Why did the TAP Programme win a second Queen's Award for Innovation in 2016?

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.