ASTD BEST Awards

The deadline for the 2008 BEST Awards has passed. The 2009 criteria and entry form will be available February 1, 2009. 

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 create, support, and champion learning opportunities for results and a learning culture.

Established in 2003, the BEST Awards Winner’s Circle includes small and large private, public, and not-for-profit organizations from around the world.

Award winners show that they are BEST at Building talent, Enterprise-wide, Supported by the organization’s leaders, fostering a Thorough learning culture. They demonstrate that they are excellent in many aspects of the learning function:  

• learning has value in the organization's culture: learning opportunities for employees, C-level involvement, learning for growth of the organization, and innovation 
• learning links to individual and organizational performance: alignment with the business, efficiency, measurement of the effectiveness of learning, success with non-training solutions for business needs, and sustainability of organizational results
• investment is made in learning and performance initiatives.

• be featured in the October issue of T+D magazine 
• be honored at a ceremony October 2 in Washington, D.C., at the Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center
• meet their peers and share their award-winning practices at the annual Learn from the BEST event October 3.
•  have the privilege of using the 2008 ASTD BEST Award Winner logo.

         General Physics Corporation

Gold Sponsor of ASTD BEST Awards