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Eagle Insurance Company has won the National Award for Best Training and development Strategy and Practice at the first ever National HRM Awards organised by the Association of Human Resource Professionals and the Institute of Personnel Management in association with the Postgraduate Institute of Management of the University of Sri Jayawardenepura.

"This award is a recognition of the ample opportunities we provide for employees to grow and develop", an Eagle Insurance spokesman said.

Eagle was among over 60 companies, which vied for the HRM Awards based on a very stringent criteria. Twenty-three companies were selected for the final round, out of which 10 received awards at the National Awards Convention at the Trans Asia Hotel recently.

A company spokesman explaining Eagles' training and development strategy and that it is one that significantly leverages existing internal resources to share and commit to others' development. He said that this innovative approach of developing each other is seen as a great enabler in all Eagle business endeavours.

"We have an innovative concept called 'training champions', who are either line managers or senior managers, through whom we leverage these in-house capabilities for technical and non-technical trainings. Then there are in-house certificate programs which prepare individuals for greater challenges of professional examinations. We also invest in training our senior management by getting them to participate in special programs tailor-made for the Zurich Financial Services Group by international organisations", he said.

When Eagle managers participate in international training programs they in turn transfer the knowledge to others. Four participants at a one-year management development program conducted by the Zurich Group in collaboration with the Australian Graduate School of Management transferred the knowledge to 35 managers through a unique concept called the "Eagle Academy" recently.

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