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Brian McNamara
Hawthorne Associates
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Editorial Resources:

• Maritz Learning Press Kit (PDF, 621 KB)
• About Brian Carlin, President of Maritz Learning
• Press Release: Maritz Learning's Librix® Performance Management System Earns AICC Certification(09/23/03)
• Press Release: Maritz Learning and Minolta Corporation Partner To Train 6,500 Technicians (1/07/03)
• Press Release: Maritz Learning Joins Council of Hotel and Restaurant Trainers as Silver Sponsor (9/23/02)
• Press Release: Maritz Learning Begins Fiscal Year With Host of New Customer Agreements (9/05/02)
• Press Release: Maritz Learning Provides Learning Content and Management for Lockheed Martin (5/21/02)
  
• Press Release: Maritz Learning Launches Enhanced LMS(4/09/02)
• Press Release: Maritz Names Division VP and Maritz Learning Director of Product Development (3/14/02)
• Press Release: Maritz Announces Launch of Maritz Learning (11/27/01)
• Press Release: Maritz Announces New Management Team (11/29/01)
• Press Release: Maritz Acquires Librix Learning (10/1/01)

Maritz Learning Provides Learning Content and Management for Lockheed Martin Employees Working Abroad

New Web-based System Allows 24/7 Access to Employees Worldwide

May 21, 2002

Fenton, MO -- Lockheed Martin Corporation deploys a significant percentage of its employees overseas. In order to provide meaningful and accessible training opportunities for these expatriates, Lockheed Martin has partnered with Maritz Learning (www.maritzlearning.com) to develop a performance management system accessible via the Internet. A key business objective of the system, launched in May 2002, is to enhance the knowledge transfer process among Lockheed Martin's professionals working abroad.

Using a customized implementation of Maritz Learning's LIBRIX Performance Management System™, Lockheed Martin can now deliver learning content online to this vital but geographically dispersed workforce. Maritz Learning also developed custom content for Lockheed Martin's new system, using Macromedia Flash to create an engaging, interactive expatriate orientation course.

"Our employees are inundated with information that is difficult for them to retain due to its sheer volume," commented Matt Neuman, Senior Management Consultant, International HR for Lockheed Martin. "The clear solution has been to make the data accessible to the employees at their convenience so they will be more likely to both learn and review the material. In addition, because the information is now available 24x7 from anywhere in the world, the system provides needed refresher opportunities."

"Businesses with widely dispersed workforces face some unique challenges," commented Brian Carlin, President of Maritz Learning. "Yet many issues these companies face, such as employee retention and the alignment of learning needs with performance goals, are common to nearly every business in every industry. The work we've done with Lockheed Martin is an excellent example of e-learning technology being strategically applied to overcome critical challenges to business success."

The system provides a range of performance and learning management functions, from the development and delivery of custom assessments and surveys to the tracking and reporting of key business and training metrics. A bundled authoring module provides the ability to rapidly assemble additional courseware.

A significant advantage for delivering the courses online involves the very real time zone differences for the worldwide employee base. These differences range from 6 to 16 hours, making it very difficult to coordinate time for personal conversations or training of any sort. The system provides functions that help overcome this obstacle by facilitating open discussion among enrollees as well as e-mail messaging.

To find out more about Maritz Learning, please call 1-877-985-5696 or visit www.maritzlearning.com.

About Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin Corporation, headquartered in Bethesda, Md., is a global enterprise principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture and integration of advanced technology systems, products and services. Employing about 125,000 people worldwide, Lockheed Martin had 2001 sales of $24 billion.

About Maritz Learning
Maritz Learning (www.maritzlearning.com) designs and delivers engaging, high-impact training and development programs to improve the business performance of sales and service organizations. Maritz Learning's systematic approach to performance improvement integrates traditional training techniques, state-of-the-art e-learning content and industry-leading learning and competency management technologies with incentives, rewards and recognition initiatives to drive bottom-line results. As a business unit of Maritz Inc., Maritz Learning draws from decades of experience in helping businesses worldwide improve business and employee performance in critical areas such as sales, marketing, product launches and customer satisfaction by influencing the behavior of employees, channel partners and customers.

Customers turn to Maritz Learning for: expertise in e-learning content development; custom development of instructor-led, video and CD-ROM training; proven leadership in providing incentive and reward programs; as well as a comprehensive learning management system, complete with authoring, competency management, prescriptive learning and skills assessment tools. Maritz Learning's clients include Anheuser-Busch, A.G. Edwards & Sons, Nabisco, HON Industries, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Panasonic, Minolta and the National Restaurant Association.

About Maritz
Maritz Inc., which ranked 157th on the most recent Forbes list of "500 Biggest Private Companies," is based in the St. Louis suburb of Fenton, MO. Maritz offers marketing research, travel, and performance improvement services, which are delivered through 18 operating companies located in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, France and Germany. Further information can be found at www.maritz.com.

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