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Managing Directors’ Award

rebecca.henson — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:23:22 +0000

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.

Employee of the Year 2011

rebecca.henson — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:19:09 +0000

Congratulations to Leanne Bailey who was awarded with the Employee of the Year award 2011. Leanne has kept the Health and Social Care team going through what has been over the last few months which has been an extremely trying time. As well as a promotion to team–leader, the team lost 3 Assessors in quick succession who’s caseloads had not been managed properly. However, Leanne took on the challenge and, with the depleted team, got each candidate on track with encouragement and praise for help given, gpt the candidates settled again. Learners were left with specific needs that not all assessors were qualified for, so Leanne took them on and has been seeing them to complete their award. Also, unallocated learners were put on her caseload. To cap it all, Leanne IV’s in their evenings and still smiles!!! I feel this person could not give any more to the company, and is a very worthy candidate for Employee of the Year.

Employee of the Month

rebecca.henson — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:35:42 +0000

Congratulations to Paul Gunnell who has been awarded December ‘employee of the month’. Paul joined the business development team less than three months ago. Throughout this time, he has exceeded his monthly target every month and managed to learn health and safety and sign-up paperwork on the go, with very little training and development. Paul is a pleasure to work with as nothing is too much trouble. He is hardworking, organised and committed and deserve to be recognised for the contribution he has made over the past few months.

Management training programme

voltmedia — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:15:36 +0000

Aspiration Training have recently engaged Learn Purple, an innovative London based training organisation, to lead a series practical training modules for their first-line management teams in both England and Wales. These modules include ‘Leadership for success’, ‘How to deliver a great appraisal’ and, importantly, ‘Creating a coaching culture’. The programme will start in June and continue to the end of the year.

External verification inspection for health and social care

voltmedia — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:15:09 +0000

An extract from an email from Kelly Windsor, Managing Director, Aspiration Training (England) Ltd:

I’m writing to let you know the results of the recent health and social care external verification inspection.

The inspection resulted in no actions and the external verifier was very happy with the evidence seen and, in particular, commented on the good internal verification processes. This was the first inspection Leanne Bailey, Team Leader, has managed and this is an excellent result.

I would like to say well done to the whole team on this achievement and a big thank you to Leanne for preparing for the visit so professionally.

Keep up the good work!

Recognised Learning Coach awards

voltmedia — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:14:30 +0000

Aspiration Training (Wales) Ltd are proud to announce that Diane Feltham, Amy Faulkner and Sian Hendley, pictured below, have recently successfully achieved ‘Recognised Learning Coach’ status. The defining characteristic of the Learning Coach award is ‘anogaeth’ which means ‘encouragement’ – based on helping young people to make sense of learning environments which extend beyond the classroom.

Sunday Times ‘Best Companies’ accreditation scheme

voltmedia — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:12:52 +0000

For the third year, Aspiration Training Ltd has entered the Sunday Times ‘Best Companies’ accreditation scheme. Having achieved ‘one to watch’ in the previous two years for 2011 the company has achieved the one star status thereby recognising the notable progress made during the last twelve months.

Best Company – 1 StarThe scheme is based on detailed and individual employee questionnaires focusing on eight categories – leadership, my manager, personal growth, well-being, my team, giving something back, my company and fair deal. The results from this survey together with a complimentary survey conducted at the annual conference in December have resulted in a comprehensive action plan to address employee concerns and other shortcomings related to employee well-being.

Foot note: 1165 organisations applied to achieve ‘star status’, of which 498 were successful.

Investors in People

voltmedia — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:58:08 +0000

Aspiration Training has also subscribed to the IiP award for a number of years and, following the introduction of graded awards, applied for and was successful in gaining the top Gold Standard.

The report that accompanied the award provided a number of key recommendations, including the introduction of an employee forum, matters of which have been added to the Sunday Times ‘Best Companies’ action plan.

Foot note: Investors in People (IIP) is a nationwide initiative that helps organisations across the country develop performance through their people. Of the 20,000 organisations recognised by IIP, only one per cent achieves the Gold Standard.