Learning Pool Impresses at Brandon Hall Excellence Awards

The learning pool awarded in three categories

The Brandon Hall Excellence Awards for Human Capital Management recognize best practices for initiatives in learning and development, talent management, leadership development, talent acquisition, human resources, business performance, diversity, equity and inclusion, and the future of work.

Competing in three categories, Learning Pool is delighted to have placed in all three. For the first time, Learning Pool won gold in the Best Advance in Social Impact Innovation category in partnership with Lurie Children’s Hospital. With the help of Learning Pool PlatformThe Center for Childhood Resilience at Lurie Children’s Hospital is addressing the impact of trauma on Illinois State students.

Meg O’Rourke, Director of Learning and Development at Lurie Children’s Hospital, said:

The Center for Childhood Resilience at Lurie Children’s Hospital is honored to receive a Brandon Hall Excellence Award for Human Capital Management alongside our partner Learning Pool. Resilience Education to Advance Community Healing (REACH) is a statewide initiative that provides virtual learning experiences for educators, school mental health professionals, and community members. the community. Our learning platform now hosts over 10,000 users and we have delivered thousands of hours of on-demand learning using Learning Pool technology, which has positively impacted students by providing adults with their lives with free and easily accessible information on trauma, mental health, social and emotional aspects. learning and strategies to support young people. The goal is to reach even more schools and educators and find ways to support this important cause. We look forward to our continued partnership with Learning Pool.

Learning Pool also achieved Gold in the Best Advance in Personalized Content with a Globally Recognized Pharmaceutical Brand category. Together, Learning Pool and the company’s compliance training team redesigned the company’s long-standing guide to health laws by streamlining the content to make it more user-friendly. THE personalized content The project leveraged best practices in adult learning principles and used Data analysis to effectively tailor content and measure performance improvement over time.

In the Best Advancement in Skills and Ability Development category, Silver was awarded to Learning Pool in partnership with Aberdeenshire Council. Increasing compliance 240% completion rate, Learning Pool has helped Aberdeenshire Council develop a unique learning portal that delivers effective and accessible training to over 16,000 employees.

Responding to the joint award, Helen Milne, Acting Team Leader at Aberdeenshire Council, said:

We are extremely honored to have received a Silver award in the Best Advancement in Skills and Ability Development category at the Brandon Hall Excellence Awards for Human Capital Management. Our goal has always been to develop a user-friendly blended training model. We faced many challenges along the way, however, the support of a digital learning platform provided by Learning Pool allowed us to overcome these challenges and strengthen our ability to bring our training model in the 21st century.

Entries for this year’s Brandon Hall Excellence in Human Capital Management Awards were evaluated by a panel of seasoned, independent industry experts, Brandon Hall analysts and executives based on the following criteria: alignment with business needs and environment; program design, functionality and delivery; adoption, integration, user experience, innovation and creativity; overall effectiveness, impact and measurable benefits.

“Our honorees relentlessly pursue excellence,” said Mike Cooke, president and CEO of the Brandon Hall Group. “We have enjoyed the most innovative use of HCM strategy in the last 30 years and, in most cases, technology and collaboration between departments has helped them achieve amazing business results.”

The winning organizations will be honored during the Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Conference in West Palm Beach, Florida, in February.