Congratulations to Alyson Dale who was awarded the Managing Directors’ Award by Kelly Windsor and Lisa Lloyd. Here is her nomination:

Alyson has worked for Aspiration Training for nearly six years now. In that time, she has demonstrated her loyalty and commitment to Aspiration Training, particularly so throughout 2011. As we passed the half way mark of the 2010-11 contract year, we identified that we would need to recruit increased numbers of learners within the last three months in order to meet our contract value. As such, I approached Alyson to break the news to her! Alyson would need to recruit double the amount of learners that she usually recruited, in fact between 60 and 80 learners each month throughout May, June and July. As fully expected, Alyson took the news in her stride. She calmly agreed that this could, and would be done, and set about marketing and making appointments. Alyson delivered, and we hit our 2010-11 contract value as a result. As we commenced the first quarter of the 2011-12 contract year, we found that we had been fortunate enough to acquire a new route, and an additional 60 starts in a brand new sector. Again, I approached Alyson tentatively to break the news to her! Without any complaint, Alyson picked up her laptop and set about recruiting the first cohort.

It would be so easy to take Alyson for granted, as she is accepting, compliant and motivated. Thus I think it important to pause, and pay Alyson her dues, for the outstanding work that she has undertaken in both of the examples above over the last year, and her unwavering faith in Aspiration Training as an employer. Congratulations on a year of outstanding performance…a personal best for our Business Development Manager, Alyson Dale.