
The award categories
Sector categories
S01. Agriculture and Horticulture
S02. Construction and Associated Trades
S03. Education (all levels)
S04. Financial Services
S05. Healthcare (including specific Covid-19 training)
S06. Hospitality, Sport and Leisure
S07. IT and Technology
S08. Manufacturing (including aerospace, automotive and all other manufacturing or process industries)
S09. Professional Services (including lawyers, accountants, architects, etc)
S10. Public Services and Utilities (including national and local government departments, police, emergency services and armed forces)
S11. Retail (all types and all channels)
S12. Transport (road, rail, sea, air and associated services)
S13. Consumer Services (such as appliance servicing, roadside assistance, etc)
Function categories
F01. Accounting & Bookkeeping
F02. Customer Service
F03. Health, Safety & Risk
F04. Legal & Paralegal
F05. Management & Leadership
F06. Marketing & Sales
F07. Product, or Process Training (including customer training)
F08. Technical or Engineering Training
F09. Team Development
New Thinking and Innovation categories
This group of categories allows for specific innovation, such as AI or emulated learning. A new category now reflects how innovative thinking may have helped in the response to learning while Covid-19 was doing its worst.
N01. Design, Content Creation and Video
N02. Digital Learning or E-learning
N03. Learning Process (including asynchronous, automatic, blended,micro, personalised, synchronous, etc)
N04. Learning Tools & Technology (including knowledge bases, cpd wallets, cv directories and cv video files, etc)
N05. Mobile Learning
N06. Response to Covid-19
Outstanding Achievement categories
To enter one of the Outstanding Achievement categories you must have entered at least one of the Sector, Function or Innovation categories, please.
OA01. In-house Team
OA02. External Provider
OA03. Outstanding Innovation
OA04. Outstanding Course or Initiative
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