Awards

Learning and Development celebrates individuals who have used their learning experiences through the Platinum Academy to affect real change in themselves and their working environments.

At the Platinum Life year-end function, L&D awards three prizes: The Maslow Award, the Byte Award and the Pascal Award.

The Maslow Award is awarded to a person who took part in one or more of the Soft Skills programs (Development Groups, Sales Coaching, Debtsavvy or BrightStar). This individual will have shown growth, initiative, leadership skills and measurable positive change within their departments or jobs by using the skills they acquired.

The Byte Award is awarded to a person who successfully completed one or more of the Microsoft programs (Excel, Access or SQL). The winner will have shown great understanding of the course content, through applying their knowledge and skills to accomplish a goal they set in their jobs. This achievement will be in addition to achieving very high attendance and homework completed scores and achieving high marks in their exams.

The Pascal Award is awarded to a person who successfully completed one or more of the Mathematics programs (Arithmetic, Algebra, Data Science etc.). The winner will have shown great understanding of the course content and the mathematical concepts in context with their jobs. This achievement will be in addition to achieving very high attendance and homework completed scores and achieving high marks in their exams.