REALTIME PERFORMANCE LAUNCHES INNOVATION ACTIVATOR

Seattle, Wash. – June 2, 2005 – RealTime Performance today announces the latest addition to the award-winning RealPath Product Suite, the Innovation Activator, a unique web-based tool designed to accelerate innovation by changing the way employees communicate and interact. The Innovation Activator has the potential to revolutionize innovation at Fortune 500 companies by developing the people skills and habits that create a supportive environment for new ideas and processes.

“Conventional wisdom says that the research and development department is primarily responsible for innovation, but the world’s most successful companies understand that innovation is every employee’s responsibility,” says A. J. Chopra, the author of ‘Managing the People Side of Innovation’. “The next big product idea can come from anywhere, so it’s important that everyone from the board room to the factory floor understand the communication and leadership skills necessary to identify great ideas and convert them into new products.”

A.J. Chopra and RealTime Performance partnered to create an assessment tool that evaluates employee proficiency against 47 core Innovation Practices. Upon completion of the assessment, each employee receives a unique feedback report that identifies strengths to leverage and areas for improvement. After determining areas for improvement, employees are offered developmental resources for each practice area.
Each of the developmental resources includes practical tips, recommendations, on-the-job activities, books, articles and online resources for employees to use in their day-to-day interactions. In addition, each employee can build and share their development plan online via the easy-to-use Innovation Activator interface.

“The biggest barrier to increasing people’s innovation skills is lack of a clear understanding of what they are,” says A. J. Chopra. “The Innovation Activator reveals the people skills that drive innovation, and then goes a step further by helping employees improve in the areas they are weak.”

“As the leading provider of web-based tools for leadership development, partnering with A. J. Chopra, the leading voice of innovation in the United States, is a natural extension for the RealPath Product Suite,” says RealTime Performance CEO Sean Murray. “Innovation begins with people, and RealTime Performance is committed to delivering the best tools in the world for our clients to develop their people and help them achieve their potential.”

A demo of the Innovation Activator is available free at: http://www.realtimeperformance.com/inovat/

About RealTime Performance
RealTime Performance works with companies 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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