2010 Top 125 Winners

Training magazine Ranks 2010 Top 125 Organizations That Excel at Employee Development and Inducts Two Companies Into Its Top 10 Hall of Fame

New York, NY (February 2, 2010)—Training magazine revealed the 2010 Training Top 125 winners and their rankings. Now in its 10th year, the Training Top 125 is the only report that ranks companies unsurpassed in harnessing human capital. Winners received their crystal awards last night at the Training Top 125 gala, sponsored by K Alliance, Kaplan IT Learning, The Ken Blanchard Companies, NIIT, Saba, and Turning Technologies. The gala was held during the Training 2010 Conference and Expo at the San Diego Convention Center.

Earlier that day, Training editors recognized innovative and successful learning and development programs and practices. Best Practice and Outstanding Training Initiative winners received crystal trophies at the Training magazine booth in the expo hall. They were:

Best Practices

• Farmers Insurance: Laboratory Learning
• Harrah's Entertainment: Entertaining Your Best
• PricewaterhouseCoopers: 101: PWC Internship Experience
• Sun Microsystems: Social Learning Exchange (SLX)
• Wells Fargo: Private Bank Foundation Program

Outstanding Training Initiatives

• DaVita: CQI Fast Track
• NewYork-Presbyterian: Patient Safety Fridays
• Orkin: My Sister's Keeper
• U.S. Navy: Game-Based Casualty Response Training System
• Vanguard: Vanguard Learning Portal

During the gala, Training also inducted two companies into the Top 10 Hall of Fame. General Mills and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals qualified for the honor by being in the Top 10 of Training's Top 125 companies for at least four consecutive years. They will remain in the Hall of Fame for a period of no less than three years and no more than five years after which they may reapply for Top 125 awards consideration.

General Mills is a leading global manufacturer and marketer of consumer favorites such as Cheerios, Wheaties, Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, Green Giant, Haagen-Dazs, and Nature Valley. The company believes building great brands and great talent go hand-in-hand, and has a consistent track record of growing employees through training and development that is business grounded, career-long learning, and engrained and measured.

Last year, Wyeth merged with Pfizer Inc.—a Top 10 Hall of Fame member since 2008—forming one of the world's largest research-based biomedical and pharmaceutical companies. Together, these two Hall of Famers will continue to build upon the dynamic strengths and strong foundations that have helped to distinguish both Wyeth and Pfizer as leaders in learning and development.

General Mills and Wyeth Pharmaceutical's induction created two opportunities for other Top 125 companies to move into the Top 10 in 2010 and beyond. This year, 36 newcomers cracked the Top 125 list, including six in the Top 50.

Training also recognized the following Top 125 companies for receiving the highest scores in three application categories (companies in the Top 5 were not eligible for awards recognition in this area) and overall qualitatively:

Top Training Programs/Scope Score

• Cerner Corporation
• McDonald's USA, LLC
• Wequassett Resort and Golf Club

Top Evaluation/Business Metric

• Cerner Corporation
• Edward Jones
• Microsoft Corporation
• SCC Soft Computer

Top Human Resources Score

• Warner Robins Air Logistics Center

Top Qualitative Score

• Cisco

"The Training Top 125 companies not only provided stellar training in the face of continued economic adversity, but detailed their efforts in our most comprehensive and rigorous Top application to date," said Joyceann Cooney-Garippa, Training's group publisher and show director. "Congratulations to all the companies named to the 2010 Training Top 125 and to the newest inductees to the Top 10 Hall of Fame, and kudos to the other Hall of Famers for their continued dedication to learning and development excellence."

The Top 125 includes ranking based on myriad benchmarking statistics such as total training budget; percentage of payroll; number of training hours per employee program; goals, evaluation, measurement, and workplace surveys; hours of training per employee annually; and detailed formal programs.

The Top 125 ranking is determined by assessing a range of qualitative and quantitative factors, including financial investment in employee development, the scope of development programs, and how closely such development efforts are linked to business goals and objectives.

Companies that wish to be considered for Top 125 ranking complete a detailed application, which is scored both quantitatively by an outside research and statistical data company and qualitatively by Training magazine editors and Top 10 Hall of Fame representatives.

For a profile of each of the Top 5 companies on Training's Top 125 and additional information about the training efforts of all 125 companies, see the February 2010 issue. To order a copy, email Mary Chapman at: Mary@TrainingMag.com. 

About Training magazine

Training is a 46-year-old professional development magazine written for training, human resources, and business management professionals in all industries that advocates training and workforce development as a business tool. Training also produces world-class conferences, expositions, and digital products that focus on job-related, employer-sponsored training and education in the working world. Training is published by Nielsen Business Media, a part of The Nielsen Company, a global information and media company.

2010 Training Top 125 Winners

1 PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

2 Automatic Data Processing, Inc.

3 Vanguard

4 Verizon

5 KPMG LLP

6 Farmers Insurance

7 Cisco

8 Microsoft Corporation

9 SCC Soft Computer

10 Aetna Inc.

11 Sun Microsystems, Inc.

12 Chesterfield County, Virginia

13 Gilbane

14 Cerner Corporation

15 Miami Children's Hospital

16 EMC Corporation

17 United States Navy

18 Shaw Industries, Inc.

19 The Economical Insurance Group

20 VSP

21 The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.

22 AlliedBarton Security Services

23 Best Buy

24 inVentiv Health

25 Hanover Healthcare Plus

26 CarMax, Inc.

27 Wells Fargo & Co.

28 Steelcase, Inc.

29 Suffolk Construction Company, Inc.

30 BB&T Corporation

31 Edward Jones

32 Paychex, Inc.

33 McDonald's USA, LLC

34 Allied International Credit

35 TD Bank

36 Cox Communications

37 Intel Corp.

38 PAETEC

39 DaVita Inc.

40 Capital One

41 Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts

42 Pitney Bowes

43 Nationwide Insurance Company

44 Olive Garden

45 Saratoga Hospital

46 Shape Corp

47 Quintiles Transnational

48 University of New Mexico Hospitals

49 American Infrastructure

50 Jiffy Lube International

51 Cartus Corporation

52 Northwestern Mutual

53 Scotiabank Group

54 Miami Cerebral Palsy Residential Services, Inc.

55 Baylor Health Care System

56 NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital

57 ABF Freight System, Inc.

58 Loews Hotels

59 Orkin, Inc.

60 Warner Robins Air Logistics Center

61 Nevada Federal Credit Union

62 Baptist Health Care

63 Choice Hotels

64 Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD)

65 WellSpan Health

66 Navy Federal Credit Union

67 NIIT (USA) Inc.

68 Mohawk Industries

69 Buckman

70 IKON Office Solutions, Inc., a Ricoh Company

71 ESL Federal Credit Union

72 MasterCard Worldwide

73 The Wackenhut Corporation

74 Gables Residential

75 Bank of America

76 Umpqua Bank

77 American Fidelity Assurance Company

78 CareSource

79 Healthways, Inc.

80 Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG)

81 Western Summit Constructors, Inc.

82 Special People In Northeast, Inc. (SPIN, Inc.)

83 White Lodging Services

84 Century 21 Real Estate LLC

85 Harrah's Entertainment

86 Special Response Corporation

87 MetLife, Inc.

88 Verity Credit Union

89 William Osler Health System

90 Cbeyond, Inc.

91 BOWE BELL + HOWELL

92 APC by Schneider Electric

93 First Horizon National Corporation

94 Wequassett Resort and Golf Club

95 SpawGlass

96 Tandus

97 Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan

98 Aflac Incorporated

99 Sanofi-aventis Pharmaceuticals

100 U.S. Security Associates, Inc.

101 CHG Healthcare Services, Inc.

102 Windstream Communications

103 Grant Thornton LLP

104 Healthpoint, Ltd.

105 LexisNexis

106 Children's Hospital and Health System

107 Oakwood University

108 Highmark Inc.

109 Banner Health

110 ResMed

111 Technology Credit Union

112 LQ Management, L.L.C.

113 Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC

114 Kendle International, Inc.

115 Western & Southern Life

116 Avanade

117 CareerBuilder

118 Qualcomm, Inc.

119 UPS

120 Morrison Management Specialists

121 DPR Construction, Inc.

122 AMIL-ASSISTENCIA MéDICA INTERNACIONAL LTDA

123 The Golden 1 Credit Union

124 Continental Airlines, Inc.

125 EMD Serono, Inc.