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tel 020 8568 1500; fax 020 8560 6612; web http://learningmatters.com
 

19th November 2008

Echelon refines and refocuses its products and services to benefit clients in today's challenging marketplace

The organisation development consultancy, Echelon, has announced a revised package of products and services to help its clients not only to take advantage of today's difficult market conditions but also to develop stronger, healthier businesses with 'engaged' employees.

The move comes as part of a refined and refocused business vision and strategy introduced by Echelon's recently appointed managing director, Alistair Morrison. Morrison explained: "These new products and services from Echelon are attracting a great deal of interest from our clients because, when times get tough, you need to get the most out of your workforce.

"Moreover, you have to make this sustainable - so that it will keep your business' bottom line improving consistently.

"That means driving employee performance by building employee engagement," he continued. "Motivation is temporary but engagement means that employees 'buy in' to the values and goals of the business and so will constantly and consistently 'go the extra mile' to make that business successful."

Echelon's new package of products and services is focused on internal communications and people development solutions that create sustainable performance improvements for clients. In particular, the new package covers such areas as:

• Performance management

• Employee engagement

• Lean production in 'white collar' industries

• Human capital management

• Workforce effectiveness

"We are delivering these through a combination of consultancy, internal communications, training, self-paced learning materials and various performance support tools and techniques," Morrison explained.

Working with a wide range of client in all sectors of the economy, Echelon is delivering its 'employee engagement' materials via such things as text-based and online continuing professional development (CPD) learning; employee magazines; performance support tools, role play and other classroom-based training delivery; internal communications messages, and marketing materials to allow its clients to communicate effectively and efficiently to their customers.

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For further information please contact

Media contact: Bob Little Tel + 44 (0)1727 860405; Email: bob.little@boblittlepr.com

Sales contact: David Hill Tel + 44 (0)20 8568 1500; david@echelonlearning.co.uk

Notes to Editors:

* In developing 'You Are the Difference' - which began to be delivered to Ulster Bus and Metro staff in August - Echelon Learning, the initiative's designers, took over 70 bus trips in Belfast, interviewed more than 100 passengers and also spoke, at length, to Ulster Bus and Metro staff.

** To date, during the training sessions, staff have identified over 600 ideas for service improvement and the target is to reach 1,000 by the end of the year

The initiative's logo and the main focus of the training are based around the three colours of a set of traffic lights. Each colour signifies a choice of behaviours that might be selected:

• Selecting Red ensures we stop and reflect before reacting and selecting appropriate behaviours.

• Selecting Amber means we pause and respond in the way we have been taught.

• Selecting Green suggests we react quickly and often instinctively.

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:

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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