California Casualty's CalCasU Earns Prestigious
National Award

 

California Casualty believes strongly in its obligation to train employees so they can be the best at their jobs, enabling them to provide superior service to the company's customers.

 

To ensure that employees throughout the organization have access to the training they need, the company established the California Casualty University in 2004. Dubbed CalCasU, it is an online educational portal that provides access to relevant training coursework, either through online learning modules or courses taught in person. Other resources on the site include task simulations, podcasts on different topics, and access to personalized learning plans. 

 

Using the program, employees can select from a catalog of over 350 courses. There is a wide-ranging variety of subjects, including Leadership, Compliance, Negotiation, Project Management, Medical Terminology, Selling, Fraud, Customer Service, and Problem Solving and Negotiation, just to name a few. 

 

Although the University is just five years old, it has already achieved recognition, garnering a national award in October 2006. CalCasU won first runner-up in the Corporate University Best in Class (CUBIC's) "Best Virtual Corporate University/Best Use of Technology" category. Entries in this category were judged on their ease of navigation, user customization capability, best portal look and feel, participant usage, and evidence of best use of technology. "The first prize award winner was the Defense Acquisition University, Department of Defense, the largest training organization in the world," says Barb Gurnett, 1st Vice President, Chief Learning Officer — Learning & Development, of California Casualty. 

 

The CUBIC Awards were created in 1999 by the Corporate University Xchange to honor, recognize and promote corporate universities and/or training and development departments of organizations that demonstrate true best practices. CUBIC Award entries are judged by a panel of leading experts and practitioners in the training field. "These awards salute corporate and government learning organizations that demonstrate programs and practices improving employee and business performance," according to the Corp U Web site. 

 

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