ASTD Announces 39 Winners in its Seventh Annual “BEST Awards”

The American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) announces that 39 organizations from Canada, Hong Kong, India, Singapore, and the United States are winners in the 2009 ASTD BEST Awards competition. Sun Microsystems, of Santa Clara, California, holds the first place ranking. 

E-Learning 2009: What Happened?

With a revolving door in the executive suite continuing to spin, there is no doubt that learning executives will face questions from new CEOs, CFOs, or other C-level executives about their methods and results. In many cases they are continuing to be quizzed on the efficacy of in-person learning in a world more and more reliant on web-based applications. A recent article by Claire Schooley (with Matthew Brown and Sara Burnes) from Forrester Research tackled some of the bigger issues.

Learning Executives Express Increasing Confidence in 3rd Quarter

Learning executives continue to be increasingly optimistic about the outlook and expectations for the learning function according to the latest measurement by the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD). The Learning Executive Confidence Index (LXCI) for the third quarter of 2009 continued its upward trend after posting a significant rebound in the second quarter. 

New Study Reveals How Firms Are Preparing to Retain Workers as Economy Improves

The silver lining in a lousy economy is employee retention, but as economic prospects brighten, most firms are thinking about ways to retain talent, according to the latest study by the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) on the subject of organizational turnover and engagement. But that doesn’t necessarily translate into big raises for most employees, who have seen few pay raises of late.