Issue # 50 May 2011

Learning and development delivers competitive advantage provided participants transfer their learning to address real business needs. Fort Hill Company was established 12 years ago to help organizations accelerate learning transfer and boost business results. Today, we are even more passionate about the importance of learning transfer support because we have seen its impact in organizations large and small.

Over a hundred organizations have enhanced the business impact in thousands of different kinds of learning and development programs by utilizing ResultsEngine (previously called Friday5s®). For example:

At HP, ResultsEngine helped drive a large-scale change initiative that created a 15x return on investment. “The post-workshop support system created a reinforcing cycle of follow-up action, coaching, feedback, and measurement to assure that participants were learning and manifesting the desired new behaviors, and that the new behaviors were producing the desired business value.” (The Journal of Organizational Excellence)

Pfizer used Jack Phillips’ ROI methodology to assess the impact of their leadership development program. When ResultsEngine was added to the program, they reported that the ROI increased by almost 50%. (Increasing the Value of Leadership Training at Pfizer)

As good as the results have been to date, we set out to make ResultsEngine even better. We are pleased to announce the release of a completely redesigned ResultsEngine that incorporates our years of experience along with suggestions from our clients. The result is an even more effective, powerful, and easy-to-use system.

Here are just a few of the exciting new capabilities:

A LeaderView Dashboard that lets learning professionals analyze all the post-course transfer efforts and results from any number of iterations of a program, involving hundreds or thousands of participants in the program:

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The redesigned MemberView encourages collaboration and on-going dialogue among the group as well as facilitating coaching:

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Other new and enhanced features include:

  1. Email wizards to make it even faster and easier for managers to support their direct reports.
  2. True multi-language capability throughout. ResultsEngine is already available in 10 languages and can accommodate programs in virtually any language.
  3. The ability to identify users by level, title, business unit, function and so forth to support later analysis by any or all of these characteristics.

We have also recently introduced a streamlined ResultsEngine Express™ for organizations that want to start enjoying the benefits of learning transfer support quickly and efficiently.

To see a five-minute video highlighting these and other capabilities of the new ResultsEngine, click here. For additional information about boosting the business impact of your programs, please email us at: info@forthillcompany.com. Additionally, we’d love to hear from you about your thoughts and ideas for future enhancements to ResultsEngine.


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