The Institute of Directors (IOD) has great pleasure in inviting applications for The Golden Peacock National Training Awards. The annual National Training Award Scheme was instituted by the Institute of Directors in 1998, to identify excellence in training practices at organizations as a whole. This is the most significant achievement in the field of excellence in Training by providing a role model in our business. Each winner and runners up receives a trophy together with a certificate. The award winners may use the Golden Peacock National Training Award logo on their printed and promotional material for one year.

The Golden Peacock National Training Award stimulates and helps organizations to rapidly accelerate the pace of customer-oriented improvement process. It is a powerful self-assessment process and a way to build an organizations’ brand equity on Excellence in Training. The knowledge gained by the organization in describing and self-assessing its Training operations leads to IMPROVED organizational training performance.

WHAT IS IT?

The Award identifies training that makes a real difference and offers tangible benefits to the business/organization or to the community. It rewards organizations who have control of their circumstances, shown real initiative and commitment to development.

The Award:

• identifies excellence in training practices;
• shows how effective training improves business and individual performance;
• provides role models from all parts of Indian corporate life;
• encourages greater commitment to training and staff development.

You may be a small or a large organisation, in the public or government or private sector, your organisation can enter and win the Award.

• Make a public commitment from the top to develop all employees to achieve competitive edge.
• Continually review the training and development needs of all employees and dealers/clients.
• Take action to train and develop individuals on induction and throughout their employment.
• Evaluate the contribution of your training and staff development programmes for improving the effectiveness, performance and goals of your organisation.

WHY ENTER?

If your organisation wins the Award, the recognition brings immediate benefits. Winners will receive wide publicity for their effective training and development programmes both in national and local media.

• Professional organisations and trade journals may use case studies of winners as models of best training practices in the industry or trade.
• Your organisation will become known nationally as a leader in good training and staff development.
• Staff morale rises all around and people take greater pride in their work.

WHO CAN ENTER?

CATEGORIES

EMPLOYERS : Employers who are training the employees on their own 'in-house' or on the job training courses or utilising external resources to train them.

TRAINING PROVIDERS : Organisations offering training to other, including educational institutions..

JOINT ENTRIES : Employers and training providers who work together on joint training initiatives.

EMPLOYERS, TRAINING PROVIDERS AND JOINT ENTRIES

The Award is open to all businesses and organisations carrying out training in India such as: Small businesses and organisations

The public sector - local and national government, schools, colleges and universities

Training bodies - such as Industry Training Organisations, chartered and professional institutes, private training consultancies and independent management centres;

Voluntary organisations - such as charities and community groups.

The expert judges pay particular attention to entries from Training Providers that train groups such as:

• People in the community where skill shortages exist;
• Those seeking employment;
• People with special needs, such as those with literacy problems;
• Women returning to the workforce;
• People from ethnic minorities;
• Schools Educational Institutions
• Entrepreneurs

If your organisation has several branches or sites which could enter the same example of training, your entry should come from those responsible for setting up and controlling the training.

RULES & REGULATIONS

• Decision of the Award Jury is final and no appeal or correspondence will be entertained.
• GPAS reserves the right to award more than one organizations as the winner and also to withhold awards if the required standard is not met.
• GPAS accepts no liability for any loss resulting from the disclosure of information concerning an entry to Assessors and Jury members, though all reasonable precautions will be taken to maintain secrecy
• GPAS cannot undertake to return documents or supplementary material submitted with an entry.
• GPAS reserves the right to alter the Award Scheme.
• Finalist Award applicants may also be invited to make a brief presentation to the Jury and/or one of the assessors may be nominated to confirm or clarify certain facts at site.

NON-DISCLOSURE & CONFIDENTIALITY

Names of applicants, commentary and scoring information developed during the review of applications are regarded as proprietary by GPA and are kept confidential. Such information is available only to those individuals directly involved in the assessment and administrative process.

GPA will take all reasonable action to ensure that applications and information therein are treated in strict confidence. However, in no way can GPA be held responsible for any loss of confidentiality to a third party.Moreover, GPA cannot be held liable for any damage (to goods, or persons, financial loss or consequential) incurred through the breach of confidentiality or otherwise by the applicants or any third party.

GPA reserves the right, prior to or subsequent to the Award Presentation, to publish and make public thesalient details of the Quality improvement schemes of the award winners, as a step towards sharing of knowledge in the national interest.

Feed Back

All applicants for 'Golden Peacock National Training Award scheme' will receive a feed back assessment report.

APPLICATION FEES

The application fee for Large is Rs. 39,500/- and for Medium and Small Enterprises is 29,500/-
The fee should accompany your application, in the form of demand draft/cheque in favor of 'Institute of Directors’, payable at New Delhi.

All entries should be addressed to:

The Director General
Golden Peacock Awards Secretariat
IOD House
M-52, Greater Kailash – II (Market)
New Delhi - 110 048
Phone: 41636294, 41636716-17 Fax: 91-11- 41008705
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Website: www.goldenpeacockawards.com

It identifies excellence in training practices and relates effective training with improved business and individual performance by providing role models in all sectors of Indian corporate life.