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
Hong Kong and China Gas Investment Limited, 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

2013 Application will be available June 2013

About

The Excellence in Practice awards program recognizes results achieved through the use of practices and solutions from the entire scope of workplace learning and performance. 

What's New This Year?

• New categories!
• All applications will be collected via our secure online awards site.
• Up to five (5) supporting one-page documents (screenshots, charts, tables, photos) may be submitted to support your application, for all categories.
• 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.)

Application

All applications are now being submitted via our secure online awards site.  Click here to be directed to the Excellence in Practice Online Awards Submission Site.  Please view the online tutorial located on the welcome page before you begin submitting your application.

THIS FORM is being provided to you so that you can begin to gather the information needed to complete your application.  We strongly recommend that you save your answers in the Word document before submitting them in the online system.  Please note that your answers will be inputted in plain text within the online system and formatting will not transfer.

Categories

Applications are accepted for both new and proven practices in the following categories. 

NOTE: THERE ARE NEW CATEGORIES FOR 2012

• Career Development
• Diversity and Inclusion
• Managing the Learning Function  *NEW*
• Integrated Talent Management
• Facilitating Organizational Change  *NEW*
• Performance Improvement
• Coaching and Mentoring  *NEW*
• Learning Technologies
• Organizational Learning and Development  *NEW*
• Sales Enablement  *NEW*

Watch this webcast to learn more about the application process, tips for success, and examples of winning entries.

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.

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. 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 19-22, 2013 in Dallas, Texas.  Announcements of the winners will be in ASTD publications and on the ASTD website. 

Criteria

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

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. 

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.

Applicants and nominators are not required to be members of ASTD.

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 Benchmarking Forum, ASTD staff, and other training, learning, 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 and Exposition in May 2013, in Dallas, Texas.

Questions?   

Contact eip@astd.org