Steinhoff Learning Store, hosted by Growth Engineering, Shortlisted for Excellence in L&D Award
Global home furnishing retailer Steinhoff has been shortlisted for Personnel Today’s 2016 Excellence in Learning & Development Award. This award recognises organisations who deliver outstanding performance improvements throughout their training programmes.
Last year’s entries were hailed by judges for creating robust training initiatives that align with business objectives.
Steinhoff UK Retail will be in competition with companies including Barclaycard, Santander and Rentokil Initial for the coveted prize. The winner of the 2016 Excellence in L&D Award will be announced at a presentation dinner in London’s Grosvenor House on 22nd November.
Steinhoff’s online training solution, The Learning Store, has delivered consistently positive results since 2011. It was first launched by Bensons for Beds when they merged with sister companies, Sleepmaster and The Bed Shed. The platform was designed to help employees adapt to the change.
The Bensons Academy, as it was then known, used integrated social tools and customisation options which were instrumental in forming a culture that was greater than the sum of its parts. Steinhoff Retail, Bensons’ parent company, saw the potential in the platform in 2014 and expanded its reach to include fellow retailers Cargo and Harveys. The Academy was re-named ‘The Steinhoff Learning Store’ and underwent a complete facelift to reflect this change.
The resulting successes spurred further investment in training with the opening of the Steinhoff Development Centre. This 9,000 square foot training complex features mock store environments and a blended learning solution using tablets to incorporate the Learning Store’s functionalities.
Growth Engineering are creators of the Academy LMS, the infrastructure behind The Learning Store. Their MD, Juliette Denny had this to say about the nomination:
“The guys in Steinhoff’s learning department have put in 110% into the Learning Store and squeezed every little bit from the Academy’s capabilities. We can’t wait to see what happens in November, but Steinhoff will always be winners in our eyes!”
To view the full shortlist, please click this link.
Download a case study showing how Steinhoff created their learning programme by clicking this link.