Awards: Most Effective Training & E-learning Company of the Year

This post is a bit of self congratulatory trumpet blowing, but the past two weeks can’t go by without comment. Last night Brightwave won the E-learning Production Company of the Year Award at this year’s E-learning Age Awards. That’s a fantastic achievement and well deserved – the team are highly professional, talented and great fun to work with. Our clients seem to agree too with comments like:

“…completely agree with the judges comments and for me you were always the front runner…you’ve consistently out performed and out thought your competitors”

It’s great to get a gong, but even better to know that your efforts are appreciated by those who matter most.

Perhaps even more importantly, it’s good to know that the e-learning solutions you design actually work and make a real difference to real people in real need of support. So the previous week it was fantastic to win the Most Effective Training Programme at the CCA-Global Awards for our work with Sky. It’s a real exemplar of how a learning portal can genuinely be easy to access, offering engaging, interactive learning content and produce highly motivated and better performing staff.

It’s made a difference: that’s what it’s really all about. Too little training (whether in the classroom or online) can genuinely say that which is both endictment and an opportunity for positive change. If we can champion quality over quantity we will be making good progress as an industry.

On a wider note, it’s great also to report that Brighton (probably one of the best cities to live in in the UK) continues to go from strength to strength as a centre of excellence for e-learning design expertise. It’s probably fair to say that the majority of commercial e-learning activity in the UK can trace its roots back to the seaside in the South.

For more on that and awards ceremonies in general, check out Donald Clark’s recent posts on the subject.

Trumpet blowing ends: normal service now resumed.