{"id":18421,"date":"2021-02-17T17:30:10","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T23:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trainingmag.com\/?p=18421"},"modified":"2021-02-17T17:30:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T23:30:10","slug":"emerging-training-leaders-beacons-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trainingmag.com\/emerging-training-leaders-beacons-of-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Emerging Training Leaders: Beacons of Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The winners of <em>Training<\/em> magazine\u2019s Emerging Training Leaders Awards named in fall 2020 serve as beacons of hope and light as they guide their organizations to success in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic and economic uncertainty. They created innovative solutions for remote learning; communicated with teams and employees suddenly working from home; and managed and trained with trust, empathy, and transparency.<\/p>\n<p>These 25 Training professionals have been in the industry for 2 to 10 years and have inspired and engaged their organizations with their exceptional leadership skills, business acumen, and training instincts. All Emerging Training Leader candidates had to be nominated by co-workers or industry peers.<\/p>\n<p>Training Editorial Advisory Board members and I judged the nearly 50 nominations and chose the 25 winners based on the following factors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Took on at least one new responsibility in the last year<\/li>\n<li>Successfully led a large-scale training\/learning and development initiative within the last year that required management\/leadership of a group of people and resulted in the achievement of a corporate strategic goal (with behavior change\/business impact results provided)<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrates specific leadership qualities (such as acts as a mentor\/coach; adopts new technology; collaborates; embraces and adapts to change; empowers employees; innovates; and thinks strategically)<\/li>\n<li>Has the potential to lead the Training or Learning and Development (L&amp;D) function at an organization in the next 1 to 10 years<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the PDF below, you\u2019ll find in-depth profiles of the Top 5 Emerging Training Leaders (listed in alphabetical order), plus slightly shorter profiles of the other 20 Emerging Training Leaders. And we continued our tradition of creating a \u201cTo Watch\u201d list, which features 5 up-and-coming professionals who are well on their way to becoming future Emerging Training Leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/trainingmag.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/TRN_Magazine_2020_Leaders.pdf\">here<\/a> to see the full list of the 2020 Emerging Training Leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2020 Emerging Training Leaders are guiding lights as they continue to help their organizations face and conquer the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and economic 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