Organisational Development / Learning & Development

Winner – Bridgend College

To support Bridgend College’s approach to learning and organisation development, the higher education institution has implemented an innovative and multifaceted approach ensuring staff are agile, receptive to change and keep pace with skills and knowledge required not just for today but also for the future. Bridgend College’s learning and development strategy supports its high performance, person centered culture and aims to support staff and students to ‘be all that they can be’ in a creative environment where they can thrive.

Finalists:

Hodge Bank

Intellectual Property Office

NPTC Group of Colleges

The judges were looking for evidence of:

• a culture that promotes learning and development, coaching, managing performance, innovative approaches to change and work design, as well as encouraging feedback and openness on development needs;

• how their approach has taken not only the business into consideration, but also the employee experience and voice in the roll out of new developments;

• a clear description of the business objectives that prompted the development need, how the approach was shaped, and how effectiveness was measured.

The judges said:

“We found this category incredibly difficult to judge, however, we selected Bridgend College as the finalist because the organisation has achieved incredible things in a short space of time with very limited resources.”