Cornerstone Success Stories

Whether it is development of best practices, creation of operational efficiencies, increases in workforce productivity or an improved leadership development pipeline, learn first-hand about how organisations of all shapes and sizes are seeing an impact on their business by using Cornerstone’s integrated talent management software and services. 

In order to stay agile as conditions change and different financial instruments go in and out of vogue, HML proactively sought to transform its culture over a three-year period. This meant engineering a shift away from emphasising length of service, technical expertise as a proxy for managerial and leadership ability, and specialisation by geographic location. To support its new workforce strategy, HML implemented Cornerstone OnDemand’s comprehensive, Software-as-a-Service SaaS)-based talent management suite – including solutions for learning management, employee performance management, succession planning and enterprise social networking. The company’s technology investment paid off, with HML achieving dramatic results both ahead of schedule and under budget. Download now.

Growing senior management bench strength is a top priority at United Stationers, North America’s largest broad-line wholesale distributor of business products. The company is highly focused on succession planning for senior leadership and top management positions as a keystone of its talent strategy. The main purpose of succession planning at United Stationers is to provide a strong pipeline of leadership over time for all senior positions in the organisations, ensuring continuity of management. Over the past five years, succession planning at United Stationers has evolved from a paper-based, once-a-year presentation to the board of directors to an automated, formalised and integrated process that occurs throughout the year. Involving a broad spectrum of participants, this new process encourages communication about people development and is linked to other talent management processes. The following case study, authored by Bersin & Associates examines, examines several facets of United Stationers’ succession strategy, which includes support from Cornerstone OnDemand as its technology solution. Download now.

As the insurance industry is highly regulated, Aon Corporation had a need to train their employees on certification and licensing requirements as mandated by government, industry associations and Aon's internal corporate governance.  Aon sought a solution that would enable them to deploy training rapidly, seamlessly integrate with existing courseware and delivery solutions, configure the system based on the specific needs of its many divisions, and conduct extensive, detailed reporting for compliance requirements and audits. Upon researching five different solutions, Aon chose Cornerstone OnDemand for their flexibility, on-demand model, cost effective solutions and viability as a long-term partner. Aon has successfully deployed Cornerstone Learning to nearly 30,000 employees in multiple languages in over 120 countries. Through its partnership with Cornerstone OnDemand, Aon has realised significant benefits including 100% compliance and reduced spending in all training areas. Download now.

With more than 500,000 members and more than $6.5 billion in assets, BECU, formerly known as Boeing Employee Credit Union, is one of the top five financial cooperatives in the country.  BECU formerly had an existing LMS that users found difficult to navigate and use, leading to high employee frustration and lack of engagement. In addition, their existing solution was complicated to administer and manage, essentially a full time job. It quickly became clear that they needed a more robust, intuitive solution designed to meet the needs of their rapidly growing business. Since switching to Cornerstone OnDemand to support their learning and training needs, BECU has achieved immediate cost savings, streamlined administration with very minimal system maintenance required, and increased the number of online training courses offered.  Download now.

A leader in the North American fitness and lifestyle market, Equinox Fitness has experienced tremendous growth over the last few years. Equinox Fitness determined that a critical need was an integrated talent management system for learning and performance that would allow the company to create online training and evaluation programs for their personal trainers, automate and expedite training and performance reviews for all employees, and harvest and analyse club and employee performance metrics for better decision making.  It was also important to Equinox that the talent management system they selected would support a dispersed workforce. With the help of Cornerstone OnDemand, Equinox Fitness has been able to enhance workforce satisfaction by focusing on training that will further develop their staff, increase revenues and time savings by catapulting personal trainers up the tier system, allowing them to charge more per session, and streamline performance management, resulting in a record number of promotions and increased performance. Download now.

International Facility Management Association (IFMA) is the largest professional association for facility management, supporting approximately 18,000 members. The Association's members are represented in 126 chapters, 16 councils and one Special Interest Group (SIG), in 54 countries worldwide. Knowing the importance of increasing membership satisfaction levels, IFMA needed to help members obtain a “career essential” facility management education and certification program that was affordable, relevant and convenient.  Ideally, IFMA wanted an online learning management solution to support dispersed workers and to track and manage their certification and credentials program. Today, Cornerstone helps IFMA drive profitability with lower training costs and increased sales through delivery of a truly blended learning solution that supports the management of traditional ILT offerings, customised e-Learning, live and on-demand web-seminars, audio seminars, and integrated knowledge management for housing ancillary training documentation to enhance learner knowledge. Download now.

Randstad is a wholly owned subsidiary of Randstad Holding nv, a $7.85 billion provider of professional employment services. Randstad Holding nv is the fourth largest staffing organisation in the world, with 2,800 offices in 20 countries in Europe and North America. Annually, Randstad’s worldwide employment experts put approximately 260,000 people to work each day.  As with other employment services providers, Randstad experiences significant employee turnover. Among the 1,200 staffing agents in North America, turnover is approximately 45%, affecting company profitability and placing a heavy burden on Randstad’s recruiters, trainers, and field managers.  Randstad’s North American Learning & Development organisation created a new 16-week onboarding process where line managers are responsible for ensuring new hires complete onboard training and are held accountable for the results.  The new onboarding process consists of manager-facilitated training, instructor-led training (ILT), self-study, job shadowing, and manager coaching. By leveraging Cornerstone, they have been able to significantly reduce costs, increase productivity and improve operational efficiencies. Download now.

In a modern global economy, more organizations are spreading their offices and employees
over multiple locations. As a result, the entire employment process for a highly decentralized
workforce – from onboarding to assessing performance and building skills – can be difficult,
especially without the systems in place to help employees learn from their co-workers.
Advantage Sales and Marketing (ASM) needed a comprehensive and efficient learning and talent management solution that fostered collaboration among its distributed workforce and unified several areas of HR. Download now.

Save the Children strives to inspire breakthroughs in the ways in which the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives through lifesaving interventions in health, education, protection and emergency response. The Save the Children staff works in impoverished communities in the United States and around the world from Nicaragua to Ethiopia to Haiti to ensure that children can survive and thrive, and that their families and communities have the resources and skills to enable them to do so. To meet these goals, Save the Children needed to build an empowered leadership team and engaged workforce with the right skills and competencies. Download now.

Teach For America's corps members must be skilled instructional planners and data-driven decision makers in order to ensure that their students catch up academically to their more affluent peers. The organization was seeking a more efficient and effective way to help Teach For America teachers develop robust skills in areas such as academic goal setting, assessment creating, and planning effectively to reach student learning goals. Since implementing Cornerstone, Teach For America has seen significant improvement in both the productivity and effectiveness of corps members across the country. Download now.