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Learning in Practice 2015: Excellence in Social Learning
Gold Partners in Leadership In 2014, Daymon Worldwide set three key goals: revenue growth, profit growth and the adoption of a culture of accountability. The cultural change would have to be especially massive, as 5,000 full-time employees from across the world would participate in the cultural transformation process. It partnered with Partners in Leadership, or…
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Learning in Practice 2015: Excellence in E-Learning
Gold Tipping Point Solutions INC. Concussions are a major challenge for the U.S. Army. In the past five years alone, it has diagnosed more than 75,000 cases of mild traumatic brain injury in soldiers. Despite that large number, thousands more go undiagnosed, which puts soldiers at risk for permanent neurological damage and early onset dementia.…
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Learning in Practice 2015: Excellence in Content
Gold Experience Willow NCR Corp. has struggled to meet its new employees’ onboarding and learning needs. Some 6,000 people across 100 countries are hired each year, and more than 60 percent are millennials. Head of the New Employee Experience Team, or NEET, Wendy Smith proposed the development of a comprehensive new hire onboarding and blending…
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Learning in Practice 2015: Excellence in Community Service
Gold VitalSmarts The Knowledge is Power Program is a national network of 162 schools in 20 states that focus on preparing students from educationally underserved communities for college. But it had a problem — its founding school leaders kept dropping out. Of those who opened schools in 2006, about half remained after four years. KIPP…
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Learning in Practice 2015: Excellence in Gaming and Simulations
Gold Pinsight For public school educators, multiple-choice tests may still work well for a fifth-grade math test. But when it comes to educating the educators on leadership skills, a true-false pop quiz just won’t make the grade. In the mile-high air of Denver, educators with Denver Public Schools follow the credo “Don’t Wait. Lead,” which…
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Learning in Practice 2015: Excellence in Blended Technology
Gold Intrepid Learning Inc. When Microsoft Corp. decided to transition its business from on-premise enterprise software to cloud-based solutions the company discovered a learning gap that needed to be filled. Suddenly the 15,000 employees in its sales force worldwide needed to increase their business acumen — quickly. The entire sales force needed to be up…
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Learning in Practice 2015: Excellence in Academic Partnerships
Gold Penn State Smeal College of Business A partnership between Saudi Basic Industries Corp., or SABIC, and Penn State Executive Programs of the Smeal College of Business developed learning programs for the SABIC supply chain to accelerate career development, and identify opportunities to substantially reduce working capital. To accelerate recruitment, development and promotion for the…
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Learning in Practice 2015: Trailblazer Division 2 Winners
Gold Joseph Malta Director of Learning and Development, ABC Cos. In an effort to develop internal leaders, ABC Cos. needed to create on-site learning resources. It teamed up with new leader, Joseph Malta, manager of learning and development, to identify business needs and skill gaps, then created content for ABC University. To start, the small…



















