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ASTD Presents Excellence in Practice Awards to 18 Organizations

Tuesday, May 8, 2012
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During its 2012 International Conference & Exposition held in Denver, Colorado, ASTD presented the Excellence in Practice Awards and Citations to 61 organizations from 11 countries: Canada, China, India, Ireland, Israel, The Netherlands, Taiwan, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, the United States, and Vietnam. 

The Excellence in Practice awards recognize organizations for results achieved through learning and development solutions. Out of 160 submissions, 19 awards and 63 citations were given in 10 categories: career development, diversity and inclusion, integrated talent management, learning technologies, managing change, organizational learning, performance improvement, training management, technical training, and workplace learning and development.

“The winning organizations demonstrate how learning increases the performance and success of organizations worldwide,” says Tony Bingham, ASTD President and CEO. “Their accomplishments advance the knowledge of the workplace learning and development profession and contribute to increasing workforce capability and organizational competitiveness.”

The Excellence in Practice Awards are presented to organizations with proven practices that have delivered measurable results. The organizations and their partners selected to receive Excellence in Practice Awards are:

Abbot, Abbot Park, Illinois

Asurion, Nashville, Tennessee

Ball Metal Beverage Packaging Division, Williamsburg, Virginia
and
Training Modernization Group, Spotsylvania, Virginia

Booz Allen Hamilton, McLean, Virginia

China Post Group, Beijing, China
and
Shijiazhuang Sunnysky Software Technology Co. Ltd., Shijiazhuang, China

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College of American Pathologists, Northfield, Illinois
and
McKinley Medical Enterprises, Inc., Suwanee, Georgia

Farmers Insurance, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, California
and
BTS USA, Inc, San Francisco, California

Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, California
and
Productivity Dynamics, Boston, Massachusetts

MetLife, Irvine, California
and
The Next Level Sales Consulting, El Segundo, California

Naval Education Training Command’s Surface Warfare Officers School, Newport, Rhode Island

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Naval Education Training Command’s Center for Information Dominance, Pensacola, Florida

Naval Education Training Command’s Surface Warfare Officers School Command, Newport, Rhode Island
and
Naval Air Warfare Center, Training Systems Division, Orlando, Florida
and
UCLA, National Center for Research on Evaluation Standards and Student Testing, Los Angeles, California

Pelephone Communications LTD, Givatayim, Israel

PepsiCo, Purchase, New York

Shape Corp, Grand Haven, Michigan

Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri A.S., Istanbul, Turkey

Turkiye Is Bankasi A.S., Istanbul, Turkey
and
Dilek Saglik Training and Consultancy, Istanbul, Turkey
and
Sistema Consultancy Training and Solutions, Istanbul, Turkey
and
NAR Training and Consultancy, Istanbul, Turkey
 
Verizon Wireless, Basking Ridge, New Jersey
and
Strayer University, Newington, Virginia
and
Bellevue University, Bellevue, Nebraska

A complete list of Award and Citation winners can be found on the Excellence in Practice page of www.astd.org.

About the Author

The Association for Talent Development (ATD) is a professional membership organization supporting those who develop the knowledge and skills of employees in organizations around the world. The ATD Staff, along with a worldwide network of volunteers work to empower professionals to develop talent in the workplace.

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