Oxfordshire training company wins top industry accolade

Nov. 22, 2011 - PRLog -- ELS Operations Director Cath Convery was presented with the award at a glittering Gala Dinner held at London’s exclusive 8 Northumberland Avenue staterooms. She says: “The TJ Awards are considered to be the most prestigious in the learning and development industry and we are thrilled to have been recognised by our peers.”

ELS prides itself on the ability to form close partnerships when designing innovative programmes for clients across the project, change, training design and risk management fields. Working to aggressive timescales and concentrating on setting clear and precise learning objectives, the company is meticulous in ensuring problems are solved and business objectives delivered on budget and within deadlines.
The specific partnership project which ELS was nominated for in the TJ Awards was its work with the MOD to help their personnel have a greater understanding of the threat of improvised explosive devices (IEDs), to give them the skills required to identify and respond to potential attacks and avoid casualties.

Cath Convery explains: “During late 2008 and early 2009 the number of roadside bomb casualties sustained by the British Army in Afghanistan increased at an alarming and unacceptable rate. As a soldier about to return to Afghanistan said: “If we’d had this training before my last tour we’d have a lot more blokes still around,” a sentiment echoed by all of his colleagues.”

ELS is the first civilian training consultancy to be engaged by the British Army to help it examine an area of core army operational training and was extremely well received by the MOD. The company rolled out the course within two months of winning the contract and showed 100% achievement of the learning objectives, both key reasons for the nomination.”

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