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London, UK: 4th January 2007

Echelon evidences web-based development for managers at Learning Technologies 2007

Evidence of successfully delivered web-enabled management learning is showcased by Echelon Consulting on Stand 49 at Learning Technologies 2007 this January.

Europe's premier learning and skills event, covering every aspect of organisational learning and performance improvement technology, Learning Technologies takes place at London Olympia 2 from Wednesday 31st January to Thursday 1st February.

Echelon Consulting offers advice on solving performance related issues and supports this with online review, development and evaluation technologies for clients in housing, healthcare, charity as well as the commercial and public sectors.

It's book-ended, IT-supported learning and development and award-winning customer care programmes span board, senior and general management levels.

Instances of sectors and levels worked in and technologies worked with form the core offering at Learning Technologies for Echelon Consulting.

The company's work in Board Development and Review will be supported by case studies on Peabody Trust and Moat Housing Group while projects carried out for the Food Standards Agency and NHS Trusts feature the company's latest Board Support Tools.

Echelon Senior Management Coaching and Development is evidenced by studies on Quintus and Moat Housing, while projects for QCA and Festival Housing Group highlight its Innovative Management Development practice.

West Midlands-based Festival Housing is an early adopter of Echelon Learning's Community Project Challenge (CPC) management training initiative.

CPC is being tasked to support the Group's corporate social responsibility (CSR) goals and achieve Cert.M qualification as a key plank in its career development programme for managers.

Echelon's Customer Care programmes for NHS Acute Trusts and PCTs and local authority Basingstoke & Deane will be featured on the Stand as will its work in Professional Development in the education sector for the Urban Leaders Programme in Schools project and Westminster Kingsway College.

A series of teacher training programmes has been developed by Echelon Learning for Westminster Kingsway College and 'Implementing Teaching Best Practice' has been endorsed by educational awarding body Edexcel.

Echelon Consulting sources its course materials and learning and content management technologies from its own publishing division.

London-based Echelon has been growing market share in online content publishing for organisations seeking to promote knowledge whether student qualifications, members' professional development and/or employee performance.

Further information on Echelon Consulting from Jenny Hill on tel. 020 8568 1500; email jenny@echelonL.com and at www.echelonconsulting.co.uk

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For images relating to this story, contact Peter Muir on 01296 715228 or email echelon@pmpr.co.uk

Released January 2007 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