BEST Talent Management 2016
For fourteen times in a row, the Association of Talent Development has already congratulated organizations to their BEST award. After its rebranding from ASTD, atd puts more emphasis on talent management, also reflected in the criteria for its annual award. The association is searching for excellence in three areas:
- talent development has an enterprise-wide role
- learning has value in the organisation’s culture
- learning is linked to individual & organisational performance
atd has published its list of the 2016 award winners, here is their ranking as announced at the atd BEST Awards Ceremony on October 27. Here are this year’s top organisations – enhanced by a major representative for those companies that show sustainability and have been awarded already in 2014 :
- Maersk Line – AP Møller Maersk, Denmark
- Hilton Worldwide, United States, 4-time winner – Kimo Kippen
- MillerCoors, United States
- Cathay Life Insurance Co. Ltd, Taiwan
- Mindtree Limited, India, 4-time winner – Ravi Shankar
- ITU AbsorbTech, United States
- ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Ltd., India
- Tata Consultancy Services, India
- Consumer Energy, United States
- Cerner Corporation, United States
- Resource Residential, United States
- The Aerospace Corporation, United States
- Florida Blue, United States
- Enterprise Holdings, United States
- UL LLC, United States
- BNSF Railway Co., United States
- Verizon, United States, 4-time winner – Lou Tedrick
- JK Lakshmi Cement Ltd., India
- Saunders Construction, Inc., United States
- IBM, United States, 6-time winner – Ted Hoff
- UST Global, United States
- Persistent Systems Ltd., India
- Wipro Limited, India, 10-time-winner
- University Health System, United States, 7-time winner – Jacqueline Burandt<
- Valvoline Instant Oil Change, United States
- Western Union, United States
- CA Technologies, United States
- Freese and Nichols, Inc., United States
- MWH Global, now part of Stantec, United States
- Asurion, United States
- Bridgepoint Education, United States
- Kimberly Clark Professional, United States
- Lupin Limited, India
- Hitachi Data Systems, United States
- Insights Learning & Development, Scotland
Outstanding are the rare “Best of the BEST” organisations that have won at least 10 times the BEST award:
- TELUS, Canada, 10-time winner – Dan Pontefract
- Wipro Limited, India, 10-time-winner
Find more stories and the ranking in atd’s td magazine.
Congratulations to all award winners!