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Johnson Controls, Inc. Learning Services Earns Workplace Training Award

15 February 2000

Johnson Controls, Inc. Learning Services Earns Workplace Training Award

    MILWAUKEE, Feb. 14 -- Johnson Controls, Inc. Learning
Services has earned an Excellence in Practice Award from the American Society
for Training and Development.
    ASTD annually recognizes exemplary practices in workplace learning and
performance.  Johnson Controls Learning Services was honored in the Technical
Training category for its entry "Using Multiple Support Strategies to Build
Programming Abilities in a Technical Workforce."
    The Learning Services program provides a learning support system for the
controls business technical field force.  The approach combines paper-based
learning modules and hands-on lab exercises using actual equipment.  Students
practice job-related tasks using files from actual Metasys(R) building
automation system applications.  A local coach, a professional instructor, job
aids and a resource Web site support students.  This approach allows for the
flexibility of self-paced instruction and feedback.
    Excellence in Practice Awards are presented to those practices that have
demonstrated clear and measurable results of achieving organizational goals,
meet demonstrated need, and have appropriate design values.  Ninety-one
nominations from around the world were reviewed for the 1999 awards
competition.
    The American Society for Training and Development is a professional
association, based in Alexandria, Va., that represents more than 70,000
members worldwide in the field of workplace learning and performance.
    Johnson Controls Learning Services provides learning services for
employees in the Controls Group.  Classes are taught at eight official
learning centers throughout North America as well as company branch locations.
Self-paced instruction is provided using computer and paper-based learning
modules. The training topics range from the building controls industry,
facility management systems, energy management systems, automated building
controls and preventive maintenance.
    Johnson Controls, Inc. , is a global market leader in
automotive systems and facility management and control.  In the automotive
market, it is a major supplier of seating and interior systems and batteries.
For nonresidential facilities, Johnson Controls provides building control
systems and services, energy management and integrated facility management.
Johnson Controls, founded in 1885, has headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Its sales for 1999 totaled $16.1 billion.