“ATD” Competence Model and BEST Awards - a free webinar

The presentation will introduce the ATD Competence Model and explain its correlation with the BEST Award’s application. The 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 use the learning function as a strategic business tool to get results. Completing the entry helps an organization to look holistically, critically, and appreciatively at its work. Applicants have commented on how much they learned from participating in the process.

Award winners must demonstrate that they are excellent in many aspects of the learning function:

• Learning has an enterprise-wide role: involved in the executive team, creating solutions to business issues, and setting organizational strategy.
• 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, and success with non-training solutions for business needs.
• Investment is made in learning and performance initiatives. 

Bruno Neal is a scholar and a learning and development authority. He has written dozens of articles on learning and development and two Infoline™ on Informal Learning and Quality in Learning and Development. He is a Certified Professional of Learning and Performance (CPLP) and currently works as a Learning Strategist for Indiana University Health Learning Solutions, an author, Instructional Systems Designer, and a Training and Performance Improvement Specialist. He has been appointed to the 2010 , 2011,  2012, 2013, and 2014 Board of Examiners for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, a judge of the 2011, 2012, and 2013 American Society of Training and Development (ASTD) BEST Award, and chair of the award committee in 2014. 

Mr. Neal was awarded with the highly esteemed American Society of Training and Development BEST Award in 2009 and part of the team awarded with the same achievement in 2011. Mr. Neal also serves as contributor for T+D (Training and Development) Magazine. He was recently awarded with the Champion of Learning Award Certification for his contribution to learning and professional development in 2011. 

Mr. Neal has spoken on ASTD International Conference & Exposition, local chapters of ASTD across the country, Cancer Treatment of America. Training and Development conference, the Training and Education chapter of the National Association of Electric Distributors (NAED), (Medical Users Software Exchange) MUSE, and “Learn from the BEST” conferences.

ASTD Author’s Page: http://www.astd.org/Publications/Author.aspx?ItemId=ED3FBA187CA0407FBE5C5CC932803151

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