Picture the Awards!

Congratulations to Picture Financial for the huge success which has been achieved through their Picture Academy programme!

Not only did Picture win the People Development Company of the Year Award at the recent Western Mail Business Awards but they also won two prestigious awards at this year’s Training Journal Awards.

The first TJ award won was for the Best Commercial Initiative for a Company with Under 1000 Employees, the second was the even more impressive Special Achievement Award.

freshbaked™ are delighted to have been involved with the design and delivery of the Picture Academy programme and wish it continued success for the future!

Picture Academy was a twelve month programme which commenced in February 2006. The eight participants were all team members from a range of departments. It consisted of 10 workshops, team projects, and six two-hour individual coaching sessions.

Project work commenced half way through the programme and recommendations were presented to the SMT in January 2007.

Participants worked in teams of two or three and were responsible for identifying value adding projects. Terms and objectives were then agreed with the SMT and each team had a designated SMT project sponsor.

Project objectives were:

Identify and implement process improvements through lean thinking techniques in the broker department.
Investigate and report findings on the opportunities for Picture to commence trading in Northern Ireland.
Review the effectives of the current provisions for new employee training and make recommendations for improvement.