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According to the Queen’s Awards Office no other training organisation has ever won a Queen’s Award for Innovation – so for TAP® to win it twice begs the question; “Why?”
The words ‘training’ and ‘innovation’ do not often appear in the same sentence, so you may well be wondering – how did the Training Accreditation Programme manage to win two Queen’s Awards for Innovation, in 2005 and 2016?
The 2016 Queen's Award recognises the TAP Programme's development of a 3-Step model for quality-assuring Learning & Development, as the graphic shows. This has required further innovation since TAP’s first Queen's Award in 2005 which recognised TAP's best-practice Training skills programme for L&D Professionals. This was Step 1 in a decade-long journey and as a result more than 28,000 TAP-Certified L&D professionals are today employed in some 1,400 organisations in 32 Countries.
TAP's quality assurance models for L&D expanded with the addition of Step 2 and Step 3. Now TAP comprises a holistic 3-Step Programme which enables the quality assurance of training programmes from start to finish, from defining the business objectives to measuring the business outcomes.
Step 2 is the TAP Certified Assessor programme. This enables employers to have senior L&D team members trained in TAP's unique assessment methodologies. Heads of L&D can now quality-assure that their training design, delivery, e-learning and learning transfer processes are meeting TAP's best-practice L&D Standards. Consistent, high-quality learning experiences are improving retention, transfer and ROI in many organisations.
Step 3, the TAP MACRO Learning Transfer System completes the Programme. Over the last 5 weeks we have outlined this innovative programme in HR Grapevine’s Friday e-shots.
If you have been following them, it may be because you are concerned to improve the transfer of formal training into workplace performance? For many senior HR and L&D managers today this is a strategic imperative. MACRO has the potential to really make a positive difference to learning transfer: you can review it at www.tap.training/macro
To find out more about the TAP programme, visit www.tap.training, call The Training Foundation 02476 411288 or email [email protected]
