ASTD BEST Awards

The 2010 application will be available February 1 and will be due March 31. 

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 use the learning function as a strategic business tool to get results.

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 demonstrate that they are excellent in many aspects of the learning function:  

• learning has an enterprise-wide role: involved in the executive team, creating solutions to business issues, and setting organizational strategy
• 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, and success with non-training solutions for business needs
• investment is made in learning and performance initiatives.

Award winners show that they are BEST at Building talent, Enterprise-wide, Supported by the organization’s leaders, fostering a Thorough learning culture.

The 2009 award winners will

• be featured in the October issue of T+D magazine 
• be honored at a ceremony October 1 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 conference October 2 at the L'Enfant Plaza Hotel in Washington
• have the privilege of using the 2009 ASTD BEST Award Winner logo.

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