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The National Training Awards reach their 20th anniversary this year

The awards were introduced in 1986 and were designed to raise the profile of individuals, businesses and organisations, recognising their contribution to, and success through, training and development.

They are run by UK Skills on behalf of the Department for Education and Skills and this year there are already over 200 finalists from a broad spectrum of business sectors including many well-known organisations such as B and Q, Mothercare, the BBC, Ramada Jarvis Hotels, P & O Ferries and AXA Life.

Very often, where budgets are cut or tightened, it is often the training budget which takes the largest cut. However, selecting the right training at the right time is a key tool to helping the organisation, and the individuals that work within it, become more effective and productive. Potentially therefore, there is also scope for the organisation to become more competitive within the marketplace they operate in.

UK Skills chief executive, Jacqui Henderson has said “More than ever UK organisations need to get ahead of the rapid global and technological changes we’re seeing in international markets. How can we do this if our people do not have the knowledge and skills to make it happen? Put simply, effective training does help create a more effective, productive and flexible workforce.”

Other potential benefits include more motivated staff, increased levels of personal satisfaction, higher levels of commitment, increased loyalty, reduced turnover or absenteeism and a more positive external profile thus attracting better quality candidates.
The next stage of the awards is that the Regional winners will be announced at a series of regional awards ceremonies held throughout the UK in October and November. The Regional winners will be invited to attend the gala award ceremony in London in December.