Award Categories

LEARNING IN PRACTICE AWARDS

The Learning In Practice awards are given annually to practitioners and providers in recognition of excellence in learning and employee development. Gold, silver and bronze awards are awarded in two broad classes. Practitioner awards recognize CLOs and qualified senior learning leaders for their work within their organizations. Provider awards recognize qualified service providers, vendors, consultants for their work on behalf of a client organization.

PRACTITIONER AWARDS

CLO OF THE YEAR AWARD

For the learning executive who is without peer in developing and executing learning and development strategies, marshaling and managing resources and achieving measurable success. The CLO of the Year award recognizes executives for their body of work over the course of their career.

THE BUSINESS IMPACT AWARD
For learning executives who have implemented a significant measurement or evaluation program that has demonstrated exceptional business impact from their workforce development programs in the past year.

THE COLLABORATION AWARD
For learning departments that have collaborated effectively with internal and external groups and individuals, such as business partners, organizational divisions or functions such as the sales and marketing department, or external customer groups, to develop and deliver targeted employee development programs in the past year.

THE GLOBAL LEARNING AWARD
For learning executives who have delivered measurable results through development initiatives to geographically dispersed and/or culturally and linguistically diverse audiences in the past year.

THE INNOVATION AWARD
For learning executives who have marshaled resources and applied innovative practices, processes and/or technologies in a new and groundbreaking way to address a significant business or organizational opportunity in the past year.

THE STRATEGY AWARD
For learning executives who have demonstrated exceptional business acumen combined with forward-looking vision in the development and execution of a learning strategy in support of their organization’s objectives in the past year.

THE TECHNOLOGY AWARD
For learning executives who have delivered new and unique applications of emerging technology to employee learning and development initiatives.

THE TRAILBLAZER AWARD
For learning executives who have either launched a new enterprise learning function or completely overhauled existing workforce development initiatives in the past year.

PROVIDER AWARDS

Excellence in Academic Partnerships Award recognizes accredited academic learning institutions that have partnered with an organization in the past year to teach employees about a key business issue.

Excellence in Blended Technology Award recognizes vendors that have deployed a rich mix of technology tools in support of a client’s learning program that delivers engaging learning combining multiple modalities, such as e-learning, mobile devices, social collaboration tools and games.

Excellence in Community Service Award recognizes vendors that have provided significant investment of company resources and time in support of a community service project or initiative.

Excellence in Content Award recognizes vendors that have created superior customized and/or off-the-shelf learning content in the past year.

Excellence in E-Learning Award recognizes vendors that have rolled out an innovative and effective e-learning program or suite for a client in the past year.

Excellence in Gaming and Simulations recognizes vendors that have rolled out innovative and effective branching, non-linear and interactive learning programs for a client in the past year.

Excellence in Social Learning Award recognizes vendors that have rolled out social learning solutions, such as wikis, blogs, communities of practice, social networks and/or any other employee communication and collaboration platforms for a client in the past year.

Excellence in Vendor Partnership Award recognizes vendors for their work, either via whole or partial outsourced services, content development and delivery or training, in support of an organization's learning and development function in the past year.