Berkshire Health Earns Honor

PITTSFIELD — Berkshire Health Systems (BHS) was presented with a 2013 LearningElite award from Chief Learning Officer magazine. Berkshire Health Systems was ranked 47th in the competition from a field of more than 200 companies. Developed under the guidance of chief learning officers and senior workforce-development practitioners, LearningElite is the only peer-based benchmarking initiative in the industry. This pioneering program utilizes best practices in evaluation to objectively assess both the scope and value of the learning and development (L&D) services that companies provide. It recognizes excellence in five key L&D performance indicators: learning strategy, learning impact, leadership commitment, learning execution, and business performance results. “In our third year of benchmarking workforce learning and development practices, competition was intense. The organizations that achieved LearningElite status stood out as true innovators in enterprise education — noteworthy for their unswerving commitment to deploying elite L&D practices that deliver measurable business value,” said Sarah Kimmel, director of research and advisory services for the Human Capital Media Advisory Group, a component of the magazine’s publisher, Media-Tec Publishing. “The LearningElite’s incisive analysis yields solid data that validates the impact these organizations’ learning initiatives have on productivity, engagement, innovation, and, ultimately, business results.”

The LearningElite recognition symbolizes Berkshire Health Systems’ commitment to learning and represents its efforts in creating a learning organization, said Matthew Painter, BHS director of Leadership Development, adding that “it requires a lot of hard work throughout the system to achieve this type of recognition, and everyone should be commended.”

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