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Learning and Development Professional of the Year Award
Learning that changes how people work.
About this category
This award recognises a learning and development manager, designer or practitioner whose work has measurably improved capability and performance. Judges look for learning designed around real needs and evidence that it changed behaviour.
Eligibility
- Open to L&D managers
- Learning designers
- Trainers and practitioners working in house or for a provider
Judging criteria
- Needs analysis
- Design quality
- Take up
- Evidence of behaviour change
- Business impact
Qualitative criteria
Learning people actually use.
Metrics
- Participation
- Completion
- Capability measures
- Performance results and learner feedback
Additional criteria
Entries should include a concise case study of the HR work, supporting figures such as engagement, retention, absence, capability or cost, and, where possible, comments from leaders, managers or employees. Never include names or any detail that could identify an individual employee, especially in employee relations, wellbeing or casework examples: describe cases in anonymised terms and give results as percentages or ranges. Nothing in an entry is shared beyond the judging panel. Judges consider the size of the organisation and the HR team, so a one person HR function competes on equal terms with a large people directorate.
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