ASTD has announced the 2007 BEST awards, their recognition of companies with outstanding employee learning programs. Huge congratulations to all of the winners for their outstanding commitment to their people. Of the 42 winners this year, 5 are MindLeaders clients - we're psyched to be part of 10% of these winning programs.
What does it take to have make your organization's learning program one of the BEST? According to ASTD, the defining areas are:
- Alignment
- C-level involvement
- Efficiency
- Effectiveness
- Innovation
- Investment in learning
- Learning opportunities for employees
- Measurement of the effectiveness of learning
- Success with nontraining solutions to business needs
The most interesting thing to me about this list is that two of them (so it must be twice as important!) focus beyond the training program. They center on aligning the training with the organization's goals and on offering business needs solutions to things like organizational development or talent management. These are keystones that we've been preaching at MindLeaders for the past year or more: that training programs are so integrated with the organization's needs and strategies that none of them will function strongly without the other two.
What stands out to you on this list?
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