CHARTER ONE SELECTS THE EDCOMM GROUP TO PROVIDE BANKING OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT TRAINING

Charter One has selected The Edcomm Group to provide training in banking operations management. Edcomm will deliver a three-day course, Managing Banking Operations for Productivity and Quality, which will focus on bottom-line operations management skills.

The program is a hands-on, highly participatory training program using applied financial services examples to emphasize the "hard skills" of managing operations, such as Scheduling, Forecasting, Capacity Planning, Job Design, Production Standards, Change Management, Risk Management, Work Flow, Process Improvement, Strategic Planning and Service Quality. The course provides managers and supervisors with the skills to manage their workloads using tools, techniques, and strategies for attaining increased productivity and quality in an environment of changing technology, sophisticated markets, reorganization and realignment, and new products and services.

Charter Ones retail banking network is made up of over 475 branches in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, New York, Vermont and Massachusetts. Its parent company is Charter One Financial, Inc., one of the largest bank holding companies in the country with over $42 billion in assets. The companys diverse product set includes: consumer banking, indirect auto finance, commercial leasing, business lending, commercial real estate lending, mortgage banking, and retail investment products.

The Edcomm Group is a 16-year-old multimedia education and communication consulting firm specializing in the development of creative business solutions that improve productivity, customer service and market share - providing bottom-line results. The Edcomm Group (www.edcomm.com) is headquartered in New York City with an Advanced Design Center located in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania.

For more information, please contact:

Linda Eagle
President, The Edcomm Group
1-888-4EDCOMM
linda.eagle@edcomm.com