Best Company Training Programme
Sponsored and judged by West Kent College (visit website)
The Category
Employees are a primary asset of any organisation, whose activities and abilities can significantly enhance or impact upon business productivity and success.
Investment in a financially viable, well structured, focused and results orientated training programme should show benefits to individual employees' personal development as well as contributing to company wide success.
Please enter the number of employees including contractors on the Entry Form. The judges will place your company in the small/medium or large division of the category as appropriate.
What the judges are looking for
West Kent College are seeking organisations that can demonstrate clearly identifiable, goal-orientated training schemes for their employees, and who can clearly explain how these have been implemented in an innovative way.
We will be seeking evidence of the ongoing evaluation of the success of the training programmes. Entrants should demonstrate how decisions about training for individual staff members are taken to achieve company wide goals and objectives.
Please write your overall description in no more than 500 words (fewer are perfectly acceptable) and then separately answer the questions below. If you want to attach supporting materials such as photos, leaflets, testimonials, etc, please do so.
Specific questions to answer
- What key factors make your training process effective, successful and innovative?
- In what ways have your training scheme had a beneficial impact upon your company ?
- What system is in place for evaluating the success of your training programmes?
- How has your training improved your staff capabilities and retention rate?
- What opportunities exist for employees to access continuous professional development within your organisation?
West Kent College Judges
John Grafik, Andy Forbes, Jackie Digges, Chris Hare
About the judges
West Kent College was recently rated within the top 10 performing Colleges in the LSC SE region. The College currently delivers training to businesses in Kent, Surrey, Sussex, London and Manchester. It is an active member of partnerships serving the business community that includes 4 local Borough Councils, KCC, 4 Local Chambers of Commerce and Industry, the Kent Association of Colleges, the West Kent Learning Federation and the Association of Training Providers.
The team of judges includes:
- Chris Hare, Assistant Principal, Director of Marketing and Business Development
- John Grafik, Business Development Manager
- Jackie Digges, Sales Manager
- Andy Forbes, Apprenticeships Manager
Between them, they have amassed more than 50 years of training experience and currently have joint responsibility for the successful management of College training projects valued at in excess of £5m.