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Empowering Reporting Excellence for Commercial Express

When Commercial Express needed a Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)-focused provider that supported continuing professional development (CPD) tracking, they partnered with Skillcast.

About the company

Commercial Express is a market-leading UK-based managing general agent (MGA) that was founded in 1999. They provide specialist insurance solutions to independent brokers. With strong technical expertise and a commitment to delivering value to their customers, Commercial Express achieved Chartered Insurance Underwriting Agents status.

Employees

Mid-sized (51-200 employees)

Industry, Financial Services

Insurance

Location

Dudley, United Kingdom

Before working with Skillcast, we used inflexible systems and our CPD tracking and reporting processes were largely manual, which cost us a lot of time. We value our customers and care about empowering their professional journey. To honour our commitment to maintaining high standards, it became clear a change was needed. With Skillcast, we found an FCA-focused provider that offers ongoing support and has improved our processing and reporting standards. Their solution – Training360 – has been a godsend!

Learning Designer
Commercial Express

The challenge

After experiencing difficulties with existing systems and processes, Commercial Express needed operational change. This called for:

  1. Improving the efficiency of CPD tracking and reporting

     

  2. Eliminating the manual consolidation of CPD data held across multiple, siloed sources

     

  3. Access to technical support for seamless learning management system (LMS) use

     

  4. Greater autonomy and flexibility when updating new content into existing course containers.

Some key statistics

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The solution

Commercial Express chose to partner with Skillcast, using our LMS and Training360 tracking tool to provide an efficient platform for their course content and seamless CPD processes.

  • Skillcast offered an understanding of the FCA environment and what was needed to meet the regulator's expectations.
  • Commercial Express worked closely with the Skillcast Support team to ensure seamless implementation of our tracking tool and LMS.
  • With Training360, Commercial Express could effortlessly capture CPD hours and had access to real-time data via dashboard reporting.
  • By creating a process-driven experience, Skillcast transformed CPD evidencing and tracking into an efficient process, free from manual error.

The outcomes

Commercial Express experienced a measurable improvement in how they tracked CPD hours, ensuring their customers had the security of reliable data capture for their professional development.

  • Manual processing was eliminated, reducing reporting time by up to three days per submission period.

  • Automatic tracking and recording saved time and improved reporting accuracy.

  • Dashboard reporting allowed brokers' CPD activity to be viewed in one place, improving data accessibility and reporting standards.
  • Ongoing technical support ensured no time was lost troubleshooting.
  • Using our LMS, day-to-day operations were simple and flexible, allowing automatic updates to course content as needed.

  • Transitioning from existing systems was frictionless, with good user adoption and smooth project management.

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