2005 ASTD BEST Organizations Implement Nonlearning Solutions

The article reports that in 2005 ASTD BEST winners, nonlearning solutions accounted for an average of 43 percent of performance improvement programs. However, it is a general trend in most organizations that learning activities make up the majority of performance improvement initiatives. The 2005 ASTD State of the Industry report says that the nonlearning solutions most commonly implemented by BEST organizations were organizational development, process analysis, and talent management. BEST organizations regarded the learning organization as an invaluable resource for creating the template by which the most valuable employees could be selected and developed. BEST organizations already having a centralized learning function often provides the learning organization the most effective model for organizing, accessing, and delivering relevant information. The learning function detected flawed or outmoded HR functions in some BEST organizations, which helped create more effective models for hiring and onboarding.