Welcome to the 2011 BEST Awards!

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ASTD Staff

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. More »

The Naked Consultant

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Patrick Lencioni

In the late 1990s, I helped start a management consulting firm called The Table Group. which provides a variety of services to a wide range of clients in just about every respectable industry imaginable. From the beginning we adopted a simple informal approach to servin... More »

Implement a global Diverity and Ethics Program

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Terra Vanzant-Stern

Developing ethics and diversity awareness programs domestically can pose a significant challenge, and adding the global factor creates a new dimension. Experience with these matters often concentrates on generational, race, and gender differences. While focusing on thes... More »

Managing the Change to a Learning Analytics Solution

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Ryann K. Ellis

KnowledgeAdvisors released a research study in late 2004 that outlined best practices for managing change issues when implementing a learning analytics program. The study summarized results from a survey of some 53 organizations, including Dell, GM, and Nextel Communica... More »