What is ELW?
Employee Learning Week is an awareness campaign highlighting the important connection between learning and achieving organizational results.
When is it?
Employee Learning Week takes place in December each year, but learning is a year-round event!
Where is it?
Employee Learning Events can happen anywhere. Hold events in your office, plan a special off-site program, or send highlighted Employee Learning tips during the week.
Why participate?
Training is more important now than ever before. The growing skills gap and the increased need to compete in today’s economy require organizations to develop a knowledgeable and highly skilled workforce. Employee Learning Week is the perfect opportunity for your organization to get involved and highlight their commitment to learning and development.
Who can participate?
All organizations are encouraged to recognize Employee Learning Week by rededicating themselves to employee learning and highlighting its link to organization results.
How can I get involved?
Visit our Get Involved page for more information on tips and best practices!
Tell us what you're doing
How are you recognizing Employee Learning Week? Tell us and we'll feature you as an official ASTD "Champion of Learning!"
Champions of Learning
Employee Learning Week is getting bigger and better each year thanks to your help! Make 2009 the most successful year to date by becoming a "Champion of Learning." Here are a few ideas on how your peers became "Champions" in 2008 & 2007:
- The ASTD Northeast Florida Chapter honored excellence at their Employee Development Awards
- Network Solutions held a Learning Fair
- ASTD Northeast Wisconsin Chapter passed Employee Learning Week Proclamations in six counties
- Oracle launched a Human Resources site highlighting its robust learning and development portal
- The ASTD Cascadia Chapter in Oregon created a blog to facilitate WLP discussions
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