VitalSmarts Earns Silver Status in the Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards in Technology

    PROVO, UT, January 27, 2016 /24-7PressRelease/ -- VitalSmarts, a TwentyEighty company, won a Brandon Hall Group Silver award for excellence in learning management technology for external training, the company announced Wednesday. VitalSmarts was recognized for achieving inspiring results with the VitalSmarts Instructional Platform.

The VitalSmarts Instructional Platform (VIP) is intuitively designed to ensure delivery of key learning concepts from the company's industry-leading courses Crucial Conversations, Crucial Accountability, Influencer and Change Anything. Training is built on a custom platform that allows any trainer--regardless of their training experience--to seamlessly and professionally teach the course and deliver results that impact the organizations that use it.

"Our courses teach skills for successfully navigating common and crucial interpersonal and behavioral challenges. Training participants can apply these skills to both their professional and personal lives," said Andy Shimberg, CEO of VitalSmarts. "Our proprietary training platform ensures consistency and quality of the training experience and rapid transference of the skills from the trainer to the learner."

A panel of veteran, independent senior experts and Brandon Hall Group senior analysts and executives evaluated the entries based on product, unique differentiators, value proposition and measurable results.

"Our award winners are the most visionary and innovative developers of HCM technology solutions that move organizations forward in serving employees, customers and investors," said Brandon Hall Group Chief Operating Officer Rachel Cooke, who leads the awards program. "I think everyone can learn from the achievements of our award recipients."

VitalSmarts and the other award winners will be honored at the HCM Excellence Awards Conference on Jan. 28. A complete list of the winners can be found on the Brandon Hall website.

In addition, VitalSmarts was named one of the best places to work in Utah by Utah Business Magazine. The Company was also recognized as one of the Top Workplaces in Utah by The Salt Lake Tribune for the second consecutive year. These three awards signify VitalSmarts continued success in sustaining rapid growth and market leadership while also building an outstanding workplace culture.

About VitalSmarts
Named one of the Top 20 Leadership Training Companies, VitalSmarts, a TwentyEighty, Inc. company, is home to the award-winning Crucial Conversations, Crucial Accountability, Influencer, and Change Anything Training and New York Times bestselling books of the same titles. When used in combination, these courses enable organizations to achieve new levels of performance by changing employee behavior. VitalSmarts has consulted with more than 300 of the Fortune 500 companies and trained more than 1.5 million people worldwide. http://www.vitalsmarts.com

About TwentyEighty, Inc.
TwentyEighty is one of the largest workforce development companies in the world and is powered by some of the premier brands in the industry, such as Miller Heiman, VitalSmarts, Forum, Strategy Execution and Omega Performance. Our solutions are designed to help companies improve business results through the areas of Leadership Performance, Sales Performance, Credit Performance and Strategic Execution. http://www.twentyeighty.com

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