IRPC empowers 5,000 employees with digital training from SkillLane

Wednesday 19 September 2018 17:36
IRPC Public Company Limited (IRPC) today has signed a cooperation agreement with SkillLane – Thailand's number one digital training platform – to digitize corporate training for their 5,000 employees. This agreement opens up opportunities for employees at all levels to skills covering professional and lifestyle topics. With SkillLane, employees can learn at their own convenience from anywhere, at anytime on any devices from personal computer, tablet or smartphone. With over 400 courses and counting including both soft skills and hard skills, IRPC now serves career development needs of their employees, in accordance with their strategy to solid its position as Asia's leading petrochemical company.

Mr. Sukrit Surabotsopon, IRPC President, said, "Amidst the digital trends within the energy industry, we brought in new technologies to transform our operations at all levels. In accordance with our IRPC 4.0 project, we invest heavily to elevate the capacity of our employees by integrating digital technology and providing rigorous training in areas such as communication and problem solving in the e-learning format."

"In the past, we primarily focused on personnel development with the objective of increasing our technical production capacity. However, today's focus is to instill our personnel with greater diverse general knowledge, which is regarded as a life skill, so that they can efficiently adapt such knowledge in their professional and personal matters. By encouraging employees to take up learning for self-renewal, the company can help add value to each employee. Thereby making them a decent and skillful person. In the future, they will be important assets to the organization in generating more profits and achieving sustainable development for the organization."

"We've faced a typical constraint in time management whenever employees were required to attend classroom or external training programs. Full attendance is difficult to achieve. So, we've converted some of classroom training to an online format which allows employees to learn more within a limited period of time. This year our training plan is aligned with the training roadmap which is designed to link training activities to organizational goals, primarily based on the competency-based training approach. The training objective covers three personnel development aspects, that is, organization knowledge and technical and functional competency as well as leadership competency. Therefore, we've worked with SkillLane to provide our employees over 400 courses which they can freely choose from. Moreover, we've also worked together to organize workshops where employees learned how to transfer knowledge into DIY online courses so that video presentations could be uploaded on the SkillLane for Business platform and other employees throughout the organization could learn from them."

Mr. Titipong Pisitwuttinan, CEO and co-founder of the digital learning platform SkillLane, said, "Nowadays leading organizations digitize their training because it allows them to monitor results and set a clear goal. Moreover, the digital classroom fit with the employee's lifestyles which everything happens on mobile. Besides being a hub of knowledge and skills, we also provide learners with an opportunity to choose personal development contents on their terms without having to spend time traveling to attend any offsite training program. All they need is a device and determination to learn. At present, this is an important learning trend. According to SkillLane's survey, 97% of working people wanted to learn new skills but 94% of them could not do that because they could not arrange time for training. For this reason, we're confident that this cooperation can accommodate this lifestyle very well – that is, the desire to learn more from the best people anytime anywhere."

"Today's cooperation with IRPC marks a vital step for a tech start-up like SkillLane. Our most important mission is to turn knowledge into on-demand contents available for everybody who seeks constant access to new knowledge. Knowledge and skills available on SkillLane's on-demand learning platform are valuable for long-term human resource development of an organization, and they reflect the ongoing learning trend which indicates that many businesses are evolving into a truly digital organization," Mr. Titipong said.

About IRPC

IRPC Public Company Limited Integrated refinery and petrochemical complex & port, tanks and power plant

About SkillLane

SkillLane was founded by Khun Titipong Pisitwuttinan and Khun Ekachat Assavarujikul. Their goal was to provide Thai people with a platform for learning and developing new skills anytime, anywhere. During the past four years, SkillLane achieved fast-paced growth and has served around 200,000 learners. The company received funding from 500 Startups, CyberAgent Ventures, Khun Piyaphan Wongyara (founder of Stock2morrow), Khun Tob Taokaenoi, and Aksorn Charoen Tat.

Currently, SkillLane is offering more than 400 online courses which are contributions from over 100 well-known trainers and training institutions, such as Ajarn Adam Bradshaw, Kru Ngo Rossukon Kongket, Khun Krating Phoonphol, Khun Pawawit Klinpratoom, and 2Morrow Group, among many others. If interested, you can learn more details at www.SkillLane.com/business.