Glentel's Retail Division received two Training Excellence awards from the CSTD including the Gold WOW Award for Creating a Culture of Learning Development and the Silver Award for Overall Internal Learning. The awards were presented to Glentel last week at the CSTD's annual conference held in Toronto. The CSTD awards recognize companies and organizations from across Canada for excellence in learning, innovation and performance. CSTD is a national association with more than 2,300 members in the field of workplace learning and performance.

"Our organization is extremely proud of Glentel's culture of learning and development, and we are delighted that the CSTD recognizes Glentel's retail employee training program as one of the best in the nation," said Tom Skidmore, president and CEO of Glentel. "We are dedicated to growing and developing the skills and capabilities of our people and recognize that employee development and training is critical to Glentel's continued success."

Glentel's Retail Division consists of three consumer brands including WirelessWave, Wireless etc., and The Telephone Booth (Tbooth and la cabine T). Each provides wireless and wired communications products and services as well as a choice of cellular brands to consumers through retail outlets in major shopping malls and Costco Warehouses across Canada. With locations in British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec, Glentel is now the largest multi-carrier retailer in Canada.

Known as the Glentel Retail Academy, the company's employee development and training program drives employee engagement as well as learning retention and sales results. Upon hire, employees receive personal performance coaching every week and first-class recognition for achieving sales excellence. Glentel's unique and highly engaging and interactive training uses a variety of media and innovative learning techniques to achieve maximum results. Annually, more than 800 Glentel employees participate in the company's retail employee development and training program. -- www.cnxmarketlink.com