ASTD BEST Awards
April 4 is the new deadline to apply for the 2008 ASTD BEST Awards. 
The ASTD BEST Awards recognize organizations that demonstrate enterprise-wide success as a result of employee learning and development. We are looking for organizations that get it: They create, support, and champion learning opportunities for results and a learning culture.
Established in 2003, the BEST Awards Winner’s Circle includes small and large private, public, and not-for-profit organizations from around the world.
Award winners show that they are BEST at Building talent, Enterprise-wide, Supported by the organization’s leaders, fostering a Thorough learning culture. They demonstrate that they are excellent in many aspects of the learning function:
- learning has value in the organization's culture: learning opportunities for employees, C-level involvement, learning for growth of the organization, and innovation
- learning links to individual and organizational performance: alignment with the business, efficiency, measurement of the effectiveness of learning, success with non-training solutions for business needs, and sustainability of organizational results
- investment is made in learning and performance initiatives.
The 2008 award winners will
- be featured in the October issue of T+D magazine
- be honored at a ceremony October 2 in Washington, D.C., at the Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center
- meet their peers and share their award-winning practices at the annual Learn from the BEST event October 3.
- have the privilege of using the 2008 ASTD BEST Award Winner logo.
