Rewarding skills

Tuesday, 16 March 2010 08:37

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IMG_4851South Africa's first Achiever Awards

Companies and a government department who are playing a key role in helping to beat  South Africa's skills shortage crisis were honoured at a special ceremony at the  CSIR in Pretoria last week Tuesday. Inaugural Achiever Awards were presented to companies and organisations who have implemented creative and innovative skills development and training programmes for their employees.

On the list for the first time in Africa was a Green Collar award, which recognises those who are actively developing new approaches to green skills training and green job opportunities.

Said awards coordinator Tanitha Jolly:  " The winners of the Achiever Awards while making a major contribution in the skills shortage crisis are also playing an important part in transformation and change. As a result of the enthusiastic response from corporate South Africa, the Achiever Awards will become an annual event."

The introduction of the awards aroused much interest and there was an overwhelming response from both the private and the public sectors to the call for nominations., she said."The standard of entries was very high and the judges had a difficult  task in making their final choices," said Tanitha Jolly.

The idea for the awards came from Achiever magazine, a leading business journal, which identified the need to recognise and honour those companies which went to great lengths to implement unique skills development and training programmes.

Winners of the 2010 Achiever Awards were:

  • Best training progamme - medium-sized company (100 – 250 employees) - DAV Professional Placement Group
  • Most innovative training company - The Institute for People Development
  • Best training programme – small company (less than 100 employees) – Sutherland
  • Green-collar skills and training award – WSP Group Africa
  • Best training programme: large company (205 + employees) – Foschini Retail Group
  • Best Training Programme: large company (250 + employees) - Grinaker - LTA Civil Engineering
  • Science and technology award – CSIR
  • Finance sector award - Nedbank Corporate Property Finance
  • Best training programme: public sector - Department of International Relations and Cooperation
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