Fort Hill’s first product was Friday5s®, a web-based follow-through management system designed to engage participants post-program. The idea was: “Let’s move the finish line so that the program doesn’t end until performance improves.”

Friday5s includes five bi-weekly updates using these five key components:

• a reminder system
• a place to record progress, reflect, and plan
• content specific to the program participant’s objective
• coaching
• collaboration

Companies very quickly saw an increase in learning transfer rates. In head-to-head trials, Friday5s was a proven success. Soon after, we extended the technology to create DevelopmentEngine® to support individual development plans and ResultsEngine® for business-focused programs and objectives. Altogether, more than 90,000 participants have benefited from Fort Hill’s Follow-Through Tools®.

Even so, we noticed that some companies got greater returns on their training and development than others. We analyzed the best practices at companies like Hewlett-Packard, Pfizer, Home Depot, Sony, and Humana and distilled the best practices into the highly-acclaimed book, The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning, which defined the six critical practices of high-impact learning. The 6Ds™ approach has been adopted enterprise-wide at top companies such as Kaiser Permanente. Both workshops and consulting are available to help learning organizations implement the Six Disciplines.

Our latest book, Getting Your Money’s Worth from Training and Development, is a two-sided guide designed to support both the manager and participant in maximizing the value they get from training initiatives. It includes guidelines, forms, examples, and explanations of the critical steps to take before, during, and after the training session.

Fort Hill Company focuses on the process of turning learning into results, rather than on just the training “event.” We are the definitive provider of follow-through technology and the only firm wholly dedicated to maximizing the outcomes of all types of training and development.