TJ
Trainer of the Year 2006
Trainers’ Library are the proud sponsors of the first ever TJ Trainer of
the Year Award, which has been won by Cheryl Guest.
Cheryl Guest works for Leeds City Council, and
was nominated for the work she had done during
the implementation of SAP. The principles of SAP
are to enable and encourage independence, and to
ensure that users and carers are confident that
they will have access to the right service, at
the right place at the right time. Cheryl was nominated
for the award by her manager, Tracy Cartmell but
Cheryl’s work has also been recognised more
widely – the Centre for Policy on Ageing
(CPA) has recognised Leeds as a centre of best
practice for its development of a multi-agency
training strategy. The training was also highly
commended by the West Yorkshire Strategic Health
Authority.
Rod Webb, Director of Operations at Glasstap
Limited, presented the award at a ceremony in London
on the 29th June 2006. [Top]
Glasstap Turns
on Green Lights (April 2006)
Glasstap Limited, the Alston based training company, is this month switching
to a new electricity supplier; Good Energy. The move means that all of
the electricity used at their office on Skellgillside will be sourced
from the natural energy of wind, sun or running water. And it's not just
the lights that are turning green; from the 26th April even their heating
will be green, helping to reduce the company’s carbon dioxide emissions
by up to 10,000 kg this year alone.
Rod Webb, Director, explained: “Our electricity
bill will increase by about 20 per cent, but
it is a price we think is worth paying. We chose
Good Energy because it’s the only UK supplier
that supplies only 100% renewable electricity.
Many other companies offer a 'Green Tariff',
but no one else obtains all of the electricity
they supply from renewable sources. As part of
a group which invests in the renewable industry,
Good Energy concentrates on building consumer
demand for renewable electricity and supports
small scale UK generators, businesses and individuals,
by buying renewable energy from them.” [Top]
Isolated Company
with Global Reach (March 2006)
Alston is reputed to be England’s highest market town: It’s
also one of its most isolated. It might come as a surprise therefore
to discover that in this rural hillside location is a business with customers
in 30 countries around the world. But that’s how many countries
Glasstap Limited, the company behind the highly successful internet based
Trainers’ Library service, has customers in.
Rod Webb, Director, says, “It’s
staggering really when you think that our business
training exercises and activities are now being
used in so many countries, and it certainly makes
you realise how truly global the modern economy
is.”
Outside the UK, Glasstap has customers in: Australia, Belgium, Barbados,
Bermuda, Canada, Cayman Islands, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary,
India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Kuwait, Lebanon, Macadonia (FYR), Malta,
Mexico, Philippines, Romania, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka,
Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, United Arab Emirates, and the United States
of America.
And it’s not just a global reach that
the company enjoys: Trainers’ notes and
handouts downloaded from Trainers’ Library
are used in all types of industry, from Manchester
United FC to the Royal Household. [Top]
Alston Firm
Helps Make Business Training Child’s
Play (December 2005)
Toys are a vital part of learning as a child – but it doesn’t
have to stop there - as trainers around the world know. Now a Cumbrian
based training business has diversified to provide toys, books and videos
that can help put over the business training message.
Craig Worcester explains, “Trainers’ Library
has been very successful for us and gives members
easy access to our pre-tested classroom training
material. Now through Trainers’ Market
customers can access toys that can be used in
training sessions – such as the eraser
that looks like a £10 and can be used to
reinforce the idea that every mistake costs money,
or the toy frog that reminds participants to “eat
a frog first thing”– that is do a
job you don’t like first and get it out
of the way.”
" As well as the toys, we also sell a huge
range of books and DVDs through Trainers’ Market,
including books from Gower, and Management Pocketbooks.
And because there are so many new training and
business books coming onto the market, and trainers
have so little time to read through them all,
we have introduced Book Bytes – five page
summaries of business books that get the key
messages across and can be downloaded instantly
when purchased.”
Currently, the Trainers’ Market is only
available to customers in the UK, but Glasstap
is looking to expand the service internationally. [Top]
Moving On
(December 2005)
Glasstap Limited has moved to new premises in Alston as it continues
to expand. The company, which began as a ‘conventional’ training
company in Harrogate, Yorkshire in 1999, moved to Alston in 2002. For
the last three years the business has been operating from a converted
barn on the banks of the South Tyne river, but continued growth meant
that those premises no longer provided the ideal working environment,
or room to expand.
As Rod Webb, Director, explains, “The
new premises give us much more space, better
security, and better facilities for the staff.” Although
the company has taken their existing office furniture
with them, over £5,000 has been invested
in making the new offices as pleasant to work
in as possible. The investment has included replacing
the existing lighting with tubes that that produce
a similar light to natural daylight, helping
to keep energy levels high. [Top]
Internet
Boost for Youngsters (November 2004)
Alston based Glasstap Limited and the Trainers' Library are this year's
sponsor of Alston under 12s football team.
The Internet-based training provider builds
an annual strategy for their business around
5 key passions': Customer Focus, Innovation,
Team Spirit, Financial Strength and Social Responsibility.
And, under the latter, they have given more than £1,200
to good causes in the last two years, including
money to Book Aid and the local children's football
club. [Top]
Four New Jobs
at Online Training Company (August 2004)
An innovative online training provider in Alston is expanding to create
four new jobs.
Trainers’ Library was launched in 2003
for Glasstap Limited, a training company established
in 2000.
Providing a wide range of training sessions
and packages to members in ten different countries,
as far away at the middle east, Malta and the
US, Trainers' Library's client list includes
such diverse organisations as Manchester United,
The United Nations Climate Change Secretariat
in Bonn, Germany and Churchill Insurance.
Trainers' Library aims to reach new members
by employing four new members of the team to
work on telesales. [Top]
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