The 2013 Excellence in Practice Awards application is now open.
Watch this webcast to learn more about the application process, tips for success, and examples of winning entries.
Submission Deadline Is EXTENDED TO September 23, 2013.
Note there are NEW INSTRUCTIONS in the application. Read carefully.
Important changes for 2013:
1. Practice Implementation: ASTD expects that practices submitted for award consideration are fully deployed, not planned practices or practices that are newly implemented. Pilot programs are welcome to apply for Citation consideration, but must be in place for at least 8 (eight) months to be considered.
2. ALL applications will be collected via our secure online awards site. This form is the entry form that will be reviewed by the judges. You will complete this form, save as a PDF, and upload it to the online awards portal at http://ww5.aievolution.com/atd1403/. You will also complete organizational background information online when you create your application account. This form will help you prepare the information you will need to enter online.
The Excellence in Practice Aprogram recognizes results achieved through the use of practices and solutions from the entire scope of workplace learning and development.
What's new this year?
- Signatures are no longer required upon application submission. (If your organization is selected as an Excellence in Practice Award or Citation winner, a representative from your organization and one from each partner organization named will be required to sign a release form.)
- Minimum time in practice for all submissions. Practices must be fully implemented to be considered!
- Applications MUST be anonymous. Identifying information about the organization (name or staff members) should be completely stripped from the application that is submitted to reviewers. Applicants who violate this rule risk disqualification.
Categories
A practice may be entered for consideration in two categories.
- Career Development
- Diversity and Inclusion
- Managing the Learning Function
- Integrated Talent Management
- Facilitating Organizational Change
- Performance Improvement
- Coaching and Mentoring
- Learning Technologies
- Organizational Learning and Development
- Sales Enablement
Accomplishments will be recognized at two levels:
Awards: Presented to practices that have demonstrated clear and measurable results of achieving organizational goals, meet a demonstrated need, have appropriate design values, and are clearly aligned with other performance improvement initiatives. These practices have long-term, sustained results.
Citations: Presented to practices that have yet to demonstrate clear and measurable results, but that have strong evaluation plans, meet a demonstrated need, and have appropriate design values. Practices must be fully implemented to be considered. Citation winners are encouraged to seek an Excellence in Practice Award in a subsequent year.
Award and Citation winners will be honored at the awards ceremony during the ASTD International Conference & Exposition May 2014 in Washington, D.C. Announcements of the winners will be in ASTD publications and on the ASTD website.
Criteria
1. The following criteria will be used to evaluate the Excellence in Practice applications:
- needs identification
- indication that the practice was an appropriate response to the problem or need
- design approach
- evidence that the intervention was designed and implemented in a way that considered the best interests of the organization as well as those of employees
- alignment
- evidence of, and degree of alignment with, other training, learning, and performance improvement practices, as well as organizational goals, to achieve desired outcomes
- evidence of partnerships within and outside the organization (e.g., with senior management, frontline supervisors, unions, external resources, etc.)
- evaluation strategy
- evidence of a clear, measurable, and feasible evaluation plan
- results
- evidence of actual or anticipated organizational impact
- evidence of actual or anticipated individual/team impact
- organizational learning
- indications that this practice can be transferred and replicated in other organizations
- extent of the diffusion of this practice in the field
- opportunities for other professionals to learn from this practice
- eligibility.
2. All practices must be nominated by two individuals, at least one of whom is from the company, organization, or entity in which the practice is used.
3. Because practices focus on results, training suppliers and consultants should apply only in collaboration with a customer. The application must be written from the perspective of the customer organization.
4. Applicants and nominators are not required to be members of ASTD.
5. Practices may range from a single, narrowly focused activity to a multifaceted, multidisciplinary initiative, so long as the results can be clearly linked to advancing the organization's goals. ASTD staff will review all initial applications to ensure they are complete and may request additional information. All complete applications will go through a blind review process conducted by a panel of experts from companies in the ASTD Forum, ASTD staff, and other training and performance improvement experts. ASTD reserves the right to dismiss applications that lack clarity or sufficient information.
Shared Learning
ASTD is committed to shared learning and recognition of excellence. ASTD will disseminate and share information from the winning applications, and will recognize the winning organizations on its website, in publications, and at the ASTD International Conference & Exposition in May 2014, in Washington, D.C.
Questions?
Contact eip@astd.org
Congratulations to Our 2012 Excellence in Practice Winners
Read about their best practices here.
Awards
AMP Horizons, Australia
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Illinois, USA
China Telecom College, China
College of American Pathologists, Illinois, USA
E*TRADE Financial, New York, USA
HCL Technologies Limited, India
MTR Corporation, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China
Veridiam, California, USA
Yapi Kredi Bank, Turkey
Citations
Abu Dhabi Police General Headquarters, United Arab Emirates
Accenture, Ireland
Accenture, India (3)
Chevron, Texas, USA
College of American Pathologist, Illinois, USA
E*TRADE Financial, Georgia, USA
E*TRADE Financial, New York, USA
Emirates NBD, United Arab Emirates
HCL Technologies, India (2)
HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company Limited, India
HealthSouth Corporation, Alabama, USA
Hewlett-Packard, Switzerland
Hewlett-Packard, California, USA
The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China
IBM Corporation, New York, USA (3)
Infosys Limited, India (2)
KPMG International, Canada
MTR Corporation, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (2)
Navy Exchange Service Command, Virginia, USA
ReSource Pro, LLC, China
SuccessFactors, California, USA
Turkcell Global, Turkey
United States Navy, Virginia, USA
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