January / February 2016

Bringing people together from multiple disciplines for both brainstorming and training can lead to powerful collaboration, innovation, and knowledge sharing.

How do successful training consultants achieve and maintain their “stardom?” What broader lessons do their career paths offer to the rest of the industry? Training magazine and Concordia University launched a study to find out.

 The 2016 Training Top 125 winners demonstrated a strong focus on effective training and employee development tied to corporate strategic goals and business impact.

Each year Training magazine requires all Training Top 10 Hall of Famers to submit an Outstanding Training Initiative that is shared with our readers in a print issue. Here are the details of the three highest-scoring submissions from 2015: Verizon: Emergency Work Assignment (EWA) Training; EY: Tax 1 Blended Program; and IBM: Global Sales School Redesign and Business Impact Study.

McCarthy Building Companies, Inc., is the newest inductee into the Training Top 10 Hall of Fame, joining the ranks of 11 other companies named to the hall since its inception in 2008.

With the big changes posed by health-care reform, it is no small feat when a company in the healthcare space can maintain its laser focus on long-term goals. That's just what Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan achieved in 2015.

In 2015, Capital BlueCross honed its employees’ abilities to build business partnerships, and offered enhanced leadership development programs to ensure employees could make the most of those relationships to build the overall business.

In 2014/2015, CHG Healthcare Services provided its employees with strong career and skill development by moving to a more people-driven, leaderguided, and core value-centered approach.

2015 was a year of growth at Keller Williams Realty, Inc., supported by stellar training that improved programming in leadership development, onboarding, and other core learning areas, while increasing technology support for training.