Legal and General
A multinational financial services and asset management company headquartered in London, England. Its products and services include investment management, lifetime mortgages, pensions, annuities, and life assurance.
Years awarded: 2018, 2022
Region: South East
Size: 1000+ employees
Sector: Banking, insurance and finance
Boosting innovation and progression through promoting talent
Theme: Upskilling
Topics: Coaching and mentoring
Seeking to deliver outperformance through customer centric innovation, Legal and General introduced a talent development programme which won an Award in 2018. Through continued development, this programme is now offered to new areas of the business and has led to 34 promotions to Grades 4 and 5, saving external recruitment fees of over £240k.
Embedding training at all levels
Theme: Upskilling
Topics: Coaching and mentoring
This organisation created the Step Forward programme in response to a perceived lack of development opportunities for staff at lower grades. The programme, which focuses on providing a coaching culture, has become embedded in the organisation and is oversubscribed. Staff retention and promotion of attendees have also increased.
News and case studies featuring Legal and General:
Royal recognition for employers who invest in training and development in the UK and Ireland
On Thursday 21 November, 52 recipients from the UK and Ireland were recognised by Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal through the Princess Royal Training Awards held at Goldsmiths’ Hall in London. Over the past nine years, The Princess Royal Training...
52 organisations receive royal recognition for tremendous training and incredible impact in 2024
15 August 2024: City & Guilds has today announced the 52 training programmes that will be recognised by the 2024 Princess Royal Training Awards. Now in its ninth year, The Princess Royal Training Awards continue to recognise organisations who demonstrate...
Skills Share 2024: a room full of training royalty
On 1 May 2024 we launched our first ever Skills Share event at Guildhall, London. This was a space to network and learn from the 200+ organisations who have successfully achieved a Princess Royal Training Award over the past nine years.
Case study: prioritising talent to open up opportunities to women at Amey
This leading infrastructure services and engineering company identified the Women@Amey network to attract and retain women in a male-dominated industry. Amey PlcYear awarded 2023Region LondonSize 1000+ employeesSector Construction and engineering“A great...
Case study: home-growing future managers through exceptional training opportunities at Red Carnation Hotels
This collection of family-run hotels achieved an Award in 2017 and went on to gain a revalidation in 2020. Since then it has further developed its Graduate Management programme with 53 participants commencing the training in the 3 years following, leading to the...
Case Study: using training to benefit people and the planet at Fifty Shades Greener
This small company which educates organisations on how to reduce their carbon footprint through changing their behaviours showcases its own commitment to learning through its tailored employee induction programme. Green Skills for Life is central to the training,...
Case study: the meaningful impact of receiving an Award on MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology)
In this video, Amy Atkins from 2022 recipient MOLA, talks about the meaningful impact of receiving a Princess Royal Training Award.
Celebrating the very best training and development programmes in the UK and Ireland
Last week, 53 recipients from the UK and Ireland were warmly welcomed to St James’s Palace, in London, to receive their Princess Royal Training Award from Her Royal Highness, The Princess Royal. Now in their eighth year, the Princess Royal Training Awards were set...
Celebrating the impact of learning and development
At the heart of City & Guilds is our purpose which has skills development deep rooted in it. And through the Foundation one of our jobs is to celebrate where really great skills development is happening, and an example of how we do that is our Princess Royal Training Award programme.
Princess Royal Training Awards 2023 Recipients: in the press
Here is a roundup of the media coverage following the announcement of the 2023 Princess Royal Training Awards recipients. National news FE News:...
