ASTD Benchmarking Services
The State of the Industry Report is ASTD's annual review of trends in workplace learning and performance and includes data from ASTD BEST Awards Winners, ASTD Benchmarking Forum Members and other organizations from 2001 to date.
The State of the Industry Report can be purchased in PDF (ASTD members receive the download as part of their member benefits) or print versions from the ASTD Store.
 The WLP Scorecard is an online real-time benchmarking and decision support tool that allows organizations to monitor and benchmark a broad range of learning function indicators. The WLP Scorecard includes tools your organization can use to customize reports with subsets of organizations and indicators, compare your learning function's alignment, efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability with other organizations, and diagnose strengths and weaknesses in your organization's learning function. Visit wlpscorecard.astd.org to access the scorecard or register.
The ASTD Benchmarking Forum has been building its consortium of private and public sector organizations from around the world since 1991. Companies join the Forum to benchmark learning and performance improvement processes, practices, and outcomes against the accomplishments of Forum members and to engage a worldwide network of high-level professionals and organizations. Learn more... |
Research Reports
Latest Release: The Value of Evaluation
 The Value of Evaluation study explores the complex issue of learning evaluation, the techniques being used, barriers to effective implementation, and strategic uses of learning metrics. The data in this report can help many firms become more proficient in these areas.
Click here to purchase the Value of Evaluation report. (This is one of four research reports included as an ASTD member benefit.)
Other Recent Reports
Learning in Tough Economic Times
Transforming Learning With Web 2.0 Technologies
State of Sales Training
Executive Development: Strategic and Tactical Approaches
Talent Management: Practices and Opportunities
Tapping the Potential of Informal Learning
Learning's Role in Globally Dispersed Workforces
Learning's Role in Employee Engagement
ASTD Members receive select research reports as a member benefit. Learn more about ASTD Research Reports.
Learning Executives Confidence Index (LXCI)
The ASTD Learning Executives Confidence Index (LXCI) for Q4 2009 was 60.2 based on responses from 271 learning executives to an online invitation-only survey, demonstrating that collectively learning executives expect their learning functions to remain the same or marginally improve over the next six months. Read more... |