Union Assurance opens Northern training centre

Union Assurance opened the Northern Training Centre at Rajapihilla Road, Kurunegala.

The objective of regionalising training is to enhance productivity and professionalism for the sales staff of the Northern Zone. Union Assurance places great importance on training and development activities to benchmark their performance against global standards and motivate them to sell responsibly.

The company intends to expand training centres in addition to the state-of-the-art training centres in Colombo and Galle to meet their training objective.

We have made significant investments in training and developing our staff to meet and exceed international benchmarks, said Assistant General Manager, Training and Development, Suranjith Godagama.

Union Assurance engages in in-house and external expertise for training process. The vision of the Union Assurance Training and Development is to be an excellent training and development solutions provider.

Union Assurance is a member of Life Insurance Marketing and Research Association in USA (LIMRA) and leverages best practice and knowledge to develop the sales team.

In addition to training and development initiatives, the company has exposed the field staff to international award schemes, LIMRA International Quality Award (IQA), LIMRA International Award for Productivity (IAP) and LIMRA International Quality Management Award (IQMA) to benchmark them against global standards.