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The Winner's Circle

The envelope please...

Chief Learning Officer magazine recently hosted the Fall 2011 Symposium, titled “Game-Changing Learning: Development for the New Normal,” at the Ritz-Carlton Laguna Niguel in California. At this leader-studded event, futurethink was a nominee for a Learning in Practice Award, whose past recipients have included IBM and Rosetta Stone.

The nomination acknowledged our company’s achievement in “content,” a category in which we are continuously innovating. This year, we rolled out a well-received Webinar series on critical innovation topics; launched a set of short video clips called Innovation QuickWins; introduced an iPad apps resource list; and expanded our resource library to include the Killer Queries Idea Generation Tool.

We’re thrilled to announce that we took home the gold award in the content category at this year’s awards ceremony. We look forward to releasing even more leading-edge content in 2012—and maintaining our title at next year’s Learning in Practice awards! See the features on futurethink and the other winners in the December issue of Chief Learning Officer magazine. 

By Jennifer Wang on November 29, 2011 at 1:40pm |

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