SLICM offers customized credit management programmes to organisations in financial services industry
View(s):The Sri Lanka Institute of Credit Management (SLICM) was initiated as a pioneering education project which intended to fill a vacuum in the leasing and finance related companies in Sri Lanka. In the year 2000, Sri Lanka Institute of Credit Management was incorporated under a Parliamentary Act No. 07 of 2000. In November 2012, SLICM appointed Aspirations International Academy (AIA) as the accredited study centre and SLICM together with AIA made distinct improvements to the course offerings in making the qualification suit the dynamics of the growing Sri Lankan economy.
Mr. Shanil Jayasekera, MD of Aspirations International Academy said “We at AIA thrive to offer innovative education and training programmes in addition to the mainstream programmes we offer such as University of London Degrees and Chartered Institute of Marketing programmes. AIA saw great potential in SLICM programmes and we along with SLICM have come up with innovative programme offerings. Introducing the distance learning programme for Diploma in Credit Managament is one such improvement which enables the participants based outside western province to read the diploma and obtain the identical qualification using the recorded lectures and hand outs. Offering customized training in credit management is another such initiative.”
The first customized programme was offered to AMW Capital Leasing PLC. This programme covers the credit management skills related to the product offerings of AMW Capital Leasing PLC. The programme is conducted by well experienced industry professionals and satisfaction levels of participants are very high according to the participants. Further the participants who successfully complete the tailor made programme are able to enroll for the main Diploma in Credit Management programme with exemptions.
Mr. Emmanuel Muttupulle, MD of AMW Capital and Leasing added “I have witnessed the growth of the finance and leasing industry and the dynamics have truly changed. As a result we need to upgrade the skills of our staff in order to keep up to date with the changes in the customers as well as the economy. As result we embarked on this programme offered by SLICM”.
Mr. Kushan Wijewickrama, Director HR of AMW said “We as a progressive corporate entity in the country place greater emphasis on improving our people. Everyone agrees that the training requirements of the finance and leasing industry are not fully satisfied. We believe that organisations need to make the first step in uplifting the skills of the staff not only to be competitive but also to make the business model sustainable.
This is at the forefront of the AMW human resource practices. This programme which we invested in is one such initiative”.
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