Why recognition?
Training Excellence recognition offers an important part of the improvement mix. Recognition allows those organisations on a journey to Training Excellence to mark their progress and their achievement. That can help in galvanising staff through times of sometimes difficult change, but also in highlighting to customers and stakeholders the improvements being made to the service you deliver.
Training Excellence recognition comes at two levels:
- By submitting to external assessment at any level, you become an organisation Committed to Training Excellence. For an Organisation Health Check, you are recognised as such for six months; completing a Key Process Review or a Capability and Performance Assessment adds a further twelve months to the status.
- Those completing a Capability and Performance Assessment and scoring sufficiently highly across the Improvement Framework demonstrate their readiness to be Recognised Training Excellence Organisations, able to carry the Training Excellence stamp for two years.
Recognising gives you some milestones to mark your journey to Training Excellence. Commitment demonstrates your willingness to begin that journey. Recognition demonstrates that that journey has reached the point where you are now among the best training organisations.
Neither is recognition a static, one-time-only achievement. The Training Excellence Improvement Framework, and the IDEAL Maturity Framework, reflect evolving understandings of excellence in training operation. As best practice develops over time, so too will the bar continue to rise. What’s necessary to be considered a high innovation, high impact training organisation today will not be sufficient in a few years’ time. For that reason, maintaining the stamp demonstrates your organisation’s continued achievement at the highest levels - as well as offering the learning and benchmarking value of the assessment experience.
In time, we hope that the Training Excellence stamp (right) becomes a mark associated with the very best training organisations - and that business customers begin to recognise it in making their selection among training organisations. The best way for it to become so is for us to reach and recognise the best training organisations, and for all those achieving Recognition to wear the stamp proudly, and explain it to their customers. In the meantime though, for those of us concerned with Training Excellence, the stamp demonstrates between peers a commitment to the very highest of standards in training delivery.
Recognised Training
Excellence Organisations
Recognised Training Excellence organisations are those organisations who have submitted their operations to Capability and Performance Assessment and demonstrated sufficiently high and sustained standards in their operations to warrant their being recognised.
The following organisations have demonstrated that they can meet high standards in their approach to training delivery, and the results they achieve - for themselves and for their customers:
Acacia Training
http://www.acaciatraining.co.uk/
Access Training
http://www.accesstraining.org.uk/
Accountancy Plus Training Ltd
with specialism in Accountancy & Finance
http://www.aplustraining.co.uk/
Accrington and Rossendale College
with specialism in Construction
Alder Training
http://www.aldertraining.co.uk/
Askham Bryan College
http://www.askham-bryan.ac.uk/
BCTG
Bedford College
with specialism in Building Services Engineering; Construction; Engineering; Hospitality, Leisure, Travel & Tourism
Birmingham Metropolitan College
with specialism in Engineering
Bishop Auckland College
Brooksby Melton College
with specialism in Environmental & Land Based Training
http://www.brooksbymelton.ac.uk/
Cambridge Regional College
Central Sussex College
with specialism in Building Services Engineering; Construction; Engineering
http://www.centralsussex.ac.uk/
Cheadle & Marple Sixth Form College
with specialism in Adult Social Care; Children’s Workforce Development
City College Norwich
with specialism in IT & Telecoms
City of Bristol College
with specialism in Adult Social Care; Automotive Skills; Engineering; Hospitality, Leisure, Travel & Tourism; Management & Leadership
http://www.cityofbristol.ac.uk/
City of Wolverhampton College
with specialism in Adult Social Care; Hair and Beauty
College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London
with specialism in Adult Social Care; Building Services Engineering
Croydon College
Deeside College
Derby College
with specialism in Adult Social Care; Engineering; Facilities Care & Management; Health; Hospitality, Leisure, Travel & Tourism; Retail
http://www.derby-college.ac.uk/
Develop Training Limited
http://www.developtraining.co.uk/
Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College
East Riding College
http://www.eastridingcollege.ac.uk/
East Surrey College
Fareport Training Organisation Ltd
Farnborough College of Technology
Grantham College
Henley College Coventry
Herefordshire College of Technology
HTP Training
with specialism in Hospitality, Leisure, Travel & Tourism
Hugh Baird College
with specialism in Hospitality, Leisure, Travel & Tourism
Hull College Group
with specialism in Children’s Workforce Development; Engineering; Freight Logistics, Warehousing & Wholesaling
In-Comm Training & Business Services
Jigsaw Training
http://www.jigsaw-training.co.uk/
JS Consultants UK Ltd
Learning World
with specialism in Construction and Freight Logistics, Warehousing & Wholesaling
http://www.learningworldgroup.com/
Leeds College of Building
with specialism in Building Services Engineering, Construction
Logistics Apprenticeship Training Academy Ltd
with specialism in Freight Logistics, Warehousing & Wholesaling
Mantra Learning
http://www.mantralearning.co.uk
Market Driven Training Limited
Middlesbrough College
Midland Technical Services Ltd
Myerscough College
with specialism in Environmental & Land Based Training
National Construction College
with specialism in Construction
http://www.cskills.org/supportbusiness/ncc/index.aspx
New College Nottingham
with specialism in Adult Social Care; Construction; Hospitality, Leisure, Travel & Tourism; Retail
Newcastle College
with specialism in Automotive Skills; Construction; Engineering; Fashion and Textiles; Hospitality, Leisure, Travel & Tourism
North East Worcestershire College
North Hertfordshire College
North Warwickshire & Hinckley College
with specialism in Adult Social Care
Northbrook College
Performance Through People (PTP Training Ltd)
http://www.ptp-training.co.uk/
Protocol Consultancy Services
http://www.protocolgroup.co.uk/
Quality Learning Services (Staffordshire County Council)
with specialism in Children’s Workforce in Schools
Regent College
http://www.regent-college.ac.uk/
Runshaw College
with specialism in Adult Social Care; Management & Leadership
S&B Automotive Academy
with specialism in Automotive Skills
Shipley College
Skillnet Ltd
with specialism in Automotive Skills
Solihull College
with specialism in Health and Social Care; Retail
South Devon College
with specialism in Construction
South Essex College of Further and Higher Education
South Leicestershire College
St Helens College
STAR (Training and Consultancy) Ltd
with specialism in Children’s Workforce in Schools
Steve Allison Associates
http://www.allisonassociates.co.uk/
Stourbridge College
Sussex Downs College
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Tameside College
with specialism in Engineering
Team Enterprises Limited
http://www.teamenterprises.co.uk
Telford College of Arts and Technology
with specialism in Adult Social Care; Engineering; Food and Drink Manufacturing; Freight Logistics, Warehousing & Wholesaling; Management & Leadership
Thanet College
Thatcham Automotive Academy
with specialism in Automotive Skills
The College of West Anglia
http://www.col-westanglia.ac.uk/
The Source Skills Academy
with specialism in Retail
http://www.thesourceacademy.co.uk/
TheLightBulb Limited
Training 2000 Limited
with specialism in Automotive Skills; Engineering; Health
http://www.training2000.co.uk/
Uxbridge College
http://www.uxbridgecollege.ac.uk/
Warwickshire College
http://www.warkscol.ac.uk/index.htm
Weir Training Ltd
with specialism in Retail
http://www.weirtraining.co.uk/
West Cheshire College
with specialism in Engineering
http://www.west-cheshire.ac.uk/
West Suffolk College
with specialism in Adult Social Care; Children’s Workforce Development; Construction; Engineering; Health; Hospitality, Leisure, Travel & Tourism; Management & Leadership
http://www.westsuffolk-ac.co.uk/
Weston College
Wirral Metropolitan College
with specialism in Adult Social Care; Construction
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Organisations Committed to
Training Excellence
Committed to Training Excellence is recognition given to those organisations that have demonstrated their commitment to operate by the five Principles of Training Excellence by undertaking a review of their existing operations against the Improvement Framework.
The following organisations have demonstrated that they are investing in their journey to Training Excellence, taking steps to understand their strengths and areas for improvement, and working to become Excellent Training Organisations:
Acacia Training and Development Ltd
Acorn Training Consultants Ltd
http://www.acorn-training.com/
Barnardo’s Training and Consultancy
http://www.barnardos.org.uk/trainingandconsultancy.htm
BDR Thermea UK - heateam Training Department
http://www.bdrthermeatraining.co.uk/
Buxton College of Further Education
http://www.buxtoncollege.ac.uk/
CableCom Training Ltd
http://www.cablecomtraining.com/
Chiltern Training Ltd
http://www.lostsocks.co.uk/
City and Islington College
CPL Training
http://www.cpltraining.co.uk/
Develop Training Ltd
http://www.developtraining.co.uk/
Lambeth College
http://www.lambethcollege.ac.uk
Nuneaton Training Centre Ltd
http://www.ntcl.co.uk/
Peterborough Regional College
http://www.peterborough.ac.uk/
South West Durham Training Ltd
http://www.southwestdurham.co.uk/
Training Plus Merseyside Ltd
http://www.tpmnow.co.uk/
Industry Specialism
Many training organisations invest heavily in industry specialism - ensuring that their training delivery and resources match the leading edge for their customer’s business sector. For that reason, we have designed Training Excellence to be able to apply it to the particular complexities involved in evaluating capability and performance in delivering specialised training to business customers. That applies throughout our diagnostic models and support offers, but also in the way we give recognition to leading training organisations.
We look at industry specialisms through our Key Process Review and Capability and Performance Assessment diagnostic models, adding in further investigation to test how well tailored a training organisation’s wider operations are to the particular needs of their specialised business sector. That includes the specific steps they take to network and analyse the particular requirements of customers operating in that sector.
How we approach the assessment of your industry specialism depends on your size and complexity as an organisation:
- For smaller organisations, with a single industry specialism which drives most of their business, we can integrate our assessment of sector knowledge and capability within the normal KPR and CPA approach. While we will add some extra time into the process to ensure we cover the sector-specific aspects of your operations, the overall approach is to understand the organisation’s wider business model, and the place of industry specialism within it.
- For those organisations specialising in delivering training to more than one industry, we deliver industry specialism assessments on a modular basis, which can be conducted alongside your wider organisation’s assessment, or separately. By doing it this way, we can focus in on the different aspects of sector knowledge and capability, and explore their strength, to then understand how they can be deployed through the organisation’s wider business model.
On a technical level, we use the Training Excellence Improvement Framework’s Strategy and Results criteria to assess industry specialism. It’s here that training organisations must be able to demonstrate that they define objectives, understand customer needs, and then develop and deploy product and market strategies to make the most of the opportunities available. As with Training Excellence more generally, the emphasis on Results helps us to ensure that success is measured not be intentions but by achievement.
Particularly in larger organisations with several divisions or departments driven by their sector expertise, Industry Specialism assessment can also prove a valuable improvement tool. By conducting Key Process Reviews on each division, the wider organisation can benefit from the opportunity to compare approaches, and identify comparative strengths and areas for improvement. Using regular reviews can help with ensuring that those different divisions become better aligned, better able to deliver the organisation’s full range of capabilities.
