Awards We’ve Received
Training Industry Awards
A Training Industry Top 20 company is an organization that is recognized as a leading provider in a given training sector. These companies distinguish themselves by offering innovative products and services that meet the needs of a wide range of client organizations. Training Industry announces awards for each specific training sector on an annual basis. Depending on the quantity and quality of applicants, we supplement some of our Top 20 awards with a Watch List. A Watch List company is a provider with emerging or unique strengths and capabilities. Note that not all Top 20 awards have an accompanying Watch List.
Brandon Hall Awards
The Brandon Hall Excellence awards are judged by a panel of veteran, independent senior industry experts, and Brandon Hall Group Senior analysts and executives. The criteria for Brandon Hall award winners includes the following:
- Product: What was the product’s breakthrough innovation?
- Unique differentiators: What makes the product unique and how does it differ from any competing products?
- Value proposition: What problem does the product solve and/or what need does this product address?
- Measurable results: What are the benefits customers can expect to experience as a result of using this product?
Training Magazine Network Choice Award
The Training Magazine Network Choice Award is Training’s inaugural crowd-sourced award program, sponsored by Training Magazine. This opportunity to cast a vote was promoted to Training Magazine Network’s 141,000+ member network community, on the vendor partners that they find to provide the most effective tools and solutions for their work, in five (5) categories:
- Authoring Tools and Systems
- Content Development
- Gamification
- Learning Portals/LMS
- Testing and Assessments
Boston Globe Awards
Top Places to Work recognizes the most admired workplaces in the Commonwealth voted on by the people who know them best – their employees. The survey measures employee opinions about their company’s direction, execution, connection, management, work, pay and benefits, and engagement. TTA was ranked among the top employers in the small category (50-99 employees). Energage, an independent company specializing in employee engagement and retention, collected confidential survey data from nearly 82,151 individuals at 318 Massachusetts organizations in this 11th annual employee-based survey project. The winners typically exhibit some common traits that include progressive benefits, soliciting employee input and creating a fun work environment.
Boston Business Journal
The Boston Business Journal has named TTA (The Training Associates) to its 2020 Best Places to Work — the BBJ’s exclusive ranking of the Massachusetts companies that have built outstanding work environments for their people. The 165 businesses that met criteria for office location and size participated in employee-were asked to rate their work environment, work-life balance, job satisfaction, advancement opportunities, management, compensation and benefits.
Stevie Awards
The Stevie Awards for Women in Business are produced by the creators of the prestigious American Business Awards and International Business Awards and are widely considered to be the world’s premier business awards. Receiving the 2018 Stevie Award for Women-Run Workplace of the Year validates CEO, Maria Melfa’s dedication to creating an engaged and innovative workplace where people thrive and its workforce comprises an impressive rate of nearly 70 percent women.
The Golden Bridge Awards
The coveted annual Golden Bridge Awards program identifies the world’s best in organizational performance, innovations, products and services, executives and management teams, women in business and the professions, innovations, best deployments, product management, public relations, marketing, corporate communications, international business, and customer satisfaction programs from every major industry in the world.
