NBO wins best practices for internal elearning award in recognition of its digital capacity building

In recognition of its achievements in digital capacity building, the National Bank of Oman’s (NBO) Academy of Excellence recently won the ‘Best Practices for Internal eLearning’ Award. The accolade was presented by MEA HR (Human Resources) & Learning Achievement Awards. This acknowledgment highlights the bank’s efforts to offer innovative and rewarding upskilling opportunities for its employees. 

NBO’s Academy of Excellence, the bank’s training arm, has been using a Cloud-based Learning Management System, which is an eLearning platform, to deliver quality technical and soft skills courses for staff members. These online training opportunities allow NBO employees from across different divisions to benefit from an excellence standard in teaching and further refine their knowledge and skills across a range of bank-related subjects. 

The bank believes that its people are its most important asset and it will therefore always aim to provide them with an empowering and innovative learning environment. Apart from using cutting-edge technologies, NBO has been increasingly looking to move beyond its traditional compliance training approach and recently implemented a rewards-based approach. Instead of assigning compulsory courses at the start of each year, the bank’s Academy of Excellence has introduced monthly courses across different categories. It also introduced a ‘Rolling Trophy’ competition providing another incentive for teams to do their level best during these courses. Both initiatives resulted in an increase in course completion rates from around 70% to 85%.  

More details about NBO’s Academy of Excellence, achievements, range of products and services are available at www.nbo.om, by contacting the Call Centre on 24770000 or by visiting any of the 59 branches located across Oman.