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Thorn Lighting and Sustainability
Thorn Academy of Light
Thorn offers its employees unique opportunities to
develop their full potential and show exceptional
performance by providing training on products,
applications and interpersonal skills
Thorn Academy of Light
In keeping with the its parent company’s core values Thorn offers its
employees unique opportunities to develop their full potential and
show exceptional performance. To this end a new academy was
founded during the 2006/7 financial year – the “Thorn Academy
of Light”. Experts from relevant specialised areas of the business
provide sales employees with brand-specific training on products,
applications, business processes and interpersonal skills. The Lighting
Adviser courses are held at Spennymoor in North East England and
Les Andelys in North West France. In order to ensure the high quality
of teaching, minimum standards were established for content and a
separate train-the-trainer course was developed for the lectures.
The subsequent development of these courses for partners and
customers, suitably “de-Thorned”, forms an integral part of the
Academy. A 1.3 million Euro investment in the future is the newly built
Competence Sharing Centre at Spennymoor. Complete with lighting
application areas, indoor and outdoor product displays and state of the
art facilities for training, events and presentations it will be a valuable
tool for customer training where the Thorn brand can be experienced.
The first customer-training programme – on sustainability – will be
introduced during 2009 and preparations are underway to expand the
programme.
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