Bob Little Press & Public Relations - Echelon Learning - Fast track support for corporate governance

Bob Little


Media Centre Echelon Learning Master List PRESS INFORMATION ISSUED ON BEHALF OF: Echelon Publishing Darwin House, 236 South Ealing Road, LONDON W5 4RP tel 020 8568 1500; fax 020 8560 6612; web http://learningmatters.com London, UK: 23rd June 2006 Fast track support for corporate governance Experienced and newly appointed directors looking to plug knowledge gaps in financial or corporate governance can access the help needed via Echelon Learning's Board Development Tool Kit at http://boarddevelopment.learningmatters.com - a new service extension of the company's http://learningmatters.com resource of 2,000 downloadable business solutions. The Board Development Tool Kit provides just-in-time performance support and the latest on best practice for directors in public, corporate and charitable sector organisations and includes a free diagnostic offering an interactive self-assessment of user knowledge of corporate governance. The Tool Kit also provides 13 additional governance knowledge builders; 13 best practice essays and 11 financial management action lists; together with seven board assurance and 19 performance support tools. Content is licensed from Bloomsbury, the Institute of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators, and developed by Echelon Learning from its own board development work. Each tool can be purchased individually by credit card or on account for immediate download. Alternatively, an annual licence grants unlimited access to content with the toolkit in bespoke form attached to the user organisation's intranet. Further information from David Hill at Echelon: email david@echelonL.com tel: 020 8568 1500. Ends Released June 2006 on behalf of Echelon Publishing by BLP&PR Media contact: Peter Muir Tel + 44 (0)1296 715228 Email: echelon@pmpr.co.uk Sales contact: David Hill Tel + 44 (0)20 8568 1500 Email: david@echelonl.com About Echelon Learning Echelon Learning is a consultancy-led publishing house that integrates electronically-delivered knowledge and learning into the development of management skills and business performance. Echelon Consulting spearheads the company's service with the development of new content in meeting clients' requirements. This is usually derived from analysing employee knowledge and learning needs captured during client learning programmes. Where appropriate, Echelon Publishing then offers this new content to a wider audience by publishing the material in generic format. This is made available in the form of easy to use 'learning nuggets' and is complimented with business development information licensed exclusively from one of the market's best-known providers, Bloomsbury. Echelon e-Learning provides the electronic systems which enable content to be published, distributed and usage tracked, and offers work-based solutions to a global audience. Now Echelon's blended learning based on a bespoke site populated with material selected to support specific courses, builds knowledge prior to the event and refreshes application when back at the desk. About Echelon Publishing Echelon technologies help organisations place solutions at people's fingertips, whether solving everyday business and work-related problems or helping gain qualifications and continued professional development. Echelon: Has a content management system enabling informational or learning material to be developed or converted into XML so that it can be published and distributed in text and/or via the web. Has a learning management system to provide ready access via the web to highly structured information, which is easily searched and retrieved, and whose usage can be tracked and learning logged. Publishes and/or reformats content for professional bodies and commercial organisations to help students and employees maintain or develop requisite skills throughout their careers. Supports people from the outset of their careers in working with professional bodies to develop and deliver the learning content required by students in preparing for examination. Frees up the knowledge and learning contained within a business so that people have ready access to these resources in helping them to solve problems or develop their careers. Works with a number of blue chip organisations and professional bodies, including: COMMERCIAL BUPA Coventry Building Society Lincoln Financial Moat House Hotels Modernisation Agency (NHS) Novartis Pharmaceuticals NHS Logistics Vodafone INSTITUTIONAL Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development Chartered Institute of Public Finance Accountants Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply Construction Industry Training Board Institute of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators Institute of Chartered Accountants in E & W Institute of Civil Engineers Royal Town Planning Institute