RealTime Performance Launches Its RealPath Product Suite

Industry Leader Brings Even Greater Efficiencies to Leadership Assessment and Development Processes for Fortune 500 Companies. Offers free 30-day trial.

Seattle, WA (PRWEB) April 1, 2005 -- RealTime Performance, the premier provider of web-based leadership assessment and development tools, announces the introduction of its RealPath product suite that uniquely combines assessment, goal setting and a targeted resource guide into a single-source solution for Fortune 500 customers. With RealPath, employees and their managers now have a comprehensive, award winning set of leadership development tools to affect change and achieve goals. Previously, companies looked to multiple vendors to provide this diverse set of capabilities, necessitating intensive coordination efforts. Now, through RealPath, organizations can turn to RealTime Performance for a streamlined, systemized approach that links assessments and feedback with an action plan and a targeted resource guide. This combined process proves to be highly efficient for employees, by reducing the time required to create a development plan, and increasing the quality of the plan.

The RealPath suite is fully customizable to accommodate a companys unique corporate culture, vision, values, and objectives. In addition, RealPath is pre-loaded with over 104 competencies covering Leadership, Management, Sales, and Innovation. RealPath provides participants with online access to a variety of assessments, role-specific skills assessments, 360-feedback, and upward feedback. The powerful action plan functionality aligns goal-setting activities with a targeted resource guide, delivering to each participant recommendations for books, articles, e-learning courses and on-the-job activities tied directly to their specific action plan.

RealTime Performance offers a free 30-day trial enrollment for companies to see for themselves how the RealPath product suite delivers all this integrated functionality in a user experience that is simple and intuitive. Register, risk-free at http://www.realtimeperformance.com/register.html

People want to improve, but too often, they dont know how. By delivering targeted recommendations for improvement, based on valid feedback, our clients accelerate learning and development, transforming employees into high-performing leaders,” said RealTime Performance CEO Sean Murray. The power of the RealPath suite is that, for the first time, were connecting feedback with targeted recommendations for development and goal-setting. All of the components necessary to effectively achieve change and optimal employee development are housed under one roof. Our customers find this end-to-end approach delivered through RealPath very attractive.”

In addition to the feedback and goal-setting functionality, the RealPath suite and its interconnected modules provide users with a library of developmental suggestions. This database driven resource connects employees with targeted recommendations for improvement, helping individuals create relevant action plans that leverage company sponsored training activities and resources. In addition to linking employees to leadership books at Amazon.com, management articles at Harvard Business Review, and e-learning courses at SkillSoft, RealPath can be customized to reference company-specific resources such as classroom based training and on-the-job activities.

RealPath is a web-based leadership development and succession planning solution that goes beyond traditional methods of employee assessment and development, helping companies increase return-on-training investment by aligning individual learning needs with training solutions. By replacing inefficient and expensive paper-and-pencil survey methods, RealPath enables employees to quickly and easily collect feedback online from managers, direct reports, peers and customers, and then convert that feedback into powerful development plans.

RealPath modules are designed to enable employees completing any assessment or feedback process to create an individualized learning plan that highlights areas of strength, opportunities for improvement, targeted suggestions for development and an action plan for learning and implementing new skills and behavior. The individualized program can tie directly to the employees annual performance evaluation to ensure consistent feedback specific to development goals and objectives.

RealPath is a web-hosted application, eliminating the need for costly software installation and maintenance. The flexible solution allows clients to customize the product suite to support their unique leadership development competencies. Further, the RealPath library of targeted recommendations is continuously updated to include the latest business books, articles and e-learning resources available online.

About RealTime Performance
RealTime Performance works with companies of more than 1,000 employees to develop customizable leadership assessment and development solutions that are fully web-based. Founded in 1999, the company is backed by more than 100 years of combined experience in human resource management, organizational development, 360-survey assessments, and training. The winner of the Online Learning Award of Distinction for creative software design, RealTime Performance has helped many medium to large size companies, including Lockheed Martin, Johnson & Johnson, Fannie Mae and Merck, increase their return-on-training investment by aligning learning needs with training solutions. This results in higher productivity, employee satisfaction and employee retention.
   
For more information, please go to www.realtimeperformance.com or call RealTime Performance directly at (206) 749-9000.

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