Friday5s® Named Product of the Year

Friday5s®, Fort Hill’s breakthrough follow-through management tool, was recently named one of the top training products for 2007 by Training Media Review.

Founded in 1993, Training Media Review provides independent reviews of corporate learning products and services.

“Any organization wanting to get the most out of employee professional development programs should use Friday5s®. Its leading purpose is to aid the translation of learning into enhanced job performance.”

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Thought Leadership Award

Phoenix, AZ – March 21, 2006. ISA – The Association of Learning Providers named Cal Wick, Founder and CEO of The Fort Hill Company, as the recipient of this year’s prestigious Thought Leadership Award during its annual meeting in Phoenix, Arizona.

According to ISA, “Wick’s research in performance development has led to the development of Friday5s®, a unique web-based system that improves results by putting learning into action. The approach increases the value of corporate learning and development, and creates ‘a new finish line’ by which learning success is judged. The new finish line of improved business and personal results is realized only when participants follow-through to put learning to work after classes and workshops.

“Fort Hill’s Follow-Through Tools® have already helped more than 30,000 managers and leaders—in companies from Pfizer and Hewlett Packard to The Home Depot, and in universities including The London School of Business and Notre Dame—achieve improved results by applying what they learned.

“Just ask The Ken Blanchard Companies or the Center for Creative Leadership, both of which have already embraced Fort Hill’s learning transfer support systems. His concept of a new finish line is increasingly becoming the standard of the corporate learning industry.

“Cal is a prolific speaker and writer. His new book—The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning: How to Turn Training and Development into Business Results (Pfeiffer/Jossey-Bass) — is due out in April 2006.”

Headquartered in Wilmington, DE, Fort Hill Company is the global leader in Follow-Through Management™. Its Friday5s®, DevelopmentEngine®, and ResultsEngine® Follow-Through Tools® are used to enhance the impact of educational programs by leading corporations throughout the world. Further information is available at the company’s website: www.forthillcompany.com.

First Ever Neon Elephant Award Goes to FHC

Work-Learning Research, Inc., named Cal Wick the recipient of the first-ever Neon Elephant Award. According to Work-Learning Research President Will Thalheimer, “The Neon Elephant Award is awarded to a person, team, or organization exemplifying enlightenment, integrity, and innovation in the field of workplace learning and performance.”

“Cal Wick embodies the values of the Neon Elephant Award. In 1999, he founded the Fort Hill Company because of his frustration with the way typical management-training programs produced virtually no impact when the learners returned to their jobs. Cal’s answer to this problem was the development of Friday5s—an e-learning platform that enables training results to be channeled to on-the-job implementation.

“By tracking learners’ progress toward goals and connecting the learners’ managers and learning administrators to the progress of implementation, Friday5s enables a revolution in how we think about training. No longer is training about information. No longer is it an event. With an online training-follow-through platform, implementation can become part of the training contract.”

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