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The ASTD BEST Awards recognize organizations that demonstrate enterprise-wide success as a result of employee learning and development. They use the learning function as a strategic business tool to get results. During the BEST webcast series, hear from the 2012 BEST winners who get it. Find out how they’ve transformed the learning function into a key business driver of performance, productivity, and profitability. Register for the upcoming webcasts listed below (and review past webcasts) to find out what it takes to become the BEST.

UPCOMING: Migros Retail Academy: Success Formula for Results
Friday, November 1, 2013 2:00pm— 3:00pm ET By: Demir Aytaçr We, as the Migros Retail Academy, have set our goals for developing human resources to realize the strategic objectives of our company in line with company priorities, as well as individual and industry needs. This session will share tips of our success and given examples our outstanding programs for diffrerent needs. 3 things the audience will learn/take away from the webcast: - How to establish a succesful corporate academy - The importance of understanding business needs and being aligned across lines of business - Managing different generations in the workforce
Archived: Transformational Learning - Building a Learning Organization from the Ground Up
Thursday, January 31, 2013 — 2:00 p.m. ET Speaker: Jim Sokolowski In July 2010, the Global Learning and Development function at Savvis did not exist. By early 2012, the L&D function was not only in existence, they are thriving. Business unit leaders are advocates for learning, there is a direct connection to organizational strategy, leadership capability is positively moving, learning impact is measured, and the team is positively influencing the parent company. A Cinderella story? The transformation was driven not by a fairy god mother rather a well-articulated vision and intentional steps that maximized the possibility of success for this team. Learn the steps this team took to transform learning at Savvis, and how they helped the organization substantially increase learning consumption, decrease time to productivity, and increase leadership effectiveness. Review this webcast here.
Archived: Valvoline Instant Oil Change, Bench-Driven Training
Wednesday, February 27, 2013 — 2:00pm ET Speaker: Jamie Hinely Learning professionals often perceive the bench planning process as related to the training function, but seldom does it drive the training program for each and every position in an organization. The discussion will center around how bench planning became the driving force behind training and development at Valvoline Instant Oil Change, and how it can be that force for other organizations as well. Review this webcast here.
Archived: Yes, The Learning Function can Increase Employee Engagement
Tuesday, March 26, 2013 — 2:00pm ET Speaker: Dan Pontefract Often perceived merely as the ‘training team’, the Learning Function first needs to morph into a Learning & Collaboration Office and from there it can instil behaviours, practices and social tools that complement one another to drive up employee engagement. Learn how TELUS transformed their learning function and find out how you can bring a ‘Flat Army’ engagement philosophy to your employees and organization. Review this webcast here.	$Dan Pontefract$
Archived: Tech Mahindra: Aligning Fresher Hiring with Dynamic Business Demands Through an Innovative Model
Tuesday, June 11, 2013 — 8:00 a.m. ET Speaker: Riaz Mulla Businesses today are struggling to manage uncertainty, and one critical factor (especially for knowledge-based industries) is graduate induction. Tech Mahindra learning teams deployed an innovative solution that leverages technology to provide a business-aligned hiring option while reducing the training window, optimizing the cost of delivery, and keeping young recruits engaged. Review this webcast here.

Archived: Jiffy Lube University — A Success Story

Thursday, June 20, 2013 — 2:00 p.m. ET

Speaker: Kenneth Barber
Sponsored by: Grand Canyon University Ken Blanchard College of Business

Have you ever considered creating a learning brand for your training program? Ever wondered how to make your learning brand significant within your organization? Ever considered the benefit of external validation to the success of your learning brand?

Join Ken Barber, Manager of Learning & Development for Jiffy Lube International on June 20th and learn the Three Steps to building a learning brand, and why it matters. Ken will explain the life cycle of a brand, and provide insight on how external award competition can sharpen your skills, encourage your team, and win support from your business and customers. The session will be non-technical, conversational, and filled with simple, practical ideas you can implement in your program. Ken is a popular speaker at ASTD and other industry conferences and Jiffy Lube University is one of the most highly decorated training programs in America.

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Archived: Evolving The Leadership Development Culture at UPS

Friday, June 28, 2013 — 2:00 p.m. ET
Speakers: Katie Dougherty and Kelly Gonter

Learn how UPS completed a four-year project to revamp leadership development programs for its 37,000 person management team. Using a totally new approach, UPS implemented learning opportunities that use multiple types of technology. Tune in to listen how UPS developed programs that are tied to business outcomes and leadership competencies, and how they are proven to have an impact. The speaker will share lessons learned including how to build a learning architecture, how to implement blended learning in complex environments, how to develop internal team skills to reduce cost, and how to use vendors effectively.

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Archived: Profiling Management Success - Leveraging Performance and Analysis in Management Development

Thursday, July 25, 2013 — 2:00 p.m. ET

Speaker: Jonathan Jones

Join us for this webcast to learn about the latest approach in management development and the research that supports it. U.S. Security Associates created training and leadership development initiatives by focusing on success profiling. Success profiling creates an ideal standard of qualifications, experiences, skills, and abilities, to be used for comparison with current talent and potential placements. This discussion will include an example of how the U.S. Security’s Success Profile Initiative (SPI) leverages transformation in a variety of training and development components within the organization, including selection practices, targeted accomplishment of organizational objectives, succession strategies, and management success.

Key takeaways of the session include:

• identifying profiling opportunities
• creating the foundation of goal achievement through success profiling
• highlighting research measurements, selection, and development assessments used in the process
• creating continuous improvement opportunities for a developed profile.

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Archived: ICICI Lombard General Insurance: Learning for Transformation — Co-Create & Co-Achieve

Tuesday, July 30, 2013 — 8:00 a.m. ET
Speaker: Rajkamal Vempati

Join this webcast presented by Ms. Rajkamal Vempati, Head of Human Resources, at ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited, the largest private sector general insurance company in India. This webcast will cover critical learning components, such as how to:

• Build ownership: co-create and co-achieve; plan a strategic agenda.
• Leverage learning to transform: learn about creating a brand, sponsorship, contexulization and business impact.
• Integrate with people process: review performance & talent management, leadership development, competency-based development, and organization structure.

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Archived: Suzlon Energy Ltd: Soft Practices for Hard Times — Retaining the Learning Agenda

Tuesday, August 6, 2013 — 8:00 a.m. ET
Speaker: Ravi Krishnan

When the going gets tough, organizations tend to lessen their focus on learning initiatives. But this is when leaders are eager to improve their team performance to get more from less. It is times such as these when learning practitioners have to bring innovative practices that retain the learning agenda in the organization — practices that decrease the costs and demands on time, while keeping engagement high. This presentation brings together some of the key challenges and possible formats that can address this challenge by drawing from the initiatives attempted within an enterprise going through a tough situation.

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Archived: Fluor Corporation: LIVE! Connecting People from Jungle to Mountaintop
Wednesday, August 28, 2013 — 2:00 p.m. ET Speakers: Beth Jackson and Cassie Roeder In this session, Fluor Corporation will share how to engage, connect, and inspire while reducing travel, connecting employees, and delivering consistent training through live video technology. This discussion will focus on implementing cost-effective delivery of traditional training to non-traditional locations. Review this webcast here.
Archived: Zaxby's Franchising: Managers Embrace Training: A How-To Guide To Make It H appen
Monday, September 16, 2013 — 2:00 p.m. ET Speaker: Richard Fletcher Zaxby's Franchising requires a licensee's restaurant managers to pass a rigid certification program. After years of resistance, constantly having to find and chase down uncertified managers and force them to train, we decided we needed a better solution. In this session, you will learn how our Licensee Managed Training Program increased compliance by 300%, saved thousands of dollars and produced better training and better managers. Listeners can expect to take away from this webcast: 1) How to increase training adoption by giving managers control 2) How to create a new “training manager” role to ensure consistency and quality 3) How to use technology to include gamification and customized learning 4) How to analyze the business to meet our audiences needs to provide a win on both sides

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