2008

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Q3 (July-September)

Adam Nelson, Ninth House Chief Learning Architect, discusses the evolution of synchronous and asynchronous learning and what they each mean to today’s learning design strategies, in this article featured in the July issue of CLO Magazine.

"We all have a new toolbox to consider, if not an entirely remodeled workshop. Google and others have made a new world for us, a world that is overlapping with the world of real organizational problems…Synchronous and asynchronous actually can mean something new and powerful, and actionable, in this renovated world of learning and enablement."

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Q2 (April-June)

As a 2007 Learning Leaders award recipient for its unique and innovative approach to leadership development, Ninth House has been profiled in Bersin & Associates June 2008 Learning Leaders Report, including highlights from two recent customer engagements with American Express and Equifirst.

“Ninth House combines the strengths of Hollywood storytelling, media-rich simulations, in-depth behavior modeling and accelerated learning theory in its blended learning approach. The firm believes that engaging the learner in a continuous process of individual change is the key to leadership development. …..and clients report that Ninth House solutions deliver broad scale, sustained behavior change, which produces substantial business results.”

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To access the complete Learning Leaders Report visit the Bersin & Associates website.

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Training Magazine’s weekly e-newsletter featured the latest product release from FranklinCovey and Ninth House, The 7 Habits for Highly Effective People, Interactive Edition in the New Products section of their June 4th edition.

“The new online training workshop is based on the bestselling book, "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People," by Stephen Covey. Learners are presented with a video-based story, and given interactive exercises and real-life simulations to illustrate the concepts of each of The 7 Habits…”

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In this American Express case study, Human Capital Management Magazine explores the true business impact of the Ninth House approach to blended learning.

"Having conducted an extensive evaluation and analysis of its leadership development programme,looking at three modes of delivery – blended, online only and classroom training – American Express (AmEx)concluded that, while all three modes resulted in successful results in key areas, the blended learning approach – which, by design, creates and fosters a climate of high, immediate manager support – offers significantly higher impact than online courses alone and at a much lower cost than classroom based training. The blended approach achieved a productivity increase over standalone online courses of some 240 per cent. And, at half the cost, it also achieved more than double the return on investment (ROI) than that of the classroom based training."

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Ninth Chief Learning Architect, Adam Nelson is featured in CLO Magazine authoring an article which discusses the key elements that make a learning program truly impactful to drive organizational behavior change.

"...It’s a universal, everlasting truth. The key to a truly successful development program lies in the intersection of organizational change processes, individual change processes and adoption: It’s the tissue of it, the circulatory system, the connection.

But change is a campaign - like a revolution or an advertisement — even if it’s a cyclical or programmatic change, and very few individual or organizational change processes truly engage the heart and create that connection. And so they fail. It’s an undeniable truth: Change begins and ends with the heart, not the head...."

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Q1 (January-March)

Ninth House CEO Jeff Snipes and Dawn Runge, SSM Corporate VP of Organizational Effectiveness, jointly penned a case study featured in CLO Magazine. The article highlights SSM's Achieving Exceptional Patient Care inititave and the highly successful customized learning program developed by Ninth House to support it.

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