BEST: Better Than the Rest

Were often asked What does it take to be BEST? It isnt just one thing that makes a company a winner of an ASTD BEST Award. Organizations only make it to the ranks of the BEST if they can demonstrate excellence in several of these areas: alignment, C-level involvement, efficiency, effectiveness, investment in learning, learning opportunities for employees, measurement of effectiveness and efficiency, and success with nontraining solutions to business needs.

Many BEST organizations involve their top leaders, including the CEO, as teachers and mentors. Their CEOs support the corporate university and see it as a way to help prepare the next generation of leaders designated by the companys succession plan. Companies gain efficiencies too, by training managers as trainers. Forty-two companies made the grade this year. Find out who.