PSTD presents with pride the 1st PSTD Annual WLP “Gawad Maestro” Awards.

The awards seek to honor and recognize individuals and organizations that have demonstrated leadership and creativity in improving performance.

The following are the categories, namely:

• Outstanding Workplace Learning Professional,
• Outstanding Workplace Learning Manager
• Outstanding Workplace Learning Organizational Champion
• Outstanding Workplace Learning Program
• Outstanding Workplace Learning Leader Extraordinaire

The Gawad Maestro Awards is open to organizations from all industries, such as manufacturing, financial services, BPO, transportation, communications, utilities, retail, professional services, healthcare, and all sectors, such as private business, government and non-government and individuals in the practice of Workplace Learning and Performance.

Finalists will be notified through courier and electronic mail and the winners honored during the Gawad Maestro Awards Ball. (Details will be released soon.) Winners shall receive a special Gawad Maestro optic crystal statuette and recognition through press releases, case studies, and other outlets.

Deadline for submission of nominations is on June 6, 2010. For inquiries, please call 7038789 or email 1stpstdawards2011@gmail.com or secretariat@pstd.org .

As the Philippine Society for Training & Development holds its 37^th National Convention at the Apo View Hotel in Davao City on May 17-19, 2011, some members of its Board of Trustees (BOTs) will be handing on the torch to others after serving the board and the society for one short but fruitful year. All these BOT members are practitioners and executives from the different companies or organizations, who have generously lent their expertise and time in serving the organization whose aim is to advocate organizational results through workplace learning and development and to professionalize practitioners of the field. But as the policy of the society goes, of the 11 eleven members of the boards, only six of them (those who topped in the number of votes) will continue to serve for another year, while the others will have to be replaced by new members elected by the majority of the membership.

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Did you know that every 4^th week of May is officially the Manpower Training and Development Week in our country? This was declared by the late President Ferdinand Marcos through Proclamation No. 1142 (05-10-1973).

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