education Program | Bronze | 2023 | EXCEL Higher Education Program is strategically positioned to upskill existing talent in Accenture Operations and in turn, support our clients in their operations transformation journey. The program provides Accenture employees an opportunity to pursue professional certifications from renowned institutes, and build capabilities for both current and future roles. The program has been in action for almost a decade in India Operations extending financial support to employees who have spent 6 months in the organization and helps build in-house talent pool on a variety of current and emerging skills. By investing in the learning and development of employees through EXCEL Higher Education Program, Accenture can attract prospective clients and retain talent. The program is entirely funded by Accenture and has proven to be a win-win for our employees and our clients. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Program for Upskilling Employees | Grubhub and TTA (The Training Associates) | Upskilling Grubhub Employees 'Just-In-Time' | Bronze | 2023 | To address organization-wide skills gaps, Grubhub partnered with TTA to create a scalable, repeatable, cross-collaborative upskilling solution: The Just-In-Time Training Program. The program helped Grubhub adopt a dynamic delivery approach while making need-related training readily available as skills gaps arise. It includes a series of recurring workshops that incorporates a blend of cross functional participants, bringing together diverse perspectives and leveraging unique training experiences to enhance learning outcomes and strengthen cross departmental collaboration. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Program for Upskilling Employees | Shell and NIIT | Shell IT Upskilling Series | Gold | 2023 | 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 Awards | Best Program for Upskilling Employees | Blue Cross and Blue Shield, North Carolina and Aptara | Concierge Service Academy Program for TECS (Blue Cross NC) | Gold | 2023 | Aptara designed and developed a fully bespoke learning solution for Customer Service Representatives (CSRs) to upskill in live chat support training at Blue Cross and Blue Shield, North Carolina. The training aimed to empower the CSRs with skills, best practices, and process training that enable them to provide effective customer service on chat like pros. Designed around customer care and technical training, the training aimed to give the CSRs the skills they need to make every conversation count. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Program for Upskilling Employees | MetLife and NIIT | MetLife Distribution Academy: Transforming the Way Sales Force Works, Learns, and Performs | Gold | 2023 | The Distribution Academy has responsibility for training and enabling the sales performance of MetLife and distribution Partner Sales Associates to create a distinctive competitive advantage for MetLife. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Program for Upskilling Employees | AssisTT | Software Development Learning Program | Gold | 2023 | Software Development Learning Program is a unique initiative that aims to reskill call center agents and prepare them to become software developers. The program targets are defined with Quite Hiring, a strategy that acquires new skills without hiring new full-time employees. This allows AssisTT to leverage internal talent and provide them with opportunities to grow their skills and careers. By reskilling call center agents, AssisTT can fill the skills gap in software development and reduce the costs and time of external recruitment. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Program for Upskilling Employees | MERCER CONSULTING (INDIA) PRIVATE LIMITED | Best Program for Upskilling Employees 2022 Future of Work | Gold | 2023 | Program to upskill colleagues especially after the Right-shoring program which migrated roles from Australia to India, all remotely, due to travel restrictions mainly. The program comprised of Learning interventions, capability uplift in SME, SME travel across boundaries, domain certifications, and several workshops. The upskill program led to an uplift in metrics like SLA performance, reduced queries, better turnaround times, lesser incidents and complaints. Overall, it helped improve client experience and achieve better outcomes for our members. The India and Pacific leaders of Mercer Pacific business are committed to invest in upskilling workforce, improving ways of working, exploring better ways to collaborate, building camaraderie between the two teams, blurring geographical boundaries, having cross border reporting lines, providing more travel and secondment opportunities. As Mercer Pacific becomes bigger with acquisitions and merger and increases the membership size and funds under management, an upskilled and workforce of the future is the primary ingredient. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Program for Upskilling Employees | Capgemini and SweetRush | Elevate | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Capgemini and SweetRush, is “Elevate.” Elevate is an exclusive, personalized, and social upskilling journey for Capgemini’s highly valued, accomplished account executives (AEs) to level up their leadership skills and business acumen. Capturing mindshare from these busy leaders was a challenge ingeniously solved by the Capgemini-SweetRush team: AEs apply the learning to their own client challenges. Elevate builds in time for the social experiences AEs value most: learning from respected experts and exchanging “war stories.” Elevate has two tracks to accommodate AEs’ range of experience and skills: For junior-level AEs, a seven-week hybrid sprint focused on a single leadership core competency, and for senior level AEs, a 2.5-day, in-person summit with Capgemini board members and other industry luminaries. Supported by an enterprise-wide effort to transform the AE role and strong executive support, Elevate provides impactful skilling content that helps learners level up their leadership skills. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Program for Upskilling Employees | American Association of Critical-Care Nurses and SweetRush | Fundamental Skills for Nurse Managers | Gold | 2023 | This entry, “Fundamental Skills for Nurse Managers” (FSNM) is submitted by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) and SweetRush. AACN is the world’s largest specialty nursing organization, including more than 500,000 acute and critical care nurses. When a nurse transitions from a nurse to a nurse manager, learning the skills required to make that transition, particularly during the first year, is daunting. AACN recognized the need for a robust upskilling program 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 learning 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 | Future of Work Awards | Best Program for Upskilling Employees | SHRM and SweetRush | The SHRM People Manager Qualification (PMQ) | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by SHRM and SweetRush, is “The SHRM People Manager Qualification (PMQ).” PMQ tackles a critically important subject through a 16-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 people managers face as they transition into their new roles—110 behavioral indicators and 27 performance objectives new leaders need to learn, practice, and embrace. Inspired by streaming-Netflix-Friends, with episodes and seasons rather than modules and lessons, PMQ is story-driven with fully developed, relatable and authentic characters, along with interactivity and gamification. PMQ upskills employees in SHRM’s extended network of nearly 325,000 members in 165 countries, impacting the lives of more than 235 million workers and families globally. PMQ is being used by thousands of organizations—creating a new standard for what an upskilling program for employees should be! |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Program for Upskilling Employees | Anglo American and NIIT | Mine of the Future - Group Business Challenge | Gold | 2023 | The Graduate Learning Journey at Anglo American includes the Group Business Challenge, a 5-week blended learning program designed specifically for second-year Graduate Development Program participants. This challenge aims to help graduates make a meaningful contribution to Anglo American's goal of becoming a leader in FutureSmart Mining™ through well-researched and data-driven approaches. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Program for Upskilling Employees | Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) and NIIT | BMS Adaptive Learning Ecosystem | Gold | 2023 | The BMS Adaptive Learning Ecosystem is a large-scale global learning strategy initiative to centralize their global learning ecosystem and prioritize learning effectiveness for the teams worldwide. The main goals of the initiative were to create an efficient learning ecosystem that could align with their business strategy of managing a high volume of product launches and scale globally across 50+ markets. By bringing in innovation at all levels - people, processes, and technology, the company was able to establish global scale and capability while optimizing costs by 50%. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Program for Upskilling Employees | McDonalds Corporation and Hult EF Corporate Education | Upskilling English skills for restaurant staff | Gold | 2023 | This submission, submitted jointly by McDonald's Corporation and Hult EF Corporate Education, presents an English training program designed for restaurant staff in McDonald’s and its independent franchisees. With a workforce of approximately 20 percent foreign-born employees, effective English communication is essential to opening more opportunities for employees. The program aims to upskill employees' English skills using a blended learning approach with custom curriculum and dedicated teachers. The program has had a positive impact on the organization. It supports the organization's long-standing commitment to promoting from within and providing opportunities for employees to grow and advance their careers. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Program for Upskilling Employees | Grant Thornton LLP | Career Compass and Digital Badging | Gold | 2023 | Grant Thornton recently created Career Compass, a skills framework of five core skill areas (technical and professional skills), which all professionals can reference to better understand the knowledge and skills required in their current role as well as desired career path. In addition to being used to create learning programs by level, these skills are also used to create learning pathways for the firm’s digital badging program which was implemented to promote skill development and enable learning and upskilling across the firm. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Program for Upskilling Employees | C.E.A. CIRCULAR ECONOMY ALLIANCE LTD and Learning Everest Private Limited | Upskilling a global workforce for the Circular Economy | Gold | 2023 | The following entry dives into Circular Economy Alliance’s “Circular Economy Specialist (High-Mastery)” bundle which is a comprehensive certification program that introduces Circular Economy principles and elaborates on their application in the real world. The course lends a Circular Economy specialist’s understanding to learners who can then utilize their learnings in their respective fields of work. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Program for Upskilling Employees | GENPACT | DataBridge: Driving True Data Democratization | Gold | 2023 | With an aim to build a data literate workforce of 1,20,000 people, Genpact embarked on a journey to build world’s biggest Data democratization program with primary focus on AI/ML and prediction problems. The program led to the creation of 50-60 industry/domain novel use cases and ‘’aiPlay’’: a no-code, easy-UI, secure, autoML application that allows users to train and build both classification and regression models to make predictions powered by deep learning without the need of wearing a data scientist’s hat. The platform till date has built over 1000+ model builds and has delivered value of $600m+ |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Program for Upskilling Employees | ZEE ENTERTAINMENT ENTERPRISES LIMITED | ZEEL - ZEE's ARISE - Best Program for Upskilling Employees | Gold | 2023 | ZEE Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEEL) is committed to strengthening its leadership pipeline and creating a future-ready workforce in the media and entertainment industry.To achieve this,ZEE has established a 4X4 Academy framework, consisting of four academies built on four essential pillars:Integrated Academic Journeys,Learner Centric Technology,Assessments & Certifications&Career Progression.ZEE recently launched the Lead-Your-Ship Academy an innovative initiative aiming to transform India's media and entertainment sector by nurturing contemporary leadership and managerial skills.Offering career-oriented development programs for all leadership levels,the academy employs a blended delivery approach and collaborates with industry partners and top academic institutions. The Lead-Your-Ship Academy aims to enhance the abilities of 3500+ employees across the organization, providing around 6,000 hours of development. Programs such as ASPIRE Intervention and ARISE focus on the seamless transition of individual contributors to people managers and improving self-leadership and functional expertise. This ambitious project demonstrates ZEE's commitment to capability-building in India's media and entertainment sector. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Program for Upskilling Employees | Constellation PowerLabs, LLC. And Infopro Learning | Advanced Engineering Training | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Infopro Learning, is called "Advanced Engineering Training." The AET initiative is an industry effort, money-managed by Constellation PowerLabs and targeted at engineers in nuclear power plants across the U.S. This industry initiative aims to develop generic, highly technological, computer-based training modules that focus on specific targeted areas of expertise. The modules aim to cover standard industry codes, requirements, and programs, developed using the systematic approach to training. They are also readily accessible by all participants in the INPO Learning Management System (LMS) or equivalent database system. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Program for Upskilling Employees | Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd | Driving value by reinventing skill management | Silver | 2023 | Accenture Technology, India, is innovating in the New, and therefore, it is always critical to prioritize skill building of people to stay market relevant. Building multiskilled Expertise@Scale powered by the myCompetency platform is helping Accenture build a strong specialist workforce. The organization promotes a culture of learning, in a world where the technology is constantly changing. This is aligned to the business objective of transforming itself into an organization of the future. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Program for Upskilling Employees | Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd | Accenture_Best Program for Upskilling Employees_CAL India Development Program | Silver | 2023 | The CAL Quest: CAL India Development Program (CIDP) is a flagship program designed and deployed to build the pipeline of strong Client Account Leads (CALs) India Market Unit (IMU) needed to meet their business ambition. IMU is one of the fastest growing Market Unit in Accenture and to meet their business strategy, they needed 25-30 strong CALs by FY23 to manage the new clients as the business grew. To meet that vision, this learning intervention was designed. This 6-months program helped upskill hand-picked new/aspiring CALs to build the skills and behaviors required to become a successful CAL at Accenture and achieve the rigorous IMU business ambition. Accenture’s CAL2025 vision is the framework that underpins this program, which takes the participants on a series of learning interventions with various hot seat moments and enables several real account experiences to prepare for the CAL role. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Program for Upskilling Employees | Deloitte LLP | Best program for upskilling employees _ The Technology Guild Program | Silver | 2023 | Modeled after guilds from medieval times, the idea is to cultivate groups of specialists and passionate apprentices that can dig deep into emerging technologies such as AI, Blockchain, Cloud Native, and 5G/Edge, that are disrupting clients' business |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Program for Upskilling Employees | Fortinet and Learnship Networks GmbH | Fortinet invests in upskilling to foster employee potential in Latin America and the Caribbean | Silver | 2023 | Fortinet is a global cybersecurity company that provides a range of cybersecurity products and services, including firewalls, VPNs, and cloud security. In the Latin American and Caribbean region, Fortinet has around 1200 employees and operates in 25 different countries. Employees in this region need to gain key language skills to effectively conduct business in at least two or three languages: English, Spanish, and Portuguese. To achieve this aim, Fortinet partnered with Learnship in 2017 to improve the workforce's communication capabilities in these three languages. The language learning program has been consistently improved and expanded in the past six years. The learners are routinely assessed to ensure they are learning the skills they need to perform their role and are making the progress necessary to improve their performance and, with it, the overall success of the company. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Program for Upskilling Employees | Nationwide Insurance | Nationwide Upskilling Program for Future of Work | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Nationwide Insurance, is called Nationwide Upskilling Program for Future of Work. It is a multi-year initiative including a virtual Future of Work Center providing leaders and associates the opportunity to create a personalized upskilling Certification Plan for meeting their upskilling performance goal. Associates also access all their learning through the Center including courses, sprints, career planning content, and upskilling practice options. In addition to the Future of Work Center, there are other technical upskilling programs for technology associates, Google certificates for deeper learning and sprints dedicated to Future Ready Leader and Future Ready Associate content. The Center is also positioned to provide reskilling content for associates whose jobs might be in jeopardy due to automation. Upskilling content focuses on four primary capabilities Lead, Innovate Adapt and Digital with each Capability having three targeted skills which help prepare learners for the Future of Work. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Program for Upskilling Employees | PepsiCo | myeducation impacts lives and the business | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by PepsiCo, is called "myeducation impacts lives and the business." It is a tuition reimbursement program that has been defined as an employee benefit to attract top talent and invest in employees to build their skills for job of the future. This goes beyond the tradition tuition reimbursement because it removes some of the most significant barriers to building skills and advancing ones skills as a front line worker. This program is truly changing the projectory of our employees and opening doors that they wouldn't have done otherwise outside of PepsiCo. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Program for Upskilling Employees | Loblaw Companies Limited | Loblaw’s Skill Development Programs | Silver | 2023 | Loblaw embarked on this endeavor as many other organizations likely have – to help meet the needs of the evolving skill requirements of colleagues in a rapidly advancing, digitized environment. The Loblaw Learning Strategy & Innovation (LS&I) team was tasked to design, develop, and deliver a proof-of-concept solution that will provide immediate skill development on key skill sets and provide development pathways for colleagues to advance into areas of the business that have a highly competitive external talent pool. The submission will share how Loblaw set out to prove a skilling hypothesis and will outline Loblaw’s Enterprise Upskilling and Reskilling models, while highlighting their proof-of-concept reskilling program, ‘Analytics Academy’. |
| HCM | Future of Work Awards | Best Program for Upskilling Employees | Accenture | Accenture_BestProgramforUpskillingEmployees_CTDForInsurance | Silver | 2023 | Certificate to Deliver (CTD) for Insurance is a blended learning program, designed by Accenture to train new hires and build strong foundational and domain skills in insurance. The aim of this program is to upskill the insurance workforce in Accenture and enable them to work independently and serve the insurance clients in an effective manner. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Advance in Benefits Strategy and Administration | TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED | TCS GEMS – Benefits that propel high performance. | Bronze | 2023 | TCS Gems, the in-house rewards and recognition platform that was launched in 2007, has been a valuable tool for enabling recognition for TCS employees worldwide. This platform is founded on the principle of encouraging each employee to exceed expectations and go above and beyond in their work. By providing opportunities for both leaders and team members to recognize and reinforce these behaviours, TCS Gems reinforces the organization's core values and principles, and strengthens belief in oneself and the team. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Advance in Benefits Strategy and Administration | Turkcell İletişim Hizmetleri | Inclusive and Effective Benefits That Support Flexible Working Model | Bronze | 2023 | This document presents the Inclusive and Effective Benefits That Support Flexible Working Model at Turkcell. What has been done in the past, what is being done now and what is planned to be done in the future are discussed and current examples are presented. As Turkcell, when all applications and benefits are designed with a focus on the flexible working model, end-to-end positive results can be achieved in the employee experience. Turkcell's focus is human. Turkcell's focus is always on its employees. Therefore, Turkcell will continue to offer the best benefits to its employees by also prioritizing the digital aspect. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Advance in Benefits Strategy and Administration | Mefar İlaç Sanayii A.Ş. | Best Advance in Benefits Strategy and Administration | Silver | 2023 | The Company's fringe benefits practices strive to create a positive corporate culture and maintain our company's competitiveness by emphasizing employee appreciation in order to maintain the highest levels of employee loyalty, motivation, and work efficiency. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Advance in HR Data Analytics | MetLife | MetLife People Planning & Insights Transformation | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by MetLife is called the People Planning & Insights Transformation. The People Planning & Insights team revamped their operating model by utilizing three strategic pillars of Focus, Simplify and Differentiate. The result of this transformation was a highly trusted and influential team that drives better business and employee outcomes through workforce insights. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Advance in HR Data Analytics | Bayer AG | HR Data2Insights Program | Gold | 2023 | This entry submitted by Bayer AG is called "HR Data2Insights Program". It describes a global program to leapfrog people analytics and enables all people leaders and HR around the world to up-to-date access to all relevant talent and data of the people to drive performance and development culture, ensure potential identification as well as succession planning.The Data2Insights program was launched to develop a holistic People Analytics Strategy incl. implementation of the vision "Data-driven insights for better TALENT decisions". The goal is to transform data into insight and insight into action to achieve concrete business outcomes. “We enable our people to contribute to #HealthForAll and #HungerForNone. While strategically supporting the goals of the Bayer Group it also realizes a significant financial business case and with this supports from a financial and content perspective the current HR Transformation in the area of People Analytics. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Advance in HR Data Analytics | Tata Consultancy Services | Workforce Optimization using People Analytics | Silver | 2023 | As talent is the key resource for TCS, HR analytics in workforce optimization is used effectively to achieve strategic goals. The program is designed to improve critical talent and business outcomes. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Advance in HR Data Analytics | Solid State Storage Technology Corporation | SSSTC HR Data Analytics 2.0 | Silver | 2023 | SSSTC believes that numbers speak for themselves, and that data is the foundation of communication. As performance is measured by numbers, the company places a great emphasis on quantifiable output. To this end, SSSTC's HR department has established a data analytics model to collect HR-related data, including recruitment, compensation, training, attendance, turnover, and employee satisfaction. Through this model, the HR department is able to identify problems and provide effective suggestions to managers, thereby enabling the company to surpass its organizational goals in the field of human resources. In the future, SSSTC hopes to utilize big data analysis to make predictions and improve work efficiency and employee satisfaction, so that the organization can become even better and more perfect. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Advance in HR Data Analytics | Yıldız Holding | HR Dashboard Project | Silver | 2023 | The following were aimed when designing the HR Dashboard Project; keeping pace with today's technological developments by moving the data to the digital, systematization of data and drawing meaningful conclusions, and reducing the data analytics workload of human resources managers. In addition, the new model aims to obtain predictive outputs on the following issues by considering the candidate profile during recruitment with the predictive analysis method from the data source; employee turn-over, human resources talent code estimation, high performing candidate estimation. In line with these goals, the Yıldız Holding HR Dashboard project was launched to instantly display HR data analytics. The HR Dashboard project includes 11 different categories and 64 metrics.The project successfully achieved the goals mentioned. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Advance in HR Data Analytics | McKinsey & Company | Science of Teams | Silver | 2023 | Science of Teams is an innovative People Analytics program encompassing multiple tools and initiatives that support the performance and experience of McKinsey’s many teams. The Team List to Call (TLC) combines multiple data sources into an algorithm that predicts which teams may end up struggling down the road, while the Engagement Team Survey (ETS) helps teams surface pain points and identify strengths to inform regular team learning discussions and provide real-time feedback. Together, the TLC and ETS help leaders allocate their time appropriately by quickly and easily identifying teams in need of additional support. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Advance in Payroll Strategy and Administration | Mefar İlaç Sanayii A.Ş. | Best Advance in Payroll Strategy and Administration 2023 - Human_Resource | Bronze | 2023 | The main purpose of the project is to determine the level of wages to be paid within the company, to create a fair wage structure and to determine the wages to be paid to employees within these two basic data. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Advance in Social Impact Innovation | UniCredit Bank Austria and iSapiens | Blended Learning with MoneyMatters | Bronze | 2023 | iSapiens, a leading education technology company, launched the MoneyMatters pilot project in collaboration with Bank Austria in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the challenging circumstances, the iSapiens team worked tirelessly with the Bank Austria to develop an innovative, engaging financial education program to help young people build essential financial skills and knowledge. Through this project, high school students gain a comprehensive understanding of how to manage their finances effectively. The innovative and engaging content of the project, combined with iSapiens' cutting-edge technology, makes learning fun and accessible for students of all backgrounds. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Advance in Social Impact Innovation | Plan International and EI, Powered by MPS | FAIR Fish Online Course | Bronze | 2023 | Plan International partnered with EI to develop a digital course on Responsible Recruitment, under its FAIR Fish product, as a sustainable learning resource for combatting forced labor and human trafficking. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Advance in Social Impact Innovation | Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited and Reliance Foundation | Digital Skilling of Underprivileged Women in Rural India | Gold | 2023 | The focus of the nomination is the WomenConnect Challenge (WCC) India initiative that aims to digitally skill underprivileged women from rural India. While India’s digital growth has been impressive courtesy Jio, there still exists a divide and the underprivileged face barriers to consuming digital services. This divide is linked to digital literacy, and it is even more pronounced in case of women than men. Jio has also been focusing on breaking down this barrier and ensuring that no women is left behind. Jio’s vision is to transform India with the power of digital revolution - to connect everyone and everything, everywhere – always at the highest quality and the most affordable price. Aligned to its vision, Jio supported Reliance Foundation’s partnership with United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to launch the ‘Women Connect Challenge’ (WCC) in India with the focus on bridging the gender digital divide. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Advance in Social Impact Innovation | Bayer AG and Ozemio | Bayer – Science Engagers Program | Gold | 2023 | This entry submitted by Ozemio and Bayer is called Bayer Science Engagers. It comprises various modules delivered using conventional and contemporary methods of e-learning. The method of delivery is chosen by Bayer. The instructional and design strategies, tailored by Ozemio, strive to hold the attention of a wide range of audiences, from eager school students to proficient scientists. The modules are mainly created to mitigate misconceptions about scientists and their work in the fields of drug discovery and crop science. They also help boost the morale of these scientists. The videos, podcasts, and games developed under this banner use a very high level of creativity that helps get the message across to the target audience cogently. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Advance in Social Impact Innovation | Lurie Children’s Hospital, REACH, Center for Childhood Resilience and Learning Pool | REACHing those in need through learning delivery | Gold | 2023 | Since 2004, the Center for Childhood Resilience (CCR) at Lurie Children's has worked to build the resiliency of children/youth with a focus on under-resourced and under-represented populations throughout Chicago. Through innovative, sustainable and evidence-based strategies, CCR engaged youth-serving organizations to address the impact of trauma and promote mental wellness in communities where children and adolescents live, learn and grow. In 2019 the CCR’s efforts at expansion were going well but the advent of COVID-19 meant they needed to turbocharge that expansion. The Resilience Education to Advance Community Healing (REACH) initiative was the result; a partnership between the CCR and the Illinois State Board of Education that aimed to support students and school staff statewide. REACH provides virtual learning experiences to educators, school mental health professionals and community members on topics related to trauma-responsive schools, including the signs and symptoms of trauma and the intersection of trauma, racism and equity. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Advance in Workforce Planning and Management | İşbank | New Generation Working Models & MaxiOfises | Bronze | 2023 | This entry, submitted by İşbank, is called "New Generation Working Model & MaxiOfises". With the rapidly widespreading digitalization triggered by the pandemic, companies started to change their working models according to the shifting business needs and technological developments while offering more flexible and agile working conditions that employees can work anywhere as well as increasing customer satisfaction and productivity. As İşbank, the largest private bank in Turkey, the “New Generation Working Model” was structured enabling hybrid working depending on the operational needs and ongoing tasks of the departments. Also, 12 regional offices titled as “MaxiOfis” were opened in eight cities which aim to hire potential qualified employees living outside of the cities located Head Office and to close human resources gaps in the Headquarters. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Advance in Workforce Planning and Management | Natwest Group plc and NIIT | Transforming Non-Programmers to Full Stack Developers | Gold | 2023 | Natwest Group provides world-class services and solutions to banking customers globally, leveraging India’s technology talent and best-in-class back-office operations. Natwest embarked on a journey to analyse, forecast, and plan workforce supply and demand, assess gaps and determine target talent management interventions to ensure it has the right people with the right skills at the right time and price point across its business units to fulfill its mandate and strategic objectives. This requirement led to the design of a 28-week learning intervention to transform working banking professionals into engineering talent. This reskilling program provided the opportunity for the non-tech workforce to move into tech roles |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Advance in Workforce Planning and Management | Tata Consultancy Services | Best Advance in Workforce Planning and Management | Gold | 2023 | TCS follows a scenario-based identification of future planned workforce shortage or surplus, workforce risks, risk mitigations and cost for a five-year planning horizon. The process involves understanding the current workforce, determining future demand and supply and identifying the future gap between supply and demand. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Advance in Workforce Planning and Management | OMERS and Oxford | OMERS Strategic Workforce Planning | Gold | 2023 | The application has been submitted by OMERS to highlight the customized workforce planning process delivered to the business by the Workforce Planning & Development Team. OMERS’ strategic workforce planning model is world class and has proven to be successful due to its centralized, simplified, agile and integrated approach to deliver on the specific business needs while remaining consistent across the enterprise. The three-step process provides the business leaders with a broader horizon of the workforce yet at the same time deliver specific insights that can be zoomed in on individual talent. This dual lens drives invaluable impact to employees, leadership, human resources and to the enterprise at large. The in-house design and delivery of the program ensures that the business is well supported throughout the process and the outcome is a relevant and actionable workforce plan that is well-integrated within the enterprise. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Advance in Workforce Planning and Management | Kordsa Teknik Tekstil A.Ş. | Strategic Work Force Planning (SWP)_Future of People Design | Silver | 2023 | Planning the suitable workforce for achieving the company targets is a difficult process in terms of foreseeing future needs and converting them to numbers and action plans besides of its significance. In this point, SWP is designed to support the decisions of the management with the predictive analysis about the shape of future workforce and the visualization of the talent gap. It both presents the numerical representation of demand for achieving goals and the supply that will be affected from turnover and digitalization. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Advance in Workforce Planning and Management | Dimes Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş. | Human Resources Awards - Best Advance in Workforce Planning and Management | Silver | 2023 | With the DİMES Workforce Planning project, a fair distribution of workload has been ensured to the employees. At the same time, the dominance of the employees in the business processes has increased with the norm staff analyzes made within the departments. Efficiency in business processes has increased as responsibilities are equally distributed. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Benefits, Wellness and Well-Being Program | PT Indo Kordsa Tbk | Employee Wellbeing Program In PT Indo Kordsa Tbk | Bronze | 2023 | During pandemic, employee Wellbeing are crucial to be managed. Indo Kordsa manages employee’s Wellbeing with 4 aspects: Mental Health, Financial, Physical, and Social. Maintaining good employee’s Wellbeing can create employee engagement and productivity in the company. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Benefits, Wellness and Well-Being Program | HCL Technologies | Benefits and Wellness embedded at workplace in HCLTech | Bronze | 2023 | Assuring overall 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 Awards | Best Benefits, Wellness and Well-Being Program | HDFC ERGO GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED | Niramaya | Bronze | 2023 | At HDFC ERGO, the belief is that people are the head, heart and muscle of the organisation. The holistic wellness charter Niramaya aimed at welcoming our 10,000+ employees to bring their whole self to work. It is centred on the five pillars of Physical, Mental, Emotional, Financial and Social Wellbeing. Here the framework is to democratize wellbeing and enable each individual to go on their unique journey. Some programs and initiatives that are ensured under this banner are Yoga, Pre-natal & Post-natal programs, brain gyms, employee assistance programs and more. Onetastic communities under our social wellness pillar, including Klick, Fittastic, impressions, Binge and Kahani Kafe, ensure employees have common platforms to help them make connections and discover their true potential. Whether it is about trekking, book reading sessions or nature watching, - this has given birth to a workplace that respects differences, celebrates similarities and believes in being more together. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Benefits, Wellness and Well-Being Program | Azerconnect | Feel the Customer: Azerconnect Well Being Program for Call Center/Front Office Teams | Bronze | 2023 | Feel the Customer is a well-being program that involves managers and Call Center & Front Office Agents and focuses on the improvement of employee emotional experience and customer-centricity accordingly. The Program aimed to improve the psychological wellness and resulted in concrete outcomes for the target group and the Company's success factors. The purpose was: • to increase the employees’ motivation in their challenging and stressful working conditions, • to teach them how to prevent, cope and release stress by sustainable and practical methods. • to improve their approach to clients with emotional empathy, • to make their life easier and increase productivity by creating emotional awareness and empathy. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Benefits, Wellness and Well-Being Program | Tech Mahindra Limited | Wellness First | Gold | 2023 | In 2017, leadership at TechM realized there was a need to shift from the wellness of business to wellness before business. TechM started to extend new wellness offerings to employees to help them strike a balance between their personal and professional wellbeing. TechM puts a happier, healthier and more productive workforce at the core of its business, policies and decisions. Today, TechM’s wellness experience delivery is quite mature & integrated in nature covering eight dimensions of wellness – Physical, Occupational, Emotional, Spiritual, Social, Environmental, Financial and Intellectual by mapping wellness offerings at different stages of the employee lifecycle. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Benefits, Wellness and Well-Being Program | AssisTT | Beyond Well-Being Program | Gold | 2023 | AssisTT's well-being program İyiliğin Daha Fazlası (Beyond Well-Being), is a structured and comprehensive approach to improve the holistic health of its employees. The program consists of 8 dimensions: physical, emotional, intellectual, financial, environmental, occupational, spiritual and social. AssisTT conducted various benchmark studies and received suggestions from its employer brand agency to determine these dimensions. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Benefits, Wellness and Well-Being Program | Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd | Making Wellbeing a Priority with Curated Signature Experiences | Gold | 2023 | Nurturing a holistic wellbeing for a resilient workforce has been our mantra and we set out on creating experiences that prioritizes Self-Care. The experiences were curated to make wellbeing a priority amid many things one juggles. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Benefits, Wellness and Well-Being Program | Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd | Caring for our people with a hyper-personalized touch: Benefits YOU | Gold | 2023 | To meet the diverse and evolving needs of its people, Accenture launched a unique hyper-personalized benefits program called Benefits YOU that allows its people to choose benefits that suit their needs. These are spread across four categories—Family Care, Fitness & Wellness, Financial Wellbeing and Outpatient Coverage—and available at discount, on a single technology platform. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Benefits, Wellness and Well-Being Program | Dubai Municipality | Wellness and Well Being Programs in Dubai Municipality | Gold | 2023 | Dubai Municipality believes that its happy and motivated human Capital are the main pillar in the sustainability of its work and excellence, and in achieving its vision, mission and goals. Therefore, One of the strategic goals of DM is (Attracting and retaining the best talent for a future-ready Municipality). Wellness and wellbeing of employees play a vital role in Achieving this goal. Dubai Municipality adopted the United Arab Emirates Government national strategy for wellbeing 2031 (https://www.hw.gov.ae/en/download/uae-national-wellbeing-strategy-2031) and the CIPD wellbeing approach. DM created its own model of Employee wellbeing based on the needs and aspirations of the employees. This model has 10 pillars and DM implemented them through many initiatives, projects, programs and activities, as will be explained in the submission |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Benefits, Wellness and Well-Being Program | Accenture | Caring deeply for our people: Mental Health and Well-being Benefits at Accenture | Gold | 2023 | This entry describes Accenture’s Health & Well-being strategy for the talented, 730,000+ global workforce. To be healthy and well means our people thrive, not merely exist, in a genuinely balanced state of physical, mental, and financial health. Driven by a holistic imperative to care for our people deeply, clear research and direct feedback; our mission is to destigmatize mental health, elevate access to total well-being, while creating a progressive culture of care, proactive prevention, and resilience. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Benefits, Wellness and Well-Being Program | Concentrix | Best Advance in Providing World Class Holistic Wellness | Gold | 2023 | As 2022 drew near, it was evident that we needed to spend even more in the wellbeing of our employees, their engagement, and our all-around wellness strategy. The necessity for a new health strategy in the emerging virtual world, coupled with the uncertain times caused by the epidemic, made it an inspiring task for the wellness team. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Benefits, Wellness and Well-Being Program | Security Service Federal Credit Union | Total Wellbeing | Gold | 2023 | Employees at Security Service Federal Credit Union are the bridge between the organization and our members. When employees succeed, so does the organization. Security Service Federal Credit Union’s Total Wellbeing program was designed to provide employees with resources that best meet their physical, financial, and emotional needs. Overall, key goals for the Total Wellbeing program are to provide various options that support the total wellbeing of employees. Equally important, the program needed to be sustainable over time, which includes both desirability of the program and awareness of the program’s successes by increasing employee engagement and mitigating healthcare costs. The program needed to provide new wellness resources while building upon existing wellness resources in an impactful way. Employees and their managers needed to be aware of the program and be knowledgeable of its offerings. Also, the program needed to retain current employees while attracting new talent. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Benefits, Wellness and Well-Being Program | Bank of America | Bank of America Benefits Programs | Gold | 2023 | 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 loved ones grow and thrive. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Benefits, Wellness and Well-Being Program | TSKB | Bize Değer Wellbeing Program | Silver | 2023 | Bize Değer Wellbeing Program is a comprehensive wellness and wellbeing program designed to support the physical and mental health of TSKB employees |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Benefits, Wellness and Well-Being Program | Allianz Technology SE | Allianz Technology SE: Best Benefits, Wellness and Wellbeing Programs | Gold | 2023 | Employee Wellbeing at Allianz Technology SE has expanded beyond just employee wellbeing post pandemic, as it on building a culture of holistic wellbeing including physical, emotional, financial, social, career, community and purpose. At this stage Allianz Technology SE aims to enhance the wellbeing of just not only employees but also for their family. With the focus towards being the Employer of choice and enhancing the mediums of opportunities for employees to lead a healthy lifestyle. Moreover, towards building a culture of psychological safety at workplace, the organization has upscaled its ways to build a wellness pathway for its employees. Ensuring the involvement of the leaders to drive in this culture. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Benefits, Wellness and Well-Being Program | Doğuş Holding | Doğuş Grubu-Wellbeing at Doğuş Group: Better Life, Better Future | Silver | 2023 | 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 Awards | Best Benefits, Wellness and Well-Being Program | Çimsa Çimento A.Ş. | Cimsa Life | Silver | 2023 | The aim is to improve the physical and mental health of Çimsa employees. In line with this goal, all of our employees, both domestic and international, have access to the ÇimsaLife mobile application that we offer. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best HR Strategy and Measurement Approach | Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd | Accenture India Employee Relations Strategy: Delivering 360 ̊ value across dimensions | Bronze | 2023 | Accenture India Employee Relations Strategy has been focused on delivering 360 ̊ value across dimensions to all its stakeholders : clients, people, communities, its diverse groups and financials by focusing on building an ethical culture, making well-being an organizational priority and creating a positive employee experience. It has led to a positive work environment where talent thrives, is engaged, innovates and delivers value across the ecosystem. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best HR Strategy and Measurement Approach | Tech Mahindra Limited | Human Centered Strategy | Gold | 2023 | The post-COVID world will be defined by radical changes in lifestyles, social interactions, and economic transactions. Responding to the changing world of work, TechM has updated its people strategy using the TMW (The Mahindra Way) Quality framework to focus on creating human-centered experiences in a hybrid workplace. Through this new strategic direction, TechM will reinforce its philosophy of n=1, that is every individual employee is special and deserves hyper-personalized experiences, and moments that matter. This has led the team to redefine its employee value proposition, adopt HR best practices, cultivate a unique culture and made a difference beyond work. This helps the People Function craft meaningful work experiences improving employee productivity in an increasingly dynamic environment. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Strategy for Corporate Citizenship | Tata Consultancy Services | Tata Consultancy Services -Best Strategy for Corporate Citizenship 2023 Human Resources Awards LaaS | Gold | 2023 | 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 Awards | Best Strategy for Corporate Citizenship | Accenture | Accenture’s Refugee Recruiting Initiative/Impact Hiring | Gold | 2023 | Accenture’s Refugee Recruiting Initiative began after the fall of Afghanistan in August 2021 which led to a surge of Afghan refugees to relocate to the U.S. Due to limited governmental resettlement resources, the need for private sector and community involvement was unprecedented. Challenged with the goal of supporting Afghan refugees, Accenture’s Refugee & Immigrant Talent Acquisition team was born. This team provides a “white glove” recruiting experience to those seeking employment in the U.S. and Canada through a dedicated recruiting process and unwavering support as they navigate a foreign employment structure and the start of a new life. To date, Accenture has hired 36 Afghan refugees. Of those 36 hires, 20% are gender diverse and 41% were onboarded as team leads or above. Refugee hires have led to increased awareness of global issues, a more diverse workforce and reframes the definition of talent at Accenture. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Strategy for Corporate Citizenship | Capgemini Technology Services India Limited | Capgemini LEAP Digital Academy Program | Silver | 2023 | The Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability vision at Capgemini is ‘to be leader in sustainable excellence through a bold and influential approach, positively impacting Capgemini’s future, our clients, society and the planet’. Our goal is to ‘Enhance our identity and reputation as a Responsible Corporate by mobilizing and contributing with our skills and resources, in building a better and harmonized society through intensive collaboration and cooperation with multiple stakeholders including communities, customers, governments and employees’. Capgemini LEAP Digital Academy Program works on bridging skill-gap and digital divide for those socio- economically excluded youths (women, PwD’s, etc) who are not able to access developmental opportunities. We are committed to supporting 11 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and our social and environmental responsibility is embedded in commitments we’ve made at national, regional, and global levels |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Unique or Innovative HR Program | Shaya Group Turkey | Personal Accident Insurance Application | Bronze | 2023 | This entry is called "Personal Accident Insurance Application" “Personal Accident Insurance” is an application initiated with the aim of guaranteeing the death or permanent disability as a result of an accident for 2 people defined by the employees. Employees can determine or choose people whom their own relatives or they are closely related. With this application, employees can feel their relatives or close relationships are in safe and it is possible for them to feel more mentally comfortable. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Unique or Innovative HR Program | Accenture Solutions Pvt. Ltd. | Building Aspirations-Led Careers through a Human + Machine Solution | Bronze | 2023 | Three macro trends namely, Pace of technology change, Clients’ multi-skill talent requirement and Employees’ desire to have choice of work have made it imperative to create talent centered around people’s aspirations and business needs. As Accenture continues to grow, we want our people to build a career that they truly believe in and one that inspires them to grow, learn and thrive. iAspire is an integrated career experience that empowers Accenture employees to expand their skills, create a personalized career path and learning journey, get the guidance they need to meet their career aspirations and find the right opportunities. It blends tech-powered intelligence and one-on-one human guidance by expert mentors. By pursuing a role they are passionate about, employees deliver high value to clients, thereby enabling Accenture to drive greater agility for our business. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Unique or Innovative HR Program | General Administration of Customs | A worldclass Customs Authority with an innovative HR Program | Bronze | 2023 | The entry is submitted by the General Administration of Customs in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and is called "A worldclass Customs Authority with an innovative HR Program". Submitting a proposal with a supporting video, files, and figures. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Unique or Innovative HR Program | Standard Chartered PLC and Accenture | Experience-Led Agile Delivery for HR Platform implementation | Bronze | 2023 | Standard Chartered set the tone that HR wanted to deliver the program differently – focus was on Being Agile & Human Centric – blending the solution and business teams in delivering the new HR solution for greatest outcomes. Accenture and Standard Chartered developed a co-located, cross-functional design approach, allowing the program to bring the best of our teams together to design at pace and with a clear vision in a complex landscape during the global pandemic. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Unique or Innovative HR Program | Foundation Medicine (FMI) | The ANDEngage Approach | Bronze | 2023 | People & Culture is one of the five pillars of Foundation Medicine's (FMI) Corporate Strategy. To help progress the culture and advance the mission of FMI, the People Team set forth an intentional focus to Attract, Nurture, Develop and Engage employees to do the best work of their lives. The objective of placing a concerted effort around these four areas through the ANDEngage approach (HR program) is to further empower employees, cultivate their sense of belonging and be a key differentiator to FMI. The ANDEngage approach enables employees to lead enriching personal and professional journeys focused on growth and is personalized to the individual’s own journey...very similar to the personalization of FMI’s precision medicine. Embedding ANDEngage into the culture sets FMI up to be successful with the corporate strategy which is centered around people. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Unique or Innovative HR Program | GoHealth | GoHealth Best Unique or Innovative HR Program: ProjectONE | Bronze | 2023 | This entry, submitted by GoHealth is called "ProjectONE". ProjectONE was created to build a One Network Experience for all employees of GoHealth by simplifying performance and development to something that is digestible, repeatable, and scalable, while ensuring that our culture remains at the heart of everything we do and are. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Unique or Innovative HR Program | Accenture Greater China | Boundaryless Opportunities in Greater China | Bronze | 2023 | Greater China (GC) Boundaryless Opportunities Program initiated comprehensive people campaigns and change communications, aiming to encourage people explore internal career opportunities and retain top talents; meanwhile attract top talents through the platform built together by HR and business. The program removed the barriers of internal transfer process, encouraged GC people to explore internal opportunities according to their career aspirations. What's more important, it's a unique HR initiative driving Accenture cross-services collaboration, “One Accenture" mindset and shared success. The program successfully built series of innovative people campaigns to create multi-dimensions values mainly across Talent, Experience, Sustainability: - Retaining and attracting top talents, building shared success - Creating “One Accenture” mindset by cross-service groups business sharing - Connecting business and people, engaging them to advocate boundaryless opportunities and boosting internal mobility - Fostering a culture of look within and embracing variant careers internally |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Unique or Innovative HR Program | AKBANK | Venture Builder Program (Akbank+) | Gold | 2023 | Akbank+ Venture Builder Program, Akbank+, is the first full-time intrapreneurship program in Turkey. Program is unique for enabling employees to develop their own business ideas and for allowing them to work full-time on their business ideas while keeping all of their employee benefits. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Unique or Innovative HR Program | Bank of America | The Academy for Families | Gold | 2023 | The Academy for Families is an education enrichment benefit for Bank of America employees, their children and – coming soon - children, parents and caregivers in the communities Bank of America serves externally. Through the program, children of all ages have access to tailored, relevant and fun online resources at home to help with schoolwork and spark a continued interest in learning. Additionally, parents and caregivers have access to curated resources around emotional wellness, financial wellness, adult caregiving and more. Leveraging Bank of America’s digital learning platform, The Academy for Families has access to the world’s largest collection of e-learning content, which it shares with children around the globe. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Unique or Innovative HR Program | Enerjisa Enerji | Enerjisa Young Talent Programs | Gold | 2023 | The EnerjiSa Young Talent Programs have been implemented with the objective of introducing talented youth in Turkey to the energy sector, preparing them for the future workforce, and acquiring qualified human resources for the company. The EnerjiSa Young Talent Programs aim to access potential talents in the three main areas where EnerjiSa has the highest demand for young talents and to connect these talents with development opportunities. In order to directly address each of these three main needs, EnerjiSa has designed four different young talent programs: • RetailX: Talent acquisition and Management Trainee Program for retail companies • ENTER: Young engineer talent acquisition program for distribution companies • ITalent: Talent acquisition program focused on IT and digitalization fields across all EnerjiSa companies • Spark: Short-term internship program aimed at introducing the distribution sector to young university students |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Unique or Innovative HR Program | Allianz SE and Allianz Technology SE | The Allianz Group Metaverse Onboarding Experience – Innovating Talent Acquisition and Onboarding Through Disruptive Technology | Gold | 2023 | Allianz Group Strategy, Marketing, Distribution Academy (GSMD Academy) is an optimal one-stop-shop learning resource and engagement tool for Allianz SE employees, people leaders, and experts from Allianz’s 70 operating entities across the globe. Allianz Consulting delivers management consulting services and experiences related to emerging technologies across the full value chain and globally to over 70 Allianz operating entities. With a virtual learning approach Allianz Consulting and GSMD Academy joined forces to deliver a full virtual and immersive learning approach, enriched with valuable onboarding information, videos, and interactive 3D gamification elements. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Unique or Innovative HR Program | Accenture | Wealth Creation Model | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Accenture, is called "Wealth Creation Model". It is an interactive model which, given particular inputs, produces a six- to ten-year projection of wealth creation for the user, utilizing customized information about the individual and reflecting the latest company compensation programs. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Unique or Innovative HR Program | Accenture | Caring deeply for our people: Mental Health and Well-being Benefits at Accenture | Gold | 2023 | This entry describes Accenture’s Health & Well-being strategy for the talented, 730,000+ global workforce. To be healthy and well means our people thrive, not merely exist, in a genuinely balanced state of physical, mental, and financial health. Driven by a holistic imperative to care for our people deeply, clear research and direct feedback; our mission is to destigmatize mental health, elevate access to total well-being, while creating a progressive culture of care, proactive prevention, and resilience. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Unique or Innovative HR Program | Scotiabank and The RBL Group | Scotiabank's HRBP Development Program | Gold | 2023 | Scotiabank's HR Business Partner (HRBP) Development Program is a cohort-based learning journey which strengthens HRBP capabilities in 3 key focus areas: The Strategic HR Business Partner, Making Strategic Decisions and Managing Strategic Discussions. The outcome of the program is a consistency in knowledge, skills and behaviours for the bank's HR Business Partners with a common language and approach to strategic consulting capabilities. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Unique or Innovative HR Program | Novartis | Unleashing the Power of our People with Talent Match, Novartis' Talent Marketplace | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Novartis, is called "Unleashing the Power of our People with Talent Match, Novartis' Talent Marketplace". To democratize access to career growth and developmental opportunities, drive engagement, and reduce retention, Novartis implemented a Talent Marketplace. The program has already reached >32,000 associates, who have created their profiles and are taking ownership of their career growth and development by taking full advantage of mentoring, gigs/short-term projects, career pathing, access to open positions, and learning opportunities. |
| HCM | Human Resources Awards | Best Unique or Innovative HR Program | Weigels and Paylocity | Leading Retailer Embraces HR Innovation to Support A Growing Business | Silver | 2023 | This entry submitted by Paylocity and Weigels Stores is called "Leading Retailer Embraces HR Innovation to Support A Growing Business". This story shows how a retailer leverages its HCM platform to provide unique pay options, flexible scheduling, employee engagement, and culture building. They do this by leveraging the HCM platform and its app to help reduce turnover and give employees more flexibility with their work. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring | American Express GBT and Positive Momentum | The Enterprise Leadership Program (ELP) 2022 | Bronze | 2023 | Having been forced to cut its workforce during Covid, Amex GBT then enjoyed a post-Covid renaissance, further boosted by its move to become public in June-2022. The result was a sudden need for more senior leaders to guide the business at VP level. Rather than go through the costly and time-consuming process of hiring external candidates unfamiliar with the business, Amex GBT chose to nurture talent from within through its Executive Leadership Program. The idea was to create a situation where everybody wins: staff motivation increases, and the business avoids costs otherwise related with recruiting externally. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring | Landmark Group | Ignite the Possibilities | Bronze | 2023 | Ignite The Possibilities is Landmarks Coaching and Mentoring Framework which aims at providing business continuity solution in the present VUCA and BANI world ensuring the Talent is Future-Ready to lead the organization. Key design features include effective process of coaching and mentoring, strategically match internal coach and mentor with the participants, leverage technology to design, deliver and measure the impact of the programs through an AI, Teams Integrated Mentoring App. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring | Turkcell Global Bilgi | Koçluk Ofisi | Gold | 2023 | This entry submitted by Turkcell Global Bilgi is called "Koçluk Ofisi" (Coaching Office) practices. Coaching and Mentoring practices are combined under the umbrella of the Koçluk Ofisi. The Koçluk Ofisi includes services that support the development of individuals and teams. A development ecosystem has been created with volunteer professional coaches and mentors that supports learning from each other. Internal Coaches and Mentors are trained through internationally accredited professional development programs in the organization. The end result is employees receive the one-on-one or team-level coaching and mentoring support they need from certified internal coaches and mentors on personal development, team management, business management, agility, sales, OKR, RPA, through structured development plans. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring | TSKB | TSKB Team and Group Coaching Program | Gold | 2023 | TSKB Team and Group Coaching Program includes coaching training, one-on-one coaching sessions, group coaching sessions for teams and senior management. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring | Kordsa Teknik Tekstil A.Ş. | “Mentoring & Coaching as a Mindset” Program | Gold | 2023 | Development is a mutual process that involves two parties sharing knowledge and experience. At Kordsa, talent is crucial to the strategy and strategic planning process, and empowering people, boosting their motivation, and managing talent are integral aspects of professional development. As a result of this approach, the programs were created with the needs of various audiences in mind. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring | Cairn Oil and Gas, Vedanta Limited | • Zenith – Cairn Coaching and mentoring program | Gold | 2023 | Cairn Oil & Gas implements Zenith, a coaching and mentoring program designed to support employees at all levels. The program encompasses leadership coaching, group coaching, and an online mentorship system to address individual needs. Expert coaches offer personalized guidance to leaders, focusing on their strengths and areas for improvement. Group coaching facilitates skill development and knowledge sharing among campus hires and top performers, fostering a culture of continuous learning. The online mentorship system grants all employees access to a network of mentors who provide guidance and support tailored to their career goals. Cairn Oil & Gas understands the importance of a strong leadership pipeline and considers Zenith a vital initiative in developing future leaders. Covering 60% of their employees, the program equips individuals with the necessary skills for success in the oil and gas industry, solidifying the organization's long-term prospects. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring | Together for Children and The OCM | The OCM Coaching Program | Gold | 2023 | Together for Children (TfC) delivers protective children's services, in Sunderland, UK. TfC ensures that children's services across Sunderland are delivered by a suitably qualified, experienced workforce and deliver optimum value for money. The OCM provide world-class coaching and mentoring services to their client organisations and deliver accredited qualifications and training. The OCM are passionate about enabling sustainable behaviour change through the delivery of coaching programmes and services. This extraordinary partnership delivered an organisation-wide cultural shift by offering executive coaching and coaching skills programmes throughout the TfC organisation. Started in September-2021, the programme began with Team Coaching for the Senior Leadership team supported by individual Executive Coaching. A Coaching Skills Development Programme followed for the executive SLT (6 members), the extended SLT (22) and finally, across all Team Managers (90), concluding April-2022. All TfC leaders are now externally trained coaches. To the best of our knowledge, unprecedented in UK children’s services. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring | Kraft Heinz | Manager as Coach | Gold | 2023 | Coaching habits consistently influence day-to-day interactions, critical talent management conversations, and greater employee engagement throughout Kraft Heinz. The Manager as Coach program builds a feedback culture across the organization’s people manager population. This comprehensive and innovative coaching program blends personalized coaching sessions with experiential learning and practical tools. This coaching program for managers is a best-in-class program that has delivered exceptional results with 84% of participants are using the training and coaching concepts according to a 90-day post survey. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring | Turk Telekom | Turk Telekom Academy Coaching and Mentoring Program | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Turk Telekom, is called "Turk Telekom Academy Coaching and Mentoring Program". Turk Telekom Academy Coaching and Mentoring program which supports Turk Telekom's Leadership Climate efforts and targets, was implemented to support experience sharing within the company and to develop leadership skills. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring | BNSF Railway | Coaching and Mentoring: BNSF's Commitment to Employee Development | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by BNSF Railway, is called "Coaching and Mentoring: BNSF's Commitment to Employee Development". Given the technical nature of railroad operations, BNSF strongly believes in developing employees through on-the-job experiences to engage, promote, and retain current and future leaders. For nearly three decades, BNSF has leveraged mentoring and coaching to assess, develop and promote high performing and high potential leaders throughout multiple levels in the organization. With unwavering executive support and sponsorship, these programs are integral to the development of current and future leaders of the organization, and result in increased retention and promotion rates of those involved. Stemming from these programs’ success and the organization’s cultural focus on development, additional informal opportunities have been developed to meet the needs of all employees. The organization will continue to foster development programs to support employees through their leadership journey to meet the strategic goal of developing BNSF’s workforce. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring | LCBO and The Roundtable | LCBO Catalyst Coaching and Mentoring Program | Gold | 2023 | The Catalyst program at LCBO is currently in its third year of rollout at the organization and program has generated momentum year over year to create an impact. The program is a key development strategy supporting the critical elements of the people strategy related to creating and amplifying an inclusive and change ready culture. This group coaching and mentoring program designed and developed in partnership with The Roundtable blends assessment, formal learning, informal learning and social learning to drive lasting behavior change, support strategic and cultural priorities and prepare next-generation leadership talent to accelerate their leadership impact in a highly dynamic, people-centric and results-oriented work environment. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring | Cognizant | Mentorship Program | Gold | 2023 | Build a culture of Mentorship at the enterprise level that continuously promotes engagement & development. Help associates maximize potential, expand networks, develop skills, improve performance and become the best version of themselves! |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring | Deloitte LLP | Coaching Gym Live | Gold | 2023 | Deloitte Consulting had extensive process training on the performance management cycle for coaches and coachees, available on demand. Deloitte Consulting sought to enhance the relationship-building aspect of the coaching relationship by providing new coaches the opportunity to practice common and difficult coaching conversations with trusted peers and facilitators before doing so with their coachees. The Consulting Coaching Gym was primarily intended to support the advancement of cohorts of Deloitte Consulting managers, particularly those who were recently assigned coachee(s). The Coaching Gym session was delivered during the Manager milestone program as the team who designed the program recognized the strategic benefits of creating a strong coaching culture. The team was motivated to build the Coaching Gym as a required plenary session in the manager milestone, reaching 1639 Deloitte US Consulting managers in FY23. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring | Cognizant | Front-line Leadership Capability Development via Mentoring & Reverse Mentoring | Gold | 2023 | As the front-line leaders (FLL) in Cognizant Intuitive Operations & Automation (IOA) service line progress in their career, the digital disruptions, increasing span of control, expanding circle of stakeholders and complexity of work necessitated deft ability to handle people, client and internal operational demands while staying focused on flawless delivery. From an internal survey conducted among the frontline leaders, it became evident that there was a critical need of continued coaching and mentoring interventions with senior leaders. This led to the roll-out of Front-line Leadership Capability Development program via Mentoring & Reverse Mentoring. The program weaved in elements of group mentoring, 1-1 mentoring, reverse mentoring, flash mentoring and social learning, that aligned with modern workplace learning (MWL) principles. The program received an overwhelming response in the organization. Across IOA, 191 mentors invested 750 hours mentoring 1216 mentees, in a 24-week timeframe. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring | Burberry and MindGym | Burberry x MindGym Executive Coaching and Development Program | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Burberry and MindGym, is called 'Burberry x MindGym Executive Coaching and Development Program'. Launched in July 2022, this 8-month global Executive Development Program was designed to garner rapid results with just-in-time learning, live sessions and Precision Coaching, MindGym’s proprietary coaching methodology. This program sought to elevate leadership capabilities through a balance of immersive social learning experiences and self-directed development – all distinctly underpinned by Burberry’s leadership standards: “Creatively Driven”, “Open and Caring”, “Proud of Our Heritage”, and “Forward Thinking”. The results have been transformative – a 39% increase in goal attainment capability and 268% return on investment (ROI) – with more innovative L&D programs in the pipeline to drive leadership coaching and development across the wider organization. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring | Intermountain Health and Alchemy Strategy Group | Maximizing the Leader Factor: A Leadership Development Coaching Cohort Program | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by SCL Health, now Intermountain Health and Alchemy Strategy Group, outlines the concept, design, development, and implementation of a Leadership Development Coaching Cohort Program in support of growth and development, organizational performance and effectiveness through a systematic framework between November 2021 and February 2023. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring | Sutherland Global Services | Team Manager University (TMU) 2.0 | Silver | 2023 | TMU 2.0 is a scenario-based learning program reserved specifically for Sutherland Service Delivery programs. It is customized to ensure the content is current, relevant, and relatable. The program requires a 40-hour commitment from the team managers and a 24-hour recommended commitment from their account managers. The three core focus areas of this workshop are effective coaching, hybrid engagement, and planning and execution. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring | Yum! Brands | Coach Academy | Silver | 2023 | Yum! Brands' Learning and Organizational Development team developed Coach Academy, an eight-month microlearning journey for its "coaches," or managers of people or teams. Coach Academy was created in response to internal survey data that indicated improved coach capability could be an area of growth opportunity. Coach Academy delivers a cross-brand, global learning experience—including independent and community-building learning—that drives awareness and skill-building for coaches across the Yum! enterprise. The curriculum is delivered weekly, focusing on nine coaching behaviors and related skills in alignment with Yum!'s core leadership values of Smart, Heart and Courage. Since implementing Coach Academy in 2021, more than 1,300 coaches have completed the program, and global employee engagement survey scores around coaching have increased in all areas and brands. Yum! is now looking toward expanding the program to field managers and franchisees. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring | Cox Communications | Coaching Culture | Silver | 2023 | The Coaching Culture is a scalable framework deployed within a department in support of specific needs and to drive business imperatives. Coaching includes many leadership competencies: presence, active listening, inquiry, fostering change, empowering others, etc. The secret sauce of the Coaching Culture is the social learning component that reinforces the coach training while accelerating and building leadership competencies resulting in more effective leadership. The social learning component are Coaching Circles. Coaching Circles are a forum for leaders to bring forth current situations in which to practice their coaching skills, seek perspectives, feedback, and best practices from peers. Leaders can immediately apply what they practiced back in the business. The retention and adoption of the coaching skills is fortified by the level of accountability created by having all levels of leadership simultaneously attend training and participate in Coaching Circles. Other departments have adopted the approach based on seeing positive business impact. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring | Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd | Netrutvam – Leadership Coaching Program for Corporate Functions in India | Silver | 2023 | The Corporate Functions in Accenture India launched the inaugural edition of Netrutvam – Leadership Coaching Program for Corporate Functions in India in 2022, a leadership coaching program for 50+ mid-senior management high potential leaders. The Leadership Coaching Program involved personalized development support for N-1 leaders of the Corporate Functions in India. The participants of the program experienced coaching intimately so that they could use that more in their lives for their change & transformation. And also, to become coaches themselves or apply coaching skills with their stakeholders and teams. This was a first of its kind program in Accenture India focusing on leadership coaching. What made it more unique was that it was run not just for a handful of people, but for over 50 leaders! This paved the way for leadership development interventions from 2022 to continue in 2023 and beyond. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring | TPI Composites Turkey | TPI Composites Mentoring Program | Silver | 2023 | The program is designed to create a supportive environment where senior leaders share their knowledge and expertise with new leaders, helping them to develop the skills and competencies needed for success. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring | Accenture solutions Pvt. Ltd | Best_Advance_in_Coaching_And_Mentoring_2023_DFWL_Leadership_Development_Award | Silver | 2023 | 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 six-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 | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring | ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited and Chrysalis | Manager as a Coach | Silver | 2023 | Managers as Coaches is a blended intervention based on the principles of learn-practice-apply-measure and is customized to the needs of ICICI Lombard managers, managing teams and driving breakthrough performance in a hybrid environment. This intervention focuses on building the skills of managers to coach their teams for development and performance. The intervention and journey are well spread over various milestones and leverage customized toolkits and the existing processes of ICICI Lombard. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring | ADP, Inc. | ADP Sales Leader Coaching and Mentoring Program | Silver | 2023 | 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 Awards | Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring | TD Bank | TD North American Customer Operations Centralized Targeted Coaching | Silver | 2023 | The entry, submitted by TD Bank North American Customer Operations is called " TD North American Customer Operations Centralized Targeted Coaching". The Centralized Targeted Coaching Team (CTC) was established in March of 2022. Focused on continuing to enhance North American Customer Operations' (NACO) coaching culture through capability development program delivery, this internal team of certified Colleague and Leadership coaches administer targeted coaching support and intervention in alignment with key business priorities and performance opportunities. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring | Syneos Health | Mentoring at Syneos Health | Silver | 2023 | This entry for Best Advance in Coaching & Mentoring, submitted by Syneos Health, is a global Mentoring program that consists of Traditional, Reverse and One-to-Many Mentoring. All of the programs are designed to meet specific business needs to drive mentoring as a development option for "learning from others" and a specific request for Mentoring from our Black Employee Resource Group (ERG). The programs have created mutual learning partnerships across the organization and provided an opportunity for employees to connect and gain perspectives from colleagues who are different from them. In three years, the program has grown 10-fold and with noticeable gains in engagement and retention of those participating in the programs. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Executive Development | PepsiCo | REACH LATAM Development Program | Bronze | 2023 | This entry, submitted by PepsiCo Latin America, is called "REACH LATAM Development Program which is a 20 weeks hybrid experience that focus on develop General Manager skills in audience slated to take this role in a near future or are mapped as successors in General Manager bench. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Executive Development | Kordsa Teknik Tekstil A.Ş. | Skill & Perspective Calibration for Leaders C Level Strategy | Gold | 2023 | Kordsa places great importance on executive leadership development as they are the ones carrying the company towards ambitious objectives and impeccable growth. Coaching, leadership training in collaboration with well-known vendors, mentoring, expatriation, and online learning are just a few examples of how the vision for continuous learning reflects on high-level leadership. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Executive Development | WEX Inc. | Best Advance in Executive Development - WEX Inc. - Thrive as a VP | Gold | 2023 | Thrive as a VP, a blended learning program, was developed to provide additional support for executives and instill servant leadership principles and practices. The program imparted 12 distinctive leadership habits, including “Make active listening your superpower,” “Embrace empathy” and “Foster inclusivity and community.” It was delivered via an interactive guide, followed by executive-facilitated fireside chats on each habit, which gave senior leaders an opportunity to share their experiences of practicing the habits with their peers. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Executive Development | UBS AG | GWM Leadership Successor Key Talent Program 2021/2022 | Gold | 2023 | The GWM Leadership Successor Key Talent Program was a flagship event, developing executive leaders into new leadership roles. Being high potentials and on at least 2 different succession plans, 52 leaders were eager to get developed and accelerate their careers. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Executive Development | Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd | Accenture_Best_Advance_in_Executive_Development_SMEP_Leadership_Development_Award | Gold | 2023 | The Senior Manager Excellence Program is designed to provide high-potential Senior Managers the right support and skills to enhance capability and to build an organizational culture of resilience, adaptability, and growth. The program is run annually for Capability Network (CN), a global consulting team within Accenture. Each year, the program delivery is augmented to align with the latest consulting tools and trends, current Accenture leadership approach, and the previous year’s feedback. The impact of this program and other learning initiatives like it is reflected in Accenture’s record FY22 revenue and a strong second quarter of FY23. A recent assessment of the program impact also indicates that nearly 90% eligible program participants were promoted to the Associate Director (AD) / Managing Director (MD) levels and found the program effective in their journey to the MD level; and 95% participants agreed they have better market insights to navigate volatility. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Executive Development | Randstad and London Business School | Transforming Senior Executives through the Power of Experimentation, Engagement and Empowerment | Gold | 2023 | It was imperative for senior executives at Randstad, a decentralized global company working in the HR services industry, to lead differently to execute on a new company-wide transformational strategy for growth. They needed to embrace digital disruption and adopt a new mindset, while leaving behind outdated leadership practices and ways of working. In response, Randstad partnered with London Business School (LBS) to embark on a journey to become the world’s leader in the recruitment and staffing industry. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Executive Development | Money Management Institute and University of Virginia Darden School Foundation | Executive IQ by Money Management Institute | Gold | 2023 | This entry is jointly submitted by Money Management Institute (MMI) and UVA Darden Executive Education. Executive IQ is a leadership and innovation accelerator program designed for the mid-career professional. It's a 12-month upskilling program to address the transformation going on in the financial services industry tied with the leadership essentials to bring it to life within the participant’s organization. Delivered by three leading institutions - UVA Darden School of Business, Microsoft and PwC - Executive IQ seeks to deliver highly purposed leaders who can lead innovation and disruption. The program was designed for executives from multiple financial services firms represented within the MMI membership. Executive IQ consists of approximately 100 hours of learning time (12.5 days) through multiple formats including case studies, individual and team projects, synchronous and asynchronous modes as well as individual coaching and assessments. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Executive Development | Capgemini | Capgemini VP360 Program | Gold | 2023 | The VP360 development program was focused on supporting leaders to raise their self-awareness about the extent to which they fulfilled the Leadership Vision in their current behaviors and daily practices, both with internal and external stakeholders. This was supported by the 360 process which was a key feature of the coaching sessions they engaged in, resulting in an actionable individual development plan. Self-reflection was an essential ingredient for leaders to maximize the opportunities presented by the program, as they took stock of the feedback and observations shared by their nominated colleagues and stakeholders. This provided them with different perspectives which added substantial value to understanding their impact on others and the greater social and organizational implications. It also engendered both a rational and emotional commitment to being a different kind of leader, which was often observed during the second coaching session between the leader, their people manager, and their coach. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Executive Development | Accenture Solutions Private Limited | Accenture Capability Development – CXL Accelerator Journey | Gold | 2023 | Client Experience Leads (CXLs) Accelerator Journey is a flagship Executive Development program for senior executives in Accenture, strategically impacting its client and employee experiences. This unique program is targeted to accelerate the personal development journey through a mix of personalized coaching from senior leaders, learning by reflection, experts, and social learning to deliver client delight while positively impacting our business and people. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Executive Development | Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd | Embark - An Executive's Integration Journey for a Successful Career | Silver | 2023 | This entry by Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd is an exclusive integration journey for the newly hired Executives & is called Embark. This is a blended journey program with multi-dimensional approach. The primary intention is to help the new hires be effective in their new roles and accomplish more quickly & seamlessly settle, develop, stay omni-connected and have a successful career journey. The end result is to strengthen knowledge and get integrated into the system. Aid understanding of different capabilities by redefining experiences and learn from our leadership connects & expand the horizon by engaging with the culture that yields overall development. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Executive Development | Burns & McDonnell and AIIR Consulting | Officer Leadership Development Program | Silver | 2023 | AIIR Consulting partnered closely with Burns & McDonnell to design a fully custom leadership development program for the highest echelon of leadership within the company. As the future of the company, these leaders gained invaluable exposure to key topic areas of inclusive leadership, team effectiveness, strategic thinking, leading with a coaching mindset, and communicating for influence and impact. They also cultivated stronger cross-functional relationships through highly interactive program content and deepened their self-awareness through individual assessment and coaching journeys. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Executive Development | OMERS and Oxford | EXcite Executive Leadership Program | Silver | 2023 | This application has been submitted by OMERS to highlight the EXcite Executive Leadership Program. The program is part of a sophisticated, multi-stream leadership development strategy for executives and comprises a blended journey to help build leadership to shape culture and lead the future. This program is much more than training; it seeks to invoke mindset shifts in leaders to strengthen their peer networks, their capabilities, and their accountability for the impact they have on others and the enterprise. The program is highly experiential, designed to push leaders to the edge of their comfort, without going over it. Leveraging self- and multi-rater assessments, conversations with senior leaders, kinesthetic learning activities, reflective discovery, coaching, and action planning, the result is a new way of building leadership at OMERS and Oxford. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | WNS | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Bronze | 2023 | SLDP is a 12-month journey, designed as a combination of face-to-face residential, academic & corporate immersions, hackathons and virtual sessions. World-class facilitators, innovative design, business outcome anchored, application-centric and a fluid approach are some of the differentiating features of this program. The SLDP program is designed for the top 100 leaders in the organization to go through the same in four cohorts. The next group of 25 leaders will be invited to join the program. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Capgemini and SweetRush | Advance | Bronze | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Capgemini and SweetRush, is “Advance.” Advance is a leadership development program that addresses a critical business need: future-proof Capgemini’s Global Delivery Excellence group with a talent pipeline of senior leaders who are capable of steering highly complex, high-profile, and high-revenue projects across the finish line. Advance directly meets its audience’s needs, an elite team of hard-to-reach, highly skilled executive leaders, with a leadership development experience that embraces their existing experience, needs, and preferences. A 17-week, competency-based blended learning, Advance combines large and small group social learning activities with 1:1 mentoring and asynchronous adaptive learning, offering a performance-driven experience that is tailored to meet each individual learners’ needs. With executive leaders not only championing but actively participating with learners through every step, the program supports the next generation of Global Delivery Excellence executives as they prepare to advance to the next level of their careers! |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Bayer and SweetRush | Enhanced Approach to Potential Identification (EAPI) Leadership Toolkit | Bronze | 2023 | This entry, “The Enhanced Approach to Potential Identification (EAPI) Leadership Toolkit,” is submitted by Bayer and SweetRush. EAPI is a new talent management process and methodology that enables Bayer leaders to identify the potential of their employees, and Bayer needed a training solution to support its implementation strategy. EAPI educates leaders and equips them with the skills and tools to evaluate employees accurately and consistently. The EAPI Leadership Toolkit, developed with solutions-partner SweetRush, provides leaders with the knowledge skills, tools, and resources needed to carry out this critical task. This holistic solution has met all its goals to date: leaders now complete potential identification consistently, results are accurate and reliable, and the program is fully integrated within Bayer’s talent management tools, processes, and approaches. This fuels Bayer’s future success, enabling a highly skilled, diverse and inclusive workforce ready to deliver on the vision “Health for All, Hunger for None.” |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Ziraat Bankası | Leadership Development Programs in Ziraat Bankası | Bronze | 2023 | The Leadership Development Programs at Ziraat Bankası aim to provide new leaders with the essential skills and competencies to excel in their respective roles. These programs offer a comprehensive range of training modules and activities tailored to the specific needs of branch managers, headquarters managers, regional managers, and department heads. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Wallenius Wilhelmsen and Bluepoint Leadership | Leadership Development Program | Bronze | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Wallenius Wilhelmsen and Bluepoint Leadership, is called "The Leadership Development Program (LDP)". The LDP is an extraordinary learning experience designed for Wallenius Wilhelmsen’s top performers and those who will lead the organization into the future. This global, cohort-based program provides a series of custom blended learning experiences, including in-person and virtual workshops, a 360-degree assessment, individual coaching sessions, micro eLearning, learning application trios, and program launch and wrap-up sessions. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Western Digital and Blanchard | Western Digital and Blanchard: Best Advance in Leadership Development 2023_Leader Essentials Program | Bronze | 2023 | Western Digital partnered with The Ken Blanchard Companies to create their first global flagship formal leadership development program called, “The Leader Essentials Program,” to support its business strategy. The Program is a modern, digital learning experience designed in four formats that are tailored to the unique needs of each level of people leadership – from front-line leaders to the most senior executives. All formats cover the company’s five core leadership capabilities that were introduced as part of a broader Leader Capability Framework, a new standard of leadership excellence for the company. The Program is one component of the company’s overarching leadership development strategy. The most robust experience is intended for front-line leaders and is a 14-week blended learning experience that includes self-directed digital learning, global webinars, practice and reflect activities, and ongoing 1:1 check-ins with the participant’s direct leader. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company Limited | My2.0 | Bronze | 2023 | The prime element of My2.0 was the one-on-one mentoring sessions. These one-on-one sessions were designed exclusively for the dynamic, visionary and highly esteemed leaders of HDFC ERGO and structured and customized as per their individual requirements. This included the creation of an all-round personalized learning environment that is invigorating, demanding, and enjoyable through sessions that are drawn entirely from a vast expert base. We have seen more than 1/3rd of the participants be promoted through our GAIN for excellence performance management program and My2.0 was a key area for them in their developmental journey. A focus on whole person growth ensured connectiveness throughout the journey for all participants. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | METRO Cash & Carry Ltd. | “Future*Leaders” Hub | Bronze | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Company METRO Cash & Carry Ukraine Ltd., is called “Future*Leaders” Hub. This is a local talent development hub aimed to support development of new type of leaders that business required due to cultural transformation. In other words, purpose of “Future*Leaders” Hub is to provide to business the development tools that make investment in development optimal and the result maximum. “Future*Leaders” Hub is a centre of various developmental activities with targeted content, allowing Hi-Pos to choose development measures based on their talents and leadership development goals right now. It includes set of learning modules, tools for self-reflection on personal strengths and development needs identification, mentoring from senior managmant, business tour to other companies, thematic meetings etc. By choosing only those activities that are necessary right now, an employee gains flexibility and rapid growth (situational agility), and the company gains fast development of succession pipeline to leadership roles. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Hon Hai precision industry Co., Ltd. | Leadership Enhancement Senior Executive Special Training | Bronze | 2023 | This project is submitted by Foxconn University, a subsidiary of Hon Hai Precision Industries Co., Ltd. The name of the project is Leadership Enhancement: Senior Executive Special Training. This program aims to address the challenges faced by Hon Hai Group in improving the management capabilities, strategic operations, and leadership of its senior managers in the process of transformation and internationalization. Through education and training, help managers improve personal leadership, deepen corporate strategic interpretation, promote the improvement of enterprise group performance, and support the enhancement of Hon Hai Group's core competitiveness. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | AGCO Corporation | AGCO Corporation achieves record-high employee engagement after launching Leadership Excellence Acceleration Programs (LEAP) | Bronze | 2023 | Leadership Excellence Acceleration Programs (LEAP) consists of five tailored development experiences to address unique challenges across all leadership levels. Each program leverages the 70-20-10 learning model to embed critical skill-building into AGCO’s new global strategy. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | OMERS and Oxford | Women in Leadership Program | Bronze | 2023 | This application has been submitted by OMERS to highlight the Women in Leadership Program. This initiative is a blended development journey for women leaders to build their capabilities, provide them with exposure and sponsorship, expand their networks, and ultimately accelerate their career development to strengthen the diversity of the senior leader talent pipeline. The program combines several development methods including live, in-person facilitated learning, leader-led panels and events, global networking, and 1:1 coaching. Since it's inception in 2020, the program has driven increases in employee experience, career development planning, retention, and mobility of women leaders, and contributed to strengthened gender representation at the executive level across OMERS and Oxford. This program is a flagship offering sponsored by the CEO and remains an important tool to drive strategic talent management priorities. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Macquarie Group | Macquarie_Best Advance in Leadership Development_LEAD | Bronze | 2023 | Leadership Excellence Accelerated Development program is a learning journey for high potential employees to develop leadership skills and build a diverse talent pool to serve as a pipeline for succession planning. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Deloitte LLP | Enterprise Performance (EP) - Rise | Bronze | 2023 | Deloitte Consulting LLP ("Deloitte Consulting") sought to enhance functional and leadership skills and decided to lean on curating learning experiences with in-house specialization. The Rise program was primarily intended to support and enhance the advancement of cohorts of Deloitte Consulting Senior Consultants. The program encapsulates essential skills such as client management, leading upwards and downwards, and building awareness of various technology accelerators in the Enterprise Performance Business Portfolio in Deloitte Consulting. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Shutterstock and Impact | Shutterstock-STEER | Bronze | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Impact and Shutterstock is called "STEER". STEER is a customized global and cross-business in-person experience designed for 60 leaders across Shutterstock, and included follow-up activities to support the application of the learning into the business. STEER was designed for 60 VPs across Shutterstock who represented the Americas (88.9%), Europe/The Middle East (9.5%), and Asia-Pacific (1.6%) regions. One of Shutterstock’s values is Build Community and the STEER program has helped drive better collaboration across functions and at a deeper level for these leaders. They actively seek out more ways to collaborate, seek insights and add even more value to the organization. An example of this is an increased engagement in development and knowledge sharing across the organization. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Barclays | Aspire Leadership Development Program | Gold | 2023 | This award entry is submitted by Barclays for our flagship leadership development program 'Aspire'. Aspire helps build a robust pipeline of diverse, resilient leaders who can drive Barclays future progress in alignment with the strategic objectives and broader purpose of the bank. Throughout the program, participant are focused on identifying steps they can take to further advance themselves, their teams and the organization. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | KPMG India | Ascend Leadership Development Program_Best Advance in Leadership Development | Gold | 2023 | Ascend is a 5.5-month blended leadership development program. It is designed with the objective of preparing leaders to take on larger roles. It is a learning experience that is crafted to help our senior Directors in Firm, gain higher self-awareness, unlearn old ways of being, collaborate with each other, receive mentoring and work on firm strategic projects. It’s a leadership development program that begins with a process of self-discovery and ends with participants working on real world issues within KPMG & the community we operate in. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Baker Hughes and NovoEd | Evolving the CORE Community Experience | Gold | 2023 | In 2021, Baker Hughes launched its first fully self-directed social community and knowledge sharing experience, named CORE, focused on the 4 Baker Hughes values of Lead, Care, Grow, and Collaborate. With limited resources, the community was a success but required another solution to scale, sustain, and provide a better user experience. Baker Hughes implemented NovoEd to support several unique elements of this community-based virtual learning experience. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited and Chrysalis | Lead to Inspire | Gold | 2023 | Lead to Inspire at ICICI Lombard is the key to understand and address the rising attrition rate and also address the adjustment issues and sales pressure at the organisation. This intervention aimed at training Managers or Team Leads with respect to employee retention and on being effective managers. The target universe was all Manager of Managers at ICICI Lombard (30 in number) and the competencies that we were looking at improving were Employee Retention, Creating Engagement, Hiring Right, Building High Trust Teams / People Management and Managing Performance. The program was a sustained learning journey that involved managers of participants as observers and mentors. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Philip Morris International (PMI) and NIIT | License to Lead | Gold | 2023 | The PMI License to Lead program is a standardized and global development pathway to build line manager capabilities and provide learners a license to operate as people managers by building the right mindsets, skills, and behaviors. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Bombardier Inc. and EI, Powered by MPS | Ethical Leadership | Gold | 2023 | The training is designed to provide Bombardier’s leaders with a refresher course on ethical management, why it’s important, and the consequences of non-compliance. Real-world examples are used to drive the message home and specific risk areas are examined. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | BTS Group | MTN Group-Best Advance in Leadership Development 2023 Leadership Development Award- MTN Group | Gold | 2023 | The 4 Hats is a leadership model that was developed by MTN to foster a human-centric leadership culture to accelerate their strategic vision of becoming a digital operator. Functioning as a digital operator requires higher levels of collaboration, creativity, agility, and discretionary effort – which can be enabled by a more people-centric approach to leadership in the business. BTS partnered with MTN to incorporate “Multipliers” leadership training and leading-edge scenario-based simulations to embed the model and accelerate the management maturity and effectiveness of MTN leaders. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Odeabank | Odeabank Leadership Development Program | Gold | 2023 | Odeabank Leadership Development Program targeted towards high-potential employees with the aim of developing the skills and competencies necessary for effective leadership in a rapidly changing world. The program is designed to enhance traditional leadership competencies while also focusing on new generation leadership competencies to attract and retain a high-performing workforce that can drive success in the face of disruptive changes and VUCA conditions. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Lidl US, LLC | Lidl US Director Development Program | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Lidl US Learning & Development, is called "The Lidl US Director Development Program", and showcases the the director component of the Lidl US Leadership Development Program. The program is a three module program over the course of three months, and prepares newly hired and promoted directors to lead entire departments at Lidl US. The program is based on the Lidl Competency Model and is grounded in the organization's strategy. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited and Chrysalis | Manager as a Coach | Gold | 2023 | Managers as Coaches is a blended intervention based on the principles of learn-practice-apply-measure and is customized to the needs of ICICI Lombard managers, managing teams and driving breakthrough performance in a hybrid environment. This intervention focuses on building the skills of managers to coach their teams for development and performance. The intervention and journey are well spread over various milestones and leverage customized toolkits and the existing processes of ICICI Lombard. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Bayer and SweetRush and Third Factor | Rise & Thrive | Gold | 2023 | This entry, Rise & Thrive, is submitted by Bayer, SweetRush, and Third Factor. When 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 leadership development content also needed its own “new normal” that had to be engaging, innovative, and dynamic. Rise & Thrive is a one-of-a-kind leadership development program, custom-built from the ground up, unlike anything seen before at Bayer. This Bayer-exclusive program marks a major leap forward for leadership development and 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 development program that’s a model for effective custom microlearning—with a 94.7% NPS score and glowing reviews from leaders! |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | ASELSAN | Leadership Development School | Gold | 2023 | The Leadership Development School is a comprehensive program designed to develop the competencies and skills required for effective leadership within our organization. Through targeted training, feedback mechanisms, and experiential learning, the program aims to enhance self-awareness, foster collaboration, strengthen communication, promote strategic thinking, and drive positive change. It is a vital initiative that cultivates a strong leadership culture and equips managers with the capabilities needed to achieve our strategic goals. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Webhelp Turkey | Game Changers in Leadership | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Webhelp Turkey, is called "Game Changers in Leadership." It is a modular, four-part, blended training program about leadership for first level managers. In Business Process Outsourcing Industry, the greatest asset is human capital. Ensuring the loyalty and sustainability of talented and trained human resources is one of the most important issues in this sector. From this perspective, previous programs were not sustainable since outsource trainers and multilanguage needs. Internal trainers’ experience and skills make the program more effective and adaptable for team leaders. This program aims to develop their management and leadership skills to strengthen their communication and relationships with their teams, increase employee engagement and enhance the company's internal leadership culture. As a result, this program distributes increasing employee engagement and creating common leadership culture within the organization. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Suffolk Construction and Entelechy | Building a Powerful Leadership Journey at Suffolk Construction | Gold | 2023 | People managers at Suffolk Construction needed a unified approach to performance management and leadership development in order to navigate the rapid growth the company has experienced. Suffolk partnered with Entelechy to design, develop, and deliver Management Excellence Academy, a leadership development program that empowers leaders to deliver on innovation, adapt to rapidly changing business environments, and lead teams to increase productivity, accelerate growth, and achieve organizational goals through deliberate performance management and coaching. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Deloitte LLP | Human Capital (HC) Prism | Gold | 2023 | HC PRISM is a program aimed to reiterate leadership behavioral anchors among Managers, Senior Managers and Managing Directors, to help strengthen trust in leadership, champion allyship in business interactions and reinforce uniquely human skills. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | The Estee Lauder Companies | Leadership Programs at ELC | Gold | 2023 | The leadership programs at The Estee Lauder Companies, including the People Leadership Program (PLP) and the Emerging Leaders Program (ELP) have been strategically designed, developed and deployed to support the evolution of leadership at the organization and to clearly articulate expectations for success. Eventually, a full suite of leadership offerings will be made available to develop world-class leaders at every stage of their journey, from first time managers to the most senior level executives at the company. This year's submission is the story of the evolution of the PLP after having been honored with 3 awards in 2022 for its build and strategic execution, now sharing enhancements, refinements and additions as we look back on lessons learned and gather feedback and measurable benefits from participants and graduates. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | AssisTT | Operation Manager Development Program | Gold | 2023 | Operation Manager Development Program was designed to develop the missing or low-performing skills and competencies of operation group managers. The program had several goals, including improving personal awareness of new age managerial competencies, developing balanced analytical and emotional management competencies, enhancing social skills, developing solution-oriented and strategic perspectives, improving cooperation between units and locations, developing management skills in uncertain and variable conditions, and performing effective process analysis and design thinking. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Warner Music Group | Management Explored | Gold | 2023 | The pandemic changed ways of working, however, ways of management shifted completely. This challenge gave WMG the opportunity to create a new management training program that was future fit. Launched in 2022, the immersive and dynamic Management Explored (ME) gives employees the chance to explore their approach to management, while learning more about what it takes to successfully build and nurture inclusive, healthy, high-performing teams ready for the challenges and opportunities of hybrid working. Designed/delivered by an internal team of four and a global network of trusted partners, it’s loaded with broader, more innovative curriculum, including topics relevant to new demands of managing post-pandemic teams. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Johnson Matthey Plc and BTS | Leading Managers | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Johnson Matthey and BTS, called "Leading Managers" is the mid-level leader development in a three part pathway called "Aspire." Created at the start of the global pandemic, Leading Managers leverages live virtual sessions and a comprehensive and real-life business simulation to immerse leaders in the complex decision-making geometry common in global companies. The program brings leaders out of their business stovepipes to a cross-functional, cross-regional, cross-cultural cohort focused on how small decisions have large impacts on the greater business success. The program provides rapidly applicable skills and a global context raising mid-level leader thinking to the strategic level. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd | LEAP – Top Talent Leadership Development Program for Corporate Functions in India | Gold | 2023 | The Corporate Functions in Accenture India launched the inaugural edition of LEAP in 2022, a leadership development program for 150 mid-management high potential employees. LEAP involved high degree of customization and design work to ensure greater relevance and top-quality experience for the participants. LEAP was first of its kind program in Corporate Functions in Accenture and one of the largest in India. It’s primary objective was to give its top talent the exposure to a novel & high-quality experience and accelerate their holistic development, which it did for most participants.It also intended to set the foundation for future such development programs and give leadership the confidence in such programs, which it successfully did as all the flagship programs are being conducted in the current fiscal too! |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Capgemini and SweetRush | Elevate | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Capgemini and SweetRush, is “Elevate.” Elevate is an exclusive, personalized, and social leadership development journey for Capgemini’s highly valued, accomplished account executives (AEs) to level up their leadership skills and business acumen. Capturing mindshare from these busy leaders was a challenge ingeniously solved by the Capgemini-SweetRush team: AEs apply the learning to their own client challenges. Elevate builds in time for the social experiences AEs value most: learning from respected experts and exchanging “war stories.” Elevate has two tracks to accommodate AEs’ range of experience and skills: For junior-level AEs, a seven-week hybrid sprint focused on a single leadership core competency, and for senior level AEs, a 2.5-day, in-person summit with Capgemini board members and other industry luminaries. Supported by an enterprise-wide effort to transform the AE role and strong executive support, Elevate provides impactful skilling content that helps learners level up their leadership skills. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | CAA Club Group of Companies and The Roundtable | CAA Club Group of Companies | Gold | 2023 | In 2011, CAA Club Group of Companies (CCG) was seeking a leadership development program that would combine easy-to-use tools and strategies, and adult-learning techniques, allowing leaders to apply their learnings in their busy workdays. The HR team opted for The Roundtable’s “Roundtable for Leaders” program to help build competencies and embed a coaching culture within the organization. Rooted in the neuroscience of adult learning, this evidence-based, award-winning program leverages an integrated approach that starts with organizational strategy. The unique combination of both an individual and collective journey profoundly deepens participant self-awareness and insights in a powerful group setting where leaders hold each other accountable. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Tata Consulting Engineers Ltd and ProventusHR Pvt Ltd | TCE LEAP Capability Development Journey | Gold | 2023 | Established in 1962, Tata Consulting Engineers Limited (TCE) offers its customers invaluable expertise - a by-product of more than five decades of premier service as an integrated engineering service provider. To date, we have completed more than 10,000 assignments in over 64 countries, some of which are a first of their kind. We launched a specially crafted journey, Leadership Excellence through Awareness and Practice (LEAP), for mid-senior executive leaders in partnership with ProventusHR. TCE-LEAP is a flagship leadership capability intervention and has been designed and rolled out since 2021. The LEAP program provides an enriching experience of new ideas, fresh perspective, and inspiring stories from leading experts focusing on a wide range of strategic leadership competencies. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Aydem Energy | Leadership Development Program (LED) | Gold | 2023 | Aydem Energy Leadership Development Program (LED) is designed to enhance the leadership skills and competencies of its employees across different levels of the organization, from team leaders to directors and general managers. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Shell and HemsleyFraser | LEAD for Team Leaders | Gold | 2023 | To support Shell’s ambitious Powering Progress strategy in a newly reorganized org structure, this program – LEAD for Team Leaders – is a 12-15-week learning journey that helps develop the mindsets and behaviors needed to lead in this challenging context. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Nordea and Infopro Learning | Licence to Lead training program | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Infopro Learning, is called "Licence to Lead training program." Re-establishing Licence to Lead (L2L), Nordea’s groupwide, fully online new leader onboarding program, introduces first-time and newly hired People Leaders at Nordea to their roles and responsibilities. In this project, Infopro Learning created the following components for Nordea: 1) Expository videos 2) Interactive pdfs 3) Updated SharePoint, where the training modalities were hosted |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | PNC Financial Services Group and Infopro Learning | PNC Evolve First-Time Manager Development Program | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Infopro Learning, is called "PNC Evolve First-Time Manager Development Program." Evolve is a development program for first-time people managers within the Corporate and Institutional Banking (C&IB) and Asset Management Groups (AMG) at PNC. It includes four half-day virtual workshops, peer networking, and a resource site designed to provide self-paced development activities and tools to use before, during, and after participation in the program. During the live workshops, SMEs partner with some of PNC’s exemplary senior leaders who candidly share their best practices, challenges, and lessons learned as managers. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Warner Music Group and Outside Consulting Limited | Top Line Leadership Program | Gold | 2023 | ‘Top Line’ is Warner Music Group’s flagship leadership initiative. It is a leadership development program that focuses on accelerating the personal growth of identified high potential leadership talent across the business by equipping leaders with the mindsets, skills, and tools they need to lead the future. It is the only internal program within WMG with the explicit goal of establishing a global community of leaders who have the connections necessary to drive innovation, change and culture across its complex and diverse organization. This entry focuses on Top Line 2022. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Catalent Pharma Solutions and BTS | GENERAL MANAGERS' EXCELLENCE PROGRAM | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Catalent Pharma Solutions and BTS, is called "The GM Excellence Program." The GM Excellence is a 12-month global leadership program that prepares current and future general managers (readiness less than two-years) along with recently hired GMs on how to lead effectively in a changing world. General Managers' take part in an Assessment followed by four or more coaching sessions offered by a BTS coach. Each development session is customized by BTS according to Catalent leadership competencies and the needs gathered after we receive the results from the assessments. All GM's are invited to participate in two face-to-face seminars, plus virtual sessions that teach on topics that seem to be knowledge gaps for our General Managers. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Intel and Handcrafted Learning | Handcrafting an accelerated practice-based manager skill development program | Gold | 2023 | In 2021, Intel was experiencing unprecedented competition and set an ambitious goal to create a scalable first-time manager development program that upskilled new managers through real-world practice. Handcrafted Learning partnered with Intel to rapidly and iteratively design, develop, and deploy a data-driven program that measurably changed behavior. The program includes six facilitated cohort sessions that provide structure, coaching, and supportive community for new managers who then apply new skills with their real-world teams. Immersive eLearning simulations create a safe-to-fail practice environment for managers to strengthen key behaviors in between conversations with peers. By the end of 2022, 1,600 managers had experienced the hands-on skill-development program, and due to the exceptionally high net promoter scores (100%) and robust data on improved manager behaviors (statistically significant increases in all 16 behaviors), Intel’s CHRO chose to make Manager Essentials a requirement for new managers even as other required training was being cut. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | PASHA Holding and BTS Group AB | Leading Lights Program | Gold | 2023 | The program was designed & developed as a combination of two practices – succession planning and leadership development – to manage the talent roster across the PASHA Group companies. Following an assessment center exercise at PASHA Holding, a group of High potentials and Successors have been identified and there is the need to work on a development center for them focusing on critical leadership skills & capabilities, strategic thinking and business acumen and develop aligned leadership style across the group companies leadership. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | PepsiCo, Inc | Global Delivery of PepsiCo’s Core Leadership Development Programs | Gold | 2023 | In response to COVID in 2021, the Global learning COE redesigned the portfolio of learning programs to be delivered in a fully virtual format. This shift in design provided an opportunity to centralize the delivery of core leadership and management programs around the world and democratize access to social, interactive and instructor-led training to managers and employees. Since inception, there have been 30,000 registrations for different programs. The global delivery model has allowed the learning team to expand their reach, provide high quality, consistent learning experiences to leaders at all levels and connect associates around the world. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Rio Tinto | RTIO Leadership Academy | Gold | 2023 | Rio Tinto has created the Leadership Academy to invest in frontline teams creating talent pathways from within. This demonstrates trust in people, recognising the potential of a talented and skilled workforce and investing in the future of people and the business. The Emerging Leader program is designed to provide a supportive framework and practical workplace challenges to develop potential talent to strengthen Rio Tinto’s workforce capability. Before taking a leadership role the journey begins creating pathways into a Supervisor role where the program then flows into a comprehensive Supervisor development pathway. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Kirkland & Ellis, LLP and Socratic Arts | Leadership & Management Training Curriculum for Remote & On-Site Global Law Firm Associates | Gold | 2023 | The Leadership & Management Training (LMT) is a re-envisioned curriculum developed to help 1st through 6th year associate attorneys excel as leaders at Kirkland & Ellis. The suite of 11 programs (a mix of nine vILT and two digital offerings) is targeted to associates across tenure levels to provide them with the skills, leading behaviors, and traits they need to succeed, when they need them most. The programs were intentionally designed to meet the needs of a distributed, global population of learners with a mix of remote and on-site participants and to support what once was a localized apprenticeship model of attorney development. The program elevates traditional forms of "sage on the stage" to a dynamic learn by doing approach. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Orange Business Services and CHRYSALIS | ASPIRE | Gold | 2023 | ASPIRE at Orange Business SERVICES (“OBS”) is an intervention that aims to prepare First Time Managers at OBS. The target universe were Frontline Technical People, Individual Contributors and Project Managers at OBS (80 in number) across various locations and the competencies that we were looking at improving were the People Management, Growth Mindset, Accountability and Ownership, Stakeholder Management, Critical Thinking and Decision Making, Conflict Resolution and Collaboration. The program was a blended experiential journey that involved managers of participants and senior leaders |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | AECOM | CEO Circle: Building a legacy of leadership at AECOM | Gold | 2023 | At AECOM we believe in Leadership at all Levels. AECOM has made an investment to create a legacy of leadership through the program CEO Circle. CEO Circle is the first global leadership program aligned to AECOM's strategic pillar, Invest in Our People. The program focuses on building leadership capability that aligns with the vision for the future of AECOM. CEO Circle focuses the learner on a journey from lead self through vision to lead others to advance our people and our business and lead the organization through change, towards opportunity and to achieve our purpose, Deliver a Better World. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Bharti AXA Life and Enparadigm Performance Solutions | Excellence in Developing Leaders of Tomorrow – Life Insurance Industry | Gold | 2023 | A learning journey created for grooming high potential employees at the corporate division of a leading life insurance company, to prepare them in taking up the mantle of leadership in the future. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Bharti Airtel Ltd. | Airtel Leadership Academy | Gold | 2023 | Airtel Leadership Academy grooms Airtel’s top talent to accelerate their leadership journey through a specially crafted, high-impact development journey spanning 10 months. The design includes a powerful Journey launch through a Leadership Bootcamp and a strong self-discovery process which helps the participants create their Customized Development Plans. The journey leverages multiple learning methodologies based on the 70:20:10 model (3E framework) of development & includes interventions such as Management Development Program, Classroom interventions, mentoring connects, immersions, business critical projects, etc. The success of the program is measured through the number of Step-ups undertaken by participants to larger roles. The programs have witnessed high aspirational value and built a strong succession pipeline for Airtel. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Axos Financial | Axos Best Advance in Leadership Development - Management Essentials Training 2.0 | Gold | 2023 | Management Essentials Training 2.0 (MET 2.0) is a flipped-learning, 8-week leadership development program for Axos managers. The program focuses on providing Axos managers with a standardized set of leadership competencies, skills and processes designed to improve employee retention, engagement, and performance. This program is a replacement for the previous 1.0 version and includes significant overhaul in content, delivery, evaluation, and resources. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | CEMEX | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Gold | 2023 | IGNITE is a Cemex leadership development program aimed at top company executives. It has the purpose of developing future-proof leaders by pushing the boundaries of their leadership capabilities. The program’s core aspects consist of content anchored in Cemex’s strategy and current context, immersive learning experiences, project-based innovation, and leaders developing other leaders. This approach aids executives develop their skills and mindset for their future roles in an evolving environment while navigating new ways of working in an increasingly complex world. The result? A four-month program made up of three online sprints plus an in-person residential, where program participants engage in live sessions, immersions, wellness challenges, mentor guidance and social activities. Since the first edition of IGNITE launched in 2018, alumni have landed promotions and have seen their projects sponsored and presented to the Global Business Council for further development and implementation. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Deloitte | G-Force Accelerated Development Program | Gold | 2023 | G-Force (Global Force) is a leadership development program created to address the need for more Deloitte LLP (“Deloitte”) Global people leaders who could effectively lead purpose-driven agile teams and help clients with solve real business challenges. The program provides a comprehensive learning experience that includes education, exposure, and hands-on experience. Its primary goal is to prepare high-potential assistant managers for leadership roles and global responsibilities within the organization. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Boehringer Ingelheim and Center for Creative Leadership | Acceleration: Americas Program for High Potentials | Gold | 2023 | The Acceleration Program aids the development of high potentials by strengthening their leadership skills in alignment with BI’s Global Leadership Competencies model. It uses learning-by-doing simulations and real-world business projects to deepen participants’ development. In the last few years it has also added significant content on diversity and inclusion (D&I) as well as sustainability to address the changing demands leaders face. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | DexKo Global and Dion Leadership | DexKo's NEXT Program | Gold | 2023 | The DexKo NEXT Program is a custom leadership development program for current and emerging senior managers created to identify and develop leadership potential across the organization and to maintain a growing pipeline of internal leadership talent. The program began in 2019 and is offered to a variety of salaried management roles including corporate and plant managers. There are 131 leaders who have completed the program to date. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Arriva plc and Limitless Leadership Limited | Best Advance in Leadership Development - The Emerging Leader Program | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Arriva Plc and Limitless Leadership Limited is called "The Emerging Leader Program." It is a 9-month blended learning journey aimed at mid-level leaders identified as talent, who have an appetite to progress and to take their leadership skills to the next level, from tactical to strategic. The content is a mix of face-to-face and virtual workshops which are supported by experienced facilitators, peer coaching groups, line managers, and senior leaders. The program was designed to support Arriva in its strategy to be the leading passenger transport partner across Europe by providing consistent leadership development of its high-potential leaders. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | TD Bank | TD North American Customer Operations Centralized Targeted Coaching | Gold | 2023 | The entry, submitted by TD Bank North American Customer Operations is called " TD North American Customer Operations Centralized Targeted Coaching". The Centralized Targeted Coaching Team (CTC) was established in March of 2022. Focused on continuing to enhance North American Customer Operations' (NACO) coaching culture through capability development program delivery, this internal team of certified Colleague and Leadership coaches administer targeted coaching support and intervention in alignment with key business priorities and performance opportunities. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Accenture | ASCEND Leadership Development Experience | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Accenture Southeast Asia is on ASCEND Leadership Development Experience. ASCEND was created to help managers in Accenture experience first-hand the leadership values and culture that they are expected to champion and deliver to their teams. The program is focused on building leaders who advocate and care for their people’s careers and wellbeing, inspire and connect meaningfully with their teams, and show respect for personal boundaries and work-life balance. ASCEND consists of a two-day core training accompanied by quarterly community learning sessions and voluntary small group coaching experiences. The program features a two-day intensive core session followed by quarterly learning sessions for alumni. ASCEND was created to address high manager turnover and has contributed greatly in this by bringing it down from 21% to 13% within one year. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | WeLearn Learning Services and DX Learning | Building Leaders to Make the World Safer Healthier and More Productive with effective leadership development. | Gold | 2023 | When you are focused on making the world safer, healthier, and more productive – sometimes you must look inward. This is application is about the Madison Indoor Air Qualities GM Acceleration Program and building a group of general managers who could both carry the aspired culture to their teams and be ready to step up to President when called upon. This application focused on how the GM Acceleration Program as designed and launched and the lessons learned along the way. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Accenture Solutions Private Limited | Solution Architects Talent Enhancement | Gold | 2023 | The Solution Architects Talent Enhancement program has been designed with the objective of nurturing the leadership capabilities of Technology Solution Architects at Accenture’s Advanced Technology Centers in India (ATCI). The program focuses on enhancing their expertise in solution development and equipping them with the necessary skills to secure client deals effectively. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | BAE Systems and Hemsley Fraser | Managing People and Leading the Future | Gold | 2023 | Security, aerospace and defense expert, BAE is on an ambitious journey to evolve, push the boundaries of its capabilities, and continually grow customer value. In support of this, it needed to develop a leadership development program that would enhance the capabilities of leaders, ensuring they’re agile, adaptable, and ready for any future challenges. Working with L&D experts Hemsley Fraser, BAE designed a compelling new leadership development program, at two levels: 1. Managing People: for leaders with <3 years’ experience. 2. Leading the Future: 4+ years’ experience in a senior leadership role. Delivered in defined cohorts over a six-month period, this was about creating new, consistent leadership habits based on insights gained from this highly interactive, hybrid learning experience. This hugely successful undertaking has been well-received by learners, who are demonstrably improving their skills, contributing to broader team success, which in-turn is positively reflected by BAE’s long-term growth. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | IMD - International Institute for Management Development and NovoED | IMD & NovoEd: SPRINTS – Learning with Impact, Scale, and Speed | Gold | 2023 | IMD has always been centered on creating impact and pushing boundaries: The need to develop and partner with the best to offer the most impactful learning experiences to its clients and community is an ongoing must-have. Therefore, it was natural for IMD to aim to constantly improve platforms and tools, as well. IMD partnered with cohort-based learning platform NovoEd to help deliver its new online learning initiatives through social and collaborative methods that engage learners and help prepare them to lead a rapidly changing workforce. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Anheuser Busch InBev and Accenture | Leadership Development at ABI | Gold | 2023 | AB InBev adopted a Pyramid Model of Learning for Leadership Capability Development that comprises three components that focus on helping leaders develop their unique leadership capabilities. The program comprises learning assets in different modalities that empower leaders to own their leadership learning journey. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Lidl Bulgaria EOOD and CO KD | Best Advance in Leadership Development: Excellence in Sales | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Lidl Bulgaria EOOD and CO KD, is called Best Advance in Leadership Development: Excellence in Sales. The leadership program targets Regional managers in Sales department. It was designed to impact the business’s results and needs, creating a new skillset for their strategic role. The measuring the success of the program is based on Kirckpatrick’s methodology and balances both quantitative and qualitative operations data. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Home Team Academy | Leadership Development for the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), Singapore | Gold | 2023 | The HTA is one of the 10 agencies under the MHA, also known as the Home Team (HT). HTA as the Corporate University (CU) for the MHA has a crucial role and primary responsibility to develop and implement quality leadership development strategies to enhance Home Team leaders’ capabilities and skillsets in driving organisational transformation effectively for continued mission success in keeping Singapore safe and secure. HTA is also working towards being a Centre of Excellence (CoE) in ‘Leadership Development in Public Safety and Security’ at the Whole-of-Government (WOG) and international levels by 2025, to take the lead and strategically drive and synergise a network of established institutions and strategic partners with expertise resources and knowledge to propel HT leadership development and enhance WOG leadership in crisis management. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Otter Tail Corporation and MDA Leadership Consulting | Leading the Enterprise | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Otter Tail Corporation and MDA Leadership Consulting, is called "Leading the Enterprise” (LTE). LTE is a best-in-class, action learning-based leadership development experience designed to provide powerful insights and growth opportunities for high potential professionals, meaningful connections and relationships among its participants, to deliver real, measurable impact to the business through the solutions its project teams generate. Creation of this program was driven by the need to reimagine leadership development at senior levels post-pandemic in a way that engaged leaders while simultaneously providing powerful insights into the talent pool for succession planning purposes. The program was delivered both in person and virtually and is a cornerstone of high potential leadership development at Otter Tail Corporation. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Moonpig Group plc and The Oxford Group | Brave Conversations | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Moonpig Group plc and The Oxford Group, is called "Brave Conversations". For too long, too many topics that should be discussed were avoided at Moonpig, since everyone at the organization, and at its sister company newly assimilated in the culture, was just too ‘nice’. The broad undercurrent of feelings was that staff and managers believed difficult topics were, by definition, negative, aggressive, and best avoided. This program changed perceptions by demonstrating the beneficial business and personal outcomes to be gained all round, once people are empowered to be a little braver. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Legrand North and Central America and AXIOM Learning Solutions | Legrand LEAP: Leaders Engaged in Accelerating Performance | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Legrand North and Central America with learning services partner AXIOM Learning Solutions, is for the Legrand LEAP (Leaders Engaged in Accelerating Performance) program. LEAP is Legrand’s training workshop for new supervisors and managers, and it is designed to provide newer or first-time leaders with knowledge and skill to help them perform in their new role as a leader. By focusing on increased self-awareness and applied learning, LEAP participants will develop their management aptitude by creating a personal development plan, fostering the development of others, building employee trust, and shaping the culture of leadership at Legrand. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Kordsa Teknik Tekstil A.Ş. | Skill & Perspective Calibration for Leaders | Silver | 2023 | “Skill & Perspective Calibration for Leaders” is designed to cultivate and nurture diverse leadership styles that can adapt to a rapidly changing world. The program includes modules on inclusive and boundary-spanning leadership, embracing Kordsa's values, impactful leadership, and resilience. Kordsa collaborates with distinguished training vendors worldwide to ensure that participants receive a comprehensive and globally relevant leadership education. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Sonepar and MindSpring | Sonepar Macro 1 & 2 eLearning Initiative | Silver | 2023 | The iManage Program is an eLearning development program designed for new Sonepar managers, covering 21 modules across five macro topics. The program aims to increase engagement scores, decrease time to competency, and reduce the turnover rates of both managers and team members. After completing the program, participants should be able to demonstrate an understanding of people management processes, perform HR-related responsibilities, and communicate performance goals effectively. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | UST | Servant Leadership – UST’s leadership philosophy | Silver | 2023 | UST is showcasing it's leadership development program based on the Servant Leadership Philosophy. There are multiple Servant Leadership programs for different leadership roles within UST to develop Servant Leaders across the organization. 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. UST has launched a new version of the Servant Leadership program using a new framework and new concepts to help achieve UST’s organizational goal of becoming an employer of choice. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Innova | Lead Future | Silver | 2023 | Lead Future Program is designed to identify and develop high-potential employees who have the potential to become future leaders of the company. The program is tailored to meet the specific needs of the company and is designed to align with its organizational objectives. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Coca Cola Consolidated, Inc | Coca-Cola Consolidated Accelerated Leadership Development: Empowering the Next Generation of Diverse Servant Leaders | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Coca-Cola Consolidated Inc, demonstrates the success of a solution created to address the need for succession planning and increased ready-now leaders for internal mobility. Talent Development partnered with Executive Leaders to identify talent gaps and analyze the needs of the organization. The outcome was the creation of three specific programs to accelerate the leadership development of high potential employees across four levels of leadership. Each program was designed based on the Coca-Cola Consolidated leadership competency model to prepare leaders for the next level of leadership with skillsets critical for success in the future. Program design focused heavily on experiential learning through a 70/20/10 model and included applied learning projects, mentorship, 360 coaching, and community service. These programs resulted in 32% - 52% promotion rates and 92.5% - 100% retention of high potential teammates across all three programs. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Money Management Institute and University of Virginia Darden School Foundation | Executive IQ by Money Management Institute | Silver | 2023 | This entry is jointly submitted by Money Management Institute (MMI) and UVA Darden Executive Education. Executive IQ is a leadership and innovation accelerator program designed for the mid-career professional. It's a 12-month upskilling program to address the transformation going on in the financial services industry tied with the leadership essentials to bring it to life within the participant’s organization. Delivered by three leading institutions - UVA Darden School of Business, Microsoft and PwC - Executive IQ seeks to deliver highly purposed leaders who can lead innovation and disruption. The program was designed for executives from multiple financial services firms represented within the MMI membership. Executive IQ consists of approximately 100 hours of learning time (12.5 days) through multiple formats including case studies, individual and team projects, synchronous and asynchronous modes as well as individual coaching and assessments. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Daimler India Commercial Vehicles Pvt Ltd | DICV Leadership Journey | Silver | 2023 | This entry is submitted by Daimler India Commercial Vehicles Pvt Ltd (DICV), is called DICV Leadership Journey. This Journey is about an experience in Leading Self, Leading others & Leading business. This program was designed to enable the participants to maximize their efficiency and effectiveness to achieve the organizations goals. This Program was envisaged to be able to develop the participants to live up to the organization goals and to depict the global leadership behaviors i.e. Great Leadership Behaviors (GLB). Also, the focus is to identify and work on “the WHAT” & “the HOW” – aka the priorities that will help to enhance the collaboration and engagement between the participants and their manager & team, to drive the individual and group commitments for Leadership Development in DICV |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | arabam.com | arabam.com – LİFT 2022 Leadership Development Academy | Silver | 2023 | This leadership development academy is a structured program, in line with the company culture, designed to train and develop managers and manager candidates with the skills and competencies needed to effectively lead and manage teams in a variety of organizational settings. The program typically includes a combination of classroom training (3 modules: a. Leading Yourself & Your Relationships b. Leading Your Teams c. Leading Your Business & Change), on-the-job experience, mentoring, and coaching (1-1 & team coaching) to enhance leadership skills and prepare participants for increasing levels of responsibility within the organization. Also, managers and manager candidates were expected to help developing the company culture by transferring the knowledge and experience they gained in the programs to their teams with several structured workshops. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Hepsiburada | Hepsiburada Leadership Academy | Silver | 2023 | From Awareness to Action: An Academy Incorporating ROE and Ethnographic Studies for Business Impact, with a Focus on Assessment Tools, Peer and Group Coaching Activities to Enhance Learning and Development. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Deloitte LLP | Growth Academy | Silver | 2023 | Growth Academy provides a structured learning process to enable a mindset and culture of cross-business collaboration. The participants learn through the experience of eminent speakers (academia and entrepreneurs) and get an outside-in perspective along with collaborating across functions in cohorts as they work on problem statements using Design Thinking principles. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Anglo American | Best Advance in Leadership Development - The Anglo American Leadership Hub | Silver | 2023 | The Leadership Hub is an innovative online leadership development tool for everyone at every level across Anglo American. It supports the development of employees' leadership skills, creating more effective leaders for the business. The Leadership Hub combines carefully curated content and resources to help everyone develop, finesse, and evolve their leadership skills and behaviours, together with a platform designed to help the most time-pressed learn anytime, anywhere, in the learning style that suits them. Handpicked content, that's been developed exclusively for Anglo American, forms the heart of the Leadership Hub. Leadership Attributes contains expert content curated around ten leadership attributes Anglo American have identified for successful leadership in the organization. Management Fundamentals supports new line managers, providing learning resources focused on the ten essential attributes, core leadership skills and behaviours, coaching, and leading with impact skills. The Leadership Hub makes leadership learning accessible, digestible, and fun! |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Petrol Ofisi | Petrol Ofisi Leadership Journey | Silver | 2023 | Leaders have been working in a high-risk environment for the past two years: looking for solid footholds as they tackle a devastating and unpredictable pandemic. They are struggling to recruit and respond to employee demands for greater flexibility in the workplace, amid the highest rate of talent shortages in the past 15 years. In this case, our managers are expected to use leadership and coaching hats together with management. In short, the juggler leader is expected. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | PT Bank Central Asia Tbk | Developing Future Leader : Bank Central Asia Leader Acceleration Program (LAP) | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submited by PT Bank Central Asia Tbk, is called "Leadership Acceleration Program" (LAP). LAP is a program to accelerate top talents’ capabilities to suit leadership roles, to ensure effective and successful leader regeneration. BCA believes that the LAP would tie into organizational vision and mission by ensuring that its participants' skill development aligned with the organization's goals. With this program BCA will equips the young leader with necessary skills for the executive roles that are 2-levels higher than their current position. The program adopts a multi-faceted approach that includes pre-assessment activities, enrichment programs, classroom instruction, as well as mentoring, coaching, and knowledge sharing sessions - with senior leaders and Human Capital - designed to groom potential leaders until they are fully prepared for their new role. Participant will receive training that equips them to examine projects outside their area of expertise. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | McDonald's Corporation and The PeopleSide | Elevate Leadership Program: Best Advance in Leadership Development | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by McDonald’s Corporation and The PeopleSide, is called the "Elevate Leadership Program." It is a multi-month program for McDonald’s high-potential Directors and Senior Directors who have been identified as future enterprise leaders of the organization. The program challenges participants to explore and develop the ways they think and lead to meet current and future challenges and opportunities to accelerate the achievement of McDonald’s strategic goals. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Capgemini and GP Strategiess | Future Leaders | Silver | 2023 | Capgemini’s Future Leaders program is an elite talent acceleration opportunity aimed at high performers in junior leadership roles in the UK with aspirations to become senior leaders. Focused on creating interesting and valuable development and networking opportunities, this impressive program is primarily used to identify and advance the most promising and emerging talent they have. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Cognizant | Leadership Development Program for Delivery Units | Silver | 2023 | The aim of the Leadership Development Program for Delivery Units is to supercharge the talent in the global market delivery units by creating a portfolio of leadership development programs to support critical Delivery roles like Engagement Delivery Partners (EDPs) and Engagement Portfolio Leads (EDPLs). These are multi-phased, multi-touch point programs, aimed at improving capability of Delivery Leads in the global market delivery units to embrace digital leadership mindsets, drive innovation and cost of delivery and elevate the Cognizant brand with the clients. It follows a structured, business centric and learner focused approach and the program exit criteria tied closely to realization of ROI. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Capgemini | Capgemini Leadership Vision | Silver | 2023 | The Capgemini Leadership Vision was developed to democratize leadership across the entire business, enabling everyone at Capgemini to play their role and to make an impact based on key principles: Leadership starts with everyone, not only formal leaders; meaning that all employees in Capgemini are leaders, irrespective of grade or role, and are invited, encouraged, and reinforced to contribute by living and role modelling the Leadership Vision in their daily interactions and activities. In essence the Leadership Vision constitutes a growth opportunity for all employees, enabling Capgemini to become a “leader for leaders.” As an aspirational model, it was recognized that there was no expectation that everyone would be a perfect match with every dimension of the Leadership Vision. If anything, it was more about collective leadership in terms of embracing and accepting the differences between leaders as much as needing to successfully navigate the opportunities and challenges together. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | IQVIA and NIIT | New Manager Acceleration program – Stepping into Leadership | Silver | 2023 | The New Manager Acceleration program is an eight-week program designed to develop skills and competencies to transit from the role of an Individual Contributor to a first-time Line Manager. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Eksim Holding | EksimLEAD Leadership Development Program | Silver | 2023 | This application describes in details the Leadership Development process deployed in Türkiye to support the transformation process in Eksim Holding. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Vena Solutions Inc. | Vena Solutions Inc. - The Leadership Experience | Silver | 2023 | This entry submitted by Vena Solutions demonstrates how the organization provides leaders with the tools and support they need to cultivate an environment of continuous learning, inclusivity, and psychological safety. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development | Staples and Entelechy | We Win together at Staples with iLead People Essentials | Silver | 2023 | In an effort to increase employee engagement and create a unified approach to leadership development across the organization, Staples partnered with Entelechy to design and develop iLead People Essentials for new and established people managers. Encompassing foundational leadership skills and performance management techniques with a focus on emotional intelligence, company values, and inclusivity, iLead People Essentials has made a phenomenal impact on individual leaders and the organization as a whole. Now, employees are more engaged, more collaborative, more productive, and more inclusive, and Staples has a comprehensive approach to developing leaders at every step of their career. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development Competency Models | Bridgestone Retail Operations (BSRO) and Judge Learning Solutions | Core Leadership Competencies | Bronze | 2023 | Bridgestone Retail Operations required an updated leadership competency model to help grow their employees into future leaders. Seven different roles were identified as high potential roles for internal promotions. These roles were analyzed by a third-party vendor to help determine the skills and competencies required to be successful in the role, along with documented curriculum roadmaps to help them get there. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development Competency Models | Sahibinden | Sahibinden Empowerment and Autonomy Cultural Transformation Project | Gold | 2023 | The main goal of Sahibinden.com's Empowerment and Autonomy Cultural Transformation project is to define and develop a "empowerment and autonomy" culture with the participation of employees that will support the realization of both employees' and Sahibinden.com's potential and trigger and sustain the transformation process in this direction. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Leadership Development Competency Models | Google Cloud | Google Cloud Technical Residency - Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Google Cloud, is called "Google Cloud Technical Residency - Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development". The Google Cloud Technical Residency Program (CTR) is a developmental program aimed to upskill new graduates. CTR empowers, supports and develops the next generation of diverse leaders who will shape the future of Google Cloud by providing the confidence and competence to be successful in technical customer-facing roles. CTR provides a unique path into Google Cloud for early in career talent (0-1 years of experience) and, as an accelerated development program, residents experience dedicated Learning space through immersive training and on-the-job rotation experience to gain skills needed for next level opportunities. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Measuring the Impact of Leadership Development | ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited and Chrysalis | Manager as a Coach | Bronze | 2023 | Managers as Coaches is a blended intervention based on the principles of learn-practice-apply-measure and is customized to the needs of ICICI Lombard managers, managing teams and driving breakthrough performance in a hybrid environment. This intervention focuses on building the skills of managers to coach their teams for development and performance. The intervention and journey are well spread over various milestones and leverage customized toolkits and the existing processes of ICICI Lombard. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Measuring the Impact of Leadership Development | Otis Worldwide Corporation and BTS Group AB | Going Up! Program | Bronze | 2023 | Otis Worldwide Corporation, a developer, manufacturer, and marketer of elevators, escalators, moving walkways, and related equipment, needed to transform the existing Field Supervisor role by improving current supervisors’ financial acumen and leadership skills. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Measuring the Impact of Leadership Development | TD Bank | TD North American Customer Operations Measuring Centralized Targeted Coaching | Silver | 2023 | The entry, submitted by TD Bank North American Customer Operations is called " TD North American Customer Operations Measuring Centralized Targeted Coaching". The Centralized Targeted Coaching Team (CTC) was established in March of 2022. Focused on continuing to enhance North American Customer Operations' (NACO) coaching culture through capability development program delivery, this internal team of certified Colleague and Leadership coaches administer targeted coaching support and intervention in alignment with key business priorities and performance opportunities. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Senior Manager Development | Hexaware Technologies Limited | IGNITE 2.0 | Bronze | 2023 | The Ignite 2.0 OD program focuses on an umbrella of collective development programs curated for specific career level target groups. This program is a collection of tailored development initiatives that target specific career level groups, ranging from nascent managers to senior leaders. The program focuses on uplifting and enhancing the competencies of personnel in the organization, particularly those in client-facing and executive committee roles. To adapt to the post pandemic environment, the program was redesigned to an online virtual training methodology, using a hybrid model of training, and learning to ensure a strong link between roles and tasks. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Senior Manager Development | DexKo Global and Dion Leadership | DexKo Global NEXT Program | Bronze | 2023 | The DexKo NEXT Program is a custom leadership development program for current and emerging senior managers created to identify and develop leadership potential across the organization and to maintain a growing pipeline of internal leadership talent. The program began in 2019 and is offered to a variety of salaried management roles including corporate and plant managers. There are 131 leaders who have completed the program to date. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Senior Manager Development | ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited and Chrysalis | Manager as a Coach | Bronze | 2023 | Managers as Coaches is a blended intervention based on the principles of learn-practice-apply-measure and is customized to the needs of ICICI Lombard managers, managing teams and driving breakthrough performance in a hybrid environment. This intervention focuses on building the skills of managers to coach their teams for development and performance. The intervention and journey are well spread over various milestones and leverage customized toolkits and the existing processes of ICICI Lombard. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Senior Manager Development | Cox Enterprises | FORGE | Bronze | 2023 | This entry is called FORGE. FORGE is an enterprise wide, function specific rotational program. Over the course of 2 years, participants will receive the business acumen, breadth of perspective of the business, leadership skills, and strategic focus to be future functional leaders from their respective divisions. Participants going through 4 6-month long rotations into different departments and divisions within their function. Simultaneously, they are provided coaching, leadership skills training, communications training, and a mentorship with a member of our executive team. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Senior Manager Development | Anglo American and Center for Creative Leadership | Anglo American FutureShapers Program | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Anglo American and the Center for Creative Leadership is called the "Anglo American FutureShapers Program." FutureShapers are Anglo American's strategic leaders, with the vision and influence to execute effective strategy and catalyze change to live up to the organization's Purpose (Reimagine mining to improve people’s lives). The FutureShapers journey covers 10 months and incorporates global in-person immersions linked with focused sessions that are delivered virtually. Coaching and collaborative execution practices then provide the opportunity to apply learning in the real world. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Senior Manager Development | Lidl US, LLC | Lidl US Senior Manager Development Program | Gold | 2023 | The Lidl US Senior Manager Development Program is part of the organization’s larger Leadership Development Program. The Senior Manager Development program consists of three modules that take place over the course of three months. The program is designed with the Lidl Competency Model and focuses on developing newly hired and promoted Senior Managers. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Senior Manager Development | Accenture | Grow your Leadership - A connected learning journey to incubate future leaders | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Accenture, is called "Grow your Leadership - A connected learning journey to incubate future leaders". It is a connected learning journey with two structured sub-learning programs of Beyond and NGL to incubate future leaders. It aims to build a sustainable pool of high-performing Senior Managers, growing them through engaging experiences of being seen as at their best, collaborating with best people, and driving business innovation. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Senior Manager Development | The Estee Lauder Companies | Leadership Programs at ELC | Gold | 2023 | The leadership programs at The Estee Lauder Companies, including the People Leadership Program (PLP) and the Emerging Leaders Program (ELP) have been strategically designed, developed and deployed to support the evolution of leadership at the organization and to clearly articulate expectations for success. Eventually, a full suite of leadership offerings will be made available to develop world-class leaders at every stage of their journey, from first time managers to the most senior level executives at the company. This year's submission is the story of the evolution of the PLP after having been honored with 3 awards in 2022 for its build and strategic execution, now sharing enhancements, refinements and additions as we look back on lessons learned and gather feedback and measurable benefits from participants and graduates. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Senior Manager Development | Synovus and TrainingPros | Synovus- TrainingPros - Best Advance in Senior Manager Development - Catalyst | Silver | 2023 | The COVID-19 pandemic materialized in 2020, creating a ripple of different human capital challenges. Culture became even more difficult to codify, communicate, and preserve. Many of the front-line leaders were working under tremendously stressful customer-facing roles and struggling to manage the emotions and fears of team members. The mid and senior-level leaders quickly felt disconnected from each other and their teams because of remote work. New skills such as promoting well-being, empathy, and DE&I were in high demand and the leaders were simply not prepared to make the shift from previously engrained mindsets. The move to remote and hybrid working conditions threatened to create more barriers to the development of transformational leaders. The combination of the many challenges and transformations facing Synovus leadership became the impetus for the design, development, and implementation of the Catalyst senior leadership development program. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Senior Manager Development | Kordsa Teknik Tekstil A.Ş. | Success of Senior Leaders Program | Silver | 2023 | The program is a comprehensive initiative designed to provide senior leaders with the necessary tools, knowledge, and skills to excel in their roles and drive organizational success. Through a combination of coaching, leadership skills training, assessments, agile methodologies, graduate education, reverse mentoring, and unconscious bias training, the program aims to foster a culture of continuous learning, growth, and innovation while promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion. The program is aligned with company's strategic objectives and aims to empower leaders to lead with excellence, agility, and resilience. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Senior Manager Development | Blue Star Limited and Proventus HR Pvt Ltd | Blue Star Senior Manager Program 2022 | Silver | 2023 | Senior Manager Program 2022 is a bespoke Capability Building Intervention to enhance the competencies across Senior Managerial band and to prepare them for Leadership roles in Blue Star growth story. The genesis of this construct lies in the fact that a single or a series of disjointed interventions (however well meaning & designed), do not lead the leaders to make a significant change The program was conceived as a 8-9 month long outcome focused intervention with the following salient features: • The principle of 70:20:10 was incorporated in the program • Periodic Self-Assessment Inventories • 360º Modular Learning Approach • Facilitated Experience- Immersion and Reflection #ExperienceLearning • A strong Emphasis on RISES Action Learning (Behaviours that one will Reduce, Increase, Start, Excel, Stop) • Focus on Business specific action planning for each module • Structured group coaching on action plans, to clarify, encourage & enhance learning application |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Senior Manager Development | Equinix, Inc. and BTS USA, Inc. | Archimedes | Silver | 2023 | Archimedes prepares senior leaders for bigger scope and scale, fortifying Equinix’s leadership pipeline. The program is centered around Equinix’s five leadership behaviors: Agile, Business Savvy, Collaborative, Decisive, and Inclusive. The three-month journey design features large format in-person workshops and simulations, virtual small learning and group coaching, individual assessments, executive speakers, real-world innovation challenges, and a consistent thread of wellbeing throughout. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Senior Manager Development | Deloitte LLP | Senior Manager Milestone | Silver | 2023 | At Deloitte LL) (“Deloitte”), leadership development happens at all levels. The Senior Manager Milestone program is Deloitte’s flagship program designed as a leadership development experience for new senior managers. The Senior Manager Milestone program echoes Deloitte’s culture to congratulate and onboard the new senior managers. This flagship program is designed and created as a 1-year leadership learning experience for the senior managers with the goal to help make them confident, connected, energized, and inspired by the end of their first year in the new role. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Senior Manager Development | Cognizant | Empowerment Accelerator | Silver | 2023 | The Empowerment Accelerator program was developed to empower participants to make timely and appropriate decisions, build collaborative relationships, navigate ambiguity and progress towards solutions confidently, thereby enabling them to deliver quality outcomes for the client. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Senior Manager Development | Schindler Management Ltd. And Headspring Executive Development | Leadership Accelerator, a 9-months virtual learning journey for senior managers: EMBA knowledge nuggets as corporate action learning program | Silver | 2023 | Leadership Accelerator, a 9-month modular, virtual classroom journey that delivers business school leadership content in a customized, interactive action & experiential learning modality was built to address development needs of a business-critical senior management function in Schindler. The branch managers, mostly with an engineering or finance background receive directly applicable input from high-caliber Business School faculty who are very close to the real world and inspire participants. The richness of engaging methods brings learning to life, and focuses on active cross-silo collaboration, conscious reflection, ecosystem thinking and experimentation. Feedback from approximately 100 completed branch managers praise strong personal growth, improved skills, change agility, which will drive business growth and team performance. Branch Managers broadened their horizon and can better influence, create alliances and collaborate with diverse stakeholders and opposing perspectives. Their shared learning experience boosts corporate culture following the personal community experience outside their immediate sphere of influence. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Talent Mobility | Atlantic Union Bank | EMerge: Enterprise-Wide Teammate Development Program | Bronze | 2023 | EMerge is an enterprise program created to engage and retain high potential talent by focusing on self-development and career exploration by giving participants opportunities to: Improve public speaking, interact with senior leaders in the bank, create a compelling personal brand, gain insights through assessments, and broaden their exposure to other Lines of Business thus increasing their internal talent mobility. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Talent Mobility | Prudential | Talent Marketplace: The Next Generation Talent Tool | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Prudential, is called "Talent Marketplace: The Next Generation Talent Tool." Talent Marketplace empowers employees to take charge of their career by creating a space where they will find everything, they need to develop their skills, power their learning and discover their next opportunity. Talent Marketplace supports and encourages a culture of career mobility and further delivers on our people commitments to advance racial equity and inclusion through our talent practices. This next generation tool and forum provides every employee with open access and equal opportunity to career development, learning and job opportunities. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Talent Mobility | UBS AG | GWM Talent Mobility Key Talent Program 2021/2022 | Gold | 2023 | The GWM Leadership Successor Key Talent Program was a flagship event, developing executive leaders into new leadership roles. Being high potentials and on at least 2 different succession plans, 52 leaders were eager to get developed and accelerate their careers. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Advance in Talent Mobility | Rio Tinto | RTIO Leadership Academy | Silver | 2023 | Rio Tinto has created the Leadership Academy to invest in frontline teams creating talent pathways from within. This demonstrates trust in people, recognising the potential of a talented and skilled workforce and investing in the future of people and the business. The Emerging Leader program is designed to provide a supportive framework and practical workplace challenges to develop potential talent to strengthen Rio Tinto’s workforce capability. Before taking a leadership role the journey begins creating pathways into a Supervisor role where the program then flows into a comprehensive Supervisor development pathway |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | Bayer and SweetRush | Enhanced Approach to Potential Identification (EAPI) Leadership Toolkit | Bronze | 2023 | This entry, “Enhanced Approach to Potential Identification (EAPI),” is submitted by Bayer and SweetRush. Blending the latest talent management thought leadership with tried-and-tested industry best practices, EAPI is a process and methodology that enables frontline leaders to identify the employee potential accurately and consistently. Fully integrated with Bayer’s talent management strategy, EAPI is helping Bayer prepare for tomorrow’s workplace with a strategy that feeds into the company’s succession planning and talent review processes. A comprehensive toolkit, developed with SweetRush, ensures the methodology is applied consistently by frontline leaders across the organization. This holistic talent management program has met all its goals to date: leaders complete potential identification consistently, results are accurate and reliable, and the program is fully integrated within Bayer’s talent management tools, processes, and approaches. Bayer’s leaders now have the capabilities and methodology to drive the company’s success by identifying the people who can take on bigger responsibilities! |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | Optum Global Solutions | Provider Operations Supervisory Program - a Manager Domain Excellence Effort | Bronze | 2023 | The Provider Data Operations leadership along with Learning Solutions Team conceptualized the “Provider Supervisory Program” – a 360 degree development program with three pillars of focus; Domain Knowledge, Operational know-how & Culture, to empower an FLM with all the knowledge and skills needed to excel in their role. The program is based on the learning philosophies of Cognitivism and Constructivism enriched with social learning to aim at improving Manager Effectiveness Score and Overall Net Promoter Score. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | Chubb and NIIT | New Manager & Experienced Manager programs | Bronze | 2023 | Chubb aims to empower, facilitate and celebrate leadership success. The company ensures that employees at all levels can hone existing skills and develop new ones, whether they are part of the executive leadership team, mid and senior-level managers, individual contributors, or new hires and those early in their careers. There is therefore a strategic focus on delivering leadership training. This has enabled Chubb to create and rollout many new programs including one for new managers and frontline leaders with 0-2 years of leadership experience called the ‘New Manager Program’. The purpose of the program is to help the new managers transition from their role of an individual contributor to a people manager through a continuous learning experience. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | ADP, Inc. | ADP Sales Frontline Leader Development Program | Bronze | 2023 | How ADP’s Sales Leader Development Program enhanced its Sales Leader Development Program (SLDP) specifically building out a Frontline Leader Continuum (FLLC) that provides sales leaders with the right support and development at the appropriate time in their career. This ongoing development continuum has had a positive impact on sales leaders. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | UL Solutions | Transition and Strengthen Learning Journeys | Bronze | 2023 | UL Solutions discovered a gap in opportunities available for frontline leaders, specifically for those in leadership positions for more than a year. UL Solutions created two new development programs that addressed the gap in developing frontline leaders who have historically been disengaged at UL Solutions. The Transition Learning Journey focused on new managers, and the Strengthen Learning Journey focused on developing experienced managers. Aligned with the new corporate strategy, these programs upskilled managers while also building business and financial acumen. Demand for these programs was exceptional, with nearly 225 managers completing the pilot programs in 2022. In the first quarter of 2023, more than 900 employees registered for 2023 cohorts showcasing the need and success of these programs. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | Ness Digital Engineering | Catalysts – A Frontline Leader Capability Development Program | Bronze | 2023 | The Frontline Leader capability development program was named as Catalysts. The objectives of the Catalysts program are as below: Module 1- Managing Self and Team: 1. Build trust, improve influence quotient, and create tangible outcomes in relationships with stakeholders. 2. Motivate the team and create a roadmap for managing them effectively. 3. Expand self-awareness to become better at managing relationships, build empathy and take ownership Module 2 - Managing Business and Stakeholder: 1. Develop business strategies that align with market trends and potential. 2. Develop a learning mindset that is responsive to customer needs for long-term success. 3. Influence customers and build trust for win-win outcomes. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited and Chrysalis | Lead to Inspire | Bronze | 2023 | Lead to Inspire at ICICI Lombard is the key to understand and address the rising attrition rate and also address the adjustment issues and sales pressure at the organisation. This intervention aimed at training Managers or Team Leads with respect to employee retention and on being effective managers. The target universe was all Manager of Managers at ICICI Lombard (30 in number) and the competencies that we were looking at improving were Employee Retention, Creating Engagement, Hiring Right, Building High Trust Teams / People Management and Managing Performance. The program was a sustained learning journey that involved managers of participants as observers and mentors. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | Security Service Federal Credit Union | Security Service Federal Credit Union-SSFCU Emerging Leaders Program | Bronze | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Security Service Federal Credit Union is called "SSFCU Emerging Leaders". 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. The goals of the program are to provide interactive sessions that explore key areas focused on: • Leading Self - personal effectiveness and communication styles. • Leading Others - people management and building meaningful relationships. • Leading the Business - strategic thinking, decision making, and managing change. Participants also have access to three non-traditional experiences during the program: the Mentorship Program, the Signature Project, and Speaker Series with SSFCU senior leaders. These value-added components increase the leader's skills they develop through this unique experience. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | Addverb Technologies and Harappa Learning Pvt. Ltd | First Time Managers | Gold | 2023 | A 3 month blended learning program to enable new frontline leaders at Addverb meet the challenges of the work environment by focusing on achieving business goals, while creating an environment where everyone seeks personal effectiveness and continuous improvement. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | Inspire One and Inspire One | ZEE's Best Development Program Front line Leaders - Aspire | Gold | 2023 | ASPIRE Intervention is a research-backed, 3-month development program designed to help individual contributors transition to first-time managerial roles. It employs a blended format, combining in-person and online sessions to achieve objectives such as understanding one's role, being a new age people's manager, and driving results. The pedagogical approach incorporates various learning methods, including workshops, gamification, assignments, coaching, videos, case studies, and reading materials. Outcomes include enhanced self-understanding, improved management of diverse team members, and strengthened problem-solving and digital skills. The program includes three in-person modules, pre- and post-reads, six quizzes, four coaching sessions, four ASPIRE Unwind activities, four learning circles, two gamification modules, two application assignments, journaling, and a convocation event. The unique selling point of ASPIRE Intervention is its coaching mechanism, which involves both external coaches and supervisors, fostering a collaborative and dynamic approach to leadership development. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | PepsiCo Inc. and EI, Powered by MPS | PFNA Supply Chain Strategic Site Management Simulation | Gold | 2023 | The PFNA Supply Chain Strategic Site Management Simulation helps address the needs of designated PepsiCo Department Managers to experience several “real-world” site scenarios where they can practice their decision making and people manager skills in a safe environment. It also serves as an assessment of the learner’s understanding of DM role and responsibilities. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | Bayer and SweetRush and Third Factor | Rise & Thrive | Gold | 2023 | This entry, Rise & Thrive, is submitted by Bayer, SweetRush, and Third Factor. When the “new normal” of remote/hybrid work descended on Bayer’s frontline leaders, they needed help! New skills, behaviors, and mindset shifts were required, and L&D recognized that leadership development content also needed its own “new normal” that had to be engaging, innovative, and dynamic. Rise & Thrive is a one-of-a-kind development program for frontline leaders, custom-built from the ground up, unlike anything seen before at Bayer. This Bayer-exclusive program marks a major leap forward for leadership development and 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 development program that’s a model for effective custom microlearning—with a 94.7% NPS score and glowing reviews from Bayer’s frontline leaders! |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | Walmart | Manager Academy | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Walmart, is called "Manager Academy." It is a multi-faceted program aimed at strengthening the mindset around Walmart's mission, culture, and leadership expectations within frontline leaders including: store managers, Sam's Club managers, supply chain facility managers and market managers. The program consists of a 360-degree feedback survey, a 5-day immersive instructor led course, and mentor circles. The 360-degree feedback primes leaders with formalized feedback from their direct reports and leadership to provide unvarnished insight into how they are perceived to be leading through the lens of Walmart's leadership expectations. Frontline leaders are then brought to the company's corporate headquarters in Bentonville, AR where they experience the culture firsthand through dynamic content delivery, tours, activities, and exposure to senior leaders. Their learning continues post-training through geographically organized mentor circles. These components combine to empower and enable frontline leaders to be culture keepers within their facilities. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | Staples and Entelechy | Creating a Unified Leadership Culture for Frontline and Mid-Level Leaders at Staples | Gold | 2023 | In an effort to increase employee engagement and create a unified approach to leadership development across the organization — but particularly with frontline and mid-level leaders — Staples partnered with Entelechy to design and develop iLead People Essentials. Encompassing foundational leadership skills and performance management techniques with a focus on emotional intelligence, company values, and inclusivity, iLead People Essentials has made a phenomenal impact on individual leaders and the organization as a whole. Now, employees are more engaged, more collaborative, more productive, and more inclusive, and Staples has a comprehensive approach to developing leaders at every step of their career. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | Landmark Group | Landmark Group_Best_Development_Program_for_Frontline_Leaders_2023_Leadership_Development_SMDP | Gold | 2023 | The Store Manager Development Program are vital to the future success of Landmark Group. The Store Manager Development Program drives a cultural shift for them, moving away from complex and task driven culture to simplified and empowered culture, for the benefit of customers, team, and business. This not only builds capability and deploys local national talent as Store Managers but also creates capabilities to deliver HIPO Assistant Store Managers and Supervisors to be a part of the bench strength for the Store Managers role, thereby increasing Succession for this critical Role. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | Capgemini and SweetRush | Connected Manager Leadership Program | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Capgemini and SweetRush, is “Connected Manager.” After the pivot to virtual work in 2020, Capgemini’s 90,000 frontline leaders found themselves leading international, multicultural teams—overnight. As the face and heart of Capgemini for their teams, these leaders needed to learn how to engage, motivate, and retain their people in hybrid and remote work environments. Connected Manager accomplishes the monumental task of prioritizing human connection and shifting mindsets while delivering an innovative, highly scalable leadership program. Relevant high-impact content and hands-on live practice sessions with gamified, interactive branching scenarios break through the “fourth wall” of the screen and prepare learners to lead a change that transforms their teams—and the business. Through teamwork, rituals, and interactive microlearning content by Harvard management experts, Connected Manager helps Capgemini’s leaders experience connected, collaborative teamwork in a fresh, exciting way. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | Baker Hughes and NovoEd | Evolving the CORE Community Experience | Gold | 2023 | In 2021, Baker Hughes launched its first fully self-directed social community and knowledge sharing experience, named CORE, focused on the 4 Baker Hughes values of Lead, Care, Grow, and Collaborate. With limited resources, the community was a success but required another solution to scale, sustain, and provide a better user experience. Baker Hughes implemented NovoEd to support several unique elements of this community-based virtual learning experience. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | Infopro Learning | ASCEND—The First-time Manager Program | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Infopro Learning, is called "ASCEND—The First-time Manager Program." ASCEND is a tailored program to help identify common traps first-time managers fall into. It will help first-time managers to build a team that is accountable, engaged, and performing at its peak. A major focus is on the self-development of the first-time manager. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | Torex Gold and Docebo | The Supervisor Excellence Program | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Docebo, is called "The Supervisor Excellence Program". This entry outlines Torex Gold’s impactful leadership development program, the Supervisor Excellence Program, and the positive impact it has had on learners. This program is tailored to our frontline supervisors, based out of Guerrero state, Mexico. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | Shell | LEAD for Front-Line | Gold | 2023 | LEAD for Front-Line is a leadership development programme for front-line leaders which focuses on developing the mindset, key behaviours and skills needed to successfully lead themselves and their teams. The programme is available in both virtual and F2F modalities to suit the participants’ needs and context. There are also two versions of the programme with an Asset version specifically designed to address the distinctive needs of asset-based front-line leaders (FLLs) and a Non-asset version targeting a broader, cross-business front-line leader population. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | Merck & Co., Inc. and Korn Ferry | MRL China: Emotional Intelligence for China GDMS | Gold | 2023 | With the relentless impact of the COVID 19 situation in China, lack of Emotional Intelligence and empathy were observed in the frontline managers. This developmental program was aimed at equipping frontline managers with the skills and techniques to develop their emotional intelligence and develop a healthy work environment for their teams |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | PETRONAS and BTS | PETRONAS – Managerial Excellence Journey | Gold | 2023 | PETRONAS is in transition to become an energy and solutions provider that powers society’s progress in a responsible and sustainable manner. Frontline managers have been identified as critical in driving PETRONAS’s future change at scale and they need to be fully aligned with PETRONAS’s strategy and culture for the present and the future. To help achieve this, PETRONAS partnered with BTS to design and develop a blended learning journey for their new managers in transition to help them practice the PETRONAS Cultural Beliefs and be at the forefront to drive the 3-Pronged Growth Strategy and MFT 50.30.0. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | Quest Diagnostics and DDI | Leading Quest Supervisor and Manager (LQSM) Core | Gold | 2023 | Frontline leaders at Quest Diagnostics are directly responsible for the success of over 30,000 frontline employees who serve Quest’s patients and customers. Today’s leaders need new and more complex skills, as well as the ability to practice these new skills in their day-to-day roles. LeadingQuest Supervisor and Manager (LQSM) Core is a year-long program consisting of a collection of courses, conversations, and developmental activities aligned to Quest’s Frontline Leader Competency Model, which address the essential knowledge, skills, and behaviors of a successful frontline leader at Quest. All ~2,500 frontline leaders will have the opportunity to be a part of LQSM Core and focus on monthly topics in three key units: Leading Self and Others, Managing Processes and People, and Organizational Leadership. The program also provides opportunities to practice new skills as well as learn from other leaders. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | Saudi Aramco | iLead for CPHs | Gold | 2023 | This entry is submitted by Saudi Aramco- Southern Area Oil Operations Manpower Development Division (SAOO MDD). The entry is called "iLead for CPHs". It is a program developed locally to meet the needs of SAOO, which has 10.000+ employees, in developing the leadership skills of the frontline leaders. The program is built on needs assessment and is delivered inside Saudi Aramco facilities. The program follows a process of participant selection, preparation tasks, course delivery, post course projects, and organizational feedback from management to evaluate/measure the impact of the program. The whole program takes about three months: one month preparation task, two-day course (in class), and two-month post course project. The remarkable success of the program encouraged SAOO management to consider it as a mandatory program for all frontline leaders. There is also an ambitious plan to apply the program for other Saudi Aramco organizations in the future. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | Firstsource Solutions Ltd | Best Development Program Frontline Leaders | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Firstsource Solutions Ltd is called " RISE - The Frontline Leader Development Program". It is an ongoing continuous program developed as a connected and purposeful ecosystem that helps the Frontline leaders discover new experiences, expand their knowledge, and in turn, help their teams to rise to their full potential. It offers various opportunities for learning, reflection, and practice, with a focus on three key capabilities- Build People, Create Connect and Achieve Results. The program has seen an engagement of over 80% and an NPS of over 8.5, with frontline leaders widely embracing it for its comprehensive learning experience and recognizing its significance in equipping them with the necessary skills and knowledge to effectively manage and lead their teams. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | Exide and Cegos Group | Leadership Training Program | Gold | 2023 | The project that started as a training program soon became a cultural transformation project. Exide and Cegos worked hand in hand to develop a comprehensive leadership training program for Exide frontline supervisors and managers. 11 key competencies were addressed and as a result, Exide saw a significant improvement in conduct, behaviour, management and leadership skills. Another result was the development of collaboration and networks among participants. 110 Frontline supervisors and managers attended the training in 9 factories across Europe. A second edition in underway for 2023/2024. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | TD Bank | TD North American Customer Operations Centralized Targeted Coaching Frontline Leaders | Gold | 2023 | The entry, submitted by TD Bank North American Customer Operations is called " TD North American Customer Operations Centralized Targeted Coaching". The Centralized Targeted Coaching Team (CTC) was established in March of 2022. Focused on continuing to enhance North American Customer Operations' (NACO) coaching culture through capability development program delivery, this internal team of certified Colleague and Leadership coaches administer targeted coaching support and intervention in alignment with key business priorities and performance opportunities. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | International Institute for Management Development (IMD) and NovoEd | IMD & NovoEd: SPRINTS – Learning with Impact, Scale, and Speed | Gold | 2023 | IMD has always been centered on creating impact and pushing boundaries: The need to develop and partner with the best to offer the most impactful learning experiences to its clients and community is an ongoing must-have. Therefore, it was natural for IMD to aim to constantly improve platforms and tools, as well. IMD partnered with cohort-based learning platform NovoEd to help deliver its new online learning initiatives through social and collaborative methods that engage learners and help prepare them to lead a rapidly changing workforce. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | Suffolk Construction and Entelechy | Building Stronger Frontline Leaders at Suffolk Construction with Management Excellence Academy | Gold | 2023 | Frontline and mid-level leaders at Suffolk Construction needed a unified approach to performance management and leadership development in order to navigate the rapid growth the company has experienced. Suffolk partnered with Entelechy to design, develop, and deliver Management Excellence Academy, a leadership development program that empowers frontline and mid-level leaders to deliver on innovation, adapt to rapidly changing business environments, and lead teams to increase productivity, accelerate growth, and achieve organizational goals through deliberate performance management and coaching. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | WM | WM’s Frontline Leadership Development Program | Gold | 2023 | WM's entry is a transformative, immersive 26-week Frontline Leadership Development program which is comprised of six courses that prioritize empathy, vulnerability, social connection, self-reflection, and real conversations. All six units are delivered in synchronous virtual learning environments. External coaches are provided for each learner to individualize the application of the program content. Learners participate in peer-to-peer learning through digital social learning platforms, complete self-paced web-based learning accelerators, and practice new skills through supervisor demo-backs and monthly cohort skill practice sessions. The "Great Recession" was the driver of the Frontline Leadership Development program. The intent was to develop trauma-informed leaders who could, post-pandemic, demonstrate human-centered leadership and create a culture that would retain WM's valued employees. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | Allied Universal | Allied Universal AU Enrichment - Frontline Leader Training Program | Gold | 2023 | The AU Frontline leader training (Enrichment Program) is a week-long management onboarding training course designed to support the success of newly assigned/promoted Account Owners and Operators by providing best practices, tools, and guidance. The main themes of this frontline leader training are employee engagement, account administration and schedule/workforce management. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | Emids Technologies Pvt. Ltd. And Harappa Learning Pvt. Ltd | Leading For Success | Silver | 2023 | “Leading for Success" is a 3-month program that aims to impact the organization's future by empowering frontline managers to communicate, collaborate, and commit to driving high performance. It provides frontline leaders with insights and strategies to navigate challenging situations within and outside of their teams while fostering future growth. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | Synovus | Ignite Leadership Development Program - Synovus Financial | Silver | 2023 | Ignite is the Synovus foundational leadership development program for frontline leaders. The purpose of Ignite is to teach leaders how to achieve goals through other people. The audience for this program is approximately 750 Synovus leaders with direct reports who are individual contributors. The Ignite learning journey is both collaborative and personal, making it appropriate for brand new leaders and experienced leaders. It is an engaging, self-directed, peer-connected virtual learning experience tailored for Synovus frontline leaders.The program outcomes show double digit increases in leadership skill and reflect industry leading Net Promotor Scores. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | Datavant | Datavant Ignite Leadership Accelerator Program | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Datavant, is called the “Ignite Leadership Accelerator Program”. It is an exclusive, nomination-based leadership accelerator meticulously designed to groom high-potential individuals into exceptional leaders. Over an intensive six-month period, participants engage in a comprehensive regime of knowledge acquisition, project execution, self-esteem enhancement, and exposure to experienced leaders, fostering a robust community. The program surpasses its objectives by focusing on functional knowledge, practical experience, self-image, leadership connections, and collaborative networking. Noteworthy outcomes include significant leader connections, skill application projects, topic exploration, presentations, and targeted coaching. With over 3,000 transformative learning hours impacting around 1,000 individuals, the Ignite Leadership Accelerator Program showcases its effectiveness and strategic value in aligning with organizational goals. By equipping participants to excel in elevated leadership roles and become immediate high performers, this program offers a scalable and adaptable solution to foster leadership capabilities. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd | Grow with ATCI (ATCI- Advanced Technology Centers in India) | Silver | 2023 | This entry, is submitted by Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd and is called Grow with ATCI Program. Grow with ATCI was an experiential learning program that was designed to equip the newly hired or promoted front line leaders with people leadership skills and create a sense of belonging. They also get to be part of a strong network of people leads and be advocates of change. The intent of the program was to help guide and train young talent to cope with the exponential business needs triggered by the rush for digitization amid the pandemic. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | International Carwash Association | LEAD - Car Wash Manager Training - Frontline Leadership Development | Silver | 2023 | LEAD – Car Wash Manager Training is the most comprehensive blended learning program built to develop and enhance the management skills of car wash managers. Based on a competency-based approach, managers learn and practice their skills on the job as part of their day-to-day training. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | Kraft Heinz and AllenComm | Lead to WIN | Silver | 2023 | The Lead to WIN program was developed as a direct response to Miguel Patricio’s, Kraft Heinz CEO, call to action: “To write the next chapter at Kraft Heinz, we must change how we think, act and work together.” Its purpose is to grow great leaders who understand the end-to-end supply chain and how it contributes all other functions. Frontline leaders are the single largest group in the Kraft Heinz supply chain making it mission critical to achieving Kraft Heinz’s operations strategy and transformational journey. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | The Academy for Developing Administrative Leaders | Wa'ed: A Program for Promising Leaders | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted the Academy for Developing Administrative Leaders (ADAL), is called Wa'ed: A program for Promising Leaders. Its goal is to identify promising young leaders in the frontlines and to train and develop their leadership capabilities and skills in support of Saudi Vision 2030. The program offers a comprehensive and varied training approaches - lectures, workshops, use local case studies, practical application of skills in the workplace, and a variety of learning techniques, including self-assessment and group work, allowing participants to discover and develop their leadership competencies. In addition, the Wa’ed program includes coaching, blended learning, a self-development plan, and events such as hosting distinguished experts, speakers and inspiring leaders in the field of leadership development. The program consists of five modules, each related to a leadership aspect essential to new leaders. After each module, participants are given an assignment strongly related to the main theme of the module. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | Chewy | Chewy’s Frontline Leader Development Program Grows Customer Service Leaders Through Full Career Lifecycle | Silver | 2023 | Chewy’s commitment to customer service is the core of the brand and a key differentiator and competitive advantage for the company. One of the ways Chewy maintains this high level of service is through prioritizing and investing in the engagement and development of frontline team members and their direct leaders. Chewy’s frontline leader program in Customer Service reduces attrition and improves employee engagement by going beyond a one-time event to invest in team member growth from day one through the life of their career. The program addresses frontline leaders’ development in three phases: Know Your Role (onboarding through first 90 days), Continuous Learning (functional role-based training), and Grow & Prepare (Individualized Development). |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | Petrol Ofisi | Captains of Development | Silver | 2023 | Leaders have been working in a high-risk environment for the past two years: looking for solid footholds as they tackle a devastating and unpredictable pandemic. They are struggling to recruit and respond to employee demands for greater flexibility in the workplace, amid the highest rate of talent shortages in the past 15 years. In this case, our front line managers are expected to use leadership and coaching hats together with management. In short, the captain of development is expected. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | InMobi and Skills Café | InMobi iLead Milestone | Silver | 2023 | This entry is submitted by InMobi, in partnership with Skills Café, for their frontline leadership development program called iLead Milestone, which has been designed to equip first-time people managers to lead in the “InMobi way”. This 5-month long virtual blended learning journey offers a variety of engaging and practical learning experiences that have created a pull for learning among participants. The program features immersive facilitated sessions that leverage powerful methodologies, such as games, simulations, and reflective group processes. Participants benefit from multiple tools for reflection, engaging game-based simulations for practice, monitored and evaluated action plans, and group coaching, all designed to help them imbibe InMobi's leadership attributes. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | Cognizant | Frontline Leaders Program | Silver | 2023 | Frontline Leaders Program was an experiential and blended learning journey, built on the foundations of managing self, people and performance. The objective of the program was to develop the people leadership capabilities of the frontline leaders, to perform their current role better and equip them to transition to their next career turn. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | Alba | Alba Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders 2023 | Silver | 2023 | Alba is the leading industrial company in the Middle East. It needs to retain the best talent in the face of poaching by a growing number of competitors, fill supervisory posts when experienced staff retire, and train frontline leaders in the vital areas of ESG, Quality and Safety. Employees are spread across an extensive site but their functions are dependent on others in a complex situation. Employees selected for the frontline leaders program spend six-month rotations learning the technical, functional, leadership and soft skills required to be versatile supervisors and superintendents who are specialists in their own area but can also be deployed across the company and collaborate with colleagues in multiple roles. The program only launched in 2022 but Alba is already seeing the benefit in enhanced skills, motivation and leadership, while the 90 Plant Technical Projects accomplished as part of the training are saving $225,000 in 2023 alone. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | Anglo American | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders: The Leadership Lab | Silver | 2023 | Guiding employees through the discovery of their leadership potential is fundamental to Anglo American's success. Anglo American's Leadership Lab programs are designed to provide in-role, transformational leadership development to Level of Work (LoW) I and II employees, through a blended delivery approach, giving participants a platform for experimentation, observation, social learning and application. Pathfinders, for LoW I employees, helps refine the skills and confidence of participants, with a focus on brave choices so that participants can progress from knowing to living the Anglo American values. Performers, for LoW II employees, equips participants with the right tools, knowledge, and confidence to take their leadership skills to the next level to deliver Anglo American's Purpose and Ambition. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | American Residential Services | American Residential Services: Front-Line Manager Training | Silver | 2023 | American Residential Services, known as ARS Rescue Rooter, has recently revamped their manager training. This program is now called "Front-Line Management" which is a 10 week course. During the duration of the program, attendees will attend a 2-hour webinar weekly, complete courses, create discussion board topics, and make new manager connections in the company. The general goal of this program is to equip managers with the foundational skills to be successful in their role. The program consists of 10 unique modules that provide this managerial foundation and address a current issue identified by the company. Some topics of discussion include an introduction to management, delegation skills, time management, interviewing and selection, training new skills, improving performance through coaching, effective communication, creating and delivering effective performance evaluations, motivating employees, and building teams. This program has allowed participants to create better relationships, habits, and a better work life balance. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | Almarai and BTS | Almarai - Leadership Exploration Program | Silver | 2023 | Almarai leaders were looking for a program that would serve as a baseline for their front-line leaders who varied in experience (5-20 years of experience). This was to ensure that all their front-line leaders were equipped with the skills and capabilities required to influence an innovation culture at Almarai that drives the overall performance for the organization. BTS created a journey that was inclusive of theoretical, practical, and experiential learning. It was designed to be delivered face to face initially, then shifted to a virtual setting after COVID-19. The modules were facilitated individually, over a period of months, allowing participants to implement and practice their learning in the flow of work in between modules. Evident in the document submitted, the program has yielded positive results which have been illustrated in participants’ behavior & mindset as well as a clear shift in business results and processes. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders | UBS AG | LEAD – Leadership Excellence Accelerator Diploma - Frontline Leaders | Silver | 2023 | 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 as a Sales Leadership Program is a huge success and contains inspiring training-, coaching-, peer exchange sessions. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd | Industry Champions, to Lead the Industry | Bronze | 2023 | The entry, submitted by Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd called Industry Champions, to Lead the Industry. The Industry Champions Program is an immersive learning program for client-facing Subject Matter Experts at Accenture. It aims to create Industry Talent at Scale to equip client-facing Industry Leads to drive differentiation with clients. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | Brookfield Properties Development | Brookfield Properties Development - LEAD Cafe | Bronze | 2023 | A neighborhood coffee shop is a gathering place and an iconic symbol of friendship, open conversation, shared discovery, and human connection. Brimming with culture and life, no two days or experiences are the same. In this leadership development program, participants view their leadership through the analogy of a coffeehouse by actively participating in the co-creation of learning through exchange of experience and real-time practice of, and immersion in, topical leadership concepts. The results is a 7 month program with self-led, virtual, and in-person learning moments of what it means to be a leader in today's world and a leader at Brookfield. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | PepsiCo and Abilitie | PepsiCo’s Leading the Business Program and Abilitie | Bronze | 2023 | This entry, submitted jointly by Abilitie and PepsiCo, is called "PepsiCo’s Leading the Business (LTB) and Abilitie." The LTB is a highly customized, cohort-based leadership development program focused on preparing early-stage leaders at PepsiCo for future roles in senior management. This was achieved through facilitated learning and a hands-on, simulation experience where participants applied what they learned in a competitive environment. The immense value of this global leadership program at PepsiCo has resulted in a 50% increase in reach and participant numbers from 2022 to 2023. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | Boehringer Ingelheim and Center for Creative Leadership | Acceleration: Americas Program for High Potentials | Bronze | 2023 | The Acceleration Program aids the development of high potentials by strengthening their leadership skills in alignment with BI’s Global Leadership Competencies model. It uses learning-by-doing simulations and real-world business projects to deepen participants’ development. In the last few years, it has also added significant content on diversity and inclusion (D&I) as well as sustainability to address the changing demands leaders face. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | PepsiCo, Inc. | PepsiCo’s Accelerated Leadership Programs (ALPs) | Bronze | 2023 | PepsiCo’s Accelerated Leadership Programs (ALPs) were created to advance key talent along their career journey and prepare them for future leadership transitions. The ALP series consists of four distinct nomination-based leadership development programs targeted at specific leadership levels within the organization. Each program is designed to support participants in understanding the critical role they play in the organization to lead at the next level, and the implications this has for career, leadership mindset and behaviors. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | Johnson & Johnson | Compliance Week | Bronze | 2023 | Business leaders at senior and middle level were asked to role-model compliance by creating events tailored to their local requirements. What all of them had in common: Promoting Compliance Week’s motto of “People Follow People” by creating strong compliance messages in a gamified approach to better resonate with junior leaders and employees. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | Amgen and Blanchard | Amgen-Blanchard - Best Unique or Innovative Learning and Development Program - Leading Without Authority | Bronze | 2023 | The Leading without Authority Learning Journey is an innovative, multi-modality learning approach including eight digital self-paced learning sprints, multiple learning modalities that employs Blanchard assets, virtual application sessions, and cohort collaboration groups. Direct manager coaching and measurement are applied to assess business and learner impact. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | Anglo American | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Development Program - GameChangers | Bronze | 2023 | GameChangers, a leadership development program by Anglo American, aims to create sustainability leaders who can address the company’s unique challenges and drive progress. By collaborating with experts from various institutes, the program offers an innovative, virtual learning experience that includes self-study, live events, coaching, and on-the-job application. The program’s success in equipping participants with essential skills and knowledge has led to a positive impact on the organization and its sustainability goals. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | AIB (Allied Irish Banks) | LEADing the Way: AIB's Innovative Approach to Leadership Development | Bronze | 2023 | The LEAD (Leaders Enabling A Difference) program is a suite of interventions delivered over a 13 month period to all leaders at AIB, successfully driving leadership development, enhancing employee engagement, and supporting the organization's cultural evolution. With over 2,800 leaders taking part in the program since launch in November 2021, it has achieved high levels of engagement, external accreditation, and overwhelmingly positive feedback from participants. LEAD's strategic alignment with AIB's three-year strategy and facilitation of leadership development and collaboration across the organization have resulted in measurable benefits and a much broader impact culturally than anticipated from the outset. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | Chevron Corporation | Career Development Conversations Learning Experience for Supervisors | Bronze | 2023 | The Development Conversations learning experience is learner-centric and intentionally designed to create a blended experience. The program leverages asynchronous (on demand or self-paced) and synchronous (virtual or in-person) approaches to learning. The program makes use of tools and methods such as Teams, SharePoint, Mursion interactive human-backed virtual reality, Polling, facilitated discussion, role play, situational judgement assessment, iLearn, and trained facilitation to increase interactivity and engagement. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | NTPC Limited | NTPC Limited-Developing Leaders of Tomorrow | Gold | 2023 | Commensurate with India’s growth challenges, NTPC (India’s largest power producer) has embarked upon an ambitious plan to attain a total installed capacity of 130 GW by 2032. To achieve this objective, NTPC needs Leaders who can thrive amidst the complexity that comes with new growth opportunities! NTPC is looking to build Leaders who would be Role Models in the creation and sustenance of a culture of Safety, Mobility and Performance and take the organization to the next level of growth. This Application is a description of the initiatives taken under the Integrated Leadership Development Framework to “Develop Leaders of Tomorrow”, and place the right person in the key leadership positions by democratizing opportunities in the organization. It also highlights the manner in which NTPC has focussed upon People Managers who are the crucial link to translating great people practices to positive employee experience and unleashing the potential of their subordinates. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | State Street and Harvard Business Publishing | State Street and Harvard Business Publishing | Gold | 2023 | State Street, in partnership with Harvard Business Publishing, designed and delivered a unique learning experience that helped its VP and above leaders across the globe quickly develop the leadership skills and behaviors to accelerate adoption of State Street’s culture traits focused on becoming a high-performance organization. The solution enabled State Street to increase engagement, reach its matrixed, global workforce efficiently and effectively, and catapult the organization’s transformation. The skill building design utilized learning design principles in all modalities: self-paced learning pathways containing thought leadership content and tools, 30-day challenges, facilitated live webinars, and simulations. By offering personalized, a la carte experiences, learners consumed only the components they wanted when they wanted them to develop their skills. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | Sigma Chi Leadership Institute | Values-Based Leadership Certificate | Gold | 2023 | The heart of a values-based leader exists in his or her ability to apply principled beliefs and values to the various decisions and obstacles they encounter. In the Sigma Chi Leadership Institute’s (SCLI’s) Values-Based Leadership course, participants will practice making decisions that align with their personal values and ethics. Throughout this 20-hour course, participants will gain the knowledge and skills to manage self while growing in their capacity to be resilient and versatile in complex and challenging situations. Further, participants will learn strategies to enhance both personal and community well-being through a holistic examination of one’s relationships with others, alcohol or other substances, as well as social media. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | Accenture and D2L | CAL Quest: Accelerating Account Leadership Development | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Accenture in collaboration with D2L, is call "CAL Quest: Accelerating Account Leadership Development". CAL2025 is Accenture’s flagship leadership development program for Client Account Leads (CAL) and began its five-year journey in 2020. CAL Quest, one of the initiatives of CAL2025, aims to accelerates the development for Accenture’s next generation of CALs to support Accenture’s ambition of doubling the capacity and capability of CALs and deliver boundaryless opportunities for Accenture executives. CAL Quest sets a new standard for learning and leadership development in the industry, providing clear career expectations, blending innovative learning elements and technology to creates new ways for people to explore becoming a CAL. The CAL Quest journey embeds features to give Questers a comprehensive experience of a CAL over a 12-month period in five continuous and concurrent phases. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | WEX Inc. | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program - WEX Inc. - Thrive as a VP | Gold | 2023 | This entry, Thrive as a VP, a blended learning program was developed to provide additional support for executives and instill servant leadership principles and practices. The program imparted 12 distinctive leadership habits, including “Make active listening your superpower,” “Embrace empathy” and “Foster inclusivity and community.” It was delivered via an interactive guide, followed by executive-facilitated virtual fireside chats on each habit, which gave senior leaders an opportunity to share their experiences of practicing the habits with their peers. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | Jacobs | CEO Leadership Roundtable | Gold | 2023 | The CEO Leadership Roundtable is a program designed and developed internally at Jacobs for all people leaders across the company to give them an opportunity to hear from senior leaders on pertinent topics including the Jacobs leadership philosophy, leading in a digital age and driving inclusion and diversity. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | Lincoln Financial Group and ETU | The Leadership Lab - an immersive experience for accountability behaviors. | Gold | 2023 | The new Leadership Lab is an immersive experience where managers put themselves in situations that they are likely to experience in real life, and practice how to best respond. It allows Lincoln to target specific behaviors in specific scenarios. The lab provides benchmarking data and improves behaviors through simulation-based learning. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | Penske Transportation Solutions | Penske Leading Maintenance Excellence Leadership Development Program | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Penske, is called Leading Maintenance Excellence. It is a 12-month cohort based leadership development program that incoporates self-directed eLearning, in-person and live virtual learning sessions, a variety of assessments, executive coaching, action learning projects, and video presentation. This program was developed to address the increasing complexity of leadership roles at Penske and has led to transformational organizational, professional, and personal change. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | FrieslandCampina and BTS | The LEAP Journey | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by FrieslandCampina and BTS, is called The LEAP Journey. The LEAP journey is designed to invest in FrieslandCampina selected “Growth Potentials”, allowing colleagues to accelerate their growth to more senior leadership roles. This is achieved by an immersive learning journey over 4 months, containing several virtual interventions and one 4-day face-to-face event. Participants are immersed in their personal purpose, company purpose, how to lead others well and driving results. The Journey serves the following participant objectives: • Bring the unique FrieslandCampina purpose to life. • Accelerate a mindset shift from leading self to leading others. • Build the muscle of the FrieslandCampina strategic pillars; “owners mindset” and “commercially obsessed” in day-to- day leadership actions. The LEAP Journey is a one of a kind learning journey which caters to the needs of different individuals through the wide range of learning interventions. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | Capgemini and GP Strategies | Future Leaders | Gold | 2023 | Capgemini’s Future Leaders program is an elite talent-acceleration opportunity aimed at high performers in junior leadership roles in the UK with aspirations to become senior leaders. This impressive program is primarily used to identify and advance the most promising talent at Capgemini through the most innovative and creative learning and networking experiences possible. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | Cox Communications | Coaching Culture | Gold | 2023 | The Coaching Culture is a scalable framework deployed within a department in support of specific needs and to drive business imperatives. Coaching includes many leadership competencies: presence, active listening, inquiry, fostering change, empowering others, etc. The Coaching Culture accelerates and builds theses leadership competencies with training and a unique and innovative approach to learning retention, sustainment, and continued development through participation in Coaching Circles. Coaching Circles are a forum for leaders to bring forth current situations in which to practice their coaching skills, seek perspectives, feedback, and best practices from peers. Leaders can immediately apply what they practiced back in the business. The retention and adoption of the coaching skills is fortified by the level of accountability created by having all levels of leadership in the department simultaneously attend training and participate in Coaching Circles. Other departments have adopted the approach based on seeing positive business impact. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited and Chrysalis | Lead to Inspire | Gold | 2023 | Lead to Inspire at ICICI Lombard is the key to understand and address the rising attrition rate and also address the adjustment issues and sales pressure at the organisation. This intervention aimed at training Managers or Team Leads with respect to employee retention and on being effective managers. The target universe was all Manager of Managers at ICICI Lombard (30 in number) and the competencies that we were looking at improving were Employee Retention, Creating Engagement, Hiring Right, Building High Trust Teams / People Management and Managing Performance. The program was a sustained learning journey that involved managers of participants as observers and mentors. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | Westpac Group | Skill Boosts for Leaders | Gold | 2023 | Westpac has been focused on supporting leaders to drive culture change in teams to embed their organisational Purpose, Values and Behaviours. This entry details a cultural behavioural change program that was designed and implemented at scale for people leaders called Skill Boosts for People Leaders and Teams. Behavioural science has been a key driver in the design of the Skill Boost experience to enable leaders to role model and embed desired behaviours in the flow-of-work with their teams. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | Rio Tinto | RTIO Leadership Academy | Gold | 2023 | Rio Tinto has created the Leadership Academy to invest in frontline teams creating talent pathways from within. This demonstrates trust in people, recognising the potential of a talented and skilled workforce and investing in the future of people and the business. The Emerging Leader program is designed to provide a supportive framework and practical workplace challenges to develop potential talent to strengthen Rio Tinto’s workforce capability. Before taking a leadership role the journey begins creating pathways into a Supervisor role where the program then flows into a comprehensive Supervisor development pathway. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | R R Donnelley | Best Unique or Innovative Learning and Development Program | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by RRD Go Creative, is called " Project NEXT,” an acronym for New Emerging eXtended Technologies. It is an innovative program that developed internal talent capabilities on technical skills to solve real-time business challenges. Since the objective of Project NEXT was to build a decentralized community of automation experts, RRD invested in SMEs who knew the organizational context by training them to code and automate ready business solutions. The creation of the program was driven by the need to stay current in a competitive market and close the skill gap among employees. The result was 788 SMEs being certified in coding skills, spiraling reverse engineering automated solutions required for business. Besides the direct business impact gain of $300,000.00 in 2022, there were benefits of 41000 hours in efficiency, 681 live automation projects deployed in business, and 70+ full-time employee work optimized through automation. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | TD, North American Customer Operations | TD North American Customer Operations People Leader Upskilling Program: Spark | Gold | 2023 | Spark is a multi-modal, blended, micro-burst learning program rooted in data that supports people leaders across TD's North American Customer Operations team (NACO). It's focused on experiential and social learning experiences and leverages collaborative technologies with proven success at driving business results and colleague engagement across multiple businesses within NACO. The Spark program continues to be leveraged as a key learning program to support leaders continuous learning aligned to meeting changing business needs. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | Home Team Academy | Phoenix Programme: Effective Leadership Development to Drive Home Team Transformation | Silver | 2023 | The Phoenix Programme is a unique programme created for senior Home Team (HT) leaders to equip them with the necessary competencies to drive transformation. It is underpinned by HTA’s overall leadership development strategies and frameworks, which provide direction and clarity on the competencies it should focus on to train HT leaders. With HTA’s effective leadership programmes grooming HT leaders, it has significantly contributed to the safety and security of Singapore; in Financial Year 2021, Singapore achieved first rank in the global ranking of Singapore’s safety and security in Gallup’s Law and Order Index. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | The Vanguard Group and GP Strategies | LDX: A Leadership Pipeline Development Experience | Silver | 2023 | Leadership Development Experience, or “LDX,” is a timely development opportunity for all Vanguard leaders across the globe at key transition points. This human-centric development program is intended to be broad ranging and helps build the critical skills needed to be an effective Vanguard leader. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | UST | Servant Leadership – an innovative approach to Leadership at UST | Silver | 2023 | UST is showcasing its leadership development program based on the Servant Leadership Philosophy. At UST Servant Leadership is not just a development program. This unique Leadership program is at the base of UST’s culture and it is tightly coupled with UST’s core values of Humility, Humanity and Integrity. This leadership culture enables leaders at UST to focus on the well-being of their people, which helps UST in achieving our organizational objectives of becoming an employer of choice and a preferred place to work. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | Xceedance Consulting India Pvt Ltd | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Development 2023 | Silver | 2023 | The intervention is a unique approach to develop tenured managers and mid-senior leaders at Xceedance to groom them to build, retain and develop high-performing teams. It is focused on building a human-centered organization through empathy. The intervention helps leaders by equipping them with appropriate techniques and strategies to retain talent, nurture team members and build trusted relationships with key stakeholders including clients thus, creating a positive business impact. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | Harvard Business Publishing, Corporate Learning and Fifth Third Bank | Critical Conversations: Developing leaders to create a supportive and inclusive work environment | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted jointly by Fifth Third Bank, and Harvard Business Publishing, Corporate Learning, is called Critical Conversations: Developing leaders to create a supportive and inclusive work environment. This learning program is a multi-modal, engaging learning experience, designed to equip leaders in a large banking organization with the language, tools, and resources to facilitate critical conversations; including conversations about racial equality, equity, and inclusion. This was accomplished through a blended learning experience supported by Fifth Third Bank’s learning experience platform, and virtual, live facilitated sessions with extensive opportunities for skill-building practice. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | Johnson Matthey and BTS | Leading Managers | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Johnson Matthey and BTS, called "Leading Managers" is the mid-level leader development in a three part pathway called "Aspire." Created at the start of the global pandemic, Leading Managers leverages live virtual sessions and a comprehensive and real-life business simulation to immerse leaders in the complex decision-making geometry common in global companies. The program brings leaders out of their business stovepipes to a cross-functional, cross-regional, cross-cultural cohort focused on how small decisions have large impacts on the greater business success. The program provides rapidly applicable skills and a global context raising mid-level leader thinking to the strategic level. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | EQUINOR and Accenture | Equinor and Accenture - Cybersecurity for leaders program | Silver | 2023 | Equinor, accompanied by Accenture, started the work to improve group-wide competence around cyber security in Equinor to deal with changes in Equinors risk profile and increased investment in digitalization across the company. A vision was set to create a hyper-relevant, inspirational, and immediately applicable program to train all leaders to build cyber vigilance, resilience, and awareness of cyber security risks and threats. The Leadership development program was designed for leaders by leaders with over 100 leaders across disciplines co-creating the learning journey. The result was a portfolio of learning products delivered through a blended approach from self study, e-learning, and interactive case study driven instructor led training. To date a satisfaction rate of 90% has been achieved and 1500+ Equinor leaders have participated. The learning products have been externally reviewed and will increase Equinor’s Cybersecurity competence in line with the strategic ambitions and to an industry leading level |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | KASIKORNBANK PCL. | KBank’s Enterprise Leadership Program: Creating Leaders that Perform and Transform. | Silver | 2023 | The Enterprise Leadership Program that focuses on creating both organization-wide leaders who have common goals and go beyond own area of responsibilities to ensure organization success. At the same time, the program concentrates on ‘Business Pillar’ to build leaders that drive growth strategy. The triple roles that the CEO plays in the program and the agility of program design and implementation result in an initial satisfactory outcome, as reflected in pulse survey and employee’s verbatims. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | Flexco and TTA (The Training Associates) | Committed to Excellence by Putting People First: Flexco's Leadership Transformation Story | Silver | 2023 | Investing in People First and supporting the company’s focus to develop a leadership pipeline, Flexco’s training team strategized on how to build a leadership program that met the organization’s needs in the timeframe needed by the business. By working closely with several L&D partners, including TTA to support LMS implementation, learning strategy, project management, and identifying facilitators, Flexco successfully designed and deployed a customized leadership development program that was a collaborative cohort-based learning experience that offered leadership development in a practical and effective way – The Leading Others Program. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | Constellium and BTS | Leadership Development Program | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by BTS and Constellium, is called the "Leadership Development Program" (LDP). The primary purpose of the program is to create a specific way of leading unique to the needs of Constellium. In so doing the company is creating the Constellium Way of Leading in support of One Constellium. The goal is to have the most effective and inspirational leaders in the industry. The program is a 9-month learning journey that includes assessments, interactive workshops, a business simulation, team touchpoints and more. It is underpinned by a digital platform that enhances the participant experience while providing HR leaders with valuable data about participation and impact. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | The Estee Lauder Companies | Leadership Programs at ELC | Silver | 2023 | The leadership programs at The Estee Lauder Companies, including the People Leadership Program (PLP) and the Emerging Leaders Program (ELP) have been strategically designed, developed and deployed to support the evolution of leadership at the organization and to clearly articulate expectations for success. Eventually, a full suite of leadership offerings will be made available to develop world-class leaders at every stage of their journey, from first time managers to the most senior level executives at the company. This year's submission is the story of the evolution of the PLP after having been honored with 3 awards in 2022 for its build and strategic execution, now sharing enhancements, refinements and additions as we look back on lessons learned and gather feedback and measurable benefits from participants and graduates. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | Regions Bank | Leadership Development for All Associates | Silver | 2023 | In response to the world-changing COVID-19 pandemic, Regions Bank designed and developed the new Leadership Development for All Associates program, offering innovative learning experiences to all associates rooted in a new Leadership Development competency model called RegionsLEADS. As the program evolved, the RegionsLEADS Cornerstones quickly became the foundational leadership best practices for all associates at every level and are now integrated into HR performance and talent processes across the organization. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | CHRISTUS Health | Retaining Nurses through Leadership Development | Silver | 2023 | The CHRISTUS Health Emerging Leader program was designed with the goal to provide leadership development opportunities to any Associate interested in future leadership roles. Most specifically, the program targeted our frontline clinical Associates, who are difficult to retain nationally. The innovative, hybrid three-month program has produced significant positive outcomes, including high retention and promotion rates among both clinical and nonclinical program graduates. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | Prudential International Insurance and Growth Potential Consulting | PII Challenge | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by the Prudential International Insurance division of Prudential Financial, Inc., jointly with Growth Potential Consulting, is called the "PII Challenge." PII Challenge is a multi-month experiential leadership development program for emerging leaders who have the potential to be in-country or cross-country executive officers. The program was created to close the talent gap, resulting in a pipeline of globally-minded leaders prepared to help advance the organization. The selection process focuses on having representation from at least nine countries where PII has operations, joint ventures, or other strategic relationships. The diversity of perspectives and global participation ensure that participants develop business acumen and cross-cultural competence. The cross-functional and cross-country Cohort promotes greater growth and learning, and participants concur, as indicated by the 88% very satisfied and 12% satisfied ratings. This program that started as a pilot now has three (3) cohorts. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | PayPal | Advanced Leaders Program | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by PayPal, is called the "Advanced Leaders Program." This 3-month experiential leadership development program is designed around two core frameworks: Emotional Intelligence and Design Thinking. During this immersive program, facilitators walk participants through the learning process using real-life PayPal specific challenges to overcome. The development of this program was driven by the need to develop and retain high potential Senior Managers and Directors. The result of this program has produced a strong community of leaders who drive impact though creativity and innovation. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | Migros Bank | Leading for Growth | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Migros Bank, is called 'Leading for Growth'. It is an innovative leadership development program, specifically designed in partnership with Impact, a world-leading experiential learning organisation, in response to Migros Bank’s new customer centric approach. This transformational change initiative has equipped leaders of all levels with the skills, experiences, and capabilities they need shift the organizational mindset to one that prioritises leading a culture of innovation and customer centricity through leadership skills and client relationships. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | Accenture and Attensi | Accenture_Best_Unique_or_Innovative_Leadership_Development_Program_2023_Leadershi (1) CoachToGrow_FINAL | Silver | 2023 | CoachToGrow is a gamified simulation that supports a talent imperative to reduce attrition and help people feel more cared for and connected during the pandemic and a time of hypergrowth in a hot talent market. The simulation was developed to help Accenture Technology managers learn how to be caring growth partners to their people through conducting effective growth conversations. Through playing the simulation, participants learn how to explore a team member’s aspirations, strengths, areas for development and growth actions through a coaching approach of ask not tell. CoachToGrow takes ~1 hour to play. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | Legrand (North and Central America) and AXIOM Learning Solutions | Legrand LEAP: Leaders Engaged in Accelerating Performance | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Legrand North and Central America with learning services partner AXIOM Learning Solutions, is for the Legrand LEAP (Leaders Engaged in Accelerating Performance) program. LEAP is Legrand’s training workshop for new supervisors and managers, and it is designed to provide newer or first-time leaders with knowledge and skill to help them perform in their new role as a leader. By focusing on increased self-awareness and applied learning, LEAP participants will develop their management aptitude by creating a personal development plan, fostering the development of others, building employee trust, and shaping the culture of leadership at Legrand. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | Coca-Cola İçecek A.Ş. | CCI Beyond Leadership Academy | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by CCI, is called "Beyond Leadership Academy". The Program focuses on Next Generation Leadership prioritizing reskilling and upskilling capabilities to eventually create a common language within CCI ecosystem targeting to see satisfying improved business results. Beyond, contributes to have a broad and sustainable learning journey as well as enhancing employee experience and retaining talents. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | British American Tobacco | BAT's A Better Tomorrow Programme | Silver | 2023 | The A Better Tomorrow programme is a new flagship development initiative for British American Tobacco's senior-most leaders. The programme is designed to strengthen critical knowledge underpinning the new corporate strategy, and support leaders to articulate BAT’s vision and take their employees along on the transformation journey. Sponsored by the CEO and Board, and stretching over 4 learning phases, over 300 BAT executives have boosted their knowledge and realised that knowing the strategy is one thing - articulating it with fluency is something much more challenging. |
| HCM | Leadership Development Awards | Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program | Staples and Entelechy | Innovating Leadership Development at Staples with iLead People Essentials | Silver | 2023 | In an effort to increase employee engagement and create a unified approach to leadership development across the organization, Staples partnered with Entelechy to design and develop iLead People Essentials for new and established people managers. Encompassing foundational leadership skills and performance management techniques with a focus on Emotional Intelligence, company values, and inclusivity — all in an innovative blended learning program — iLead People Essentials has made a phenomenal impact on individual leaders and the organization as a whole. Now, employees are more engaged, more collaborative, more productive, and more inclusive, and Staples has a cutting-edge and comprehensive approach to developing leaders at every step of their career. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Capgemini and SweetRush | Advance | Bronze | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Capgemini and SweetRush, is “Advance.” Advance is a leadership development program that addresses a critical business need: future-proof Capgemini’s Global Delivery Excellence group with a talent pipeline of senior leaders who are capable of steering highly complex, high-profile, and high-revenue projects across the finish line. Advance directly meets its audience’s needs, an elite team of hard-to-reach, highly skilled executive leaders, with a skills development experience that embraces their existing experience, needs, and preferences. A 17-week, competency-based blended learning, Advance combines large and small group social learning activities with 1:1 mentoring and asynchronous adaptive learning, offering a performance-driven experience that is tailored to meet each individual learners’ needs. With executive leaders not only championing but actively participating with learners through every step, the program supports the next generation of Global Delivery Excellence executives as they prepare to advance to the next level of their careers! |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Bayer and SweetRush | Enhanced Approach to Potential Identification (EAPI) Leadership Toolkit | Bronze | 2023 | This entry, “The Enhanced Approach to Potential Identification (EAPI) Leadership Toolkit,” is submitted by Bayer and SweetRush. EAPI is a new talent management process and methodology that enables Bayer leaders to identify the potential of their employees, and Bayer needed a training solution to support its implementation strategy. EAPI educates leaders and equips them with the competencies and skills to evaluate employees accurately and consistently. The EAPI Leadership Toolkit, developed with solutions-partner SweetRush, provides leaders with the knowledge skills, tools, and resources needed to carry out this critical task. This holistic solution has met all its goals to date: leaders now complete potential identification consistently, results are accurate and reliable, and the program is fully integrated within Bayer’s talent management tools, processes, and approaches. This fuels Bayer’s future success, enabling a highly skilled, diverse and inclusive workforce ready to deliver on the vision “Health for All, Hunger for None.” |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Ziraat Bankası | Data Science Program | Bronze | 2023 | Data Science Program was designed to equip employees with the necessary competencies and skills to thrive in the data-driven banking industry. The program encompassed a comprehensive competency/skill model that identified the core areas of expertise required for successful data science implementation within the organization. It aimed to bridge the existing competency gaps and drive a positive impact on the overall organization. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | UL Solutions | Project TIE: Targeting Instructor Effectiveness | Bronze | 2023 | This program was aimed at upskilling subject matter experts (SMEs,) who knew the training material but needed to be coached in improved virtual training delivery techniques. Their training skill gap was addressed by connecting the SMEs with UL Knowledge Solutions (ULKS) to improve their training skills and ultimately improve the customer experience. Through a series of interactive trainings including group sessions, small group sessions, and direct coaching, instructors were trained on virtual training software as well as in learner engagement techniques that are critical to a successful virtual learning experience. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Shell and Circus Street | Partnering with Circus St to build Marketing Capabilities for the Future | Bronze | 2023 | The project and partnership began by running a number of pilots using content-rich videos and e-learning resources from Circus St. Based on the success of those pilots, we negotiated a contract for 500 licenses for our Global Lubricants and Mobility Marketing learners. The content areas available fill the gaps identified in the skill analysis from Project Neptune 2020/21 (Digital Literacy, Data & Insights, Strategy & Innovation, eCommerce, Martech & Personalisation, Content & Channel Optimisation). We launched with the support of Shell Champions on Dec 1st, 2022, and already have over 300 learners successfully completing the lessons. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | AIA Australia and EI, Powered by MPS | AIA Claims Management | Bronze | 2023 | A program of web-based training modules used as a blended approach as part of the AIA Claims Capability Framework. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | GS1 Global Office and EI, Powered by MPS | GTIN Data Quality for Verified by GS1 | Bronze | 2023 | The entry is an educational eLearning addressed to GS1 Member Organisations and GS1 members, particularly Industry members and Brand Owners, to increase their knowledge around product data quality within Verified by GS1, a global registry of GS1 Global Trade Item Numbers (GTINs). The interactive and engaging module highlights the importance of data quality in enforcing a product brand. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | MetLife and NIIT | MetLife Distribution Academy: Transforming the Way Sales Force Works, Learns, and Performs | Bronze | 2023 | The Distribution Academy has responsibility for training and enabling the sales performance of MetLife and distribution Partner Sales Associates to create a distinctive competitive advantage for MetLife. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | ZTE Corporation | Training and Practice – Exploration on Improving Training Effectiveness Through Practical Knowledge Enhancement Activities | Bronze | 2023 | "Capability Enhancement Program" is a successful practice aimed to meet the company's strategic deployment requirements for various network products in the international market. It is designed to improve the training effectiveness through practical knowledge enhancement activities. The high performance of these solutions, as indicated in the front-line business, helped key marketing employees improve their performance, and contributed to the company's annual average revenue growth of 10.1%, net profit growth of 37.7% and overseas marketing market revenue growth of 12.9% in the last two years. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Ministry of interior Transformation Porgram | MOI Competencies and skills development | Bronze | 2023 | The Journey of developing MOI Empowerment center's competencies and skill development to meet Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 2030 vision |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Mercer | Competency Framework | Bronze | 2023 | This entry called Competency Framework is submitted by Mercer company. The creation of the competency/skill program was a strategic response to business conditions and needs, reflecting Mercer's commitment to addressing talent gaps and achieving business objectives. It describes the process of assessing core competencies and successful training interventions such as GuruSpeak and Lighthouse. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Cognizant | FSE Role Based Accreditation Program | Bronze | 2023 | A power packed program that inspires learners in the Full stack Engineering (FSE) community to accomplish accreditations thereby augmenting the extent and value from the enablement offerings |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Adfactors PR and Enparadigm Performance Solutions | Levelling up in the Account Management Game – Public Relations Industry | Bronze | 2023 | Flagship learning program aimed at two key levels of account management in the company, helping employees at these levels building an understand of key behavioural competencies, strategy and team, with the view of driving more out of themselves and their teams. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Force Media Liaison Cadre (FMLC) Secretariat of Hong Kong Police Force and Redhill | Media Facilitation e-learning Package of Hong Kong Police Force | Bronze | 2023 | The Force Media Liaison Cadre (FMLC) Secretariat, a unit of Hong Kong Police Force specialized in handling media in different operations, designed an e-learning package to educate thousands of frontline police officers, who participated in the security operation for the visit of President Xi of People’s Republic of China during the 25th Anniversary of the establishment of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on 1 July 2022, on how to facilitate media reporting activities while ensuring the highest security level of the operation. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | BWH Hotel Group | Because We Care | Bronze | 2023 | The Because We Care training program is designed to teach all BWH Hotel Group property staff about the service standards and culture BWH Hotel Group embodies. This training aims to inspire and motivate behavior change driven by the new service standards outlined in this training and under the Because We Care program. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Accenture – Global IT – Journey & Change Management Center of Excellence | Increasing Competency and Skill Development for Thousands with the Journey & Change Management Playbook | Bronze | 2023 | What began as a PowerPoint deck that captured key project information for one of the 17 service areas that make up Accenture’s Global IT organization quickly grew into a dynamic, easy-to-navigate site that is regularly accessed by thousands of change practitioners across Accenture. It is a testament to the Journey & Change Management Playbook’s efficacy in addressing skill gaps, and its positive impact on not only individual but also organizational objectives that, through word of mouth alone, the Playbook has already been used by thousands of practitioners across Accenture. The playbook ties into Global IT’s objectives to quickly build a consistent, high-performing center of excellence that is a talent engine for Accenture, and the broader Accenture goal to always be its own first, best credential. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | AbbVie and Metrix Group | The Academy - AbbVie & Metrix | Bronze | 2023 | This entry, submitted by AbbVie & Metrix Group, is called "The Academy". The Global Learning Team has established a learning ecosystem via their platform, The Academy, which aims to enhance the skills & capabilities of their brand and field teams for both present and future success. With The Academy, learners have the option to conduct self-assessments to identify the learning opportunities that best suit their needs. Their global competency framework is reflected through an easy-to-use interface, allowing learners to easily locate content that helps them develop their skills in a specific competency. Using curated digital learning paths, users are guided through a journey that blends didactic and interactive resources to develop their skills in particular areas. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | NCR and Encora | Territory Manager (TM) Academy – New TM Training Program | Bronze | 2023 | TM Curriculum is a training program developed for Territory Managers. This curriculum includes: • eLearning • Videos • Quizzes • eTool • Buddy sessions • Exercises |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | POWER GRID CORPORATION OF INDIA LIMITED | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Bronze | 2023 | POWERGRID developed its competency development strategy around key business challenges company has been facing to make the workforce future ready, some of these are diversification of revenue streams, winning transmission projects through competitive bidding, adopt world class technologies in power transmission and digital transformation of the organization. In line with this, a program for developing competencies in emerging areas of artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science was designed in collaboration with IIIT, Bangalore. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | McKinsey & Company | Lead: Designing learning at scale for experienced hire colleagues | Bronze | 2023 | Due to a significant increase in the hiring of consultants with industry and functional expertise, McKinsey needed to redesign one of its core leadership development programs for experienced hires so it could be scaled to meet the increased demand, while also enhancing core learning elements and performance outcomes and meeting sustainability goals. The Lead program is an immersive, five-day in-person program for experienced hire consultants who have worked at McKinsey for about one year and are preparing to become team leaders of a group of consultants. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Feeding America National Organization andVivayic | Fundraising Continuum of Competencies | Bronze | 2023 | Feeding America and Vivayic designed and implemented a competency matrix to support skill development and capacity building efforts for fundraising activities and practices in food banks. Using themes, outcomes, and levels of practice, the competency matrix organized best practices into an accessible continuum for organizations and individuals. Following development of the competency matrix, we created an assessment tool to guide efforts and alignment. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Merck and NIIT | Merck Animal Health 2022 National Engage Rollout | Bronze | 2023 | Merck Animal Health, a global healthcare company launched Veeva CRM to personalize and improve Health Care Professional (HCP) or customer engagement and provide sales representatives with real-time data to make better business decisions. However, the company had to overcome employee reluctance to adopt the new technology. National Engage Rollout, a blended learning training solution was deployed to enable the employees to use the new technology platform for improved prospect and customer interaction and engagement. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Colgate-Palmolive and The Packaging School | Packaging Curricula - Processes & Materials | Bronze | 2023 | Colgate-Palmolive in partnership with The Packaging School created a custom self-directed elearning program that upskilled the packaging organization on shared terminology and key concepts around processes, methods and materials. In addition to gains in knowledge and skills, the business wanted to increase confidence in order to communicate, collaborate and execute more effectively. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | PepsiCo | Building Skills for the Digital Future with Digital Academy | Bronze | 2023 | This entry, submitted by PepsiCo, is called "Building Skills for the Digital Future with Digital Academy." PepsiCo is taking steps to adapt to the changing landscape of the business world by investing in modernizing its supply chain and upskilling its 300,000-person workforce. The Digital Academy initiative was launched to up-skill employees to work with modern technologies and enhance behavior skills that are crucial in today's digital age. This solution required many different solution platform implementations such as LXP - Degreed, content vendor providers such as Udemy, pecipio, Accenture Academy etc. It also made integrations with many of our other platforms like our internal marketplace (Gloat), our tuition assistance and career capability models. Truly a cross functional effort to bring all these systems together in a seamless learner experience. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited and Chrysalis | Lead to Inspire | Bronze | 2023 | Lead to Inspire at ICICI Lombard is the key to understand and address the rising attrition rate and also address the adjustment issues and sales pressure at the organisation. This intervention aimed at training Managers or Team Leads with respect to employee retention and on being effective managers. The target universe was all Manager of Managers at ICICI Lombard (30 in number) and the competencies that we were looking at improving were Employee Retention, Creating Engagement, Hiring Right, Building High Trust Teams / People Management and Managing Performance. The program was a sustained learning journey that involved managers of participants as observers and mentors. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited and Chrysalis | Impeccable Interactions | Bronze | 2023 | Every team in ICICI Lombard is critical to business, and it is imperative for ICICI Lombard to keep upskilling people capabilities and skills. This is a focus of the yearly learning agenda which is derived from internal diagnostics done by the L&D team and business. During this diagnostic, one of the identified needs was to upskill 22 engineers from the Property Risk Assessment Team and from the Strategy and Innovation Team on Communication Skills. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | HSBC Global Service Centres and Technology | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development – Future Fit People Manager | Bronze | 2023 | Future Fit People Manager (FFPM) was the first full-fledged people manager development programme in the Global Service Centers designed to build a pool of fungible and future-ready people managers to run the Bank fit for the future. It supported HSBC’s Bank Wide Ops Transformation (BWOT) and directly aligned to the enterprise-wide strategy of Energizing for Growth. The learning curriculum of Future Fit People Manager was built in collaboration with Subject Matter Experts from the business and using a Design Thinking approach, following the British Design Council’s Double Diamond model – Discover, Define, Develop, and Deliver. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Merck & Co.,Inc. and Corndel | Project Risk Management for MRL China | Bronze | 2023 | This learning program was aimed at improving risk management skills of existing project managers in China. The overall learning solution demonstrates a blend of live virtual learning sessions followed by group coaching to provide the learners guidance on their ongoing projects. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited and Chrysalis | Manager as a Coach | Bronze | 2023 | Managers as Coaches is a blended intervention based on the principles of learn-practice-apply-measure and is customized to the needs of ICICI Lombard managers, managing teams and driving breakthrough performance in a hybrid environment. This intervention focuses on building the skills of managers to coach their teams for development and performance. The intervention and journey are well spread over various milestones and leverage customized toolkits and the existing processes of ICICI Lombard. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | SAP Italy and BTS Group AB | Maximizing Customer Lifecycle Value | Bronze | 2023 | SAP’s strategy is to help every business run as an intelligent, sustainable enterprise. As a market leader in enterprise application software, SAP help companies of all sizes and in all industries run at their best: SAP customers generate 87% of total global commerce. SAP helps give people and organizations deep business insight and fosters collaboration that helps them stay ahead of their competition. SAP simplify technology for companies so they can consume the software the way they want – without disruption. The end-to-end suite of applications and services enables business and public customers across 26 industries globally to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and make a difference. With a global network of customers, partners, employees, and thought leaders, SAP helps the world run better and improve people’s lives. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | SkillPlan and D2L | Build Your Skills Learning Hub – All you need to succeed in the skilled trades | Bronze | 2023 | This entry, submitted by SkillPlan and D2L is called "Build Your Skills Learning Hub – All you need to succeed in the skilled trades." Given the increasing demand for skilled trades and the need to increase the pool of diverse candidates, this one-stop online training and support system will facilitate entry, retention, and advancement in the skilled trades. Leveraging D2L as a complete technology solution provider, SkillPlan adopts a self-directed approach that helps to mitigate some of the barriers that limit access to and address the challenges of navigating the apprenticeship system. This new online learning system aggregates and includes a repository of curated online educational resources and supports available for all Red Seal trades. The result is a flexible, accessible, and personalized learning pathway for students and adult learners. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Regions Bank | Regions Bank Technology Upskilling | Bronze | 2023 | In response to the ever-changing technology landscape, Region’s Bank designed and developed a comprehensive learning program that focuses training on the most crucial skills and skill gaps identified for technology associates. A thorough analysis was performed to align training content with organizational and individual needs. After launching the program, learner engagement increased by 300% and skill proficiencies increased by 34.75%. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Philip Morris International and Sponge | Advancing Smoke-Free Competencies and Skills with PMI’s Brand Accelerator | Bronze | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Sponge (solutions provider) relates to the 'Brand Accelerator' - a project carried out for Philip Morris International (client organisation), with assistance from marketing agency xeim (secondary solutions provider). Since 2016, Philip Morris International (PMI) has outlined its vision for a ‘smoke-free future’ – one focused on developing and commercializing innovative smoke-free products for adults who would otherwise continue to smoke, with the goal of completely ending the sale of cigarettes. By 2025, the organization aims to be a majority smoke-free business. To support this transition, PMI reached out to its long-term digital learning partner, Sponge, and marketing excellence agency xeim, to help launch its Brand Accelerator Project. This is a nine-month-long, university-style course, blending self-paced e-learning, scheduled webinars and on-the-job missions to support the development of skills aligned with PMI’s wider, smoke-free transformation. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | PepsiCo, Inc. and EI, Powered by MPS | Pep+ (PepsiCo Positive) Packaging & Sugar | Gold | 2023 | Pep+ modules aim to increase employee awareness on sustainability and implement these measures in their work, also inspiring their customers and vendors to implement sustainability strategies. The training not only provides information but also helps employees apply these principles in a real-world setting. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | PT Bank Mandiri (Persero) Tbk - Bank Mandiri and IMD - International Institute for Management Development | Bank Mandiri Indonesia & IMD Cultivating ambidextrous talent to support a bank’s dual transformation | Gold | 2023 | Bank Mandiri had set its sights on becoming Indonesia’s best financial services player and prominent in the ASEAN region. To promote the competences and skills necessary to achieve their aspirations, Bank Mandiri partnered with IMD business school to jointly create a learning initiative anchored in the framework of ambidexterity, i.e., the ability to manage a company’s competing demands. To date, the Ambidex series of programs has resonated strongly with Mandiri’s executives, resulting in a growing pool of ambidextrous executive talent focused on a future built on agility, collaboration and ecosystem thinking. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Sarawak Energy | Driving People’s Competence and Expertise Building | Gold | 2023 | Sarawak Energy prioritises and invests in their people, providing them with a multitude of opportunities to build fit-for-purpose competencies and skills aligned with talent management’s end-to-end People Strategy of Acquire, Develop, and Deploy (ADD). The implementation of the People Strategy is supported by key components which are documented in this submission: Sarawak Energy’s Competence Assurance Framework and Subject Matter Experts. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Tech Mahindra Limited | AQT Proficiency Framework | Gold | 2023 | Automation- Quality- Time Proficiency Framework (AQTPF) is a comprehensive automation enablement program launched by TechM to promote an automation mindset and culture within the organization • It is to create an intelligent Automation skilled task force to push more adoption of Intelligent Automation in all service lines (BPS, IT, IES, NS). • AQTPF aims to make everyone understand the potential of Intelligent Automation and AI and the relevant use cases in their work areas that can lead to accelerated industrialization. Through this TechM has trained over 12,000+ Automation certified employees achieving savings of USD 90 million through automation activities. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | M.J. Electric and Infopro Learning | M.J. Electric, LLC | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Infopro Learning, is called "M.J. Electric, LLC." A blended learning program for Project Managers at M. J. Electric that transforms their awareness of business operations. The comprehensive learning journey covers onboarding for consistency and recharges for accountability. Infopro Learning designed a curriculum enabling the MJE Project Managers to perform better and demonstrate business management skills. The learning design approach would take the learners from the stage of ‘I don’t know this to ‘I have mastered this through three key learning phases: Anticipate, Engage, and Scaffolding. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Shell and Accenture | Excellent Employee Experience | Gold | 2023 | The Excellent Employee Experience (EEE) program is a blended learning program targeted at HR professionals, both new hires and experienced ones. The program focuses on building these professionals’ competency in delivering exceptional HR experiences to employees in each interaction. It equips them with the necessary knowledge and skills to deliver value across the organization, apply diagnostics and advisory skills, and build strong customer partnerships. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | American College of Cardiology (ACC) and Infopro Learning | Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM): Accelerating Guideline-Driven Care | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Infopro Learning, is called "Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM): Accelerating Guideline-Driven Care." HCM: Accelerating Guideline-Driven Care is a free global online program with a bold ambition of accelerating the adoption of the 2020 ACC/American Heart Association (AHA) Guidelines for HCM by improving comprehension of HCM pathophysiology, genetic screening, diagnosis, and treatment. The program was designed to tackle the clinical inertia that frequently occurs following a clinical guideline update by simplifying complex HCM concepts, offering practical approaches to diagnosis and treatment, and promoting interprofessional clinical team collaboration. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Constellation PowerLabs, LLC. And Infopro Learning | Advanced Engineering Training | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Infopro Learning, is called "Advanced Engineering Training." The AET initiative is an industry effort, money-managed by Constellation PowerLabs and targeted at engineers employed in the nuclear power plant across the U.S. The goal of this industry initiative is to develop generic, highly technological, computer-based training modules that focuses on specific targeted areas of expertise. The module aims to cover standard industry codes, requirements, and programs, developed using the systematic approach to training. They are also accessible by all participants in the INPO Learning Management System (LMS) or equivalent database system. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Innova | Lead Future | Gold | 2023 | Lead Future Program is designed to identify and develop high-potential employees who have the potential to become future leaders of the company. The program is tailored to meet the specific needs of the company and is designed to align with its organizational objectives. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Verizon | Rockin’ the Value | Gold | 2023 | A music themed instructor led virtual training designed to increase business revenue through improved employee sales and service techniques. This training introduced new selling skills that were integrated into the existing call management flow ensuring learners didn’t leave the learning experience with disparate concepts as to how they would support their customer. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Virb and NIIT | CRA Curriculum | Gold | 2023 | The CRA curriculum is a performance-based, digital-first, spiral curriculum with a vision to train Clinical Research Associates (CRAs) to become job-ready from day one. The curriculum follows a blended learning approach and is designed to be six weeks long with four major components: A foundational course and three Learning Cycles. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Turk Tuborg | INTERNAL TRAINER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM | Gold | 2023 | Internal Trainer Development Program which is structured by Tuborg Academy with the support of senior management aims to increase trainer competencies of employees in line with the strategies of the company, to ensure the development of employees and to transfer internal trainers’ know-how and experience to the entire company and to support continuous development within the understanding of “cooperation” and “making a difference” values. The competencies of the internal trainers has been ensured to a great extent in line with the vision of the company, and additionally 67% of the internal trainers who have participated in this program in the last 4 years have promoted to a higher position. In addition, 75% of internal trainers have improved in at least one capability. The company is free from the cost it has to bear in training and development activities. The ROI of the program was measured as 6.28. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Global Medical Response and EI, Powered by MPS | A2C Management System | Gold | 2023 | The eLearning course has been designed to train new hires in member services in using A2C Management System and handling member calls as per QA standards. The course makes rich use of application-based simulations and conversation simulations to provide learners with hands-on-experience with the application and enables them to manage member calls while demonstrating customer orientation and providing exemplary customer service. |
| Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Tata Consultancy Services | Elevate Runway: Enabling the Journey from Mid-Level to Most Valuable | Gold | 2023 | TCS envisioned a new program specifically targeted at mid-level associates working in IT/ITES who had not gained any Market Relevant competency in the past few years, to enable them to be market-relevant consultants even amidst the rapidly changing technology landscape. The Elevate Runway Program is a mid-level transformation program to enable associates with experience between 10-20 years to stay relevant to the current market trends by linking Learning to Careers. | |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Syngene International | Managerial Development Program | Gold | 2023 | Managerial Development Program is an amalgamation of various learning tracks/journeys coming together to provide people managers with a holistic development to upgrade themselves as well as develop coach like behaviors to help upgrade their team members. This is linked to the in-built NURTURE framework and the internal Leadership Competency Framework. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Swingtech Consulting, Inc. | Swingtech Consulting HHS CMS Integrated Surveyor Training Program Surveyor Skills Review Program | Gold | 2023 | Swingtech developed the SSR program to assess CMS surveyors' skills and competencies required to conduct successful surveys, ensuring that CMS facilities meet basic healthcare quality standards. The SSR program aligns with CMS' organizational goals to ensure quality and safety for patients, residents, and clients receiving care from Medicare and Medicaid certified institutional providers. The SSR program addresses critical gaps in the quality of healthcare provided to Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries and the gap in surveyor performance. The program's design includes evaluating the learning transfer of skills and competencies and creating feedback loops from subject matter experts and front-line managers to update the SSR topics annually, focusing on real-time knowledge gaps hindering the organization's ability to achieve its goals. The program ensures that surveyors continue to demonstrate their skills and knowledge, receive continued training for their roles, and help QSED demonstrate continuous improvement. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Shell and UDACITY | Shell IT Reskilling Programme | Gold | 2023 | Development of a Reskilling solution at scale that enables talent redeployment into Shell’s Information and Digital Technology organization, to optimise value from enterprise human capital and enable Shell’s digital business transformation and Powering Progress strategy. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Turkcell | Future of Leadership Masters Program | Gold | 2023 | Future of Leadership Masters Program, designed by combining different focuses in its vision, is a development journey prepared to improve the leadership competencies of all employees by focusing on Ecosystem Leadership values. This program prepares all applicants for the future as leaders of themselves and their business. The development journey that will last for 1 year consists of 3 phases and brings different disciplines together with the collaborations of three top universities of Türkiye. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Nufarm and BTS | Building Commercial Capabilities at Nufarm | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Nufarm and BTS, is called Building Commercial Capabilities at Nufarm. It contains the development of a commercial capability framework that includes, assessment, a capability curriculum, role-specific learning modules and e-learning. The program has been developed to have a clear understanding of Nufarm’s capability levels as well as development areas to focus on and to use this as a foundation to create a revised commercial blueprint composed of elements (customer touchpoints, processes, resources needed) identified by Nufarm's leadership. With the revised blueprint the Commercial Capability Framework has been built to enable Sales and Marketing employees to speak the same language, leverage expertise across markets, and ensure the targeting of relevant areas. The framework features a suite of seven multi-modal training modules focused on Sales Excellence, GTM, Pricing, and Key Account Management. Finally, this program helped the organization to shift existing mindsets and ways of working. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Abdi İbrahim | Specialist Development Program | Gold | 2023 | Specialist Development Program launched with the aim of enhancing the skills and competencies of its employees. The program consists of various modules that cover different topics and levels of difficulty support delivered through a blended learning approach. The Specialist Development Program is designed to align with the company’s values and vision, and to support its business objectives and performance indicators. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Scotiabank | A11yBoost | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Scotiabank, is called "A11yBoost." A11yBoost is a roles-based virtual instructor-led training program that is available to all Scotiabank employees, from individual contributors to people leaders and executives. It consists of nine modules that focus on different roles within the development life cycle including Digital Product Managers and Business Analysts, Designers, Content Writers, Developers and QA roles. The program enables Scotiabank employees to have the knowledge to design and develop accessible products and services. The journey began in 2020 as a pilot and through continuous user research and consultation with key participants and stakeholders, the program continues to meet and drive the bank’s accessibility needs. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Enerjisa Enerji | Enerjisa "Energy Management Academy" | Gold | 2023 | HR teams of EnerjiSa retail companies have designed a unique and unparalleled development program called the "Energy Management Academy" specifically tailored for the "Energy Management Directorate," which works in the field of energy management in Turkiye. The objective of the EnerjiSa Energy Management Academy is to prepare the employees of the Energy Management Directorate, which holds critical importance for the company, for the competencies of the future. It is a comprehensive development program designed to update their knowledge and skills in line with evolving needs, while also ensuring the motivation and commitment of the team. The aim of this program is to enable the Energy Management team to reach their highest potential in the fast-changing and dynamic business environment, aligned with the vision and goals of EnerjiSa. The nine-month-long development program, designed in a blended format, aims to enrich participants' strategic perspectives and create positive value in their performance outcomes. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Dell | Dell Marketing Development Program (Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development) | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by the Marketing Development Program at Dell Technologies is the Marketing recent grad development program designed to build a talent pipeline for the Dell Marketing department that bridges the skill gap, capitalizing on innovative talent joining the workforce, driving strong marketing and business acumen while building core marketing skills now to meet our future demand. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Capgemini and SweetRush | Connected Manager Leadership Program | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Capgemini and SweetRush, is “Connected Manager.” After the pivot to virtual work in early 2020, Capgemini’s 90,000 people managers found themselves leading international, multicultural teams—overnight. As the face and heart of Capgemini for their teams, these leaders needed to develop the skills and competencies to engage, motivate, and retain their people in hybrid and remote work environments. Connected Manager accomplishes the monumental task of prioritizing human connection and shifting mindsets while delivering an innovative, highly scalable leadership competencies and skill development program. Relevant high-impact content and hands-on live skills practice sessions with gamified, interactive branching scenarios that break through the “fourth wall” of the screen prepare learners to lead a change that transforms their teams—and the business. Through teamwork, rituals, and interactive microlearning content by Harvard management experts, Connected Manager helps Capgemini’s leaders experience connected, collaborative teamwork in a fresh, exciting way. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | CSS Kranken-Versicherung AG | Digital Fitness Check | Gold | 2023 | The "Digital Fitness Check": Employees evaluate independently their digital skills: Fitness is not just about sneakers and a few rounds of jogging in the park. In a business context, it's also important to stay or become fit in digital matters. CSS supports the digital skills of its employees with a digital fitness check and a voluntary learning offer. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | CGI and NIIT-Stackroute | Technology Academy Graduate Onboarding Program | Gold | 2023 | The Technology Academy Graduate Onboarding Program is a capability academy for campus hires at CGI which enables them to develop real-world technology products and transform them from novice new hires to job-ready professionals. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | McKinsey & Company | Early Tenure Playbook | Gold | 2023 | Day-one readiness and belonging have long been hallmarks of McKinsey’s onboarding experience. But today’s newcomers join the firm in a rapidly changing—and increasingly virtual—world of work, where skill needs are on the rise and opportunities for traditional apprenticeship can be variable. To equip its increasingly distributed and diverse population of newly hired consultants with the skills and support they need to succeed in this context, McKinsey’s learning team launched the Early Tenure Playbook (ETP) in July 2022. Scaled within a matter of months across offices in North America, the fully remote program covers skills identified as priority growth areas for all early-tenured consultants. Participants report near-universal growth in day-one skills, mindsets, and feelings of belonging. To build on this rapid success, the team is partnering with leadership in other regions to scale the program across the entire firm within the coming year. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | PNC Bank and AllenComm | Strengthening the PNC Conversation Plan | Gold | 2023 | The Strengthening the PNC Conversation Plan is a suite of modeling and practice activities housed on PNC’s learning experience platform that PNC bankers and leaders can use to create personalized skill development plans aimed at strengthening key customer conversation skills vital to the organization’s success. It gives users autonomy in selecting the activities they need and strategically meets the needs of both bankers and the managers tasked with helping them develop conversation skills, helping both groups build their skills simultaneously. Since its launch, content items from this plan, created for an audience of 8,000+ bankers and their managers, have been completed over 16,000 times. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Aydem Energy | Engineer Development Program (MUGEP) | Gold | 2023 | The Engineer Development Program (MUGEP) is designed to provide a comprehensive learning experience and competency/skill model for engineers. The program aims to bridge the gaps in skills and competencies identified through the needs analysis process, while also addressing the changing business conditions and needs within the electricity generation and distribution sector. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | KPMG Global Services | DAS@KVA | Gold | 2023 | Deal Advisory & Strategy (DA&S) at the KGS Virtual Academy (KVA) was primarily launched with a vision for professionals to gain access to a hybrid learning universe, which is inclusive of technical, techno-functional, and enabling skills, thus ensuring that the overall development of learners for critical business skills and competencies is fulfilled. The program titled ‘DA&S @ KVA’ or Deal Advisory & Strategy at KGS Virtual Academy, was designed on the principles of self-paced learning, enabling professionals to access critical learning and training resources available a unified platform. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Cognizant | FACET 2022 AND BEYOND | Gold | 2023 | The Facilitation And Coaching For Everyday Trainers (FACET) program, skills novice trainers/facilitators and coaches with competencies that cover not just the “what” but also the “how” of maximizing training effectiveness in line with business expectations and needs. In 2022 alone, 128 facilitators across Cognizant’s Intuitive Operations and Automation (IOA) successfully completed the niche program, with a cost saving of $5000+ by reducing dependencies on external facilitators. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Deloitte LLP | Firmwide Coaching Resources microsite for Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Gold | 2023 | The Firmwide Coaching Resources microsite was created as a one-stop-shop resource for coaches to explore learning opportunities and develop their skills to help succeed in their roles and, in turn, help their coachees succeed in their roles at Deloitte. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited and LRN | Supporting Mental Health at Work | Gold | 2023 | Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (also referred to as “Deloitte Global”) developed the elearning course “Supporting Mental Health at Work” in conjunction with LRN to address the organization-wide need to help their employees feel comfortable discussing mental health and have confidence that the organization would support them if they were experiencing mental health challenges of their own. The course focused on improving mental health awareness for all Deloitte people and on developing the conversation skills and capabilities of managers and leaders when it comes to having a conversation about mental health and signposting to support. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Domino's Pizza, Inc | Driver Development Program | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Domino's Pizza, is called "Driver Development Program." A primary business goal for Domino’s Supply Chain was to achieve CDL Driver staffing needs, amid a growing industry shortage of this highly regulated role. This role requires team members to obtain a CDL license, learn and demonstrate how to safely transport store essentials to Domino’s stores, which takes repetition to master. To enable the Driver staffing pipeline, Domino’s designed an apprenticeship program to develop and add 40 graduates to the Driver workforce, increase retention by 39% and reduce time to knowledge proficiency by 48%. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages and Chrysalis | Influencing for Results | Gold | 2023 | At HCCB, the commitment is to keep 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 at various levels. Learning needs of employees across individual contributor levels and functions were collated. Based on this information, content was curated & created to put together a customized learning journey ‘Influencing for Results’. The journey created included a blended approach for 200 individual contributors. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Cummins and EI, Powered by MPS | Competency and Skill Development | Gold | 2023 | This course was designed for Frontline Supervisors to help them understand their roles and responsibilities in leading HSE. The course was designed by a cross-functional team that included supervisors and aimed at helping them develop soft skills. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Syneos Health | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Syneos Health, represents best-in-class career pathing options for critical jobs within the company. This project was designed to provide employee development options based on competencies and skills. Key competencies and skills were identified for 243 jobs in 10 different job families through collaboration with business stakeholders, job SMEs and the Global Learning & Talent Management Team. Over 6,000 employees have been impacted by this initiative. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Ameriprise Financial | Ameriprise Financial - Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development 2023 | Gold | 2023 | When scripted customer interactions with call center associates were no longer effective at Ameriprise, the Learning and Development team placed active listening at the heart of its adaptable skill development framework. The company’s 4Cs of Service Culture program targets contact center associates located at five of the financial planning and advisory firm’s locations. The program denotes a cultural shift in bringing the customer’s perspective to the forefront of their daily work and emphasizing the role of service as a competitive advantage. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Bank of America | Wealth Management Client Associate New-to-Role Academy Program | Gold | 2023 | Prior to the creation of the Wealth Management Client Associate New-to-Role Academy Program, Wealth Management Client Associates newly hired into Merrill were locally trained on-site in their respective offices by other Wealth Management Client Associates based on the available office-level support. This resulted in an inconsistent, variable training process and longer speed-to-proficiency. As a result, the Wealth Management Client Associate New-to-Role Program was created to provide a streamlined, nationally distributed program that gives new-hire Wealth Management Client Associates an eight-week, Academy-led, high-touch, yet comprehensive, training. As such, new hire WMCAs are properly and consistently trained, while also saving local offices the capacity in having to train these new hires. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Colgate-Palmolive and The Presentation Company | Storytelling and Data Visualization Training Transforms Colgate-Palmolive Teams into Strategic Communicators | Gold | 2023 | These two courses are assisting the organization with regards to the importance of Data Literacy & Analytics. The ability to tell a story leveraging data insights to drive decision-making in “real time” is paramount for Colgate-Palmolive. As a result, employees are better equipped to accelerate the organization’s strategy and achieve better business results utilizing the skills, and competency-building tools and processes from the learning journey. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Deloitte LLP | Deloitte AI Academy™ Uses Innovative Blended Learning Program to Develop AI Skills and Competencies | Gold | 2023 | The Deloitte AI Academy™ New Hire Program serves as Deloitte’s engine to bridge the artificial intelligence (AI) talent gap in the market today by educating our way to AI talent growth. The new hire program focuses on training new analysts in core AI skills, data analytics, and machine learning fundamentals, while linking these concepts to professional skills and Deloitte’s culture. The program is an intensive, technical program focused on upskilling participants with the key skills needed to be able to contribute promptly to project work. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Bank of America | Market Leader Post Program Support | Gold | 2023 | The Market Leader Post Program Support Model plays a critical role in The Academy’s priority of providing a world-class onboarding experience. The post program support model was designed to meet the organizational objectives of creating an end-to-end onboarding experience for Financial Center Market Leaders that help them become productive from day one in role and delivering training reinforcement that enables them to apply what they learned on the job and increase business outcomes. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Bank of America | Words Matter | Gold | 2023 | Words Matter builds on Client Care principles to instill confidence in employees and solutions through consistent words and phrases at every stage of the call flow. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Bank of America | Bank of America Private Bank Advisor Pathway Program | Gold | 2023 | Through a combined cohort experience and a customized development roadmap and business plan, Private Bank Advisor Pathway Program provides a prescriptive experience enhancing the skills and knowledge that internally produces successful Private Client Advisor’s. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Harbinger Group | Developing Capability at Scale – Elevate and Go Beyond | Gold | 2023 | A multipronged approach to Competency and Capability Development to ensure seamless and high-quality deliverables. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Accenture | MAX Exceptional Performance | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Accenture is called "MAX Exceptional Performance". MAX is a 16-week project where Accenture joined Ecopetrol, the largest Colombian company; to design and complement their learning ecosystem based on data analysis and people-centered understanding, by leveraging on Accenture´s knowledge of the energy industry. Based on this, Accenture delivered a tailored learning experience based on employees’ motivations and purposes, aligned to Ecopetrol´s business needs, which helped them to start making data-driven decisions that improve employees learning paths and have the potential to transform 33 key roles, impacting approximately 1209 employees. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Bank of America | Preventing, Recognizing and De-escalating Difficult Client Situations | Gold | 2023 | The Preventing, Recognizing and De-escalating Difficult Client Situations education approach was designed and executed as a multi-phased and multi-solution plan for over 31,000 client-facing employees, their managers, and support partners focused on building skills and behaviors to prevent, recognize, and de-escalate difficult client situations. Execution of this education approach, including the use of immersive technology, led to a reduction in law enforcement engagement with irate persons, and an increase in employee and manager confidence. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | McKinsey & Company | McKinsey Implementation: Journey to Impact | Gold | 2023 | As clients have increasingly turned to McKinsey to help them successfully drive and implement transformation strategies, the firm created a new consultant talent path – Implementation – and scaled its pool of talent with expertise in this space. As a result, the firm also needed to build learning and development opportunities specific to the needs of colleagues on the Implementation path. McKinsey’s learning team worked with groups across disciplines to identify the skills that are critical for Implementation colleagues’ success and designed a full curriculum and learning journey from scratch to address those needs. The journey encompasses not only traditional learning experiences (available in person and virtually), but also fieldwork, apprenticeship, opportunities for feedback, check-ins at milestones, credentials, and professional development support. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited and Chrysalis | Samarth | Gold | 2023 | ICICI Lombard as an organization focuses on people capability skills and on the outcome, they achieve through those skills. Every team in ICICI Lombard caters to customers either through direct or indirect interactions. As a part of their yearly internal diagnostics, it was identified that the Customer Service Motor Team need to undergo training in Customer Service Skills. The focus was to effectively build skills for 816 Customer Service Managers and Senior Customer Service Managers. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | ORANGE BUSINESS SERVICES and CHRYSALIS | ASPIRE | Gold | 2023 | ASPIRE at Orange Business SERVICES (“OBS”) is an intervention that aims to prepare First Time Managers at OBS. The target universe were Frontline Technical People, Individual Contributors and Project Managers at OBS (80 in number), across various locations and the competencies that we were looking at improving were the People Management, Growth Mindset, Accountability and Ownership, Stakeholder Management, Critical Thinking and Decision Making, Conflict Resolution and Collaboration. The program was a blended experiential journey that involved managers of participants and senior leaders |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | HP and Accenture | Partner Skill Development | Gold | 2023 | 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 Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Johnson & Johnson | Navigating Year-end | Gold | 2023 | “Navigating Year-end" is a three-module digital learning program that all Johnson & Johnson People Leaders complete to prepare them for their year-end process. The learning program includes instruction on assessing employee performance and recommending fair and equitable year-end compensation decisions in alignment with Johnson and Johnson’s pay for performance philosophy. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | General Motors Africa and Middle East and GP Strategies | FRFT Competition | Gold | 2023 | Based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, the General Motors Training Center created a competition program for dealership technicians across the Middle East. The program achieved its goal of improving employee retention, allowing the technicians to gain more seniority and skill over time. With increased skills, the technicians would be more likely to provide excellent service on customer vehicles, thereby improving customer retention. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Intermountain Health | If You're Not Moving the Needle, What's the Point? Optimizing New Hire Performance at Intermountain Health | Gold | 2023 | In response to the changing landscape of healthcare in America that mandated lower costs and higher efficiencies, Intermountain Health embarked on a journey to transform its Revenue Cycle operation. The redesign of its New Hire Training program supported the strategic imperatives of the health system by shortening the learning curve of new caregivers and improving quality results. The initiative provided a net 122% return on investment for the organization. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | National Academy of Civil Service | “Better than BEST” – English Training Upgrade to Accelerate Civil Service Alignment with the International Community | Gold | 2023 | The National Academy of Civil Service (NACS) has developed various strategies to equip civil servants with practical English communication skills to comply with future job requirements and integrate into the global community. Firstly, a three-level English training roadmap has been created, which identifies various work-related scenarios, such as providing information, writing official letters, making presentations, conducting phone conversations, hosting foreign guests, and performing specialized duties. Secondly, instead of using existing teaching materials, NACS has created its own English learning materials based on the "SCAN" principles and offers online/offline learning activities in courses. Group presentations are also used to evaluate trainees’ performance. Thirdly, supporting resources such as audio reference books, digital courses, and a micro-learning app are available. The benefits of this policy include nurturing bilingual talent with global competitiveness, activating bilingual capabilities within the civil service, and enhancing international policy promotion. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Ness Digital Engineering | Enhance internal deployment through deep digital skilling. | Gold | 2023 | Enhance internal deployment through deep digital skilling - the program has the following objectives 1.Building deep digital skills for improving internal talent rotation 2. Enable associates to take up higher order roles within and fast track their careers. 3. Improve service quality levels for our customers Enabling the engineering talent while solutions to the customer challenges require a combination of expertise in multiple complex technologies. “Senior Java Developers to Full Stack Engineers” |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | HCL TECHNOLOGIES LTD. | Digital Business Talent Transformation @ Scale | Gold | 2023 | DBT2S - Digital Business Talent Transformation @ Scale program focuses on improving employees’ competency and skills using the Dreyfus Competency Model. This program targets timely fulfilment of business requirements on high-demand digital skills by creating a deployment-ready pool of employees trained on such skills through Fresh Talent Incubation, Near-Skill Hiring & Training, Upskilling/Reskilling/Cross-skilling of existing employees. This program, therefore, also proactively prepares employees for changes in technology trends thereby facilitating their career growth. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and EI, Powered by MPS | Change Management | Silver | 2023 | Information Technology (IT) protects the live, or production, environment by managing and thoroughly vetting changes made to IT systems. The training content developed to support an improved understanding of the IT Change Management Process ensures both practitioners and managers understand the rationale and method to successfully launch new systems and maintain existing ones through careful definition, testing, and deployment of production changes. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Axis Bank and Harappa Learning Pvt. Ltd | Leadership Basecamp | Silver | 2023 | Axis Bank is a leading Indian banking and financial services company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Leadership Basecamp Program was developed to upskill 8500 of their front-line supervisors. The learning journey for these learners was based on a unique classification into camps with separate learning outcomes mapped to each of these camps. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Boehringer Ingelheim and Infopro Learning | TA “Digital Savviness for Value” eLearning Program 2022 | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Infopro Learning, is called "TA “Digital Savviness for Value” eLearning Program 2022." This learning program supports the Learning Hub of the BI Corporate Therapeutic Areas (TAs) to become the one-stop shop for digital savviness learning within BI. This program highlights a clear path for the Corporate Therapeutic Areas (TA) Value colleagues to follow and achieve their learning goals via a “digital savviness certificate” concept. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Aberdeenshire Council and Learning Pool | Competencies and skill development through an LMS for the 21st Century | Silver | 2023 | Historically, Aberdeenshire Council had relied upon the delivery of learning through face-to-face courses and sessions, with some basic online elements for mandatory compliance. However, with the momentum of technology and then the additional restrictions of the pandemic in early 2020, the need to rebuild the learning offering for all of their 16,000 employees became apparent. Aberdeenshire Council’s in-house team introduced the Learning Pool Platform to create new content, tools and courses that would meet the needs of all across the business. Thus, with the support of Learning Pool, Aberdeenshire Learning and Development Online (ALDO) was reborn with a new look and feel, along with more interactive and immersive content capabilities. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | L&T Construction and Integra Software Services | L&T Construction’s Skill Development Programs Successfully Developed 25,000 (apprx.) Skilled Workmen in the Construction Industry | Silver | 2023 | Larsen & Toubro (L&T) is a major Indian conglomerate operating in diverse sectors, including construction. For more than 25 years, L&T's Construction Skills Training Institutes (CSTIs) have been providing vocational training to the construction industry workforce. Given the company's involvement in large-scale projects, there was a need for a significant number of supervisory staff at project sites. To address this need, L&T implemented a program to develop competencies and skills throughout the organization, ensuring a pool of skilled supervisory staff was readily available for project execution. This program has been successful, with the organization having created approximately 25,000 skilled workmen, leading to increased productivity, timely delivery, and increased profits. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Moody's Analytics and TTA (The Training Associates) | Listening to the Voice of the Customer – Moody’s Analytics ESG Training | Silver | 2023 | Driven by the voice of their customers, increase in demand, and regulatory changes, Moody’s set out to create a solution that would help educate their clients on the core principles, regulations, and techniques that financial institution professionals needed to know to integrate ESG risk assessment into their lending and investment decisions. They partnered with TTA to help them design, develop, and deploy a customized eLearning program that would address the skills gaps expressed by their clients and upskill their teams to make successful, strategic decisions for their businesses. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Accenture Solutions Private Limited | Accenture Capability Development – HTD (Hire-Train-Deploy) Bootcamp | Silver | 2023 | A program designed to onboard and elevate the current market workforce's skill, to meet business goals, through revised hiring criteria and customized training interventions. This program was able to exceed set goals and help business meet their committed volume of work. The program was called Hire-Train-Deploy. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Verizon | Verizon Data Science Academy and Data Games | Silver | 2023 | With Data Analysis and visualization skills becoming more in demand in the workplace, Verizon needed a way to upskill employees in an engaging, gamified way. Through the use of Coursera’s Data Science Academy, Verizon created the Data Games, which is a competitive event to showcase learners’ skills in applying their newly acquired data skills while analyzing real data sets. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | DXC Technology | Full Stack Program @ DXC | Silver | 2023 | The DXC Full Stack Program is an innovative and comprehensive training program designed to equip aspiring developers with the skills and expertise needed to thrive in the fast-paced and constantly evolving tech industry. It covers 3 areas - Java, Mainframe and Network, chosen after a careful analysis of demand trends and existing internal skill sets. Overall, the program trained 592 people, providing a total of 128,558 hours of learning, and reducing labor cost for DXC by building talent from withing compared to hireing from the market. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Cognizant | Driving Cultural Intelligence: Enabling a borderless, culturally connected workforce in a post COVID world | Silver | 2023 | In line with the goal of enabling a borderless, culturally connected workforce, Cognizant’s Learning & Development (L&D) team developed a well-researched culture sensitization framework. These perfectly designed culture skilling programs/ workshops helped our associates and business units achieve effective communication, improved collaboration, and build a culturally equipped workforce, all leading to long-term successful client partnerships. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | UST | UST's Competency and Skill Development Program | Silver | 2023 | UST’s Ascend program is a transformative learning intervention that ignites growth and development while unraveling the path to self-discovery. With the theme 'Skilling for the Future,' this edition saw a collaboration between UST and LinkedIn Learning where employees had the opportunity to explore a specially curated repertoire of learning resources to upskill themselves. UST’s Ascend program expertly blends the cultivation of essential human skills with the acquisition of indispensable power skills, thus creating an environment where participants can truly evolve into the best version of themselves. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | SOCAR TÜRKİYE ENERJİ A.Ş. | Generation Digital Program (in short referred as GEN-D) | Silver | 2023 | With this very specific objective in mind SOCAR Turkey Adaptation Team has committed itself to build these competencies and create digitalization champions across all the functions of the business. Generation Digital Program (in short referred as GEN-D) has been created with this objective in mind with laser focus on nourishing and enabling digital competencies of non-technical personnel therefore enabling the upskilling and reskilling of the workforce. In a nutshell GEN-D is the transformational digital competency development program, creating SOCAR Turkey’s new digital generation. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Persistent Systems and NIIT-Stackroute | Propeller Architect Competence Development Program (Solution Architecture Proficiency for Practising Architects) | Silver | 2023 | The tech leadership council at Persistent Systems wanted to enhance the architecture capability of the organization by enhancing solution architecture competencies within an existing pool of practising solution architects. A 10-week intervention spanning across 29 sessions was executed for these solution architects. The program focused on building their knowledge of available technologies to suggest the best solution according to the incoming requirements and existing environment. With a lot of different practises associated with platforms, languages, and tools, it is important for solution architects to hone their competencies around technology assessments and comparisons to bring about the design of a detailed technical solution to meet both the functional and non-functional requirements of the project. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Capgemini and SweetRush | Elevate | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Capgemini and SweetRush, is “Elevate.” Elevate is an exclusive, personalized, and social skill development journey for Capgemini’s highly valued, accomplished account executives (AEs) to level up their leadership skills and business acumen. Capturing mindshare from these busy leaders was a challenge ingeniously solved by the Capgemini-SweetRush team: AEs apply the learning to their own client challenges. Elevate builds in time for the social experiences AEs value most: learning from respected experts and exchanging “war stories.” Elevate has two tracks to accommodate AEs’ range of experience and skills: For junior-level AEs, a seven-week hybrid sprint focused on a single leadership core competency, and for senior level AEs, a 2.5-day, in-person summit with Capgemini board members and other industry luminaries. Supported by an enterprise-wide effort to transform the AE role and strong executive support, Elevate provides impactful skilling content that helps learners level up their leadership skills. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Boys & Girls Clubs of America and Infopro Learning | Teen Accelerator 2.O | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Infopro Learning, is called "Teen Accelerator 2.O." A highly interactive and engaging Immersive Learning Program that equips Youth Development Professionals (YDPs) to co-develop and facilitate important steps and strategies with current Club teens and non-Club affiliated teens to drive Club’s teen recruitment, engagement, and retention efforts. The program includes an independent eLearning course and an instructor-led Capstone session. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Nordea and Infopro Learning | Trading and Custody Services Advanced Onboarding | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Infopro Learning, is called "Trading and Custody Services Advanced Onboarding." The Trading & Custody Services’ (TCS) Advanced training course is a highly interactive and visually engaging course designed to raise awareness and build competency among employees regarding customer impact, value chain, and services provided by Trading & Custody Services. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Mercer | Competency Framework Guruspeak | Silver | 2023 | This entry called Competency Framework is submitted by Mercer company. The creation of the competency/skill program was a strategic response to business conditions and needs, reflecting Mercer's commitment to addressing talent gaps and achieving business objectives. It describes the process of assessing core competencies and successful training interventions such as GuruSpeak and Lighthouse. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Apisero Inc | Hoopa-UDAAN (Upskilling and Driving Apiseroans to Achieve their Next...) | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Apisero Inc. (An NTT Data Company), is called "Hoopa-UDAAN". It is a 3-Phase, staggered skill and competency upskilling program for the newly joined software engineers, who are engineering undergraduates, to the skills and competencies of a senior software engineer. The Hoopa-UDAAN program has yielded business results as an outcome as expected by the delivery and the management. This program was created based on the requirement of upskilling the software engineers quickly to the next role and in the process contributing to the revenue and profitability of the company. The end result of this program has given the L&OD team and the management a lot of confidence to devise a similar program for the next roles -- senior software engineer to a lead engineer role, lead engineer to a senior lead engineer role, etc. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Blauch Brothers Inc | Foundation for Success - Building Standardized, Relevant KSAs Among Construction Apprentices | Silver | 2023 | To produce consistently high performing, quality-conscious apprentices who are competent and confident in their work behaviors demands focus on the basics. This performance improvement effort applied a holistic, systematic, ever increasing growth and development strategy to promote top of industry workforce development. The project remains iterative and continues to evolve through periodic evaluation and data analysis. Since implementation morale improved, performance soared, workforce turnover reduced, and headcount increased by more than 18% across the Company as data reflects. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | General Administration of Customs | A future worldclass customs authority in competencies and skill development | Silver | 2023 | The entry is submitted by the General Administration of Customs in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and is called "A future worldclass customs authority in competencies and skill development". Submitting a proposal with a supporting video, files, and figures. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Akamai Technologies and Potential Squared International Limited | Enabling and Empowering Akamai Managers to Effectively LEAD | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Akamai Technologies, in partnership with PotentialSquared, is called "Enabling and Empowering Akamai Managers to Effectively LEAD." To help solve a growing need, Akamai built a one-stop-shop resource center designed to empower people managers with tools, resources, and skills to be effective and successful in their roles. Additionally, a leadership development pilot program was rolled out to provide consistent support and learning opportunities to managers to effectively lead their teams. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Deloitte LLP | CDx: Embark | Silver | 2023 | Consulting Development Experience (CDx): Embark is a customized onboarding program focused on core consulting and technical skills for Deloitte Consulting LLP campus new hires, and new-in-role experienced hire analysts, joining the business at the entry-level to help prepare them to be project ready as soon as possible after completion. Its modular format and dual paths can flex to meet the needs of a diverse audience to provide a consistent foundation of core consulting skills for multiple types of learners. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | C.E.A. CIRCULAR ECONOMY ALLIANCE LTD. and Learning Everest Private Limited | Skilling a global workforce for the Circular Economy | Silver | 2023 | The following entry dives into Circular Economy Alliance’s “Circular Economy Specialist (High-Mastery)” bundle which is a comprehensive certification program that introduces Circular Economy principles and elaborates on their application in the real world. The course lends a Circular Economy specialist’s understanding to learners who can then utilize their learnings in their respective fields of work. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Accenture | Building Expertise in Data Science Skills through Precision Learning | Silver | 2023 | Building expertise in Data Science skills through the Precision Learning program best fits the category of competencies and skill development. This program enables learners to evaluate their skills, receive learning recommendations, engage in learning activities, and then re-evaluate their skills, completing this cycle repeatedly until they achieve their target score or attain proficiency in the respective domain. This process of learning is ongoing, and it helps learners transfer their acquired knowledge and skills to their actual work environment. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Capgemini Technology Services India Limited | OCEAN | Silver | 2023 | OCEAN’ is an acronym which stands for Organization is Committed to Educate, Assess & Nurture and with OCEAN, Capgemini in India pushes employees to "Drive to Grow". It is a unique initiative to enable our employees with their role-based up-skilling/cross-skilling learning journey. Learners go through an extensive role-based assessment; and are subsequently taken through a phase-wise learning journey, thus propelling their competency-enhancement and career progression path. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | General Dynamics Electric Boat and GP Strategies | Painter Pipeline Training | Silver | 2023 | United States Naval shipbuilding demand has resulted in targeted hiring demand for skilled trades at Electric Boat (EB). Ongoing need for painters led EB to the decision to partner with GP Strategies to develop a 2.5-week Painter Pipeline program for entry level candidates to prevent potential skill gaps and reliance on resources necessary for on-the job training. This program enables EB to attract, efficiently prepare, and train participants with basic level skills. With successful completion of the program, participants are able to immediately join crews and perform basic painting jobs. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | HSBC Global Service Centres and Technology | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development 2022 - Future Fit 2.0 | Silver | 2023 | The citation for project Future Fit 2.0 focuses on a regional flagship programme for HSBC Global Service and Technology Centres to create a future-ready workforce, that covered 1,056,603 learners through upskilling, across 7 countries. The fundamental focus was on deepening the knowledge for Future Skills and encourage application in the flow of work through a multi-modal approach to learning, including high impact business projects for a project based learning journey to empower employees at every level of their career journey and be fit for the future. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | Merck & Co.,Inc. | Global Clinical Trial Project Management Programme | Silver | 2023 | Global Clinical Trials Project Management. Custom Learning Pathway focused on key skills enhancements to create greater consistency and speed up clinical trials to bring medicines to the patient quicker. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development | TD Bank | FutureNow - Grow your Future Skills Today | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by TD Bank, is called FutureNow. FutureNow enables all TD colleagues to build capabilities aligned to key priorities and growth areas at the Bank. As a holistic solution to develop future skills, FutureNow includes a collection of self-directed learning content, instructor-led programs, and sustainment activities. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Compliance Training | Fresenius Medical Care | 2022 Annual Compliance Training | Bronze | 2023 | Engagement is at the heart of this story-based compliance course, in which five scenarios illustrate common compliance risks our employees could realistically encounter and the concrete actions needed to maintain compliance. Moreover, each scenario is bookended by leaders within our company who get to the heart of why compliance matters to our business, our stakeholders, and most importantly, our patients. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Compliance Training | Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and EI, Powered by MPS | Identity and Access Management | Bronze | 2023 | As Regeneron has grown and benefited from increased brand awareness, so too have the security risks related to Regeneron Intellectual Property, proprietary research and trade secrets. An important aspect of protecting Regeneron’s data is ensuring only verified and vetted individuals have access to information, and that these individuals see exactly what they should see to perform their roles. A robust Identity and Access Management program, starting with thorough training helps safeguard Regeneron’s business by protecting its information. This eLearning module complements a defined request, review, approve and periodic review process protecting access to Regeneron systems and a meticulously enforced Identity and Access Policy. System Owners, System Managers and People Managers all receive this training to equip them to perform thorough, thoughtful and effective reviews of access for their people and their systems of responsibility. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Compliance Training | World Bank Group and EI, Powered by MPS | World Bank Group PASH Training | Bronze | 2023 | The World Bank Group remains committed to preventing and combating sexual harassment in the workplace. This training is aimed at increasing awareness of issues pertaining to sexual harassment through ongoing dialogue and highlights how each of us plays an important role in preventing such issues. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Compliance Training | OPKO Health/BioReference Health and Docebo | Optimizing a mandatory response from your organization | Bronze | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Docebo, is called "Optimizing a mandatory response from your organization". In 2022, BioReference Health reanalyzed the way they were launching mandatory compliance training. At the core of the analysis was a mandate to train all covered persons. Using an escalation notification system and top-down and bottom-up communication strategies, the company was able to drive 95% compliance with 3600 covered persons within 34 days. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Compliance Training | National Bank of Kuwait and iQuad | Best Advance in Compliance Training | Bronze | 2023 | The National Bank of Kuwait is entering for the “Best Advance in Compliance Training”, as an opportunity to shed light on the successful practices and arrangements currently run at one of the best banks in Kuwait. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Compliance Training | Pipeline Infrastructure Limited (PIL) and Ozemio | Work at Height | Bronze | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Pipeline Infrastructure Limited and Ozemio is called ""The Bottom Line."" It is self-running eLearning module about safety. Since this topic talks about the safety when working at height, a mascot driven approach was followed. This helped in boosting safety awareness related to work at heights amongst PIL’s globally spread-out workforce. The module is designed to be fully accessible on any device, in any location, and at any time, ensuring that the module is inclusive to PIL workforce from different geographies with hectic schedules or awkward working hours. The end result is a SCORM-compliant eLearning series with creative visuals, illustrated video, and real-time videos helped learners understand why it is important for working safely at height and learn how risky it can be to work at height and thus certain rules need to be followed for safety. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Compliance Training | IG Wealth Management | IG Wealth Management - Best Advance in Compliance Training – Client Focused Reforms | Bronze | 2023 | IG Wealth Management’s Client Focused Reforms training program was designed to align with the new rules set by regulators as well as business process and technology changes that supported the new regulations. Training content focused on 4 key areas: reinforcement of existing knowledge, business application, expansion of current knowledge, and introducing new concepts. Content was delivered virtually using a variety of formats in both English and French such as: live webcasts, webinars, online e-learning modules, WalkMe and job aids. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Compliance Training | Export Development Canada | Export Development Canada - Annual Code of Conduct Exercise | Bronze | 2023 | Over the years, EDC’s Annual Code of Conduct exercise and attestation process has taken many forms but in 2022, the Learning & Development Team and the Compliance & Ethics Team decided to try a new approach to the design of this training to engage learners using humour. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Compliance Training | Medtronic and Hurix Systems Private Limited | Annual Quality Training | Bronze | 2023 | Medtronic’s Annual Quality Training program aims to educate its 90,000+ employees about patient safety and product quality and is therefore directly tied to the organizational mission of alleviating pain, restoring health, and extending life. This simple yet effective compliance training program incorporates gamification to build engagement & videos to build an emotional connection with the target audience. It has received high praise from all levels of employees at Medtronic. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Compliance Training | Anglo American and The Training Room Online Pty Ltd | Best Advance in Compliance Training - TravelFit | Bronze | 2023 | This e-Learning entry submitted by Anglo American in conjunction with TTRO is called TravelFit. It is a modular, three-part e-Learning course that includes a Rise 360 e-Learning section, a 2D animation and a decision tree infographic. TravelFit is a course that educates travelling employees about the holistic and safety-centred, Anglo American Travel Policy. Compliance training can be tedious and this e-Learning uses a blended learning-medium approach to deliver the key points of the compliance training dynamically and engagingly. • First, e-Learning uses storytelling through animation to illustrate the importance of travel safety. • Next, the use of micro-learning methods reinforces the knowledge gained through animated storytelling. • Lastly, the learner learns how to map the best travel decisions by using the decision-tree infographic. This e-Learning course is SCORM-compliant and it makes use of innovative instructional design techniques to create a captivating, engaging learning experience to ensure competency at all levels. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Compliance Training | Lockheed Martin | International Business Practices – Business Conduct Compliance Training | Bronze | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Lockheed Martin, is 4 topic based eLearning module that allows employees to fast track test out of each topic. Given the fact that our workplace demographics have shifted, many of our employees don’t understand that Lockheed Martin’s commitment to anti-corruption and focus on ethics and compliance didn’t start overnight. We needed to design a compliance training that gave our newer employees an opportunity to take a deeper dive and follow a traditional e-Learning compliance training yet give our seasoned workforce a way to retrain using a fast track test out option if they already felt comfortable with the content/policy references. The training was published in SCORM 2004 so we could capture test metrics and is offered in English, French, Polish, Turkish and Spanish. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Compliance Training | Pfizer, Inc. andf Performance Development Group | Pfizer Integrity Training | Bronze | 2023 | Pfizer was looking for a more engaging way to teach colleagues about compliance and integrity. Pfizer collaborated with PDG to create "The Integrity League—How to Be a Compliance Superhero," a creative graphic novel with characters, a villain, and challenges that could be completed in bite-sized pieces. This interactive and fun way of learning helped employees learn key compliance and culture concepts such as appropriate promotional messaging and how to conduct speaker programs, as well as why acting with integrity and speaking up are important to the organization and the patients it serves. With this innovative and customized approach to learning about compliance and culture, Pfizer was able to communicate key policy requirements in a micro-learning format to enhance retention and reinforce its expectations around ethical conduct. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Compliance Training | T-Mobile and Sublime Media | T-Mobile NEO & Integrity365 | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by T-Mobile and Sublime Media, is called "T-Mobile NEO & Integrity365". T-Mobile collaborated with Sublime Media to reimagine its compliance training program from strategy to delivery. The results were NEO (New Employee Onboarding), a foundational compliance OLT, and Integrity365, or i365, a TV show-like refresher on Code of Business Conduct training, now in its fourth season. The programs work together to provide an efficient, entertaining experience that engages learners to train policy effectively. NEO is a 3-week onboarding journey; the experience provides a base layer of compliance training for new employees. i365 is a compliance video series designed for all employees, with actual T-Mobile employees as actors facing relatable, interactive scenarios that learners help navigate and high-end motion graphics wrapping up key points. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Compliance Training | Shell and Area9 Lyceum | Antitrust Knowledge e-learning | Gold | 2023 | Antitrust Knowledge is part of the Ethics & Compliance learning curriculum. It is mandatory for staff, whose roles have been assessed as significantly exposed to Antitrust risk. This course aims to support 12,000 nominated learners with knowledge about the Antitrust risks, the importance of complying with Antitrust requirements and rules and enable them to do the right thing in a specific situation to comply with Antitrust laws and Shell Business Principles. Nominated staff is expected to re-take the course every 3 years. To date the course was delivered F2F and has been redesigned and launched in 2022 in new adaptive format. With this new format Shell will not only significantly optimize learner time (approx. 33% less time spent compared to the classroom course), but also, we receive a higher knowledge retention and can be sure that learners gain a 100% proficiency. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Compliance Training | TRACE International and Harbinger Group | An Organization’s Journey to Create Relatable, Fun, and Effective Training on Anti-Bribery Compliance: Mission Possible | Gold | 2023 | “Mission Possible” is an engaging eLearning module designed to effectively instruct on the topic of anti-bribery compliance. Featuring a relatable character named ‘Gloria’ as the protagonist, the learner’s “mission” is to help guide Gloria as she navigates several commonly encountered situations, each presenting a unique anti-bribery compliance scenario. Utilizing an interactive scoring feature, the learner can also accumulate points for correct guidance given to Gloria, culminating in the award of a badge at the conclusion of the course and completion of one’s “Mission Possible.” |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Compliance Training | Bombardier Inc. and EI, Powered by MPS | Basics of Export Control | Gold | 2023 | The training is designed to provide knowledge about export controls and how Bombardier complies with them, the risks of non-compliance, and the responsibilities of the employee in relation to exports. The content is personalized for the work environment at Bombardier. Relatable case studies, thoughtfully designed interactions, and impactful imagery are leveraged to make the experience valuable. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Compliance Training | Scotiabank and Flint Learning Solutions | Scotiabank's Global Mandatory Learning Program | Gold | 2023 | Scotiabank plays an important and privileged role in the fabric of society and the global economy. Providing employees with relevant, timely and accurate learning solutions bolsters the bank’s position as a Leading Bank in the Americas. Scotiabank’s Global Mandatory Learning program is a compliance training program that allows the learner to apply existing knowledge through real-life scenarios to deepen their knowledge of compliance policies and issues with a focus on keeping the Bank and its customers and employees safe. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Compliance Training | Anglo American and GP Strategies | Doing the Right Thing: Our Code of Conduct, Our Values in Action | Gold | 2023 | “Doing the right thing”, a Code of Conduct training, is a scenario-based, illustrated learning program to be completed biannually by Anglo American’s people. It is fully accessible to all learners, and available both in an online format and via an interactive PDF. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Compliance Training | Ericsson | The Best Advance in Compliance Training | Gold | 2023 | We in Ericsson Compliance Training are on a journey to ‘Imagine Possible’ that looks at transforming mandatory trainings from required to desired. We have earned the right to re-imagine what mandatory training can and should be to help us live our ethics and integrity every single day; in everything, everywhere, all at once. We made this happen through our bi-weekly governance, data-driven creative design, Real time Dashboards, launch due diligence, automation, and engaging, simplified employee experiences that helps our people know better to do better!! |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Compliance Training | Bombardier Inc. and EI, Powered by MPS | Ethical Leadership | Gold | 2023 | The training is designed to provide Bombardier’s leaders with a refresher course on ethical management, why it’s important, and the consequences of non-compliance. Real-world examples are used to drive the message home and specific risk areas are examined. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Compliance Training | McKinsey & Company | Decisions Matter | Gold | 2023 | McKinsey serves clients across industries on matters that require discretion, quick action, and professional judgment. Understanding where colleagues may need additional skill-building in professional standards and conduct, and facilitating learning in this area, is a priority for the firm. Decisions Matter features immersive learning, interaction, assessments, immediate coaching and feedback, innovative instructional design, and relatable scenarios, all geared toward helping colleagues exercise sound decision making and immediately understand where they have opportunities to build their skills. The solution also enabled McKinsey to identify populations and roles that would benefit from additional learning opportunities. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Compliance Training | Fletcher Residential Ltd t/a Fletcher Living and Immersive Solutions Ltd | Fletcher Living "LIFE" | Gold | 2023 | In New Zealand, construction companies are required to provide and report on Health and Safety compliance training for any external contractor entering their worksites. This creates both a learning and logistical challenge. Fletcher Living, with Immersive Solutions has designed and built an operational tool that delivers engaging training, tracks compliance and reports simply and easily. Living & Immersive Solutions Ltd, is called "LIFE". Life brings great mobile first learning design into the compliance space to create a Compliance Learning solution that has delivered measurable results for the business. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Compliance Training | Cognizant Digital Learning and Fortive Corp | Phishing Training | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Cognizant and Fortive, is called "Phishing Training". The requirement of the program was to teach the basic concepts of phishing to learners from different departments of Fortive that would complement existing and planned phishing simulations. The solution was to provide: 1. Role-specific e-learning modules covering unique requirements of the key departments, namely- Human Resources, Finance and Sales 2. A generic e-learning module for users of all other departments |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Compliance Training | Cognizant Digital Learning and Boehringer Ingelheim | Quality Medicine Onboarding | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Cognizant and Boehringer Ingelheim, is called "Quality Medicine Onboarding". Being a leading pharmaceutical company and directly impacting lives of many, BI has always kept compliance of regulations and safety rules at the forefront. To help BI realize this and train their employees Cognizant proposed the creation of a 40-minute web-based training module that combined core features of gamification and storytelling to educate newly hired employees in the Quality Medicine team on quality and compliance-related information. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Compliance Training | Medical Assurance Society New Zealand Limited (MAS) and Immersive Solutions | MAS Protect Accreditation Program | Gold | 2023 | A new nationwide regulatory regime for financial advice was introduced in New Zealand, that imposes statutory duties on persons who give regulated financial advice to retail clients. The MAS Protect Accreditation Program brings together all the learning people required to fulfill their role as a Nominated Representative and for MAS to meet its obligations under the Financial Advice Provider (FAP) Licence. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Compliance Training | Qatar Airways Group and Upside Learning Solutions Pvt Ltd | Customer Handling Course (CHC) | Gold | 2023 | 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. This proposed program is a mandatory course by IOSA and Qatar Airways Ground Services. The program attempts to provide knowledge and skills to Qatar Airways and Ground handling staff at Qatar Airways current and new station; and of the current acceptance theories, skills, and airport practices. Through the program, employees will be familiarised with: • Both the hands-on airport applications, and critical thinking within the field (airport) • The ways to respond correctly and effectively to customers • The guidelines for managing customer issues and queries regarding their acceptance, special acceptance procedures, baggage, excess baggage charges, boarding, manual acceptance and transfer, among others. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Compliance Training | Colgate-Palmolive and SAI 360 | Data Privacy & Protection: Managing the Risks (e) | Gold | 2023 | Data Privacy & Protection: Managing the Risks is a unique and clear advance in Compliance Training. This exciting, custom, interactive learning experience puts the learner side-by-side with - and practically right in the shoes of - its main character, Anoushka; a respected, well intentioned employee frantically dealing with a potentially disastrous data incident at her company, which she may have inadvertently caused! The movie-like simulation immerses the learner in a spine tingling real-world scenario that's all too common these days, and the stakes couldn't be higher! It’s a highly personalized way for employees to learn first hand about the cyber security and data privacy dangers that can lurk behind every corner, mouse click, and phone call. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Compliance Training | Standard Chartered Bank | ‘Understanding our Financial Crime Risks’ Group Mandatory Learning for all staff | Silver | 2023 | The ‘Understanding our Financial Crime Risks’ Group Mandatory Learning module is key for Standard Chartered’s commitment to fight against financial crime and is a regulatory requirement for the Bank, with the objective of providing core knowledge to all staff on Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing, Sanctions, Bribery and Corruption and Fraud. Standard Charted is strongly committed to fight against financial crime and further enhance compliance with financial crime controls, therefore, this learning ties very well into the overall Bank’s objectives of helping the Bank achieve higher Return on Tangible Equity (ROTE) while ensuring a robust risk management. This is the only learning course in the Bank for which the completion data (min. threshold 98%) is published in the Bank’s Annual Report as part of the Bank’s statement on sustainability. In 2022, the Bank achieved 99.8% completion rate. The course obtained the Institute of Banking and Finance Singapore (IBF) CPD accreditation. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Compliance Training | BHP and Infopro Learning | BHP Jansen IntelliPERMIT Training | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Infopro Learning, is called "BHP Jansen IntelliPERMIT Training." Two 30-minute modules aimed at spreading awareness of Personnel Safety and best practices for field team members working on BHP Jansen. This awareness and understanding would ultimately contribute to the reduction in the number of safety related incidents across the organization. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Compliance Training | CBRE and Popcorn Learning Media | QHSE - UK Induction | Silver | 2023 | Through a thorough learning needs analysis, property management company CBRE identified a pressing need to provide its entire workforce with a new QHSE training ‘Induction’ course, and chose to go above and beyond compliance requirements by making it engaging, interactive and inclusive. The course successfully appealed to new starters and long-servers alike, often using nothing more than their mobile phones. The impact was a demonstrable change in confidence and behavior, contributing to a reduction in incidents across the business. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Compliance Training | Pratt & Whitney Canada and Surge9 | Pratt & Whitney Canada Supply Management Compliance Program | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Pratt & Whitney Canada, in partnership with Surge9, is called the Pratt & Whitney Supply Management Compliance Training Program. It is a learning program consisting of microlearning, competency management, and training reinforcement. This initiative involved a complete transformation of the compliance training program for Pratt & Whitney's Supply Management organization, from a legacy design that was based on attending annual compliance training seminars to an adaptive microlearning program built on the Surge9 AI-powered microlearning platform. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Compliance Training | Nordea and Infopro Learning | Information Security Essentials 2023 | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Infopro Learning, is called "Information Security Essentials 2023." As part of compliance, Nordea employees are required to take the Risk and Compliance training every year. The Information Security Essentials 2023 eLearning course serves as a refresher on Nordea’s information security policy. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Compliance Training | Valvoline Inc. and LHT Learning | Valvoline Code of Conduct Training Solution | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Valvoline Inc. and LHT Learning, is called “Valvoline Code of Conduct.” It is a game-like eLearning course designed to take learners on a virtual scavenger hunt around a city block while presenting Valvoline’s Code of Conduct policy. Because the content itself is not engaging, the course is highly visual with game elements to draw learners in. The course also uses real-life work-related scenarios to help learners understand the value of the training. This SCORM-compliant course is required annual training for all Valvoline Instant Oil Change (VIOC) employees, but learners struggled to complete the previous Code of Conduct training. The learner completion rate has increased exponentially with this training. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Compliance Training | Nordea and Infopro Learning | Code of Conduct | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Infopro Learning, is called "Code of Conduct." This eLearning module aims at helping learners understand the importance of Nordea’s Code of Conduct and the 20 principles that guide it. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Compliance Training | HP Inc. and LRN | HP’s Marketing Purchase-to-Pay Best Practices Training | Silver | 2023 | HP’s global marketing team employs a complex end-to-end process for campaign planning, activation, and reporting. Non-compliance in the process could have a real impact on HP, resulting in work hours wasted, missed deadlines, budget deficits or surplus, and even missed payments to vendors. The goal of HP’s Marketing Purchase-to-Pay Training is to add clarity to the process, highlight best practices, and ultimately ensure compliance. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Compliance Training | Qatar Airways Group and Upside Learning Solutions Pvt Ltd | Live Animals Regulations | Silver | 2023 | 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. Since the transportation of live animals forms a major part of Qatar Airways’ operations, there was a need to train employees on handling and acceptance procedures with reference to the International Air Transport Association Live Animals Regulations (IATA LAR) manual. The transportation of live animals requires safe, healthy, and humane conditions. Hence, it was essential that Qatar Airways’ employees directly involved in this task were aware of the appropriate concepts, procedures, and regulations and expected to use this understanding later in actual day-to-day work situations. Qatar Airways was looking to have an eLearning course designed to cater to the needs of the Qatar Airways employees at multiple levels as per their roles and responsibilities. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Compliance Training | Colgate-Palmolive | Competition Law and Human Resources Information (eLearning course) | Silver | 2023 | This course provides an in-depth examination of the key competition law rules related to HR information and hiring practices. The course aims to equip participants with the knowledge and skills to understand and comply with competition law in the context of HR and employment practices. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Compliance Training | NTT DATA Services and Cognician Software | Risk Management and Security Maturity by NTT DATA in partnership with Cognician | Silver | 2023 | NTT DATA, in partnership with Cognician, developed a digital coaching program – the "Risk Maturity and Security Maturity Quest (RMSMQ)" – to form part of NTT DATA's ongoing Infosec training. This digital Quest activates security mindsets in 10 days. It encourages behavior change to immediately increase protection against common cyber threats. Participants are challenged daily to take action and reflect on their learning and understanding of the risks, to embed a new way of learning and common practice. Cognician's unique learning methods are put to test in this engaging pilot to measure the adoption of security awareness and the promotion of better cyber-safety habits. Sizing this up against traditional listen-and-learn methods provides measurable insight into how to close the intention-action gap to equip people with a better defence against threats. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Compliance Training | Mastercard | Becoming a Pro: Privacy by Design | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Mastercard, is called "Becoming a Pro: Privacy by Design." It is an interactive interactive, accessible and meaningful data privacy compliance training program focused on ensuring that Mastercard Staff are not simply provided with the knowledge, tools and resources needed to protect Personal Information, but that they understand what this means in practice. Creation of this course took place in the middle of the pandemic, when most Mastercard employees were working full-time from their homes, and virtual meeting fatigue was becoming a challenge across all levels, functions and regions. Therefore, part of the challenge was to create a virtual training that was going to be engaging in new ways, leveraging storytelling, a concrete use case and – where possible – a sense of humor. The end result is a SCORM-compliant eLearning that is now considered best in class across the company. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Compliance Training | Takeda Pharmaceuticals and Red Nucleus | Takeda Careful Documentation Training | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Red Nucleus to highlight a program created by Takeda Pharmaceuticals is called "Careful Documentation: Pause & Reflect." The training is an innovative and creative learning program that delivers best practices for communicating effectively and compliantly while creating documents that accomplish their purpose without bringing any undue risk to the company. The learning approach leveraged a cast of custom-created illustrated characters and a storytelling style that effectively connected with, and transferred, important skills to a diverse and global audience. Further, the program was broken into small, digestible pieces with varying modalities (a video trailer, two e-learning modules, job aids, posters/digital signage, email banners, Teams background), which allowed for flexibility in delivery and high levels of engagement with the learning audience. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | MedLern and Impelsys | Continued Learning for Healthcare Professionals in India | Bronze | 2023 | With a growing need for high-quality nursing in India, coupled with a lack of accessible skills development resources, healthcare training experts at MedLern, partnered with RCNi (a subsidiary of the Royal College of Nursing, UK) to introduce world-class content for Indian healthcare professionals. Learning and development company Impelsys supported them in designing a learning strategy that made these courses accessible using mobile-first technology. This approach provided seamless access to relevant, quality training material, which could support long-term career development and help mitigate the growing skills gap. This strategy was hugely effective, with 83% of learners feeling more confident in their roles, and 83% strongly agreeing that they’re now able to deliver better outcomes to patients. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | Siemens AG | MyGrowth - strategic lever for a future-fit workforce | Bronze | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Siemens, is called "MyGrowth – strategic lever for a future-fit workforce". It is a strategic program to cultivate a growth mindset, promote lifelong learning and facilitate personal development, upskilling, reskilling, and career growth at scale within the company. MyGrowth is a unique approach aimed at shifting the mindset and behaviors of its people and organizational culture to power sustainable employability. It was developed for Siemens' 311,000 employees with a learner-centric approach, prioritizing user experience, a playful design approach, and accompanying employee communication. MyGrowth aims to create engaging, self-paced, self-directed learning experiences that inspire learner curiosity. It provides a single entry point to a broad range of tools and experiences with a top priority to build a resilient and relevant workforce and organization. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | Zurich Insurance and DelphianLogic | Business Interruption Foundation Training | Bronze | 2023 | This entry is submitted by DelphianLogic and Zurich Insurance Company (referred to as Zurich). Zurich needed to update its Business Interruption Insurance curriculum, making it more modern, concise, and learner-friendly to train Underwriters, Risk Engineers, Claims Handlers/Processors, Team Leaders, Customers, and Brokers. DelphianLogic created a microlearning-based blended learning path that uses various techniques, including animated videos and interactive web pages, delivered through Zurich's internal learning management system. The updated curriculum includes certification for learners who complete the foundational learning path. The program has helped learners at Zurich improve their knowledge retention and transfer, increased engagement and interactivities, and enhanced learning delivery flexibility. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | OneLearn Global and Adobe | Advancing learning for the maritime industry | Bronze | 2023 | This entry, submitted by OneLearn Global and Adobe is called 'Advancing Learning in the Maritime industry". Maritime industry has traditionally struggled with training. On one hand, the industry has very strict compliance requirements and the cost of non-compliance can often run into billions of dollars, on the other, implementing compliance training in the industry is a major challenge as it is often done onshore and basic problems of low-bandwidth can make it unviable for training to be imparted to seafarers when they are on sea. OneLearn Global along with Adobe's award-winning learning platform ensured that bandwidth challenges can be transcended through low-bandwidth consuming solutions, peer to peer learning, and scalable learning platforms. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | Mercer | Darwin Learning Strategy | Bronze | 2023 | This entry submitted by Mercer is called "Darwin Learning Strategy". It is very complex and comprehensive learning solution designed using agile approach to address challenges and needs that business discovered after Darwin was acquired by Mercer. The strategy driven by Darwin Learning Team was developed in few steps in a close collaboration between Learning & Development, business and HR. What is unique, the strategy focused not only on developing internal skills, but as well as client's capabilities that would decrease the number of incidents ( reduce costs ) and drive client satisfaction. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | VMware Inc. | Big Deal Maker - Strategic and Transformational Sales Innovation | Bronze | 2023 | Big Deal Maker (BDM) Accreditation is a hybrid, new generation, curated learning outcome-based program for sellers at VMware. The goal is to propagate a transformational deal mindset to win the multi-cloud business by equipping sellers with the business acumen, tools, templates, and coaching needed to become strategic partners to their customers. The four-tiered program offers gamified (participants earn badges at every level), curated learning paths to sellers based on their skill gaps or skills they wish to refresh through self-paced knowledge nugget videos that are 2-15 mins short and when the sellers are at an advance level, they receive coaching from subject matter experts. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | Sysdoc and Fletcher Building | Fletcher Building Learning Strategy for Digital Transformation | Bronze | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Sysdoc and Fletcher Building covers the design, development and implementation of the Digital@Fletcher Foundations project, training and documentary strategy. The strategy created has been a pivotal guide that has driven the creation of a digital-first blended learning programme to upskill and support the approx.12000 learners, over a five-year timeframe on one of New Zealand’s largest SAP implementation and transformational projects. As the project nears the close of the pilot phase, the strategy lays down the approach to transferring ownership to the business for ongoing sustainability, maintenance and continued growth, ensuring that the learners that come after the project completes a business unit rollout, will enjoy the same quality experience. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | General Administration of Customs | Worldclass customs authority in creating a learning strategy | Bronze | 2023 | This entry, submitted by the General Administration of Customs in Abu Dhabi, is called "A worldclass customs authority in creating a learning strategy". |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | Firstsource | Enabling Growth with Digital Learning Strategy at FirstSource | Bronze | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Firstsource is called 'Evolving a Learning Strategy'. It covers how Firstsource had to adjust the design of their learning strategy to account for the pandemic induced realities like remote learning. Firstsource can be seen as an organization with different businesses (verticals), each with their own business and learning needs. In the intervening years, the learning strategy has evolved through of an agile model of experiment, validate, and scale. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | Bon Secours Mercy Health | Bon Secours Mercy Health Learning Marketing Strategy | Bronze | 2023 | In an effort to bolster both learning culture and engagement, the Learning Team invested time and monetary assets into the creation and launch of a multi-faceted learning marketing strategy that resulted in a substantial increase in number of new and repeat learners to virtual learning events. The Bon Secours Mercy Health Learning Marketing Strategy was developed and realized by Connie Coker, Emily Boone, Allison (Allie) Carpenter-Jones & Kristina (Tina) Miller. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | BWH Hotel Group | Because We Care | Bronze | 2023 | The Because We Care training program is designed to teach all BWH Hotel Group property staff about the service standards and culture BWH Hotel Group embodies. This training aims to inspire and motivate behavior change driven by the new service standards outlined in this training and under the Because We Care program. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | Cognizant | Corporate Partnership | Bronze | 2023 | DEx Assessor certification program was predominantly designed for assessors from Delivery Excellence who help multiple portfolios and projects with their valuable assessment activities towards assuring delivery performance. Cognizant partnered with KPMG to design and conceptualize the program to enhance the competencies of the assessors towards carrying out value adding and business impactful assessments. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | Bridgestone Retail Operations (BSRO) and Judge Learning Solutions | Core Learning Strategy with Elective/Pull Add-Ons | Bronze | 2023 | Bridgestone Retail Operations required an updated learning strategy to help grow their employees into future leaders. Seven different roles were identified as high potential roles for internal promotions. These roles were analyzed by a third-party vendor to help determine the skills and competencies required to be successful in the role, along with documented curriculum roadmaps to help them get there. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | Larsen & Toubro Limited | L&T - Best Advance in Creating Learning Strategy | Bronze | 2023 | In the face of globalization and the vibrant Indian economy opening its doors to foreign investors, L&T faced both opportunities and challenges from big global players entering the market with their skilled workforce, deep pockets, and latest technology. The macro-economic conditions and prevailing geo-political climate year on year also posed uncertainty and risks in the ongoing and future projects. Speed, scale, time, and quality became critical imperatives to protect stakeholder interest and to succeed in the changing business environment. To excel in this BANI world and to achieve its ambitious growth targets, L&T required the right kind of talent to learn and adapt to change with speed and alacrity. It was also imperative that to grow and nurture this talent, a well-developed and comprehensive learning strategy was introduced which clearly defined the development journey basis performance and growth in the role. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | UltraTech Cement Limited and Centum Learning Limited | UltraTech-Centum Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | Bronze | 2023 | This entry, submitted by UltraTech Cement Limited with Centum Learning Limited, is under the category "Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy." Introducing the UltraTech Learning Month - Expand Your Horizon, a groundbreaking initiative designed to cater to the unique learning requirements of UltraTech Cement employees. At the heart of this program lies a dedicated website, featuring an email ID-based login system that allows users to seamlessly track their progress and immerse themselves in a variety of stimulating learning activities. By harnessing the power of gamification, with elements like leaderboards and point-based rewards, the UltraTech Learning Month sparks enthusiasm, fosters healthy competition, and keeps participants engaged. The success of the UltraTech Learning Month lies in its ability to address diverse learning needs while cultivating a culture of continuous growth and development within the organization. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | Kordsa Teknik Tekstil A.Ş. | Kordsa L&D Strategy Implementation | Gold | 2023 | Kordsa’s L&D strategy is designed to serve the company objectives in alignment with the renewed values. Development support is tailored to personal needs and grades within the company. Online and face-to-face training programs, online learning management systems, mentoring, coaching, workshops, graduate education support, workshops, expatriation, and many more projects are conducted in an integrated manner. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | Sarawak Energy | Sarawak Energy’s Power to Grow Learning Strategies: Inspiring Progress for all through Learning | Gold | 2023 | Buoyed by Sarawak Energy’s People Strategy and Talent Management Excellence Key Focus Area (KFA), Sarawak Energy invests in providing employees with various learning and development opportunities based on the 70/20/10 approach. Sarawak Energy strives to be inclusive in nurturing talent strengths and capabilities, ensuring the workforce displays agility, creativity, and innovativeness at all levels. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | Bank of America | New Hire Orientation - Awareness, Connect, Engage (ACE) | Gold | 2023 | The Academy for Global Business Services (GBS) team developed a sustainable and focused learning strategy to build New Hire Orientation that created awareness of the organization and build deeper employee connections. It focused on enabling the multi-generational workforce of Global Business Services on accelerated learning of the company culture, and workplace processes and guidelines. The strategy leveraged an integrated blended learning design of 30-60-90-120-180 days learning pathway to provide a holistic employee orientation experience which enabled new employees to organically assimilate into the larger organization in absence of physical onboarding. The New Hire Orientation-Awareness, Connect, Engage (ACE) resulted in better employee engagement, despite being in an environment which necessitated remote employee onboarding. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | The LEGO Group and IMD - International Institute for Management Development | The LEGO Group & IMD. Building the Leadership Playground | Gold | 2023 | In 2017 the LEGO Group’s sales had stalled after more than a decade of strong growth. The challenging external retail environment was expected to continue. Internally there was stagnation stemming from a weakened innovation drive and lack of focused delivery. Something had to change. The LEGO Group partnered with IMD to develop new leadership model and innovative learning strategy to drive cultural change; the Leadership Playground Manifesto. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | TD Bank | Learning in a transformational and agile era: The multi-year journey through agile, modernization and rapid change | Gold | 2023 | Leverage state of the art technology to revolutionize the TD contact center operation. Transform learning to deliver an agile and progressive asynchronous experience that combines modalities to progressively develop skills, capabilities, and confidence across TD's North American Customer Operations. This submission will examine the learning transformation journey, how TD worked to design learning that was scalable across multiple businesses in a fast-paced agile program. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | Xceedance Consulting India Pvt Ltd | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy 2023 | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Xceedance, is based on the organization-wide learning strategy created - called 'Xceedance Learning Academy' (XLA) - that focuses on the holistic development of employees that directly meets the organization and business needs in terms of upskilling and reskilling talent in the insurance and technology spheres to contribute to the betterment of the insurance ecosystem. Within the insurance industry, Xceedance is seen as a key talent incubator for multiple insurance arenas – the Catastrophe (i.e., CAT) modeling/risk management arena being the most prominent one, especially in India. Therefore, with a deep dive into the first Xceedance Learning Academy (XLA) program as an exemplar, i.e., the XLA CAT Modeling Novice program, the intention is to give a clear picture of how every XLA program is designed, deployed, completed, evaluated, and celebrated. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | Virb and NIIT | CRA Curriculum | Gold | 2023 | The CRA curriculum is a performance-based, digital-first, spiral curriculum with a vision to train Clinical Research Associates (CRAs) to become job-ready from day one. The curriculum follows a blended learning approach and is designed to be six weeks long with four major components: A foundational course and three Learning Cycles. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | UL Solutions | UL Solutions Learning and Development Framework | Gold | 2023 | Armed with a new corporate strategy and critical employee feedback, the UL University team created a new learning and development strategy to further embed UL Solutions’ strategy while addressing current and future business needs. The UL Solutions Learning and Development Framework is a holistic career development strategy that spans all employee levels and career stages. This ecosystem of learning and development programs ensures all colleagues have opportunities to grow and develop – enabling individual and organizational success. The learning strategy was rolled out to the company in 2022 with a phased approach, beginning with pilot programs. The new strategy was widely accepted by employees driving demand for additional program cohorts in 2023 |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | Tata Consultancy Services | Agile Sprint Hands-On Based Learning in XP Tech Delivery | Gold | 2023 | “Agile Sprint Hands-On Based Learning” is an innovative approach piloted for freshers training on Technology Modules, where the traditional hands-on expertise building through regular assignments is replaced with Agile Sprints for each module. Sprint Backlog is defined for every module and Agile Teams have specific learning goal to complete the Sprints on time. Various User Stories are defined to ensure the coverage of each concept in the given Technology Module. The outcome of this approach has reduced the time to build expertise in technology and helped to introduce advanced modules in the training without increasing the duration of training. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | Bank of America | Relationship Banker Pre-Cohort Hiring Approach | Gold | 2023 | Establishment of a pre-cohort training solution to enable the hiring of approximately 1,750 Relationship Bankers. Without this pre-cohort solution, new hires would have to wait for the next available cohort. In addition, a pre-cohort toolkit and Academy manager support resulted in strong VOICES scores during the pre-cohort period. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited and Chrysalis | Ignite Wave | Gold | 2023 | Ignite Wave is the latest edition of the Ignite Program, launched in 2022. IGNITE wave aims at ‘co-creating’ and ‘co-achieving.’ It aims at involving people and collaborating with them to make better future plans. Hence it becomes very important for the attendees of IGNITE wave to be involved in the program as much as the team has been involved preparing it. It is a follow-up program where input from that years IGNITE are shared with different Bands within the organisation, like Bands III, IV, and V, along with Vision and Agenda for the coming year, with Vishwas Survey results if conducted, more initiatives which are to be launched, people’s KPIs, and other updates from the previous years. The latest edition concentrates intensively on DEI – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | Lactalis and Wiley CrossKnowledge | Strategic overhaul of the learner experience in line with the Lactalis Group's learning strategy | Gold | 2023 | The digital learning strategy has been reoriented in 2022 with a user-centric approach for all stakeholders: learners, but also HRs and Business Lines. Previously, there was no any learner marketing, as the strategy was about fulfilling operational business targets of competencies grow. Reconsidering UI / UX approach increased the engagement of all stakeholders opening new perspectives for digital learning utilisation to support company transformation projects. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | Harman International and NIIT-stackroute | Data Science and AI ML Bootcamp | Gold | 2023 | As Harman continues to grow and gains experience and expertise, it is important to integrate new learnings into the overall work process. This requires a well-crafted organizational learning strategy to be effective in creating a learning organization, creating, analysing, and sharing new learnings in alignment with changed and new business understandings, and devising methods for effective use of the learning in the organization. Building data science capabilities across the organization and integrating the learnings with work needs was the focus of the learning strategy. This led to a 5-week and a 9-week intervention for fresh hires and experienced professionals, respectively, to build the skills and competencies required to contribute to the Harman DTS group, which focused on delivering new, unique, and superior products and solutions to its customers. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | Delta Air Lines and AllenComm | Delta Air Lines ACE New Hire Onboarding Program | Gold | 2023 | In the wake of COVID-19 downsizing and then rapidly restaffing, Delta Air Lines needed a revolutionary redesign of their Reservations onboarding. The learning experience went from a 40-day, one-off ILT training to a 19-day hybrid experience designed for personalized and ongoing performance and business measurement. A year in, the results have continued trending positively, and for several of the metrics, have even increased in positive their trajectory, as outlined in detail in the later Measurable Benefits section. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | Cognizant | Knowledge Management Using Learning Path | Gold | 2023 | The various account teams within the organization were seeing a high turnover of employees leading to a significant loss of knowledge and experience as employees moved out of the accounts into other internal and external opportunities. The knowledge and experience gained by working with the clients needed to be transferred effectively and with minimal loss, to the incoming employees. The Delivery Excellence team collaborated with the Learning & Development team to design and deliver a learning strategy that could be driven by the accounts, which would help arrest the loss of knowledge while also enabling the onboarding process to be tracked and reported. The Learning path feature in the organization’s internally developed Learning Experience platform was deemed as the right vehicle to deliver this account onboarding strategy to enable a significant difference to how new team members were being brought up to speed to exceed client expectations. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | Deloitte LLP | Deloitte University Academy | Gold | 2023 | In 2021, the Academy was launched as an incubation space within Deloitte University to help the organization generate concepts and mobilize new offerings. The program is designed as an 8-week experience based on human centered design, and delegates to the program solve challenges or create future focused solutions. The programs involve activities that are planned pre, during, and post weekly sessions and culminate in a pitch to senior leadership. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | Garanti BBVA | We Carry Development to the Future | Gold | 2023 | A learning strategy has been designed that aims to enable employees to become the pilots of their own development journeys by creating a sustainable learning ecosystem with Upskill & Reskill training practices that will meet the development needs of employees today and in the future. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | HP and Accenture | Annual Sales Certification | Gold | 2023 | 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 Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | Accenture | Technology Strategy & Advisory (TS&A) Capstones | Gold | 2023 | The TS&A learning program at Accenture has been designed to equip the practitioners with the necessary skills and knowledge to become successful technology strategists and consultants. It is a comprehensive training program that covers various aspects of technology strategy and consulting and is delivered through a combination of self-paced online training, on-the-job learning, and mentoring by experienced strategists and consultants. During the program, practitioners are exposed to real-world scenarios and are given opportunities to work on client engagements, allowing them to apply their learning in practical situations. The program also includes assessments and evaluations to ensure that participants are meeting the required standards. After completing the program, participants are expected to not only have a solid foundation in technology strategy and consulting but should also be ready to contribute to client engagements. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | Accenture | Accenture Technology Core Learning Journey | Gold | 2023 | Leadership in the Accenture Technology service, representing over 383,000 professionals, needed a learning strategy that would efficiently define common guidance for business-relevant skills needed globally. A skill strategy that would support Accenture Technology professionals as they grow in their careers, provides guidance on the key skills to learn along the way and ensure all Accenture Technology professionals across the globe have access to the same training framework. After consultation with business leaders and subject matter experts across all markets, the solution was to launch the Accenture Technology Core Learning Journey which helps Accenture Technology to provide a clear learning path that everyone in Technology globally, will follow throughout their career as the foundation of their learning priorities. The Learning strategy was created in strategic alignment with the Accenture Technology growth strategy. To date, over 91,000 Accenture Technology professionals have taken the Accenture Technology Core Learning program. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | MAPFRE and Arist | How MAPFRE scaled workflow learning to meet learners where they were | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Arist in partnership with MAPFRE is called "Best In Class." Delivered directly within Microsoft Teams to a wide portion of MAPFRE's customer facing organization, MAPFRE saw previous course completion rates of 30% skyrocket to over 90%. By making learning immediately actionable, bite-sized, and delivering it at points of need throughout customer facing learners' days, MAPFRE was able to drive revenue, improve confidence in skills, and revamp a majority of their learning in a matter of months. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | Deloitte LLP | Deloitte Cloud Technologists Soar with New Learning Strategy | Gold | 2023 | Deloitte Cloud Institute recently revamped its program delivery with several bold strategies based on learner intent and business circumstances. This transformation of the learning strategy gives cloud technology professionals opportunities to obtain important industry certifications without the need to cover course materials already learned, while opening cloud learning to Deloitte professionals who desire it. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | Sahibinden | Sahibinden Empowerment and Autonomy Cultural Transformation Project | Gold | 2023 | The main goal of Sahibinden.com's Empowerment and Autonomy Cultural Transformation project is to define and develop a "empowerment and autonomy" culture with the participation of employees that will support the realization of both employees' and Sahibinden.com's potential and trigger and sustain the transformation process in this direction. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | BNP Paribas Asset Management and Wiley CrossKnowledge | iLearn Platform | Gold | 2023 | BNP Paribas Asset Management’s learning platform iLearn performs a crucial role supporting the strategies of the company by extending the current strategies across the enterprise and supporting them with the development programs, and also providing leading edge learning in a modern and timely manner. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | Center for Internet Security and WeLearn Learning Services | Creating a culture of lifelong learning and making the connected world a safer place. Easy right? | Gold | 2023 | Setting an organizational learning strategy is no small task. Imagine doing it as a leader of a newly formed L&D function. Now imagine you are a new L&D function in an organization focused on making the connected world a safer place. This application explore the work between the Center for Internet Security and WeLearn Learning Services to create the organizational learning strategy for CIS. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | MetLife and NIIT | MetLife Distribution Academy: Transforming the Way Sales Force Works, Learns, and Performs | Silver | 2023 | The Distribution Academy has responsibility for training and enabling the sales performance of MetLife and distribution Partner Sales Associates to create a distinctive competitive advantage for MetLife. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | Ingersoll Rand | Know and Grow | Silver | 2023 | Overall, internal mobility numbers matter because they can provide insights into how well an organization retains Talent, develops its workforce, prepares for leadership transitions, and promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion. Identify and develop a playbook/roadmap that provides a streamlined view of our mission/vision aligned to business outcomes for future 2025. This approach will enable the return on investments and lay a foundation for future success (Vision & strategy tied to metrics, Governance and operating model, process & ways of working, platform architecture, performance management & culture). |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | myGwork and EI, Powered by MPS | LGBTQ+ Allyship in the Workplace | Silver | 2023 | Designed for its customers, myGwork needed to ensure that the learning module, LGBTQ+ Allyship in the Workplace would address varied learner goals and integrate easily into different learning strategies. Essentially, the organization had to create a learning strategy for critical DE&I topics that would be as wide-reaching, easily integrated and impactful as possible. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | Accenture Solutions Private Limited | Accenture Capability Development – Knowledge Managment & Improvement (F&A) | Silver | 2023 | An end-to-end knowledge management program, designed during a critical phase of the business, which enabled New Hires and Existing employees to fully understand the client's business, products, processes, along with regional nuances and help understand the client's expectation. The program has seen a gradual improvement in service level agreement scores, client satisfaction, process documentation and reduction of critical entities. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | ZEEL | ZEE's Academy of Excellence - Best Learning Strategy | Silver | 2023 | ZEE Entertainment Enterprises Limited is dedicated to strengthening its leadership pipeline and building a future-ready workforce in the rapidly changing media and entertainment industry. ZEE established a 4X4 Academy framework with four academies, focusing on functional, behavioral, and leadership skill development. These academies are built on 4 critical pillars: Integrated Academic Journeys, Learner Centric Technology, Assessments & Certifications, and Career Progression. ZEE has driven leadership alignment and high employee engagement to build a sustainable learning culture.The company conducted surveys and focus group discussions to identify learning needs and engaged leaders in co-designing the culture and capability strategy.It launched a 360-degree communication plan and a Learning Reward & Recognition program called "Souls of ZEEcademy" to encourage learning across the organization.By focusing on HR team capability building and implementing various L&D initiatives,ZEE has established itself as a company committed to developing its workforce and fostering a culture of continuous learning and development |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | WEConnect International and Artha Learning Inc | Diversify Your Supply Chain to Drive Your Business Growth | Silver | 2023 | The "Diversify Your Supply Chain to Drive Your Business Growth" initiative was formulated by WEConnect International, in partnership with Artha Learning Inc., to address supplier diversity and gender-inclusive sourcing in the Central and South America region. The program aimed to reach at least 60 business buyers from 6 Central and South American countries: Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, and Honduras. The program’s blended approach allows it to be customized to each country’s SD&I landscape—with three, 2-hour virtual sessions, each followed by a 20-min reinforcement eLearning module. The program’s evaluation data so far—for Guyana, El Salvador, and Costa Rica—indicates incredible results with regards to the program’s acceptance and immediate impact (Level 1 feedback and Level 3 SD&I actions taken so far). Level 4 evaluation is currently being carried out. And the program is currently underway for Guatemala, Honduras, and Ecuador. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | Salesforce and Learnship Networks GmbH | Empowering global collaboration through competent communication excellence | Silver | 2023 | Salesforce is a global company with operations in over 100 countries, and English is the lingua franca in the business world. Therefore, it is essential for Salesforce employees to have excellent English communication skills to collaborate effectively across borders and to maintain consistent communication with customers worldwide. With the rise of remote working, virtual collaboration tools, and newer forms of employee engagement, effective English communication skills have become even more critical for businesses to meet productivity targets and growth expectations. The CommPetent program, developed by Salesforce and Learnship, aims to enhance communication competence within TMP to enable effective collaboration across geographies through a structured and progressive communication excellence program. The program provides customized learning solutions for each individual, enabling learners to shape the future of the company and be aligned with Salesforce's core values of trust, customer success, innovation, and equality. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | Tavant and Adobe | Tavant's Comprehensive Learning Strategy for Transformation | Silver | 2023 | This entry submitted jointly by Adobe and Tavant is called "Tavant's comprehensive learning strategy for transformation". Tavant, offering technology services and products across several industries and with a workforce spanning 3000, was looking at bringing a culture of learning in the organization. Tavant's early efforts had already borne fruit in the L&D space, for 2022, the focus was on augmenting the efforts with a clear directive of building a strong leadership succession plan, create learning behaviors and building up women leaders. As a part of its strategy, Tavant adopted Adobe Learning Manager as the platform of choice that could host all trainings, and build on top of it with simulations from Knolskape and content from a variety of content engines such as O'Reilly. Also, the asymmetry in technological training meant that Tavant had to relook at its onboarding strategy and do a simultaneous onboarding at scale. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | Choice Hotels International | Choice University – Learning Makes a Difference | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Choice University of Choice Hotels International, is called Choice University – Learning Makes a Difference. Choice University’s learning strategy is centered on learner engagement and is focused on learning to drive hotel performance and increase franchisee profitability. Situated in Choice Hotels’ Enterprise Operations business unit, ChoiceU serves the learning needs of 48,000+ hotel owners, leaders, and employees at more than 7,000 franchised locations worldwide. ChoiceU builds a culture of learning internally and supports franchisees with resources and tools to build a culture of learning at their properties. The team’s learning strategy is built upon four principles: individualized learning, democratization of learning, ongoing/continuous feedback, and results-driven orientation. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) and NIIT | BMS Adaptive Learning Ecosystem | Silver | 2023 | The BMS Adaptive Learning Ecosystem is a large-scale global learning strategy initiative to centralize their global learning ecosystem and prioritize learning effectiveness for the teams worldwide. The main goals of the initiative were to create an efficient learning ecosystem that could align with their business strategy of managing a high volume of product launches and scale globally across 50+ markets. By bringing in innovation at all levels - people, processes, and technology, the company was able to establish global scale and capability while optimizing costs by 50%. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | KPMG India | KPMG India's Learning Strategy 22-23 | Silver | 2023 | This entry submitted by KPMG India explains how the firm approached building its learning strategy for the year April 22-March 23. The strategy focused on supporting the KPMG vision of being the clear choice and driving its employee value proposition of Learn for a Lifetime. The strategy was built in partnership with senior business and HR leaders across the firm to ensure the maximum buy-in. It was deployed in a hybrid model bringing together key technology platforms, gamified intervention design and a creative communication strategy. Learning delivery was a blend of virtual and and in-person, self paced and live sessions; custom built assessments helped check the effectiveness of the solutions. A strong governance model ensured that all stakeholders and learners were equipped to make informed decisions about their learning choices. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | Stratas Foods and TTA (The Training Associates) | A Shift in Learning and Development: Stratas’ Learning Strategy Transformation | Silver | 2023 | Over the years, Stratas Foods has experienced rapid growth through acquisition, however, training was not historically a focus for the organization. In recent years this mindset has shifted, as leadership support for learning and development is now in place with the addition of a new L&D department, and demand for training is drastically increasing based on an employee engagement survey. The goal was to create a 5-year roadmap and learning strategy that laid out a prioritized plan for building the L&D organization and focusing its’ efforts. By working closely with the Stratas internal team and leveraging TTA’s expert learning strategy team, they were able to craft a customized solution that took a phased approach toward implementing a formal curriculum by first focusing on company-wide and cross functional needs, and then moving on to specific high-priority/high-impact areas. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | Pfizer and The Mosaic Company | Good Laboratory Practice Compliance Training Strategy | Silver | 2023 | The GLP compliance training strategy addresses the needs of new hires and incumbent colleagues with role-specific refresher training every two years on current internal audit observations and topics noted by inspectors. The strategy also addresses how to prepare colleagues for on-site inspector visits and potential interviews. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | Cognizant | Upgrade2Architect | Silver | 2023 | The Upgrade2Architect program is a capability development program to groom & transform Senior Developers to play the role of Architect and expand Cognizant’s architect pool to match the growing business demands and provide a rewarding career path for developers. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy | KPMG Global Services | KALEIDOSCOPE | Silver | 2023 | The Campus to Corporate hiring and enablement strategy is an essential cog in the growth wheel for Technology Consulting at KPMG Global Services. The objective was to prepare Gen Z to meet the project requirements by building skills and bridge the gap between transitioning to a corporate work culture. This program seamlessly blends the business teams into the overall program design and delivery process, enabling on time deployment of campus hires on client engagements. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating an Extended Enterprise Learning Program | Socomec and Wiley CrossKnowledge | MySocomec Academy | Bronze | 2023 | The MySocomec Academy project aims to offer training on Socomec products to the company's distributors and resellers. Started in 2018 and planned over several years, a boost came in 2020, showing the value of the remote training project. Training and external certifications serve the company's objectives for the development of turnover and the conquest of new markets and territories. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating an Extended Enterprise Learning Program | MetLife and NIIT | MetLife Distribution Academy: Transforming the Way Sales Force Works, Learns, and Performs | Gold | 2023 | The Distribution Academy has responsibility for training and enabling the sales performance of MetLife and distribution Partner Sales Associates to create a distinctive competitive advantage for MetLife. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating an Extended Enterprise Learning Program | OneStream Software | OneStream Best Advance in Creating an Extended Enterprise Learning Program | Gold | 2023 | OneStream established a new global education services business to build out a technical community of OneStream professionals. OneStream has comprehensive learning journeys that accelerate real-world application and ongoing learning that leads to being OneStream Certified. They have developed several learning assets to meet the learner where they are, when they need it. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating an Extended Enterprise Learning Program | AKBANK | AKBANK Social Impact Academies | Gold | 2023 | Akbank, as one of Turkey's leading brands serving in every region of the country, has prioritized sustainability, equality and diversity issues on its strategic agenda and has set the goal of creating social impact through education. With this vision, it has established the "Akbank Social Impact Academies." Akbank aims to bring together priority segments in need with quality development solutions through the Social Impact Academies. Based on the conducted needs analysis, three priority target groups were identified at the beginning of the project, and three different Social Impact Academy programs were designed for these target groups: • Akbank Youth Academy for young individuals • Akbank Transformation Academy for SMEs (Small and Medium-sized Enterprises) • Akbank Family Academy for Akbank employees and their close ones, whom they consider as "family" |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating an Extended Enterprise Learning Program | U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation and SweetRush | TPM Academy® suite: TPM Academy® (ILT), TPM Academy® OnDemand, TPM Academy® OnDemand Blended Learning | Gold | 2023 | This entry, “TPM Academy®,” is submitted by USCCF and SweetRush. Talent Pipeline Management® (TPM®) is a paradigm-shifting workforce development solution that addresses the nationwide skills gap challenge. Borrowing from supply chain management best practices, TPM is a comprehensive framework and set of tools that flips the traditional provider- (educator-) led model of workforce development on its head by placing employers in the driver’s seat of building scalable, sustainable pipelines of talent. The TPM Academy® suite of programs offer three extended enterprise audiences (workforce development agencies, employers, and education providers) three different learning experiences (ILT, blended, and fully asynchronous) in which they can learn about and implement the framework. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating an Extended Enterprise Learning Program | American Association of Critical-Care Nurses and SweetRush | Fundamental Skills for Nurse Managers | Gold | 2023 | This entry, “Fundamental Skills for Nurse Managers” (FSNM) is submitted by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) and SweetRush. AACN’s extended enterprise includes more than 500,000 acute and critical care nurses; AACN is the world’s largest specialty nursing organization. When a nurse transitions from a nurse to a nurse manager, learning the skills required to make that transition, particularly during the first year, is daunting. AACN recognized the need for a robust learning program that prepares and supports nurses during this crucial transition. With 16 hours of content, the program had to be engaging, memorable, fit within their work environment, and speak to them authentically with relevant themes and storytelling. FSNM is an in-depth extended enterprise learning 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 Awards | Best Advance in Creating an Extended Enterprise Learning Program | American Diabetes Association and American Heart Association and SweetRush | Know Diabetes by Heart™ | Gold | 2023 | This entry, “Know Diabetes by Heart™” is submitted by the American Heart Association (AHA), the American Diabetes Association (ADA), 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 creating a learning program for the vast extended enterprise of health care professionals (millions in the United States) that moves optimal care forward. Two world-renowned non-profits—the AHA and 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 learners, this creative, multi-faced, and engaging program exceeded expectations and continues to save and improve many lives! |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating an Extended Enterprise Learning Program | SHRM and SweetRush | The SHRM People Manager Qualification (PMQ) | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by SHRM and SweetRush, is “The SHRM People Manager Qualification (PMQ).” PMQ tackles a critically important subject through a 16-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 people managers face as they transition into new roles. Inspired by streaming-Netflix-Friends, with episodes and seasons rather than modules and lessons, PMQ is story-driven with fully developed, relatable, and authentic characters, with high interactivity and gamification. It teaches 110 behavioral indicators and 27 performance objectives new leaders need to learn, practice, and embrace. PMQ is for SHRM’s large and diverse extended enterprise whose nearly 325,000 members are in 165 countries, impacting the lives of more than 235 million workers. PMQ is being used by thousands of organizations—creating a new standard for what a learning program for an extended enterprise should be! |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating an Extended Enterprise Learning Program | HDFC Bank and Centum Learning Limited | HDFC-Centum Best Advance in Creating an Extended Enterprise Learning Program | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by HDFC Bank with Centum Learning Limited and titled "Best Advance in Creating an Extended Enterprise Learning Program," chronicles the remarkable journey of how HDFC Bank disrupted the Non-Banking Finance Companies (NBFCs) market dominance in India's highly competitive North and West Tier-1 markets. Through a strategic alliance with Centum Learning, the groundbreaking Utkarsh program was conceived – a retail shop-floor staff engagement initiative designed to empower store employees. Skillfully tailored, Utkarsh provided the essential tools and knowledge for store employees to become enthusiastic advocates of HDFC Bank products. This inventive approach not only elevated the capabilities of HDFC Bank's partners, such as retailers and merchants but also ignited a remarkable increase in sales performance and customer satisfaction |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating an Extended Enterprise Learning Program | GoDaddy and TrainingPros | Sales for Messaging – Vendor Partners | Gold | 2023 | The entry, submitted by TrainingPros and GoDaddy, is called the“Sales for Messaging” learning program. It is designed to build the offshore vendor partner Global Care Guides' and their Supervisors’ skills and ability to improve messaging interactions with customers to drive customer satisfaction, increase sales conversion, increase revenue, and increase the number of customers served. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating an Extended Enterprise Learning Program | Indian Oil Corporation Limited and TMI e2E Academy Private Limited | Seva Shoorveer – Indian Oil Corporation Limited & TMI e2E Academy Private Limited | Gold | 2023 | Indian Oil Corporation Limited (Indian Oil), a Fortune 500 company that is State-owned, is the largest Oil Retailer in India with 38,000+ outlets across India. Facing increased competition from 2 other state-owned oil companies and new entrants such as Shell Oil, who were seen as more customer-centric, Indian Oil decided to invest in Customer Attendants to deliver higher levels of service to retain customers and increase offtake of premium products. TMI e2E Academy Private Limited (TMI e2E) partnered in the design & delivery of a structured training program with 15 interventions over 15 weeks, spanning 270 Retail Outlets & 5,000+ Customer Attendants, which has helped deliver significant changes in attendant behaviour, increased offtake of premium products and this has enthused IOCL to consider scaling this program up to over 1,500 outlets & 30,000+ Attendants in the next phase. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating an Extended Enterprise Learning Program | Celonis | Celonis Academy - New Partner Enablement Program | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Celonis SE is called "New Partner Enablement Program". It is a structured training program with 4 levels that trains Celonis' consulting and services partners throughout their journey, from onboarding to expert project delivery. It was delivered after Celonis Academy conducted an evaluation which identified key structural challenges in their existing Partner Enablement Program. To continue providing world class training to their broad ecosystem of principally consulting and services partners, Celonis Academy took action by: - moving to a goal-based training and certification structure which provides learners with ultimate flexibility to fulfil their unique learning needs as quickly as possible - introducing a new program level to put a spotlight and greater focus on partner's most important topic, value - delivering a significantly streamlined recertification model which efficiently keeps partners up-to-date on the latest skills and product knowledge |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating an Extended Enterprise Learning Program | Bank of America | Enhanced Academy Support Structure for Vendors | Gold | 2023 | The Enhanced Academy Support Structure for Vendors plays a critical role in The Academy’s ability to provide world class learning and development to our vendor associates and leaders. The primary objective of the program is to ensure dedicated internal Academy Manager support to each individual vendor, allowing our vendor partners to execute on an Academy onboarding program that mirrors the internal Bank of America experience. This consistent approach to onboarding associates results in clients experiencing the same world class service when interacting with internal or vendor associates. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating an Extended Enterprise Learning Program | Kia America and automätik | REVOLUTIONARY: The 2022 Kia EV6 Launch and Training Initiative | Gold | 2023 | To prepare Kia’s network of dealerships for the U.S. debut of the EV6—the company’s all-new fully electric, crossover SUV, Kia partnered with automätik to design and implement REVOLUTIONARY—a technologically robust and interactive training initiative targeting all dealership personnel. REVOLUTIONARY was a paperless “flipped classroom” vehicle knowledge certification program consisting of four distinct phases executed over the course of six months. Highlights of this multifaceted and sustainable approach include: 1A.) EV Basics online video series: Five videos that introduced basic electrical concepts and EV technology. 1B.) Unique Selling Proposition (USP) video series: Seven online videos introducing the EV6 and the EV ownership lifestyle. 2.) Virtual Livestream Launch Training: 23 ninety-minute live-hosted training sessions online. Over 5,500 viewers. 3.) Dealership-to-dealership (D2D) In-person Training Tour. A three-hour instructor-led in-dealership vehicle training experience delivered by 17 teams at 758 Kia dealerships nationwide. Over 6,800 participants trained. 4.) A four-day Train-the-Trainer for 43 facilitators. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Creating an Extended Enterprise Learning Program | MongoDB and Thought Industries | Building Portals to Excellence | Silver | 2023 | The MongoDB training and education services began as a homegrown system that was designed to quickly meet the immediate needs of customers for training on the MongoDB platform. The team emphasized speed of development over automation, resulting in many manual processes that required constant staff involvement. As the number of learners grew, it became clear that a more formalized learning system would be required. The evolution of learning and building an extended enterprise learning program focused on three goals toward growing adoption and expansion: 1. Design an outstanding learner experience from beginning to end by designing an outstanding learner experience. 2. Unify multiple training instances through one solution. 3. Increase learning experience metrics: The phased approach to implement everything means that some of these deliverables are still in process, but the customization to create an outstanding learning experience for the various audiences is well on its way to completion. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Ricoh and NIIT | Remote Resolution with TCRU for MS | Bronze | 2023 | Remote Resolution with TCRU for MS is a web-based training for Ricoh’s Managed Services team members to equip them to diagnose and replace designated customer-replaceable parts in certain production-level devices. This is part of Ricoh’s Remote Resolution initiative which aims to resolve the problems faced by printing operators remotely and efficiently. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Ricoh and NIIT | Professional Management Behavior | Bronze | 2023 | Professional Management Behavior is an on-demand web-based training for Ricoh’s management team to help them understand the fundamentals of professional behavior in an organization and why it’s crucial to their success as leaders. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Ricoh and NIIT | Customer Experience | Bronze | 2023 | Customer Experience is a web-based training to help employees deliver an exceptional customer experience. The purpose of this course is to enable the employees at Ricoh to comply with the company values and vision while servicing their customers and understanding the important elements that define customer experience. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Qatar Airways Group and Upside Learning Solutions Pvt Ltd | Customer Handling Course (CHC) | Bronze | 2023 | 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. This program is a mandatory course by IOSA and Qatar Airways Ground Services. The program attempts to provide knowledge and skills to Qatar Airways and Ground handling staff at Qatar Airways current and new station, regarding the current acceptance theories, skills, and airport practices. Through the program, employees will be familiarised with: • Both the hands-on airport applications, and critical thinking within the field (airport) • The ways to respond correctly and effectively to customers • The guidelines for managing customer issues and queries regarding their acceptance, special acceptance procedures, baggage, excess baggage charges, boarding, manual acceptance and transfer, among others. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Schindler Group and DelphianLogic | Schindler SuccessFactors Recruiting eLearning | Bronze | 2023 | This entry is submitted by DelphianLogic and Schindler Group. Schindler designed a training program to equip recruiters worldwide with the necessary skills to adhere to global hiring processes and workflows, integrated into the SuccessFactors hiring module. The training program designed and developed by DelphianLogic ensures a consistent hiring experience for all new recruiters globally. The program has successfully equipped recruiters with the necessary knowledge and skills to use the SuccessFactors Recruitment module effectively. This resulted in a more streamlined and efficient hiring process, across global Schindler recruiters. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | InterContinental Hotels & Resorts | Best Advance in Custom Content | Bronze | 2023 | The Project team needed to understand and prioritise the training focus areas that would support the new system and the change to the business processes. This was broken into 3 lessons, with detailed topics identified that would support hotel teams working to increase their knowledge of these areas and ability to make changes. Established goals were to: Deliver scenario-based training to include bite-sized videos based on the scenario to provide education as the learner moves through the scenarios to engage and educate with the foundational knowledge These goals were achieved with a curriculum built out over several scenarios that the hotel and its team were challenged with and delivered. The videos created used AI which gave the project team the flexibility to create multiple videos in house with no voiceover required, this saved on both time and costs. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Anglo American and NIIT | Light Vehicle Pre-start Inspection | Bronze | 2023 | Light Vehicle Pre-start inspection is a web-based training for workers in the Discovery team at Anglo American who drive vehicles in remote and isolated locations. The course helps learners understand the importance of pre-inspecting vehicles before using them and adhering to the necessary standards and guidelines of inspection. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | HARMAN International and SiyonaTech | HARMAN Automotive Strategy Challenge | Bronze | 2023 | The aim of the gamified/game based learning solution to embed the learning from Harman’s new strategy and enable Harman team members to apply it to their day-to-day work. Designed as an journey through a 3D world (created from Harmans vision roadmap), the learner is able to select cars for the phases of the journey (3 missions in total) and win accessories along the way by successfully completing challenges. Finishing a mission successfully enables them to upgrade their cars. At the end of the missions they are able to select a futuristic vehicle to fly off into the future of Harman! |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | IQVIA and NIIT | OCE Personal Configuration | Bronze | 2023 | The OCE Personal Configuration is a self-paced web-based training for configurators and administrators working with IQVIA’s OCE Personal platform to enable them to understand how to configure OCE Personal, how to set up a range of components that make up the system with one-time configuration tasks. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Farmer Law PC | Comprehensive Legal Visa Training | Bronze | 2023 | This application by Farmer Law PC, called "Comprehensive Legal Visa Training." The full course developed for the legal team has eight sections which focus on understanding the specific visa types that the Firm works on, and the Firm's internal processes. The courses, composed of videos with graphics, are engaging, with questions throughout to test knowledge retention. These courses were created out of a need for consistency in training content and outcomes, and to more effectively use the time and knowledge of existing staff, who had previously been responsible for training each new hire to the legal team. Through the development and implementation of these courses, the legal team has seen stronger outcomes for newly onboarded employees. And, the amount of time spent by the legal team to conduct trainings, rather than to focus on case work, has been significantly reduced. Overall, this course has increased efficiency for the legal team. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | ACCENTURE | Design for Applied Intelligence: Bringing Truly Human- centered design thinking perspective to enhance the value of client solutions | Bronze | 2023 | Design for Applied Intelligence is a self-paced online training. This program is centered around the knowledge and skills required to approach Accenture Applied Intelligence engagements with a human-centered design thinking perspective. It equips learners with methods and tools necessary to create data, analytics, and AI-driven interactive information and insight interfaces that are highly effective, meaningful, usable, and tailored to specific user needs. The course also includes instruction on a dashboard design method that enhances the value of solutions to this recurrent client request. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Freddie Mac and AllenComm | Freddie Mac CreditSmart® Essentials Consumer Financial Education Program | Bronze | 2023 | Freddie Mac partnered with AllenComm to redevelop the curriculum and delivery of their CreditSmart® Essentials program into an engaging, interactive, mobile-first learning platform with a focus on empowering learners of all backgrounds and experiences to learn the fundamental money management skills they need to become credit savvy consumers and build financial empowerment. This program is free for the public to complete on a voluntary basis and is optimized for small group and individual settings, both virtual and in-person. The program includes a deliberate focus to support learners of underserved communities, both young and old, who vary in experience and challenges but are routinely underrepresented in financial education and access to credit and have limited wealth. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | HP and Accenture | Selling with Trust and Presence | Bronze | 2023 | The Selling with Trust and Presence course providers learners with insights into what it means to be an executive and the advice that will help them build their executive presence to be able to confidently speak to executives. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | HP and Accenture | Exploring Teradici® CAS (HP Anyware) – Curriculum | Bronze | 2023 | The Exploring Teradici® CAS (HP Anyware) curriculum is designed for HP Sales Representatives to familiarize themselves with Teradici and its solutions so they can effectively position these solutions to meet the customer’s hybrid work requirements. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Element Six and The Training Room Online Pty Ltd (TTRO) | Best Custom Content - Learning and Development Program 2023 - PCBN Grinding Optimisation | Bronze | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Element Six and The Training Room Online (TTRO), is called PCBN Grinding Optimisation. This learning course was created to teach a particular skill or set of skills to sales distributors. The course was developed in response to a perceived need for these skills in the workforce to advance their careers. This course was designed in a manner to give salesman and sales distributors a vision of the current challenges using the visual tools and real-time scenarios. This was a very novel topic, and the training need was a unique one as it is challenging to layout such a technical subject and make it laymen for the audience to understand exactly how these tools and materials are adapted in the real world. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | AAK and Kick Learning, LLC | Better Behaviors: Making Better Happen | Bronze | 2023 | During 2021, AAK embarked on a cultural journey initiated by a project where a global purpose and 4 shared values, called Better Behaviors, were defined. The Better Behaviors: Making Better Happen eLearning was developed to introduce the four Better Behaviors (passionate, agile, accountable, and collaborative) to all 4,000 global AAK employees and as part of new-hire onboarding required training. During 2022, the course was assigned to all AAK employees across the globe. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | World Bank Group and Upside Learning Solutions Pvt Ltd | VRM Framework and Managing Co-employment Risk at the WBG | Bronze | 2023 | The World Bank Group (WBG), the world's largest development institution, works towards helping developing countries and countries in transition adjust to the changing world economy by offering loans and tailored knowledge and advice. The Vendor Risk Management Framework (VRM), managed by Corporate Procurement, is a WBG Procedure that sets out the steps to assess, mitigate, and monitor risks that arise out of the WBG Institutions’ contractual relationships with vendors. Partnering with Upside Learning, WBG created an interactive and informative eLearning program in support of the VRM program which had a primary module and an optional module. The primary module covered the role of contract managers in Assessing, Mitigating and Monitoring the many risks associated with engaging vendors in various capacities, to work with the WBG. While the optional module was created to update outdated content in the existing eLearning module of a sub-section under the VRM Service Delivery risk category. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Mercedes-Benz Group AG and chemmedia AG | Web Based Training "Management Module – Corporate Governance“ | Bronze | 2023 | As a part of its digitalization, Mercedes-Benz Group AG faced the challenge of creating a digital and centralized training for directing managers and members of supervisory boards, which furthermore will be assigned automatically. With this project, Mercedes-Benz Group AG aims to train the responsibilities and obligations arising from these key positions, as well as the importance of integrity and compliance more intensively and in line with target groups. As an integral part of the Mercedes-Benz values, the topic of integrity played a special role for the manager in directorship positions in the globally distributed (controlled and non-controlled) subsidiaries. In total, more than 400 persons perform a directorship function or supervisory function at the Mercedes-Benz Group AG. To this end, a modern and tailor-made integrity and compliance training was created that is both interactive and adapted for different positions, compliance risk exposures and various previous experiences. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT) and WeLearn Learning Services | Opening minds and unlocking growth in global financial services professionals | Bronze | 2023 | When working with clients, it is often the financial advisor's emotional intelligence that will set them apart from their competitors. Through the course, MDRT and WeLearn aim to equip MDRT members with the tools and constructs to tap into their emotional intelligence and deliver a world-class client experience. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) and Upside Learning Solutions Pvt Ltd | MIGA Induction eLearning Program | Bronze | 2023 | Since 2016, MIGA’s Learning Team has run a 5-day in-person Induction Program for new staff, which has become ineffective considering the small number of staff onboarded each year and the extensive time involvement for in-person sessions, as well as the suboptimal learning outcomes from the technically overwhelming, passive learning process. MIGA decided to overhaul the induction learning offer to include a self-paced, interactive eLearning program, and create a standard set of induction material for all new staff, available to them as soon as they join. This eLearning program was thus created to provide all new staff with comprehensive knowledge on MIGA’s role as a World Bank Group agency, its idiosyncratic product line, processes, and project cycle. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | McKinsey & Company | C-suite Life: Achieving scale and efficiency in digital learning development through iterative design | Bronze | 2023 | McKinsey designed a digital, asynchronous capability-building program called C-suite Life to equip early- and mid-tenured consultants with expertise and empathy to understand how a C-suite operates and interacts, all anchored in the specific context of their sector. The team aimed to create media-rich and highly interactive discovery learning resources that could be scaled to cover many roles within a C-suite and were repeatable for other industries. Through an iterative design model, the team created—with progressive efficiency and quality—36, 20-minute modules that cover C-Suite roles from 5 different industries, which learners have engaged with over 16,000 times. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | International Finance Corporation (Part of the World Bank Group) and Upside Learning Solutions Pvt Ltd | Environment and Social Academy for cities | Bronze | 2023 | Cities partnering with IFC are often unaware of the Environment and Social risks and mitigation measures that need to be considered. This course was developed for cities/municipalities to understand IFC’s investment lifecycle and all the E&S considerations involved in the process of partnering with IFC. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Mack Trucks and Kick Learning | Selling Mack Engines | Bronze | 2023 | This entry is for a 60-minute custom eLearning to enable Mack Trucks salespeople to select the right engine and software profile settings for Mack Trucks customers depending on their application and needs. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | World Bank Group and Upside Learning Solutions Pvt Ltd | Global Procurement Card Annual Reaccreditation Program at the World Bank Group | Bronze | 2023 | The World Bank Group has a Global Procurement Card program under which employees can utilize various types of procurement cards to purchase and pay for small-dollar transactions as well as high-volume purchases. This training stresses on the WBG Procedure that governs the allowable transactions, limits, and exceptions process for each card type, and defines the roles and responsibilities of cardholders and their managers. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and EI, Powered by MPS | Identity and Access Management | Gold | 2023 | As Regeneron has grown and benefited from increased brand awareness, so too have the security risks related to Regeneron Intellectual Property, proprietary research and trade secrets. An important aspect of protecting Regeneron’s data is ensuring only verified and vetted individuals have access to information, and that these individuals see exactly what they should see to perform their roles. A robust Identity and Access Management program, starting with thorough training helps safeguard Regeneron’s business by protecting its information. This eLearning module complements a defined request, review, approve and periodic review process protecting access to Regeneron systems and a meticulously enforced Identity and Access Policy. System Owners, System Managers and People Managers all receive this training to equip them to perform thorough, thoughtful and effective reviews of access for their people and their systems of responsibility. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Schindler Group and DelphianLogic | Successful Interviewing Journey eLearning | Gold | 2023 | This entry is submitted by DelphianLogic and Schindler Group. The importance of training hiring managers on how to conduct interviews cannot be overstated, particularly with regard to promoting diversity and minimising biases. To address this crucial issue, Schindler developed an eLearning module to help hiring managers refresh their skills and show how to interview candidates while keeping diversity and inclusion in mind. The ultimate goal was to transform the hiring managers into brand ambassadors and create a signature hiring experience. The program's initial launch with an interaction of more than 150 users received feedback of ‘highly satisfied’ on a sliding scale of learner satisfaction, highlighting the program's efficacy and importance in fostering a more diverse and inclusive work environment. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | PepsiCo, Inc. and EI, Powered by MPS | Walmart Virtual Tour | Gold | 2023 | In response to the growing trend of teams working from remote locations, PepsiCo has launched an innovative learning experience called the Walmart Virtual Tour to help its employees stay connected and engaged. This virtual tour is a simulation that allows employees to explore Walmart stores through immersive virtual reality, providing a unique experience that fosters a sense of community and belonging, regardless of physical location. By proactively offering this opportunity, PepsiCo demonstrates its commitment to employee engagement and recognizes the importance of keeping employees connected to the company culture. The Walmart Virtual Tour is a prime example of how innovative solutions can help bridge the gap between global employees and physical workplaces. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | PepsiCo. And LRN | PepsiCo's Lessons on Ethical Leadership 2023 | Gold | 2023 | Personal accountability and “tone from the middle” play a major role in reinforcing and maintaining a strong ethical culture. To encourage that culture and support their employees, PepsiCo pored through hundreds of speak-up cases to build the content for Lessons on Ethical Leadership. The interactive course features relevant examples and imagery from within PepsiCo, designed to guide learners through certain behaviors and guidelines from PepsiCo’s Global Code of Conduct and The PepsiCo Way and focus on some of the common leadership/manager issues facing the organization. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and EI Powered by MPS | Change Management | Gold | 2023 | Information Technology (IT) protects the live, or production, environment by managing and thoroughly vetting changes made to IT systems. The training content developed to support an improved understanding of the IT Change Management Process ensures both practitioners and managers understand the rationale and method to successfully launch new systems and maintain existing ones through careful definition, testing, and deployment of production changes. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | BHP and Infopro Learning | BHP Jansen HSE Training | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Infopro Learning, is called "BHP Jansen HSE Training." Infopro Learning created two pre-orientation eLearning modules of 30 minutes each to make the new employee face-to-face orientation program more impactful. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Berkley DP and Docebo | BDP Risk® Learning Plans Lead to Higher Engagement | Gold | 2023 | Berkley DP is a professional liability insurance company that serves architects and engineers. Berkley DP customers receive access to its BDP Risk® platform for exclusive risk management materials—on-demand courses and a vast library of articles, guidebooks, templates, and checklists—custom designed to help them avoid claims, improve management practices, enhance business performance, earn professional association–approved continuing education units, and qualify for premium credits. Such a large amount of content can be intimidating to navigate, so Berkley DP created a set of learning plans tailored for specific roles or topic areas to help customers more easily find and complete relevant coursework. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | American College of Cardiology (ACC) and Infopro Learning | Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM): Accelerating Guideline-Driven Care | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Infopro Learning, is called "Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM): Accelerating Guideline-Driven Care." HCM: Accelerating Guideline-Driven Care is a free global online program with a bold ambition of accelerating the adoption of the 2020 ACC/AHA Guidelines for HCM by improving comprehension of HCM pathophysiology, genetic screening, diagnosis, and treatment. The program was designed to tackle the clinical inertia that frequently occurs following a clinical guideline update by simplifying complex HCM concepts, offering practical approaches to diagnosis and treatment, and promoting interprofessional clinical team collaboration. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Trulieve and Hurix Systems Private Limited | TruU Grow Program | Gold | 2023 | The TruU GROW learning program is a dynamic, robust and purpose driven modular on-the-job training program designed to prepare entry level cannabis cultivation associates for a successful career. The learning program uses a Learn-Practice-Teach approach in a blended learning environment of instructor-led and web-based training, including printed materials, gamification, high quality videos, testimonial documentaries and support media to drive purpose, culture and engagement during the first week of onboarding and learning called READY-SET-GROW. GROW is the “practice” phase of the program, where the trainee is paired up with a “Learning-Bud” peer and “GROW-Coach” to learn every skill while on the job. Trainees use a comprehensive GROW-companion workbook to track progress week-to-week, earning a weekly certification of accomplishments to graduate as a #TruLifeChanger and become a Learning-Bud to teach the next class of trainees and further reinforce the learning process. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Comcast and EI, Powered by MPS | Xfinity Mobile Ambassador Game | Gold | 2023 | Game-based sales training modules targeted to help salespeople gain the required knowledge of the Comcast Xfinity product and increase their sales. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Cummins and EI, Powered by MPS | Custom Content Learning | Gold | 2023 | This course was designed for Frontline Supervisors to help them understand their roles and responsibilities in leading HSE. The course was designed by a cross-functional team that included supervisors and aimed at helping them develop soft skills. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Standard Chartered Bank and Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd | Mercury & Appetite serious or metaphorical games and sustainability–themed Brain Training games for Standard Chartered Bank: Best Advance in Custom Content | Gold | 2023 | Standard Chartered Bank has embarked on a future-ready workforce journey to stay relevant in the ever-evolving banking landscape. The Bank partnered with Accenture to adopt a data-driven, strategic approach to evolve how the bank learns today, tomorrow, and beyond. Accenture accompanied the Bank transformation on how learning is governed, designed, delivered, and scaled. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Hilton and SweetRush | Welcome to Hilton | Gold | 2023 | This entry, “Welcome to Hilton,” is submitted by Hilton and SweetRush. In a competitive labor market, Hilton—home to 400,000 team members—knew it needed to make a powerful first impression on its new team members with a completely custom new hire onboarding course. Welcome to Hilton is a leap forward, combining emotionally powerful, story-based content and interactivity to create a personalized experience that sets the stage for their time at Hilton. Hilton has updated, standardized, and scaled its new hire onboarding to reflect its evolving brand and culture, and it’s connecting emotionally with the thousands of new team members that join every year. Welcome to Hilton brings Hilton’s purpose, culture, and values to life for new team members through a unique custom content-driven learning experience that makes them inspired, proud, and ready to welcome Hilton guests with the same level of hospitality that this new hire orientation shows them! |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | HP and Accenture | Engaging with Customers about Digital Transformation | Gold | 2023 | Engaging with Customers about Digital Transformation is a 6-hour vILT/1-day ILT training that builds on the existing digital transformation learning path, which focuses on how to drive digital transformation conversations with customers. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Pfizer and Learning Pool | Pfizer Orange Guide: Aligning Training to Day-to-Day Responsibilities | Gold | 2023 | In 2022, Pfizer redesigned and transformed its long-standing healthcare laws policy / field guide (the “Orange Guide”). Pfizer’s Orange Guide provides sales colleagues with an overview of relevant healthcare laws, Pfizer policies, legal restrictions and rules, and potential compliance issues that may be encountered in real life in their role. The focus of the Orange Guide redesign effort was on streamlining content and creating a more user-friendly format that clearly outlines compliance requirements for critical activities. To address key policy updates and align to the new Orange Guide, the Compliance Training Team partnered with Learning Pool to redesign the associated Orange Guide training module for 2023 in a way that would allow more content customization, closely align training to day-to-day job responsibilities, and increase relevancy and engagement for learners. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | MindWise Innovations and Kick Learning | Mindwise on Campus: Suicide Prevention for Students | Gold | 2023 | This entry is for a 30-minute online training module and 45-minute in-person training that teaches college students how to recognize and effectively intervene with friends or self at risk for suicide. This intervention includes using the ACT model: Acknowledge, Care, and Tell. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | L&T Construction and Integra Software Services | L&T Construction's Custom Content in Learning: Contributing to the Construction Trade Skills at L&T and the nation as a whole | Gold | 2023 | For over 25 years, Larsen & Toubro's (L&T) Construction Skills Training Institutes (CSTIs) have been crucial in providing vocational training to the construction industry workforce. Recognizing the need for a highly skilled workforce, L&T established CSTIs, which has significantly contributed to the industry's development. Traditionally, the industry has depended on conventional workmen for labor, but CSTIs have been instrumental in providing vocational skills to the workforce. The custom-made content, unique in India, benefits L&T and the industry at large. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | METRO Türkiye | Çarşım Market Development Platform | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by METRO Türkiye, is called Çarşım Market Development Platform. The Platform is a testing and learning culture program which is customized and designed to develop skills and competencies of employees in regard to a specific customer category (groceries), in line with organization’s principles. It is an experience center where 3 different participants are involved quarterly. This development platform has three main goals: 1. To develop 3 main competencies of employees that are already in company principles (Customer Success, Ownership and Sustainable Business principles). 2. To increase the loyalty of trader customers and the turnover of the trader category. 3. To increase the NPS score of trader category |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Wells Fargo & Company and Elyse Williams Productions | Understanding unconscious bias from a customer’s perspective | Gold | 2023 | Understanding unconscious bias explores how customers may experience bias in everyday interactions, and how those interactions can influence the persons perception of events, and actions taken. The goal of the learning is to help employees be more aware of how bias can impact customers and identify when bias may have impacted the customer. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Qatar Airways Group and Upside Learning Solutions Pvt Ltd | Live Animals Regulations | Gold | 2023 | 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. Since the transportation of live animals forms a major part of Qatar Airways’ operations, there was a need to train employees on handling and acceptance procedures with reference to the International Air Transport Association Live Animals Regulations (IATA LAR) manual. The transportation of live animals requires safe, healthy, and humane conditions. Hence, it was essential that Qatar Airways’ employees directly involved in this task were aware of the appropriate concepts, procedures, and regulations and expected to use this understanding later in actual day-to-day work situations. Qatar Airways was looking to have an eLearning course designed to cater to the needs of the Qatar Airways employees at multiple levels as per their roles and responsibilities. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc. and Schoox | Checkers Serves Up a Custom Sandwich Experience for their Team Members | Gold | 2023 | Inside their Crazy Good Learning Platform, Checkers & Rally’s takes the learner to their fictional Checkers and Rally’s Institute for Sandwich Perfection (CRISP) where they see the science behind the perfect sandwich and build virtual sandwiches. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | HP and Accenture | Channel Management with Data Analytics and Insights | Gold | 2023 | This course is designed to provide HP Partner Business Managers (PBMs) in-depth knowledge of the origins of HP’s Channel Data Management and how that information is treated and analyzed. It covers the tools and dashboards through which PBMs and their Channel Partners can access that data. It also equips them in how to leverage that data to guide their Partners to create effective business plans. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited and BTS Australasia | ANZ Coaching for Accelerated Growth and Performance | Gold | 2023 | The ANZ Leadership Pathways: Coaching for Accelerated Growth and Performance program was designed to uplift leadership coaching capabilities for ANZ's bankers so that they could support commercial goals (such as becoming the leading bank for small-to-medium Australian businesses looking to start, run and grow). Despite having undergone previous coaching capability- and mindset-development programs in the past, a number of ANZ’s commercial banking leaders were identified as demonstrating a default to transactional style coaching. The ANZ Leadership Pathways Program’s multi-faceted and deeply-customized approach helped ANZ's leaders to identify the critical moments for coaching in the flow of work, enabling them to successfully link concepts and tools which deliver better outcomes for their people and their customers. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | E&J Gallo Winery and Oxygen Exp | The Gallo Production System (GPS) Program | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted jointly by E. & J. Gallo Winery and Oxygen Exp, is called "The Gallo Production System (GPS) Program." This is an experiential, consistent, inclusive, and accessible learning experience, which is more than an online asset and is designed by keeping Gallo’s core values and their people in the center. The aim was to create a set of modules that are self-paced but require high participation and engagement through collaborative activities and flexible learning. The GPS program includes 9 SCORM-compliant, self-paced modules, including an Overview module that helps set relevant context. Relevant imagery, scenarios, unique branding, reflective exercises, infographics, and animations are used to enhance grasp and retention of concepts. Along with the self-paced modules, a separate facilitator guide is provided to aid group facilitation for the audience that doesn’t have access to computers. The program is equally effective for asynchronous learning and facilitated group learning. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Flexco and SDI Consulting, LLC | Flexco Essentials Curriculum | Gold | 2023 | Flexco Essentials™ is a multi-faceted training program designed to provide a comprehensive review of the essential components of a heavy-duty conveyor system. The curriculum includes a variety of eLearning, video, classroom, and virtual classroom components. Primary audiences include Flexco and subsidiary employees, with secondary audiences including global industry partners, customers, and mining schools and universities. Flexco Essentials increases conveyor knowledge and application for employees, while also increasing the value we provide to our a number of external audiences, establishing greater trust and loyalty. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | HP and Accenture | MPS CSM Learning Path | Gold | 2023 | This entry is for the MPS curriculum, which is part of the overarching learning path for Customer Strategic Managers (CSMs). The aim of this curriculum is understand what the market benchmarks/trends/regulations in the managed services space are and how to sell and deliver MPS to customers. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | European Wax Center and TrainingPros | Center Manager Training Program | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by TrainingPros and European Wax Center, is called "Center Manager Training Program". This curriculum was designed to meet the need for more managers to be trained quickly. The audience analysis indicated that the program needed to be relatable, bite-sized, and fun while still delivering the necessary information and practice. The courses include characters, storytelling, humanized content, and learner-centric design. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Colgate-Palmolive | GIT System Performance & Reliability (P&R) 101 Course | Gold | 2023 | GIT System Performance & Reliability (P&R) 101 Course is a new and inspiring educational course developed to help Colgate People, specifically those in Global Information Technology or those interacting with key Information Technology processes. The course is broken into 3 segments: Think Holistically & Proactively, Abide & Comply and Response Management. The total training should take approximately 30 minutes. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Colgate-Palmolive and SAI 360 | Global Anti-Bribery: The GAB Film Festival! (e) | Gold | 2023 | Global Anti-Bribery: The GAB Film Festival! is an immersive, engaging learning experience that playfully incorporates various elements of cinematic storytelling to reinforce Colgate's anti-bribery policies in a resonant and—dare we say fun?—way. By depicting four relevant, bribery-related scenarios through the use of popular film genres (noir/detective, western, action, horror/thriller), learners are simultaneously entertained and educated about how to handle similar situations they might very well encounter on the job. It’s a custom, infotainment experience that learners have said is one of the best they’ve ever completed! |
| Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Loblaw Companies Limited (LCL) and GP Strategies | Customer Experience Principles | Gold | 2023 | The Customer Experience Principles (CXP) course is mobile first, accessible, and micro-learning driven. Slated for all store employees, the course introduces and reinforces the Customer Experience Principles and their core behaviors. | |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | National Grid and Accenture | Best Advance in Custom Content – Safety Standard Simplification & Digitization | Gold | 2023 | The National Grid strategic priorities for the year 2021 was to empower their US and UK employees working in the gas and electricity field and build their skills to improve their efficiency at work. Prior to 2021, National Grid heavily relied on classroom-based training. The employees had to spend time in the classroom away from work and this led to downtime. Moreover, it involved high travel and training costs impacting operational productivity. Additionally, owing to the pandemic, National Grid was unable to run classroom sessions of the same classroom size. Accenture reviewed 1000 existing classroom courses, identified courses to be digitized and developed and delivered highly engaging e-learning courses with animations, illustrations, videos and gamified components. With the help of Accenture, National Grid saved $108K of Instructor Travel costs, 587K travel miles and saved 2308K of CO2 emissions. On an average, the digital courses received 4.5/5 ratings from the learners. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Microsoft and Oxygen Exp | The CARE Experience | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted jointly by Microsoft and Oxygen Exp, is called "The CARE Experience." CARE encompasses the core set of behaviors that enable a great customer experience: communication, accountability, resourcefulness, and empathy (CARE). This learning program lands the vital CARE elements in the hearts and minds of anyone who supports customers on behalf of Microsoft, which positively impacts the customer’s experience with every interaction. The program is organized into 5 missions and each mission is consciously designed into short episodes of 10 minutes or less. To solidify the CARE concepts, interactive scenarios, rich media/imagery, reflective exercises, recorded/animated videos, and meaningful activities are included within the episodes. To ensure consistency and scalability of learning, Microsoft’s accessibility and inclusion standards are meticulously followed. The output is a SCORM-compliant package with an overview (landing) page which invites the learner into the program and provides one-click access to all missions and episodes. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | HP and Accenture | Practicing Outcome Based Selling | Gold | 2023 | 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 Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Kraft Heinz and GP Strategies | Kraft Heinz Finance Curriculum | Gold | 2023 | As the biggest launch of custom-learning content in the history of the Kraft Heinz, the Finance Curriculum, is a collection of over 60 eLearning courses developed by more than 70 of Kraft Heinz’ Finance Leaders and Subject Matter Experts, in partnership with the learning design and build expertise of GP Strategies. With 4000+ course registrations, the Finance Curriculum is fun, engaging and deeply practical and supports all areas of the company to learn critical Finance-related concepts. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Just Eat Takeaway and &ranj | League of Leaders | Gold | 2023 | Introducing JET League of Leaders, a collaboration between Just Eat Takeaway (JET), &ranj, and Erasmus Centre of Excellence (ECE), designed for millennial and Gen Z leaders at JET. This game-based learning solution is built on the JET leadership profile, developed by ECE after extensive research. Targeting 1,000+ young leaders, as part of a blended-learning approach for leadership development. The engaging solution combines creative writing, video, animation, and audio in a branching narrative. Recognizable situations immerse learners in realistic work environments, promoting emotional engagement and learning effectiveness. Emphasizing fun, engagement, and competency development, JET League of Leaders demonstrates the power of collaboration between JET, learning partners, research institutes, and serious game development, providing a SCORM-compliant learning experience. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | HP and Accenture | Sales Leadership in Uncertain Times | Gold | 2023 | This course equips HP and Channel Partner Sales Managers with the skills and actionable approaches required to build trust and positive relationships with their superiors and teams and guide their teams to success through times of uncertainty. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Colgate-Palmolive and Innovation Boosters | Trying Out Loud: Unleash your innovative power and see possibilities everywhere. | Gold | 2023 | Trying out Loud (TOL) is a new and inspiring educational content series developed to help Colgate People ignite their inner innovative skillet and see their ideas grow and become a movement in the company. The bite-sized lesson format of TOL is a fresh approach to learning that is energizing, light hearted, and can be applied by everyone, everyday. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | HSBC and GP Strategies | Level Up | Gold | 2023 | Level Up is a fully accessible and scalable learning experience comprised of a custom-designed gaming portal with scoring, badges, leaderboards, and administrative functionality. Each “season” takes learners to a series of “tours,” where they play mini-games to reinforce their knowledge of international banking for premier clients at HSBC. The storytelling themes and visual design also emphasize knowledge of world cultures as well as HSBC’s commitment to sustainability. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Cognizant Digital Learning and KUKA | User Roles and Responsibilities in a Robot-supported Production Plant | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Cognizant and KUKA Global, is called "User Roles and Responsibilities in a Robot-supported Production Plant". In accordance with the need of KUKA, an engaging micro-learning solution was created. It was targeted at automation managers of small and medium enterprises as well as other original equipment manufacturers to explain the roles and responsibilities in a robot-supported production plant. The solution had real-life scenarios, realistic visuals, and intuitive interactivities to make the learning experience an enriching one. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | BASF and MindSpring | BASF baslac Digital Learning Program | Gold | 2023 | The BASF baslac 35 custom digital program, developed in partnership with MindSpring, is an all-digital training solution aimed at educating distributors and end-users on the efficient use of the baslac 35 line of cost-effective paint products for collision repairs. Targeting paint technicians in body shops, the program offers personalized learning paths, utilizing a variety of digital formats such as video, animation, and scenario-based learning to provide best-in-class color matching and high-quality training while minimizing the need for direct support from BASF field staff. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Scotiabank and Flint Learning Solutions | Scotiabank's Global Mandatory Learning Program | Gold | 2023 | Scotiabank plays an important and privileged role in the fabric of society and the global economy. Providing employees with relevant, timely and accurate learning solutions bolsters the bank’s position as a Leading Bank in the Americas. Scotiabank’s Global Mandatory Learning program is a compliance training program that allows the learner to apply existing knowledge through real-life scenarios to deepen their knowledge of compliance policies and issues with a focus on keeping the Bank and its customers and employees safe. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Accenture | LevelUP - Celonis and Process Mining for CFO&EV | Gold | 2023 | The LevelUP program is a self-paced, customized course designed to equip approximately 4200 CFO and Enterprise Value practitioners with the knowledge and skills needed to excel in process mining. By providing a comprehensive understanding of process mining concepts and Celonis expertise, participants can confidently drive client conversations and deliver valuable solutions. The program features three scenario-based storylines with financial use-cases, allowing learners to apply key concepts in practical settings. Short assessments are integrated into the narrative to reinforce knowledge and maintain learner engagement. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Rio Tinto and NIIT | Operational Readiness | Silver | 2023 | Operational Readiness is a web-based awareness training to enhance the skills and capabilities of practitioners across the Rio Tinto Group. The course consists of two components – two teaser videos designed for everyone at Rio Tinto to generate a high-level interest in operational readiness (OR); a WBT for learners who are further interested in building their understanding of OR. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | PepsiCo and Hurix Systems Private Limited | Global NRM Analytics (Custom Content) | Silver | 2023 | Submitted jointly by PepsiCo and Hurix, this entry is a comprehensive program designed to encourage adoption of a global analytics platform custom built by PepiCo to enable better Net Revenue Management (NRM) through strategic, analytics-backed decision-making. The program goal was to facilitate platform adoption rather than instruction on how to use the platform. The design strategy was to help the learners use the dashboards willingly, independently, confidently, and effectively. The program was launched on schedule and rolled out to senior-level managerial audiences within the sales as well as other allied functions. Within as little as two quarters following the training program rollout, there has been a four-fold increase in active users, ten-fold increase in the total sessions, and a two-fold increase in the average number of sessions per user. The business is already reporting better net revenue realization attributed to sound NRM strategies. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Chelsea Piers and Infopro Learning | Chelsea Piers Onboarding Program | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Infopro Learning, is called "Chelsea Piers Onboarding Program." The Chelsea Piers onboarding program is an open-access program about Chelsea Piers’s work culture, services, and facilities for all its new hires across all venues and locations. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Danu Center for Strategic Advocacy and Danu Center for Strategic Advocacy | Strategic Listening for Lawyers 2022 | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Practising Law Institute (PLI) is called "Strategic Listening for Lawyers 2022." It is a web-based modular interactive eLearning program about improving a lawyer’s ability to listen, understand, and respond appropriately and effectively with clients, colleagues, judges, witnesses, and opposing counsel is an important skill. Listening is a crucial element of the Model Rule of Professional Conduct 1.4 requirement to communicate and reasonably consult with clients about their cases. Though listening is necessary for most legal work, lawyers are rarely taught how to do it well. There are exceptions: trial lawyers are taught to listen to interrupt (e.g., objections) and to listen to respond (e.g., oral argument), but trial work is only a small slice of most lawyers’ time—even for litigators. This program will teach lawyers how to incorporate strategic listening skills into their practices. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT) and WeLearn Learning Services | The Message Matters - Teaching the Art of Giving and Receiving Feedback to High-Performing Financial Services Professionals | Silver | 2023 | Being able to give and receive feedback is one of the most important skills one can have in the modern world of work. This is especially true for financial services professionals who deliver financial advice to the clients, and are often there for both the highs and lows in their clients life. This application explores the course The Art of Giving Feedback by the Million Dollar Roundtable. Developed in conjunction with WeLearn, the course is focused on giving MDRT members the tools and mental models the will need to master the art of giving (and sometimes receiving) feedback in their practices, their client relationships, and in the personal lives. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | BPI and BTS Group AB | Risk Culture Project | Silver | 2023 | The Risk Culture transformation program was designed and launched with the objective of reinforcing BPIs risk culture, focusing on 3 key areas of action: • Define what is expected from the employees at a behavioural level to drive the desired risk culture • Identify the current situation and the existing gaps versus the desired state • Support the employees closing the identified gaps through a training journey, and give them the appropriate tools to sustain the cultural transformation |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | International Finance Corporation (Part of the World Bank Group) and Upside Learning Solutions Pvt Ltd | Conflict Sensitivity | Silver | 2023 | For the private sector operating in complex environments, it is critical to understand how their activities may influence or are influenced by the context of conflict and fragility. The IFC required an introductory eLearning program on Conflict Sensitivity to help their staff adopt a conflict-sensitive approach to designing and delivering IFC interventions in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations (FCS). In partnership with Upside Learning, IFC developed an engaging, interactive eLearning program to introduce the concept of conflict sensitivity, how it applies to the work of IFC, and how staff can mitigate against potential negative impacts. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Wells Fargo and Company and SweetRush and Lemonlight | Power of small actions | Silver | 2023 | The Power of Small Actions is a self-paced course that takes the learner through a journey of awareness and exploration to gain perspective for others whose identities may be different from their own. The relatable, real-life examples show what it’s like to identify as racially or ethnically diverse in the corporate work environment. Building upon this awareness, the learner explores how even small actions they take are effective in showing empathy to colleagues, listening with an open mind, and speaking up when they see non-inclusive behaviors. There is power in small actions. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT) and WeLearn Learning Services | In the end, we are all human. | Silver | 2023 | When working with clients, it is often the financial advisor's emotional intelligence that will set them apart from their competitors. Through the course, MDRT and WeLearn aim to equip MDRT members with the tools and constructs to tap into their emotional intelligence and deliver a world-class client experience. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Mercer | Darwin Help Desk Training | Silver | 2023 | The Darwin Learning team started a project to create an integrated learning journey for a Helpdesk team that could streamline the onboarding of agents and provide just-in-time content accessible at all times. The innovative learning design has brought an increase in learning material quality, feedback quality and faster onboarding for new agents. |
| Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Accenture | Grid Lock | Silver | 2023 | Submitted by Accenture's Information Security Behavior Change Team, “Grid Lock” is Accenture’s newest gamified information security learning course that does not feel like training. Instead, it provides a memorable, visually appealing, and hands-on experience that promotes deep understanding and lasting knowledge of how to properly secure sensitive information. This self-paced course was custom designed to align with specific learning behaviors that Accenture employees need to live by. While there are general best practices included as well, this asset could not be lifted and shifted to other companies as the content is custom-designed for Accenture. | |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Blockchain Research Institute and INSEAD | Blockchain Revolution - Best Custom Content | Silver | 2023 | The Blockchain Research Institute (BRI) partnered with INSEAD, Edios, and Coursera to develop a series of courses on the topic of blockchain for business professionals to understand the potential of this technology. The BRI/INSEAD courses aimed to provide a comprehensive understanding of blockchain technology and its potential impact on various industries for a non-technical, business audience. The courses had specific learning objectives, such as identifying the limitations of the internet, describing various digital assets, and evaluating blockchain-based solutions for their own industries. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Midmark Corporation and Innovative Learning Group | Clinical Education Diagnostic Curriculum | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Midmark Corporation and Innovative Learning Group, Inc., is entitled “Clinical Education Diagnostic Curriculum.” The submission details the company’s strategic initiative to improve efficiency, comfort, and safety when using Midmark equipment in clinical care settings. The submission describes the “medical must-dos” that formed the business case for a multi-tiered curriculum to address the education needs of Midmark clinical educators, patient care staff at clinical facilities, and even patients to further drive positive health outcomes. The submission includes a description of the comprehensive curriculum of e-learning, quick reference guides, eBooks, toolkits, and other materials covering Midmark diagnostic products. The initiative’s measurable business results include outstanding customer satisfaction data showing the immediate impact of this educational rollout and its clinical importance. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Cadillac and Jack Morton Worldwide | A New Learning Community | Silver | 2023 | Breakthrough Learning Community established for corporate and retail dealership employees for modern learning, sharing, and communication integration as it migrates thousands of staff into an All-Electric future. Cadillac IQ is the first platform General Motors has implemented that links its users with product and skills learning training in a gamified environment, embracing short-form content, communication, and collaboration. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Colgate-Palmolive and The Packaging School | Packaging Curricula - Processes & Materials | Silver | 2023 | Colgate-Palmolive in partnership with The Packaging School created a custom self-directed elearning program that upskilled the packaging organization on shared terminology and key concepts around processes, methods and materials. In addition to gains in knowledge and skills, the business wanted to increase confidence in order to communicate, collaborate and execute more effectively. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Colgate-Palmolive and Purple Media | ‘Lead Your Change Journey’ Program | Silver | 2023 | To achieve Colgate-Palmolive’s strategic ambitions and to remain competitive in today’s dynamic world, we have to keep changing and adapting. Our goal was to reimagine our traditional approach to change, making it more agile and inclusive and challenging traditional beliefs around change, thus making a shift from “Change Management” to “Change Leadership”. By applying the four Fundamentals (Discovery, Co-Creation, People-Centricity, Growth Mindset) and the Change Journey as the new flexible and iterative framework (both were developed in-house in close collaboration with Colgate Leaders) and practical tools for current and future initiatives, learners will be equipped to lead and embed change more effectively. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Upside Learning Solutions Pvt Ltd | Digital Video Solutions | Silver | 2023 | HPE's Digital Video Solutions portfolio is designed to help telcos and broadcasters take advantage of the huge 5G market opportunity. With digital services growing at a fast pace, HPE wanted to design a program aimed at equipping their sales representatives with the right information to pitch HPE's Digital Video Solutions to appropriate customers. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Kraft Heinz and Infinitude Creative Group | The Heart of Kraft Heinz: Operating Model and Enterprise Strategy eLearning | Silver | 2023 | The Operating Model & Enterprise Strategy (OM&ES) program, developed and submitted jointly by Kraft Heinz and Infinitude Creative Group, is a SCORM-compliant, custom HTML eLearning module with supporting interactive PDFs. The module features many custom interactions, visuals, and live and motion graphic videos. The program was designed to make Kraft Heinz’s Operating Model easy to understand and to empower all employees to take part in the business transformation underway at Kraft Heinz. It provides individuals and teams an opportunity to reflect on how their work aligns with that strategy with an action plan template. The program adds to Kraft Heinz’s global onboarding experience, following Hello Owner (redesigned in 2020 as part of “The Heart of Kraft Heinz” curriculum). The OM&ES program has been translated into seven additional languages and deployed globally. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Deloitte LLP | Analyst, Consultant, and Senior Consulting Development Journey | Silver | 2023 | The Analyst, Consultant, and Sr. Consultant development journeys are individual, level-specific, interactive "roadmaps" designed to help learners navigate available learning resources, as well as show that learning is not linear, and paths can be tailored to the needs of the individual to thrive at their level or prepare them for the next career milestone. Each level roadmap has its own theme and level personas but connects to the level below/above to help make learning seamless. Roadmaps are communicated to learners and coaches through custom communications tied to each respective theme. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Takeda Pharmaceuticals and Red Nucleus | Takeda Careful Documentation Training | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Red Nucleus to highlight a program created by Takeda Pharmaceuticals is called "Careful Documentation: Pause & Reflect." The training is an innovative and creative learning program that delivers best practices for communicating effectively and compliantly while creating documents that accomplish their purpose without bringing any undue risk to the company. The learning approach leveraged a cast of custom-created illustrated characters and a storytelling style that effectively connected with, and transferred, important skills to a diverse and global audience. Further, the program was broken into small, digestible pieces with varying modalities (a video trailer, two e-learning modules, job aids, posters/digital signage, email banners, Teams background), which allowed for flexibility in delivery and high levels of engagement with the learning audience. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | McDonald's Corporation and Socratic Arts | Ready on Arrival Challenge - Leveling Up MOP (Mobile Order Pay): Best Advance in Custom Content | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by McDonald’s Corporation, Socratic Arts, and Infinitude Creative, is called the "Ready on Arrival Challenge – Leveling Up MOP (Mobile Order Pay)." It is a simulation game designed to support new Mobile Order Pay procedures and mobile app updates that launched in February 2023 to US McDonald’s restaurants. The simulator gives crew members hands-on practice with the new Mobile Order Pay procedures within real-world restaurant scenarios to build their confidence with executing the new process updates, resulting in a great customer experience. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | L'Oreal Group | My Beauty Club, a digital learning space with a user centric approach | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by L'Oreal Group is called " My Beauty Club, a digital learning space with a user centric approach". It is a mobile app designed to teach and train salesforce in the beauty industry in the EMEAI region. It has been developed not just as a learning tool but also as a community building space that allows for peer-to-peer interactions, user generated content and creative ways to learn about the L'Oreal Group brands and products. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | HP and Accenture | Succeeding in Sales with Resilience | Silver | 2023 | This entry is for the Succeeding in Sales with Resilience virtual workshop. The aim of this course is to help learners understand the importance of resilience in sales and the techniques they can use to build their resilience in their sales roles. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Custom Content | Volvo Trucks and Kick Learning | Truck Fundamentals | Silver | 2023 | Volvo Trucks wants all employees to be able to carry on a conversation, however light it may be, about trucks. Historically, employees whose jobs depended upon this knowledge would be sent to outside training facilities for 6 weeks of lecture-based training led by for-profit trucking schools. This is an expensive and time-consuming process and, quite frankly, overkill for many employees. Instead, Volvo engaged Kick Learning to create an interactive online training module that employees could take at their own pace. The result was a two-hour online course with a twenty-question test-out option. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Establishing Governance to Guide Learning Decisions | Deloitte LLP | Practical Governance for Mandatory Learning | Gold | 2023 | The volume of mandatory learning required in the first 60 days of employment at Deloitte can present time-management challenges for new hires. By introducing new conventions to the governance model, Deloitte is targeting a 15-40% reduction in the learning volume required of future new hires (calculated by comparing the total learning minutes in the new-hire window before rationalization and the total minutes that will remain post rationalization, then converting differences, which vary by career level and geography, to percentages). |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Establishing Governance to Guide Learning Decisions | BHP | BHP’s Learning Quality Management Framework and compliance tool, TRACQ, enables the delivery of consistent and high-quality training and governance to the BHP FutureFit Academy. | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by BHP, is called ‘BHP’s Learning Quality Management Framework and compliance tool, TRACQ, enables the delivery of consistent and high-quality training and governance to the BHP FutureFit Academy’. In the establishment of BHP FutureFit Academies in 2020, a Learning Quality Management Framework (LQMF) was designed and implemented to provide greater structure, clarity, and a shared understanding of the responsibilities of all parties in the delivery and governance of training programs. Subsequently, the compliance tool TRACQ (Training Review Assurance Check and Quality), was designed and implemented. TRACQ is an interactive and user-friendly application that supports the LQMF and manages quality assurance activities. LQMF and TRACQ have proven to be invaluable tools that enable the BHP FutureFit Academies to ensure consistent and high-quality training, whilst remaining compliant and adhering to VET (Vocational Education & Training) industry regulations. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Establishing Governance to Guide Learning Decisions | Accenture Solutions Private Limited | Accenture Capability Development - CDMM (Capability Development Maturity Model) | Gold | 2023 | The Capability Development Maturity Model measures and drives the progression of the business training function by streamlining and stabilizing learning, processes, practices and tools while bringing out replicable best practices that can be scaled across Accenture. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Establishing Governance to Guide Learning Decisions | Sanofi Vaccines and Innovative Learning Group | Global Curricula Framework and Governance Model | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Sanofi and Innovative Learning Group, Inc., is entitled “Global Curricula Framework and Governance Model.” The submission details the Sanofi Vaccines initiative that uses a governance model, strategically built around an industry standard curricula framework to reduce training hours, redundancies in training assignments, and to standardize the organization of training requirements across locations. The submission begins by comprehensively describing the business needs that led to the initiative and why the governance mode, centered around an industry standard curricula framework, was the appropriate solution. The submission then discusses: the design of the governance model, specific change management strategies used to support ensure success, its strategic deployment, as well as measurable benefits. Finally, a summary of lessons learned describes best practices moving forward and what is next. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Establishing Governance to Guide Learning Decisions | Anglo American | Anglo American Technical Academy Team | Silver | 2023 | During the past year, the Anglo American Technical Academy has helped the company meet the challenges of a ‘perfect storm’ of global factors impacting mining. With increased pressure for efficiency, the Academy team introduced an exceptionally thorough governance model to ensure each and every learning intervention is aligned to the business strategy and stakeholder needs, while delivering and continuously improving its ways of working using an adapted version of the Anglo American Operating Model (AAOM) (essentially the processes and language its stakeholders understood). As a result, the Academy can demonstrate its substantial impact, and has continued to implement a steady stream of changes for the better, brought about thanks to a passion for stakeholder engagement, strong governance, and an exceptionally robust learning measurement model. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Establishing Governance to Guide Learning Decisions | Civil Service Development Institute, Kaohsiung City | 5G Smart City Concept and Applications | Silver | 2023 | this learning program, civil servants and the public can understand the 5G smart city concept in an easy and interesting way; it is the basis of subsequent in-person training courses. This complete learning program effectively improves the digital literacy of civil servants. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Establishing Governance to Guide Learning Decisions | Mars, Incorporated | Mars Inc_Best Advance in Establishing Governance to Guide Learning Decisions_Implementing a Learning S&OP process | Silver | 2023 | For Mars University to drive operational excellence, data driven decision making and high-quality customer service, it was critical to put a service management ecosystem in place. This ecosystem powered by the S&OP Process provides an integrated view of all Mars University activities and services to its customers as well as learning internal projects/programs allowing the business to look across Mars University’s full demand, capacity, and performance. The adaptation of the S&OP process within Mars University has been created with intentionality and has been a catalyst to help Mars ensure quality solutions and efficient delivery with a focus across Speed, Service and Data. It has been critical in enabling a better quality in decision-making and put a greater focus on learning experience reviews. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Learning Measurement | Lenovo Group Limited and Infopro Learning | Laptop Troubleshooting | Bronze | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Infopro Learning, is called "Laptop Troubleshooting." An interactive and scenario-based online course on Laptop Troubleshooting focusing on addressing the complex issues that Lenovo Technicians face during their day-to-day interaction with Lenovo laptop users. The course focuses on helping Lenovo technicians reduce the Repeat Dispatch Rate (RDR) for identified gaps resulting in higher customer satisfaction and brand loyalty. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Learning Measurement | U.S. Bank and Strivr Labs Inc | Measuring Learning Effectiveness in Virtual Reality: How U.S. Bank Utilized Deep Data Analytics to Evaluate Training Success | Bronze | 2023 | U.S. Bank required a scalable training course to educate its customer service representatives on managing challenging customer interactions. They partnered with Strivr to create custom virtual reality (VR) learning content that allowed the learners to practice responding to customers in frustrating situations in a controlled, repeatable, and measurable way. The VR training modules utilized deep data analytics to evaluate the learners' responses based on concept evaluation, verbal behaviors, and nonverbal behaviors. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Learning Measurement | AIA Australia and EI, Powered by MPS | AIA Claims Management | Bronze | 2023 | Two assessment engines were developed to evaluate Case Managers on the knowledge, skills and expertise necessary across all aspects of claims assessing. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Learning Measurement | Pfizer and Sponge | Advancing Learning Measurement in ‘MAPP’ (Pfizer’s Anti-Corruption and Anti-Bribery Training) | Bronze | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Sponge (solutions provider), on behalf of Pfizer (client organisation) relates to Pfizer’s global Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption Training (known internally as ‘MAPP’). MAPP is periodically delivered to all colleagues and specific contractors, to remind them of key laws and Pfizer’s anti-bribery and anti-corruption policies and procedures. Created in partnership with Sponge, the new training was the first time that advanced data analytics were implemented as part of MAPP training to measure topic-level knowledge and training effectiveness and better inform targeted follow-up micro-learning for remediation and reinforcement. Once Pfizer collected the learner performance data from this training rollout, it had an opportunity to analyze learner proficiency levels across topic areas and target remediation and reinforcement strategies to enhance comprehension. Pfizer is using this data to deploy a reinforcement campaign that trickles targeted micro-learnings and infographics to learners based on their scenario selections and performance in key topic areas. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Learning Measurement | Ameriprise Financial Services | Moving Forward Through Measurement | Bronze | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Ameriprise is called "Moving Forward Through Measurement". To deliver a best-in-class workplace training program that enabled Ameriprise Customer Service Teams to excel with an industry competitive advantage, it required a comparison to industry benchmarks, which was a main requirement to establish a best-in-class training experience. The goal was to improve performance through benchmarking and identify measurement methods of operational efficiency. We also need to sustain our best-in-class measurement strategy of our 4Cs of Service Culture and New Hire onboarding programs. Sustaining a best-in-class measurement program would allow Ameriprise to continue to be seen a best-in-class contact center by external firms like J.D. Power. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Learning Measurement | Anglo American PLC | Best Advance in Learning Measurement - Learning Measurement and Reporting Strategy Project | Bronze | 2023 | This entry submitted by Anglo American, is called "Learning Measurement and Reporting Strategy Project". The Learning Measurement and Reporting Project aims to run the Learning function as a Business by implementing five learning reporting solutions that provide our stakeholders with actionable learning insights. These five pillars support the current learning reporting needs while also preparing the organization to leverage the integration of automated processes and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence solutions. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Learning Measurement | Cognizant | Training Need Analysis | Bronze | 2023 | Training Need Analysis is a workflow built to provide a digitized way to capture the Training Needs that includes Business need, impact, profile of the audience, status of how the trainings are progressing and finally registering and realizing the training impact and recording if the associates are working on the trained skill or not. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Learning Measurement | Anglo American | Anglo American Technical Academy Team | Gold | 2023 | During the past year, the Anglo American Technical Academy has helped the company meet the challenges of a ‘perfect storm’ of global factors impacting mining. With increased pressure for efficiency, the Academy team introduced an exceptionally thorough governance and measurement model to ensure each and every learning intervention is aligned to the business strategy and stakeholder needs, with a constant keen eye on continuous improvement. As a result, the Academy can demonstrate its substantial impact, and has continued to implement a steady stream of changes for the better, brought about thanks to a passion for stakeholder engagement, strong governance, and an exceptionally robust learning measurement model. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Learning Measurement | MetLife and NIIT | MetLife Distribution Academy: Transforming the Way Sales Force Works, Learns, and Performs | Gold | 2023 | The Distribution Academy has responsibility for training and enabling the sales performance of MetLife and distribution Partner Sales Associates to create a distinctive competitive advantage for MetLife. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Learning Measurement | Scotiabank | LESP (Learning Evaluation and Sustainment Program) | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Scotiabank, is called LESP (Learning Evaluation and Sustainment Program). LESP comprises of an overhaul in a 49-day learning curriculum that targets learning towards high volume and high impact call drivers that have the biggest impact on the businesses and its KPI’s. Measurement and evaluation were a large addition as the current learning did not go beyond an L1 Survey. Measurement is now tightly linked to learning to performance outcomes and optimization. This strategy and evaluation were designed to bolster attaining a podium spot for NPS amongst other top banks in Canada, which was achieved this year for the first time since 2017. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Learning Measurement | Stanley Black and Decker | Measuring Success: Using a Learning Annual Report as a Measuring Tool | Gold | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Stanley Black & Decker, is called “Measuring Success: Using a Learning Annual Report as a Measuring Tool.” The Learning Annual Report is a recap of learning and development for fiscal year 2022, as well as a forward focus look for 2023. It encompasses all learning for the North America Tools & Outdoor groups at Stanley Black & Decker. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Learning Measurement | Deloitte | Advancing Learning Completions Measurement through Data Visualization Software | Gold | 2023 | As part of the “Making Data Part of Our DNA” initiative, Deloitte Learning & Development (L&D) designed and implemented a self-service, on-demand dashboard that utilizes data visualization software to provide a nimble approach to aggregating, visualizing, and analyzing completions data across several dimensions. This advanced measurement approach is leveraged by Deloitte L&D professionals to improve agility of obtaining data in an easy-to-use format, enhance planning, and enable Deloitte’s Future of Learning Strategy. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Learning Measurement | Bank of America | Workforce Analytics Reporting Portfolio (WARP) | Gold | 2023 | The portfolio includes dashboards focused on Governance, Operations, Analytics, and Transformation (GOAT). This entry showcases select reports from the greater WARP ecosystem that were developed with an emphasis on user-experience to inform business decisions using data analytics. The Workforce Analytics Reporting Portfolio (WARP) was developed by the Governance, Operations, Analytics, and Transformation (GOAT) team supporting The Academy at Bank of America as a suite of Tableau Dashboards that transcend data silos and provide insight to the experience of an associate during each stage of the career life cycle. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Learning Measurement | The Aaron's Company, Inc. and Absorb Software Inc. | Black Belt Path Program | Silver | 2023 | Aaron’s Black Belt Path is a progressive recognition and skills-based hire to retire training program. One unique component of the program is the comprehensive measurement strategy that Aaron’s has built into its design, which takes into account NPS scoring at the course and program levels, course completion and learner engagement rates, and anecdotal feedback from participants to help identify opportunities to continually evolve and improve the program for its learners. Aaron's is leading the way in their market in learning measurement with this model, which has contributed to the impressive gains they've realized in NPS scores, sales conversions, and collections rates since its launch. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Learning Measurement | Bayer AG Division Crop Science and BTS | Learning Measurement for iGrow | Silver | 2023 | This entry, submitted by Bayer Crop Science AG and BTS, is called "Creating a learning measurement for iGrow". The learning measurement was implemented and designed to provide a comprehensive overview of how users advanced in their learning and to gain a better understanding of what they find most interesting. The measurement approach was advanced in 2022 to track KPIs such as proficiency levels and frequency of learners visiting the platform and give regions and Centers of Excellence (CoEs) the opportunity to check for individual KPIs. This measurement allowed for a more customized approach to learning, which led to better engagement of users on the platform and better assessment results regarding their competencies. An easy-to-access dashboard with user-friendly visualizations that made it easy for learners and administrators to analyze their progress and identify areas that needed improvement was created. |
| HCM | Learning and Development Awards | Best Advance in Learning Measurement | Dubai Police | Dubai Police Integrated assessments | Silver | 2023 | At Dubai Police, we are committed to providing our employees with the best possible training and development opportunities to enhance their skills and ensure they are equipped to perform their duties effectively. To achieve this, we adopted the Kirkpatrick model of learning measurement to evaluate the effectiveness of our training programs and make necessary improvements. Our implementation of the Kirkpatrick model involved a series of changes, including redesigning evaluation forms for each level of training, setting passing grades for level 3 evaluations, and involving subject matter experts in the evaluation process. We also established an execu |