OREANDA-NEWS. November 8, 2011. The TRL Krosaki HRD team has bagged the second prize in the National Awards for Innovative Training Practices instituted by the Indian Society for Training and Development (ISTD). The award will be conferred by ISTD at its annual function at Kolkata on January 20-21, 2012. D Behera, GM (PR & HRD) participated in the competition held on October 22, 2011, at the PHD Chamber of Commerce & Industry, New Delhi, and presented a number of case studies on innovative training practices in the company. The members of the jury appreciated the presentation and termed the practices as “most practical”.

The company’s case studies on its innovative flagship training programmes comprised millwrights (six-month-long workmen multi skill development programme), management development programme (ten-weeks-long programme focusing on holistic development of young managers), customer training programme, practices like human resources readiness analysis for training need identification, etc. It was a high-profile competition with 17 top notch companies and training institutions like Reliance; Mahindra & Mahindra; Tata Motors; Tata Teleservices; Indian Police Academy, Hyderabad; Maharashtra State Electricity Board; SAIL, Bhilai; Muruguppa Group; Aditya Birla Group; Vedanta; RPG Group; and Rane Group vying for this award.

TRL Krosaki is endowed with world-class training facilities with a state-of-the-art learning centre, a full-fledged maintenance training centre and a unique refractories engineering workshop. It has a pool of over 160 internal faculty spread across different areas of specialisation. Innovative methods like Share Your Knowledge Forum, trekking, and outbound development programmes adopted enhance learning and leadership qualities.