Learn from the BEST Friday, October 2, 2009 L’Enfant Plaza Hotel Washington, DC Register Online

The program for Learn from the BEST is now available.

Spend a day with the winners of the 2009 BEST Awards at ASTD’s Learn from the BEST —a one-day conference where you can learn the secrets to success of the organizations that set the benchmark for workplace learning and performance.

ASTD's BEST Awards recognize organizations for achieving enterprise-wide success through learning. They are BEST at Building talent Enterprise-wide, Supported by the organization’s leaders fostering a Thorough learning culture. The 2009 BEST Award winners are listed below.

On October 2, learn how the BEST organizations:

• have moved from training as a program to making learning enterprise-wide to leverage productivity and profitability
• link learning to individual and organizational performance
• make learning a business strategy.

Topics

Twenty-five BEST Award-winning organizations will discuss their approaches and practices. 

• Barilla America: There's a Reason It's Called Employee 'Engagement' not ‘Marriage’:  50 Engaging Ideas in 50 Minutes handout
• BJC HealthCare: Building Your Technology Toolkit handout
• Brown-Forman Corporation: Driving Corporate Strategy with the World's First Responsible Drinking Game
• CSC: Learning 2.0:  How CSC Uses Social Learning to Support Culture Change handout
• DPR Construction: Leadership Development Process and the ROI handout
• Fallon Clinic: Culture Assessment at Fallon Clinic handout
• Grant Thornton: Using Avatar-based Learning for Business Impact handout
• InterContinental Hotels Group: The IHG Leaders’ Lounge handout
• La Quinta: Achieving More Through Partnership: Strategically Aligning & Supporting Vendors to Maximize Business Performance handout
• LarsonAllen: Learning, Collaborating and Connecting through a Virtual Conference Experience handout
• Luxottica Retail: Bringing Talent Into Focus handout
• Mayer Electric: Jungian Archetypes, Ancient Greeks, and the Learning Organization: The Amazing Marriage of Mayer and Myth handout
• MTR: Effective Training Management in a New Era handout
• Prescription Solutions: A Prescription for Customer Advocacy Education handout
• Reliance Industries, Manufacturing Division: Effective Practices for Achieving Business Goals handout
• Reliance Industries, Refinery Division: Talent Transformation handout
• sanofi-aventis US: The Journey to Becoming a Strategic Business Partner
• Sun Microsystems: Redesigning Corporate Training in a Web 2.0 World or How We Learned to Love Collaboration handout
• Suzlon Energy: Concept to Commissioning (C to C) for Fresh Talent handout
• TELUS: Shifting from a Learning 1.0 Culture to a Learning 2.0 Culture handout
• Trust Company of the West: Faculty Relations – A Cornerstone of Success handout
• University Health System: The Center for Learning Excellence at University Health System’s Institute for Leaders handout
• VF Asia: How Organizations Learn handout
• Whirlpool Corporation: Federated Learning at Whirlpool Corporation handout
• Wipro: The Integrated Talent Management System handout

Schedule

Learn from the BEST begins with networking and continental breakfast, continues with three sets of roundtable discussions, lunch and networking, and ends with two sets of roundtable discussions. Five discussions take place simultaneously.

Click here for complete schedule and descriptions of sessions.

8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Location

L’Enfant Plaza Hotel
480 L’Enfant Plaza, S.W.
Washington, DC 20024

A special ASTD rate of $239 is available until September 17 (this date has been extended). To get the ASTD rate, call the hotel (+1 800.635.5065 or 202.484.1000) between the hours (eastern time) of 8am-10pm Monday-Friday and 9am-5pm Saturday-Sunday. Please sure to identify yourself as part of ASTD.

• By Metro, the hotel is at the L’Enfant Plaza stop on the yellow line.
• By train, 10 minutes by cab or 5 metro stops from Union Station (Amtrak).
• By air, 10 minutes from Reagan Washington National (DCA) Airport, and 40-45 minutes from both Dulles (IAD) and Baltimore Washington International (BWI) Airports.

Registration

The cost to attend is $270 for ASTD members and $370 for non-members. Continental breakfast and lunch are included. The deadline to register is Friday, September 25, 2009. If cancellation is necessary, you may receive a full refund minus a $100 administrative fee if your cancellation is received by September 25.

To learn more about the ASTD BEST Awards, click here.

2009 BEST Award Winners

Silver Sponsors
of the ASTD BEST Awards