Training magazine Ranks the Winners of the 2022 Training APEX Awards

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Excelsior, MN (March 1, 2022)—2022 marks the 22nd year Training magazine has recognized organizations that provide best-in-class employee training and development. At the top of the newly rebranded 2022 Training APEX Awards rankings is Medical Solutions (#1), followed by Rosendin (#2); State Compensation Insurance Fund (#3); The Haskell Company (#4); and Paychex, Inc. (#5).

As COVID-19 continues to spark change in people’s professional (and personal) worlds, Training magazine made the decision to rebrand its Training Top 100 to the Training APEX Awards to reflect the winners’ journey to attain peak performance in employee training and development and organizational success. The rebranding provides more flexibility in terms of the number of winners that can be named and allows the publication to maintain the credibility of the program so it is not putting organizations on the list that did not meet the minimum scoring threshold for training excellence.

Training magazine recognized the 2022 Training APEX Awards winners with crystal awards and revealed their rankings during the Training APEX Awards Here Comes the Sun Gala held last night during the Training 2022 Conference & Expo at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando, FL. The black-tie gala was sponsored by AMA, Brainier, Brella, Seiko, and the Training Hall of Fame. AMA and Brainier provided special giveaways, including a $500 Amazon gift card and a $500 donation to the winner’s charity of choice. Brella spearheaded the event production. And Seiko served as the official timekeeper of the event and provided keepsake watches and a commemorative clock for the No. 1 winner.

United Wholesale Mortgage was inducted into the Training Hall of Fame after earning a Top 10 ranking for four consecutive years. The Training Hall of Fame now numbers 17 companies.

During the Gala, Training also recognized innovative and successful learning and development programs and practices utilized by some of the Training APEX Awards winners. Best Practice and Outstanding Training Initiative winners received crystal trophies. They are (in alphabetical order):

Best Practice Award Winners

• Medical Solutions
• MTM, Inc.
• Pilot Company
• State Compensation Insurance Fund
• Visa Inc.

Outstanding Training Initiative Award Winners

• Applied Materials, Inc.
• Bell and Howell
• Michigan State University Federal Credit Union
• Personnel Board of Jefferson County
• Thermo Fisher Scientific’s PPD Clinical Research Services

The Training APEX Awards is the only awards program that ranks companies unsurpassed in harnessing human capital. The Training APEX Awards ranking is determined by assessing a range of qualitative and quantitative factors, including financial investment in employee development, the scope of development programs, how closely such development efforts are linked to business goals and objectives, and their effectiveness in terms of business impact.

Companies that wish to be considered for Training APEX Awards ranking complete a detailed application, which is scored both quantitatively (73 points) by an outside research and statistical data company and qualitatively (52 points) by Training magazine’s editor/publisher and Training Hall of Fame representatives.

“Despite a year of continued challenges, the 2022 Training APEX Awards winners persevered and attained new heights in employee training and development,” said Lorri Freifeld, editor/publisher of Training magazine. “Their passion for fostering continuous learning and individual, team, and organizational success burns brightly and raises the bar for companies around the world.”

Some overall statistics from the quantitative analysis of the winning 2022 Training APEX Awards applicationsinclude:

• Some 17 new companies broke into the Training APEX Awards rankings this year.
• The majority of the winners are in the finance/banking, health/medical services, business services, and insurance industries.
• The mean revenue for applicants was $6.4 billion U.S. and $4.8 billion worldwide. Representing 4.91 percent of payroll, the mean training budget was $21.7 million.

• The mean number of total employees trained per organization (including independent contractors and franchisees) was 35,862, with 12,999 trained in the classroom and 33,894 trained online. A mean of 460 courses were offered as instructor-led sessions; 27,128 were offered as online self-paced modules; and 388 were offered as virtual instructor-led classrooms. All but two of the 2022 Training APEX Awards winners have a technology infrastructure.
• The average number of full-time and part-time trainers was 21 and 7, respectively.
• Some 91 percent of Training APEX Awards winners have a tuition reimbursement program. A mean of 7 percent of eligible employees made use of tuition reimbursement programs in the last year. Median spend on tuition reimbursement programs was $123,000.
• Some 97 percent of winners use employee satisfaction surveys, while 98 percent use competency maps. Some 73 percent tie managers’ compensation directly to the development of their direct reports.
• In terms of measuring training effectiveness, 84 percent of winners utilize Return on Value; 85 percent utilize Return on Investment; 74 percent utilize Balanced Scorecard; and 73 percent use Six Sigma. And 100 percent use Kirkpatrick Levels 1-3, while 96 percent utilize Level 4.

For a profile of each of the companies ranking in the Top 5 of the 2022 Training APEX Awards, additional information about the training efforts of all 95 companies, and details on the programs receiving Best Practice and Outstanding Training Initiative awards, see the March 2022 issue. The digital edition can be found online at http://www.trainingmag.com.

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2022 Training APEX Awards Winners

1. Medical Solutions
2. Rosendin
3. State Compensation Insurance Fund
4. The Haskell Company
5. Paychex, Inc.
6. Applied Materials, Inc.
7. Birmingham Water Works Board
8. Transworld Systems Incorporated
9. ESL Federal Credit Union
10. WellSpan Health
11. Visa Inc.
12. Ascend Federal Credit Union
13. AAA Northeast
14. ArcBest
15. Valvoline Instant Oil Change
16. Bell and Howell
17. Thermo Fisher Scientific’s PPD Clinical Research Services
18. Michigan State University Federal Credit
19. Intermedia.com
20. MTM, Inc.
21. Gables Residential
22. BKD CPAs & Advisors
23. HD Supply
24. Edward Jones
25. Rollins
26. Two Men and a Truck International
27. Core & Main
28. One Nevada Credit Union
29. CVS Health
30. Bass & Associates, P.C.
31. SE2
32. Walden Security
33. England Logistics LLC.
34. Sovos
35. CarMax
36. Pilot Company
37. Shaw Industries Group, Inc
38. Signature Consultants
39. CBE Companies, Inc.
40. Concentrix Corporation
41. Personnel Board of Jefferson County
42. Nebraska Medicine
43. VyStar Credit Union
44. Gilbane Building Company
45. Huntington National Bank
46. ConServe
47. Sundt Construction
48. Coast Professional, Inc.
49. CNO Financial Group
50. Mariner Finance
51. Western Southern Financial Group
52. Navient
53. Huntington Learning Center
54. Union Pacific Railroad
55. International SOS
56. Zensar
57. HMTX Industries
58. Mohawk Industries
59. Fisher Investments
60. JLL
61. Microchip Technology Inc.
62. Valley Bank
63. Ferguson Enterprises
64. Penn Station East Coast Subs
65. Arizona Public Service
66. University of New Mexico Hospitals
67. New York Life
68. Cardinal Health
69. Compass One Healthcare
70. Brookdale Senior Living
71. Argo Group
72. Spreetail
73. NYC Health + Hospitals
74. Hackensack Meridian Health
75. Persistent Systems Ltd.
76. BankWest, Inc.
77. HGS Inc., USA
78. Servus Credit Union
79. Lam Research
80. Kimball Midwest
81. Transamerica
82. The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
83. Panda Restaurant Group
84. CCA Global Partners
85. Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration
86. Collaborative Solutions, LLC
87. LaSalle Network
88. O’Shea Builders
89. Hayes Locums
90. PPS Insurance Company Ltd
91. Uber Freight
92. Southern New Hampshire University
93. Kraft Heinz
94. Security First Insurance
95. Kin + Carta

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