Centum Learning has once again been selected to the 2013 Training Outsourcing Watchlist by TrainingIndustry.com for the fifth consecutive year.

Training Outsourcing Companies Watch List is announced every year to certify the best providers and services in the training industry. The Watch List recognizes eight companies from across the globe that provide outsourced learning services. Each company who participates undergoes extensive research, including thorough analysis of their capabilities, experience, and expertise.

Centum Learning was selected on the basis of its innovative service offering, ability to provide services on a global basis, unique and proven approach to business solutions and the quality of clients served.

Applicants were selected to the 2013 Sales Companies Watch List based on the following criteria:

• Innovative Approach to Sales Training
• New or Re-Launched Practices
• Targeted Service Offering
• Quality of Initial Clients
• Solutions Focused on Specific Market Verticals

The Corporate film produced by Centum Learning on "skilling underprivileged youth" was adjudged as "The Best Corporate Film" at the 7th Indy's Awards hosted by Stars of the Industry, held at Taj Lands End, Mumbai on February 14, 2013.

Indy's Awards are annual awards for Excellence in Mass Communications, Marketing Communications, Public Relations, Corporate Social Responsibility, Advertising & Branding presented by CMO Asia and CMO Council.

This film was recognized for its potential to motivate every single BPL youth to transform their lives through the skill building initiatives conducted by Centum Learning.

For the third time in a row, Centum Learning, has won the prestigious Employer Branding award for 'Excellence in Training' at the 7th Employer Branding Awards presented by the World HRD Congress at a ceremony held in Mumbai. Employer Branding awards recognize leading organizations across industry sectors for path breaking work in respective domains. Centum Learning is the only Company in the core training & skill development industry to have received the honor. Amongst other brands who were recognized in the category include prestigious organizations like HCL Technologies Ltd, Serco Global Services, TAKE Solutions, Sivashakthi Group of Companies, The Shipping Corporation of India Ltd., etc.

Centum Learning has won the Best Partnership Award for providing outstanding support in “team member sourcing” at KFC ANTPL Annual Awards 2012 held on December 13, at Hotel Double Tree Hilton, Gurgaon. Through this ceremony, KFC recognized their partners who facilitated their journey to become the Nos 1 Quick Service Resturant with 160 outlets all across India.

Centum Learning has been the preferred training & placement partner for KFC for one year now and was rightfully recognized in the first year itself. Under the MoRD (Ministry of Rural Development) programme, Centum Learning trained and placed over 200 underprivileged youth for KFC outlets across Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh.

Centum Learning won the Best Talent – Best Learning partnership award instituted by Stars of The Industry Awards, a World HRD Congress initiative. These Africa Learning and Development Awards were held on 12th December 2012 at Le Meridien Ile, Mauritius.

Africa Learning & Development Awards recognized the achievements made by selected high profile corporates across the globe and honoured their great contribution towards the post recession economic development. The award recognizes the magnitude and impact of training interventions by large scale corporates in Africa.

A panel of eminent jury members evaluated all entries based on parameters like quality, scale and reach of training programmes.

Centum Learning was adjudged the 2nd Runner Up for its website www.centumlearning.com at the esteemed Designomics Awards 2012 hosted by the World Brand Congress, held at Taj Lands End, Mumbai on November 24, 2012.

Designomics is an initiative that endorses the value of strategic integration of design in business. Centum Learning was recognized for the current design delivering business results and not just creating awareness about the organization.

A panel of eminent jury members including Pradyumna Vyas, Director, National Institute of Design, Dhimant Panchal, Director –Design Center, MIT Institute of Design, Shalini Degan, Category Director, Britannia Industries Ltd., Preeti Vyas, Chairwoman, Vyas Giannetti Creative evaluated all entries based on parameters like strategy, creativity and effectiveness of design on business.

Centum Learning has been featured in the Training Outsourcing Watch List 2012 announced recently by the Training Industry.com website. This is a huge recognition, considering it is the fourth time in a row that Centum Learning's commitment & accomplishment in training & development have been recognized in a global platform like Training Industry.com.

Selection to 2012 Training Outsourcing Watch List Companies is based on excellence in many areas, including:

• Innovative Service Offerings
• Ability to provide services on a global basis
• Unique and proven approach to Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Solutions
• Quality of the applicants’ client list

Centum Learning is the only Indian company to have received the global recognition and has featured in the Sales Training Watch List 2012 released by the website Training Outsourcing.

Selection to the 2012 Sales Training Companies Watch List is based on the following criteria:

• Innovative Approach
• New or Re-Launched Practices
• Targeted Service Offering
• Solutions Focused on Specific Market Vertical
• Quality of Initial Clients

Centum Learning received the award for Excellence in Training under the 6th Employer Branding Awards presented by the World HRD Congress.

The award is a recognition of the invaluable contribution of Centum Learning Limited in the area of training & development across all sectors for the years 2010 and 2011.

Winning the prestigious annual award is a proof of Centum Learning’s commitment to the global field of training & development.

The award is given to the company with the best volunteering programme for social initiatives. Centum Learning received the award for numerous CSR activities such as visits to orphanages, old age homes, blood donation drives, etc. carried out by the employees.

The trophy and certificate were presented to Aarti Chandna, AVP Human Resources, Centum learning by Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman & Group CEO, Bharti Group in the presence of Rakesh Bharti Mittal, Vice Chaiman & MD, Bharti Group.

Winning the prestigious annual award is a proof of Centum Learning’s constant endeavor towards making meaningful social contributions and for the ability of various departments and functions within, to not only scope out suitable opportunities but also display brilliant initiative in affecting positive social change.

Centum Learning ranked amongst 'Top 13 Training Outsourcing Companies Watch List' 2011 Worldwide

The ‘Watch List’ acknowledges companies poised to capture significant market share in the Training Outsourcing business worldwide.

This recognition was conferred on us for demonstrating excellence in many areas, including:

• Innovative service offerings
• Ability to provide services on a global basis
• Unique and proven approach to Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Solutions
• Quality of the client list

We have been ranked amongst other organizations operating in this domain across US, Australia, Canada and India.

Centum Learning has won the UK India Skills Forum Award for the Best Skills project in Rural Community category. This is the 4th international award, in a short span of 1 year, and reflects Centum Learning’s commitment towards transforming India by skilling its workforce. The UK India Skills Forum comprises over 120 UK based organizations involved in skill development, and who work closely with FICCI in India. Skills Forum awards Indian companies who have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to the skills agenda in India - one of the most important challenges India faces today.

The major initiatives, by Centum Learning, in the skill development domain include:

• Partnering with Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Govt. of Orissa to train over 40,000 representatives of Panchayati Raj Institutions across 10 districts of Orissa
• Employability enhancement for Tribal Youth in partnership with DECT, Govt. of Assam
• Providing vocational skills to militants who have laid down their arms, on the Indo-Bhutan border in Assam, in association with Sashastra Seema Bal (BSF)

Empowering over 38,000 rural youth to become entrepreneurs (Rural Sales Distributors) in association with Bharti Airtel

Through its robust model and partnerships, Centum Learning aims to skill India across 11 states, 382 districts and 4000 centres covering 72% of Indian population – contributing a lion’s share towards making India the skills capital of the world.

Centum Learning has been bestowed with a coveted Gold Award for "Excellence in Training" at the World HRD Congress, 2010.

The 3-day congress on "The New HR Challenge – Innovative talent strategies for tough times" was held on 11th–13th February, 2010 in Mumbai. The Congress was attended and represented by several leading industry leaders, CEOs, business heads, HR professionals and management consultants from over 96 countries.

This award was conferred upon Centum Learning for its highest standards in :

• Articulating the learning strategy with special focus on skill development for achieving business goals
• Achieving a robust Learning Solutions architecture
• Identifying training needs and training methodology
• Creating learning content and related learning methodology, tools and models
• Conducting bootcamps and implementing rigid certification processes
• Delivering classroom training & deploying field coaching models
• Capturing data w.r.t skills enhancement & its impact on business performance
• Strategically engaging with client organizations

Receiving such an award strengthens Centum Learning’s resolve to be the most admired learning and skills development partner who can enable sustainable transformation in the society.

Centum Learning has brought about sustainable transformation in many leading organizations across the country. It has provided end-to-end training programs and skill development solutions to enhance business performance of organizations across various industries.

Centum Learning has also now been adjudged as one of the Top 15 Emerging Leaders in the Training Outsourcing’ 2009 Worldwide list by Training Industry, Inc. - a US based, leading community of training and development companies located across the globe.

Since 2004, Training Industry, Inc. has been assessing leading companies in the Learning and Development industry to determine those best suited for world-class training outsourcing engagements. This year (2009), Training Industry, Inc. contacted over 500 companies, globally, to assess their expertise, experience and capabilities in providing learning services besides evaluating the strengths of each of these companies’ major clients. The criteria also included evaluation of corporate competencies in the 26 business processes identified in their Training Process Framework. Importance of innovation in learning analytics, and evaluation methods used to assess the impact of learning on business performance, were also stressed upon.

Some of the key factors that undisputedly placed Centum Learning in the league of organizations like ‘The Disney Institute’ and others of similar stature across the world were:

• Robust need-diagnostic process
• Impactful end-to-end training programs and solutions
• World-class content architecture, creation and validation processes
• User-friendly and well-packaged content
• Stringent Trainers' selection, bootcamp, certification and capability building processes
• Flawless classroom training delivery processes
• Seamless logistics management processes
• Well-built processes to track impact of learning interventions
• Robust processes to encourage sustained innovations

This recognition bears testimony to Centum Learning's commitment to excellence and its endeavor to delight all its stakeholders. It further reinforces the value created by the company and also highlights its relentless pursuit in creating a world-class organization by providing the best-in-class learning solutions.

Centum Learning has won the ‘Best In House Magazine’ award for Dashboard, at the 3rd Indy’s Award 2009 instituted for recognizing Excellence in Marketing, Communications, Advertising and Branding. The Dashboard received the ‘Gold’ trophy within the category with silver and bronze trophies having been awarded to LIC and Wizcraft International Entertainment respectively. The 3rd Indy’s Awards was held at Hotel Taj Lands End, Mumbai.