The leading learning solutions provider strikes big at Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards 2021, wins a total of 14 awards, including 4 Golds.

Upside Learning, a leading global provider of end-to-end digital learning solutions for Fortune-1000 companies, has won 14 coveted Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards for 2021, in collaboration with multiple clients. This win was announced on Aug 19, 2021, in an online webinar organized by the Brandon Hall Group. The winners are listed at https://excellenceawards.brandonhall.com/winners/.

These prestigious awards are a testimony to the world-class learning solutions that Upside Learning builds to help its clients achieve real outcomes from their training programs. The details of Upside Learning and their clients’ winning entries are as follows:

• Gold for ‘Best unique or innovative learning and development program’ won in collaboration with The World Bank.
• Gold for ‘Best benefits wellness and well-being program’ won in collaboration with The World Bank.
• Gold for ‘Best advance in compliance training’ won in collaboration with The World Bank.
• Gold for ‘Best advance in custom content’ won in collaboration with The World Bank.
• Silver for ‘Best unique or innovative learning and development program’ won in collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
• Silver for ‘Best advance in custom content’ won in collaboration with The World Bank.
• Silver for ‘Best advance in custom content’ won in collaboration with Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited.
• Bronze for ‘Best advance in custom content’ won in collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
• Bronze for ‘Best advance in compliance training’ won in collaboration with ISS A/S.
• Bronze for ‘Best use of video for learning’ won in collaboration with ISS A/S.
• Bronze for ‘Best advance in custom content’ won in collaboration with ISS A/S.
• Bronze for ‘Best unique or innovative learning and development program’ won in collaboration with Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited.
• Bronze for ‘Best advance in employee engagement’ won in collaboration with Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited.
• Bronze for ‘Best learning team’ won in collaboration with Colgate-Palmolive.

Amit Garg – Founder & CEO, Upside Learning Solutions, is ecstatic with this win. He says, “We’re thrilled to make it big at Brandon Hall Group awards this year. It is an honor to be recognized for our expertise in developing high-quality custom content that delivers measurable results for our customers.” Amit adds, “I’d like to congratulate the entire team at Upside Learning for their spirit to Go Beyond and create learning solutions that make a business impact. We definitely make a powerful team internally, and when this amazing team joins hands with world-class clients, the results are bound to be phenomenal. A big thank you to all our clients who trusted us with their critical projects.”

“Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards in 2021 provide much-needed and well-deserved recognition to organizations that went above and beyond to support their stakeholders during the unprecedented disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Brandon Hall Group COO and leader of the HCM Excellence Awards Program Rachel Cooke. “The awards provide validation of best practices in all areas of HCM at a time when they have never been more important to employers, employees and customers.”

Entries were evaluated by a panel of veteran, independent senior industry experts, Brandon Hall Group analysts and executives based upon these criteria: fit the need, design of the program, functionality, innovation and overall measurable benefits. Excellence Award winners are scheduled to be honored at Brandon Hall Group’s HCM Excellence Conference, Feb. 1-3, 2022, at the Hilton West Palm Beach, Florida.

About Upside Learning

For over 17 years, Upside Learning has consistently delivered best-in-class custom learning solutions to organizations worldwide. The focal point has been to help customers deliver real outcomes by helping them achieve performance improvements that are aligned with their business objectives. Upside Learning aims to make a real impact on organizational metrics and behaviors by supporting organizations to bolster their core teams.

With experience in offerings such as Virtual Instructor-led Training, Bespoke Learning, Learning Consultancy, Performance Support Aids, eBooks, or Game-based learning, Upside Learning strives to add value to every learning solution it creates. In its 17 years of business, Upside Learning has won more than 60 awards (including several Brandon Hall Group Excellence awards) and many accolades.

Learn more about Upside Learning at: www.upsidelearning.com

About Brandon Hall Group

Brandon Hall Group operates the largest and longest running awards program in Human Capital Management. As an independent HCM research and analyst firm they conduct studies in Learning and Development, Talent Management, Leadership Development, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Talent Acquisition and HR/Workforce Management. These benchmark studies help organizations by providing strategic insights for executives and practitioners responsible for growth and business results.

Coupling the research studies with the best practice from the awards, Brandon Hall Group has helped more than 10,000 clients globally and more than 28 years of delivering world-class research and advisory. At the core of our offerings is a membership program that combines research, benchmarking and unlimited access to data and analysts. Membership enables executives and practitioners to make the right decisions about people, processes, and systems, coalesced with analyst advisory services which aim to put the research into action in a way that is practical and efficient.

Brandon Hall Group has also launched professional certifications for business and human capital management professionals to upskill themselves and gain credentials for career advancement.
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Upside Learning has been again recognized officially as a Great Place to Work.

The Great Place to Work® Institute (India) has recently announced awarding of Great Place to Work – Certification to Upside Learning for the second time running, building a High-Trust, High-Performance Culture™. Amit Garg – Founder & CEO said, “It is an honor to be recognized as a great place to work again for our culture that values innovation, team-work, and a spirit to Go Beyond each and every time to deliver a great experience for our customers. Of all the awards and accolades we have won, for me personally being certified as a ‘Great Place To Work’ for the second time is a great feeling.”

As part of this assessment, Upside Learning employees took an anonymous survey which assessed people-related management practices using Great Place to Work® People Practice Culture Audit© Framework and measured the perceptions of the employees using Great Place to Work® Trust Index© Employee Survey.

Upside Learning scored a brilliant 78 on the TRUST INDEX© Score which is an increase of 6 points from last years score of 72. TRUST INDEX© is an average of five dimensions of the Great Place to Work® Trust Index© Model which are:

• Credibility of management ™
• Respect for people
• Fairness at the workplace
• Pride
• Camaraderie between people

A few notable areas where Upside Learning Scored exceptionally where

• Management is honest and ethical in its business practices – Upside Learning scored 97 points as against an average of 92 points from India’s top 50 Great mid-size workplaces.
• We are all in this together – Upside Learning scored 93 points as against an average of 90 points from India’s top 50 Great mid-size workplaces.
• This is a physically safe place to work – Upside Learning scored 96 points which was at par with India’s top 50 Great mid-size workplaces

About Great Place to Work® Institute

Great Place to Work® Institute is a global management research and consulting firm dedicated towards enabling organizations to achieve business objectives by building better workplaces. Great Place to Work® Institute works with over 7000 organizations globally every year to help them assess, change, learn, and share.

About Upside Learning

For over 16 years, Upside Learning has consistently delivered best-in-class custom learning solutions to organizations worldwide. The focal point has been to help customers deliver real outcomes by helping them achieve performance improvements that are aligned with their business objectives. Upside Learning aims to make a real impact on organizational metrics and behaviors by supporting organizations to bolster their core teams.

With experience in offerings such as virtual Instructor-led Training, Bespoke Learning, Learning Consultancy, Performance Support Aids, eBooks, or Game-based learning, Upside Learning strives to add value to every learning solution it creates.

To support its specialized offerings, the company has dedicated infrastructure, including the Testing Lab (which can handle virtually any browser and hardware combination), R&D, and a fully responsive content framework. In its 16 years, Upside Learning has won more than 52 awards (including several Brandon Hall Excellence Awards) and many accolades.

Learn more about Upside Learning at: www.upsidelearning.com

Upside Learning has set the stage for revealing its secret to delivering ‘great’ Custom Learning in today’s multi-device world at the ATD 2015 International Conference & Exposition. The company will join leading providers of learning solutions from across the globe to share the best practices and insights on the current and future trends in the training and development industry. More than 10,500 L&D professionals will have the opportunity to experience innovative solutions from 17^th-20^th May at Orlando, Florida. The four day Conference & Exposition is touted to provide a unique opportunity to network with world-renowned thought leaders, and industry luminaries.

At its booth#109, Upside Learning will showcase some of its innovative solutions and services and also share insights on how to #DoGreat in context of today’s multi-device, multi-aspect world.

Highlights at booth (109)

• Framework for Responsive eLearning Development (FRED), enabling faster and reliable development of Responsive eLearning
• Multi-device Testing Lab, for thorough testing of eLearning projects
• Custom eLearning, that are tailor-made for laptops and desktops
• Custom mLearning, that are tailor-made for tablets and smartphones
• Multi-Device/Responsive Learning, solutions that adapt and work on different devices and operating systems
• Tool-based Rapid Learning, for faster, easier, and within the budget learning development

Interested individuals can pre-book a one-on-one consultation session with Amit Gautam, by sending an email to us.sales@upsidelearning.com

To boost its presence across Europe, Upside Learning has on-boarded Sushant Gore – Manager Business Solutions.

Upside Learning, a leading service provider of end-to-end digital learning solutions for Fortune – 1000 companies across the globe has announced the joining of Sushant Gore as Manger – Business Solutions for the Europe and UK region, which will help Upside Learning to be closer to their clients in this region and help to serve them better.

Sushant has a rich experience in Client Engagement, New Business Development, Managing Key Accounts and Digital Transformation. His zeal to assist organisations to understand, design, deliver and improve digital technology enabled solutions has helped many a clients to achieve their desired learning objectives. Sushant holds a Masters degree in General Management with focus on Marketing from ESCP Europe Business School, France.

Having studied and worked in Europe, Sushant has developed a deep understanding of the dynamics of the L&D market in this region and the challenges faced by the L&D community of the region, and is always on quest to assisting in innovating solutions to tackle them.

Amit Garg, Director and Co‒founder of Upside Learning, commented, “We are confident that Sushant, with his enthusiasm to explore better learning possibilities and experience of the global learning industry, will help us increase our presence in Europe and by being closer to our clients in Europe and the UK, it will help us deliver better service to them.”

About Upside Learning

Upside Learning is a leading provider of custom learning solutions to organizations worldwide. They help their customers deliver real outcomes by helping them achieve performance improvements that are aligned with their business objectives.

By making the effort to Go Beyond at each step of the designing process, Upside Learning aims to make a real and sustainable impact on organizational metrics and behaviours by supporting organizations to bolster their core teams, be it operations, sales or human resources.

Upside Learning provides consultancy for crafting effective learning solutions, custom eLearning, responsive and mobile learning, performance support, translation and localization, video and animations, and instructor-led trainings.

In its 16 years, Upside Learning has won 48 awards (including 19 Brandon Hall Excellence Awards) and several accolades.

Learn more about Upside Learning at: www.upsidelearning.com

Upside Learning makes it to the Training Industry’s Training Outsourcing Watch List for the Sixth Consecutive Year

Upside Learning Solutions, a leading provider of Custom learning solutions has been listed in the Training Industry, Inc’s – Training Outsourcing Companies Watch List for the year 2020 yet again. This is the Sixth time that Upside Learning has been recognized as a leading training outsourcing company.

Trainingindustry.com compiles a list of the Top Learning Providers worldwide every year after thorough analysis of the capabilities, expertise and experience of each company considered.

Amit Garg, Founder & Director – “It is a great feeling for every one of us at Upside Learning, we feel delighted to be featured among the Top Training Outsourcing Companies – Watch List, offering the best-in-class learning solutions. The accolade is a testament to the capabilities of our 150 learning specialists who strive to Go Beyond and design engaging Learning solutions for our clients.”

Upside Learning has been recognized particularly on these counts:

• Innovative service offerings
• Ability to provide services on a global basis
• Profile of clients

For over 16 years, Upside Learning has consistently delivered best-in-class custom learning solutions to organizations worldwide. Helping customers deliver real outcomes by helping them achieve performance improvements that are aligned with their business objectives. Upside Learning aims to make a real impact on organizational metrics & behaviors by supporting organizations to bolster their core teams.

About Upside Learning

Upside Learning is a leading provider of custom learning solutions to organizations worldwide. They help their customers deliver real outcomes by helping them achieve performance improvements that are aligned with their business objectives.

By making the effort to Go Beyond at each step of the designing process, Upside Learning aims to make a real and sustainable impact on organizational metrics and behaviours by supporting organizations to bolster their core teams, be it operations, sales or human resources.

Upside Learning provides consultancy for crafting effective learning solutions, custom eLearning, responsive and mobile learning, performance support, translation and localization, video and animations, and instructor-led trainings.

In its 16 years, Upside Learning has won 48 awards (including 19 Brandon Hall Excellence Awards) and several accolades.

Learn more about Upside Learning at: www.upsidelearning.com

Continuing to build on its large base of customers in North America Upside Learning has brought on Vikram Tayde as AVP – Business Development for the US region.

Upside Learning, a leading service provider of end-to-end digital learning solutions for top-notch companies across the globe, has announced the appointment of Vikram Tayde as AVP Business Development for the US region, which accounts for 50% of Upside Learning’s business.

Vikram comes with an extensive experience spanning two decades across US and India in learning development, delivery, and management world. With veritable expertise in managing large programs in learning content development & IT development operations, he enjoys challenges that lie at the intersection of client success and learning delivery.

Amit Garg – Founder & Director of Upside Learning, commented, “We are confident that Vikram, with his extensive experience and expertise in the eLearning domain and his knowledge of the global learning industry, will help us increase our presence in US and by being closer to our clients from North America, it will help us deliver better service to them.”

About Upside Learning

Upside Learning provides learning solutions to organizations worldwide. Be it an Instructor-led Training, Bespoke Learning, Learning Consultancy, Performance Support Aid, eBook, or Game based learning, Upside Learning strives to add value to every learning solution it creates.

To support its specialized offerings, the company has a dedicated infrastructure, including the Testing Lab (which can handle virtually any browser and hardware combination), R&D and fully responsive content framework. In its 15 years, Upside Learning has won 48 awards (including 19 Brandon Hall Excellence Awards) and several accolades.

Learn more about Upside Learning at: www.upsidelearning.com

The campaign aims to bring forward the challenges that the LnD community face and how the fraternity needs to Go Beyond learning courses that just “ticks-the-box”

With businesses facing the ever-increasing threat of modern disruptions, workplace learning takes even more importance to help organisations face new challenges. For the LnD community, this presents a good opportunity to rethink their learning solutions and do more than what just ‘ticks the box’.

To address this need and to mark the completion of its 15 years, Upside Learning announced a new campaign “Go Beyond”. The campaign aims to discuss the challenges faced by the LnD community and deliberate on how – ‘the way’ learning solutions are designed – can evolve for the future. For the campaign, a hashtag #LnDGoBeyond is being used so that the LnD community can use it while sharing their thoughts making it easier for everyone to search and follow the discussions.

To know more about what Go Beyond means, please visit this link: https://upsidelearning.com/what-is-go-beyond/

Upside Learning – known globally as the best place for great learning solutions – is now also recognised officially as a Great Place to Work!

The Great Place to Work® Institute (India) has recently announced awarding of Great Places to Work – Certification to Upside Learning for building a High-Trust, High-Performance Culture™. Amit Garg – Founder & Director Learning Solutions said, “It is an honor to be recognized as a great place to work for our culture that values innovation, team work, and a spirit to Go Beyond each and every time to deliver great experience for our customers. Of all the awards and accolades we have won, for me personally this is the sweetest one.”

As part of this assessment, Upside Learning employees took an anonymous survey which assessed people related management practices using Great Place to Work® People Practice Culture Audit© Framework and measured the perceptions of the employees using Great Place to Work® Trust Index© Employee Survey.

Upside Learning scored a brilliant 72 on the TRUST INDEX© Score which is an average of five dimensions of the Great Place to Work® Trust Index© Model which are:

• Credibility of management ™
• Respect for people
• Fairness at the workplace
• Pride
• Camaraderie between people

About Great Place to Work® Institute

Great Place to Work® Institute is a global management research and consulting firm dedicated towards enabling organizations achieve business objectives by building better workplaces. Great Place to Work® Institute works with over 7000 organizations globally every year to help them assess, change, learn, and share.

In today’s multi-device world, one of the major challenges is the wide range of devices on which eLearning needs to be supported. Different browsers, manufacturers, models and sizes, operating systems, connectivity modes and platforms further add to this challenge. To ensure that eLearning works properly on multiple devices, thorough testing is essential on actual primary devices and configurations. But not all organisations are equipped with the required resources in terms of manpower, testing tools and devices, nor can they afford to invest their time to thoroughly test eLearning on different combinations.

Upside Learning’s recently launched Multi-device Testing Lab service aims to help such organisations by testing and delivering high-quality learning projects that run consistently across device, browsers and operating systems.

The company has made robust investments in its infrastructure and is equipped with a variety of devices with screen sizes between 240 x 320 and 1280 x 800 pixels, as well as some high-DPI variants. For testing on larger displays, it has Windows PCs, Macs and laptops, while tablets and smart phones, running iOS, Android and Windows, cover the smaller ones. Tools such as Adobe Edge Inspect and Ghostlab are employed for quick and accurate turnaround.

The Testing Lab services team includes highly-experienced quality testing specialists with a cumulative experience of over 50 years in the eLearning testing domain. A meticulously planned rigorous testing process that runs through five broad stages ensures an error-free project with a fast turn-around.

Upside Learning is a leading provider of learning solutions and services to organisations worldwide. Their focus has consistently been to help companies improve performance through engaging learning solutions.

Upside Learning are experts in custom eLearning, mobile learning and performance consultancy. They provide end-to-end design and development services, from consultancy and solutioning to multi-device testing and post-roll out support. Over a span of 13 years, they have won over 42 awards and recognitions for their engaging learning solutions.

Upside will be present at the ATD TechKnowledge conference in San Jose on the 24th and 25th of January, 2018. Visit them at booth 118 for a chance to get to know them and see how they can be of service to your company’s training efforts.