IGA today announced the IGA Coca-Cola Institute won a coveted Brandon Hall Group Bronze Award for Excellence in the “Best Unique or Innovative Learning and Development Program” category for a workplace-learning program that produces positive organizational outcomes in an innovative way.
Among hundreds of applicants from around the world, the Institute and other winning organizations were judged the best of the best for developing and deploying programs, strategies, modalities, processes, systems, and tools that have achieved measurable and impactful business results.
The Institute provides learning resources for food retailers worldwide. As an educational organization, it serves more than 10,000 businesses with blended training programs that include 170 industry-specific online courses divided into eight different libraries. The Institute also provides retailers and associations with their own branded online corporate universities.
“Excellence Award winners personify innovation that drives business results. Our winners embrace the future and embrace change and the challenges that go with it,” said Rachel Cooke, Chief Operating Officer of Brandon Hall Group and head of the awards program. “It is amazing in reviewing these entries how organizations—both large and small—work across functions to make human capital management a valuable asset that enables business success.”
The award entries were evaluated by a panel of veteran, independent senior industry experts, Brandon Hall Group analysts, and executives based upon the following criteria: fit the need, design of the program, functionality, innovation, and overall measurable benefits.
About IGA Coca-Cola Institute
The IGA Coca-Cola Institute/ Retail Learning Institute offers online and classroom training that advances vocational and leadership development. The Institute manages and runs the online training for NGA (National Grocers Association), AVIS (Academia Virtual de Supermercados), APAS (Associação Paulista de Supermercados), Metcash in Australia; in addition to another 16 private programs. With this collection of online training programs, we’ve served over 10,000 retailers and provided learning to 184,000 students.
About Brandon Hall Group
Brandon Hall Group is a HCM research and advisory services firm that provides insights around key performance areas, including Learning and Development, Talent Management, Leadership Development, Talent Acquisition, and HR/Workforce Management.
With more than 10,000 clients globally and 20 years of delivering world-class research and advisory services, Brandon Hall Group is focused on developing research that drives performance in emerging and large organizations, and provides strategic insights for executives and practitioners responsible for growth and business results.
Our mission:
Empower excellence in organizations around the world through our research and tools each and every day.
At the core of our offerings is a Membership Program that combines research, benchmarking and unlimited access to data and analysts. The Membership Program offers insights and best practices to enable executives and practitioners to make the right decisions about people, processes, and systems, coalesced with analyst advisory services which aim to put the research into action in a way that is practical and efficient.
More about the awards can be found here.