Announcing the 2022 India Customer Award Winners
At Skillsoft, we’re very lucky. Our customers use our solutions to do genuinely remarkable, inspiring things every day. The winners of the 2022 Customer Awards represent the very cream of the crop, the learning leaders driving transformational change in their fields.
It wasn’t easy to sort through the dozens of nominations we received, given the sheer quantity of amazing work our customers do, but we’re proud to bring you this year’s honorees.
In 2022, we awarded winners in five categories:
Impact Award: Transformative Leadership Development
This category recognizes an organization that has built and implemented a truly best-in-class leadership development program. The hallmark of such a transformative program is that it makes a significant positive impact on the organization and drives strategic business goals.
Impact Award: Innovation in Developing Tech Talent
This award is given to an organization that tackled the tech skills gap head-on. While many companies face tech talent shortages, this year’s winner overcame the challenge by implementing innovative, impactful learning programs for its technology and developer workforce.
Impact Award: Special Learning and Development Initiatives
This award recognizes an organization that has developed and implemented an especially noteworthy learning initiative and/or talent program. This year’s winner and honorable mention delivered L&D initiatives that solved complex organizational problems and demonstrated solid and sustained results over time.
Program of the Year
It’s hard to implement robust learning initiatives in our turbulent post-pandemic world, and this category recognizes the best of the best. The Program of the Year award goes to an organization that has used Skillsoft’s learning solutions to create a unique, cutting-edge learning program that solves clearly defined problems and makes a meaningful impact on both the organization and its employees.
Champion of the Year
This award honors an exceptional HR or L&D leader, an ambassador for talent development who takes an innovative approach to training. The Champion of the Year is someone who leverages Skillsoft’s learning solutions — and a healthy dose of their own ingenuity and creativity — to deliver uniquely transformational learning experiences to their people and organizations.
This Year’s Winners
- Impact Award: Transformative Leadership Development
Winner: Larsen & Toubro Ltd.
A leader in the engineering and construction space, Larsen & Toubro (L&T) built curated learning programs to meet the needs of leaders and high-potential employees at all levels. L&T mixes coaching, mentoring, and Skillsoft course content to help employees master the competencies they need to transform from individual contributors to effective managers.
Honorable Mention: Voltas Ltd.
Voltas offers employees a holistic learning journey that helps them develop leadership skills in four key domains: leading yourself, leading your team, channel success, and leading business. The program is delivered through a blended approach, mixing digital learning and virtual instructor-led training (VILT).
- Impact Award: Innovation in Developing Tech Talent
Winner: Trianz
Trianz revamped its onboarding process for campus hires from engineering colleges, crafting an experiential learning program that pairs new hires with dedicated mentors and gives them hands-on experience with the software development lifecycle. Trianz’s rigorous self-paced learning experience helps new hires identify their strengths so the company can put them in the right roles.
Honorable Mention: Ness Digital Engineering
During the pandemic, with in-person onboarding no longer an option, Ness Digital Engineering combined Skillsoft courses with internal training content to create a curated digital learning pathway for new hires. - Impact Award: Special Learning and Development Initiatives
Winner: Cairn Oil and Gas, Vedanta Ltd.
In 2021, Cairn Oil and Gas redefined its L&D philosophy and rolled out a comprehensive suite of digital learning programs to engage both on-site and remote workers. Cairn invested in more virtual learning, a more employee-centric approach, and more flexible training opportunities. Today, the company has multiple learning journeys for new hires, mid-level employees, senior managers, and top talent.
Honorable Mention: Conduent
Conduent launched a global Six Sigma training and certification program through Skillsoft with strong results. Employee development and performance improved, business units increased efficiency, and Conduent established a culture of operational excellence that allows it to serve clients better than ever. - Program of the Year
Winner: Adani Enterprise Ltd.
When building its new leadership development program, Adani wanted to avoid the “push-based” approaches to digital learning many organizations take. Instead, the organization wanted to “pull” employees into the program, incentivizing them to invest in their own education. The company rolled out a mobile-friendly, blended learning program that uses gamification to motivate employees and machine learning to pair learners with the right training content.
Honorable Mention: Engineering and R&D Services, HCL Technologies Ltd.
HCL Technologies’ role-based training programs enable employees to move into new roles through upskilling and cross-skilling content delivered via Skillsoft Percipio.
Honorable Mention: RPG Group
RPG Group implemented a gamified take on building digital skills. Employees participated in a friendly four-month learning competition focused on cutting-edge technologies like blockchain, machine learning, and virtual reality. The winners earned cash prizes and the opportunity to participate in high-visibility projects. - Champion of the Year
Winner: Anil Kalaga, Adani Enterprises Ltd.
Anil Kalaga takes an analytical, strategic approach to learning and talent development. He believes that digital transformation is about more than just learning new technologies — it’s about empowering employees to constantly upskill and reskill in the face of an ever-evolving global economy. To achieve that goal, Kalaga creates democratic learning environments that give people the freedom to grow in the ways they want.
Honorable Mention: Asha Prakash, Digital Foundation Services, HCL Technologies Ltd
Asha Prakash has consistently driven learning excellence at HCL, creating role-based learning initiatives that have helped employees sharpen their skills and improve client delivery.
Honorable Mention: Dr. Rajiv Sinha, Larsen & Toubro Ltd.
At L&T, Dr. Rajiv has vastly expanded employee learning by implementing a system of individual and business-level incentives, using data to design effective learning interventions, and tracking the development of individual employees.
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Award Category | Winner | Honorable Mention |
Impact Award: Transformative Leadership Development | Larsen & Toubro Ltd. | Voltas Ltd. |
Impact Award: Innovation in Developing Tech Talent | Trianz | Ness Digital Engineering |
Impact Award: Special Learning and Development Initiatives | Cairn Oil and Gas, Vedanta Ltd. | Conduent |
Program of the Year | Adani Enterprises Ltd. | Engineering and R&D Services, HCL Technologies Ltd. RPG Group |
Champion of the Year | Anil Kalaga, Adani Enterprises Ltd. | Asha Prakash, Digital Foundation Services, HCL Technologies Ltd Dr. Rajiv Sinha, Larsen & Toubro Ltd. |
The world of work is evolving faster than ever, and it can be hard to keep up. We hope this year’s winners can serve as an example to all of how innovative approaches to learning and development can drive business success and build a future-ready workforce.