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.
Descriptions of the Learn from the BEST sessions are now available.
www.astd.org/NR/rdonlyres/1C509B8B-6E4B-4EAF-89F6-AB037CA998A5/0/LearnfromtheBESTSessions.doc 
These 30 organizations will lead sessions:
- Air Products
- AlliedBarton Security Services
- American Infrastructure
- BB&T
- B&W Pantex
- Carter & Burgess
- CheckFree
- CIGNA Corporation
- Clarkston Consulting
- CSC
- Datatel
- ETS
- Farmers Insurance Exchange
- FORUM Credit Union
- Grant Thornton LLP
- Infosys Technologies Limited
- Janus Capital Group
- LQ Management LLC
- North Mississippi Health Services
- OhioHealth
- Perkins+Will
- Reliance Industries Limited
- Shangri-La Hotels & Resorts
- Sun Microsystems
- The Schwan Food Company
- Toshiba America Business Solutions
- T. Rowe Price
- UT-Battelle LLC
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- WakeMed Health & Hospitals
- Wipro
The 2009 criteria and entry form will be available February 1, 2009.
