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How to Scale Learning Transfer Using Friday 5s

When: Monday, September 8th, 2008

Unquestionably, learning and leadership development produces the greatest value when participants apply what they’ve learned in a way that improves business results. The challenge is how to equip, support, and hold learners accountable once they return to their work.

Friday5s is a remarkable web-based system used by many CorpU Members that turns learning into valuable results. Moreover, Friday5s takes learning leaders out of the dark by letting them see the progress made by learning participants in real time. Using the Internet, Friday5s delivers the five success factors that speed participant learning transfer:

  • Reminders
  • Dedicated practice/reflection
  • Content
  • Coaching
  • Collaboration 

In addition, the LeaderView side of Friday5s provides a dashboard for learning leaders and their line managers to view learning transfer in real time, as well as an opportunity to deliver coaching that counts.   

Fort Hill Company will provide a hands-on look at how Friday5s and LeaderView are making it possible for companies to move the learning and leadership development finish line from the delivery of training to the delivery of valuable workplace results. Case examples from admired companies will be used throughout and time will be provided to answer questions. 

Presenters:

Kathy Granger:

Vice President of Business Development for Fort Hill Company, focuses on developing and managing corporate client relationships and strategic partnerships. She manages Fort Hill’s business development team in the Eastern Region and in Europe.

Kathy has played an integral role in numerous successful Fort Hill engagements across industry segments, with special expertise in the pharmaceutical and financial service sectors. She works with the Center for Creative Leadership and INSEAD integrating Fort Hill follow-through processes in open enrollment and custom programs.

Kathy is a skilled consultant and facilitator specializing in the transfer, application and measurement of results from learning and development initiatives. She has over 20 years of consulting and sales management experience in leadership and management development, career development, and executive search.

In addition to an undergraduate degree from Bryn Mawr College in Urban Studies, Kathy has completed graduate coursework in the Organizational Dynamics program at the University of Pennsylvania.
Cal Wick:

Cal Founder and Chairman of Fort Hill Company, is a nationally-recognized consultant,
educator and researcher on improving the performance of managers and organizations. Named "Thought Leader of the Year" by ISI (The Association of Learning Providers) in 2006, Cal is co author of the highly-acclaimed Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning: How to Turn Training and Development into Business Results (Pfeiffer, 2006).

Cal has spent the last 25 years studying how managers develop and businesses learn and apply new capabilities. His previous book, The Learning Edge: How Smart Managers and Smart Companies Stay Ahead (McGraw-Hill) is an in-depth study of how companies can make learning a competitive advantage.

Cal recognized that the finish line for learning and development programs is no longer the last day of class, but rather months later when improved personal and business outcomes can be measured. This new finish line is becoming the standard of the learning industry. His research led to the concept of Follow-Through Management® and the development of web-based Follow-Through Tools® that improve results by increasing learning transfer and application.

The tools that Cal developed have been used by more than 35,000 leaders in companies from Pfizer and Hewlett Packard to The Home Depot as well as leading business schools and training organizations. In 2005, the Center for Creative Leadership adopted Fort Hill’s Friday5s® as a core part of their flagship Leadership Development Program (LDP)®.

Cal earned a Masters of Science degree as an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow at MIT's Sloan School of Management. He graduated as a Rockefeller Fellow from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

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