1. Pinnacle Corporate Suite
Pinnacle Corporate Suite – Features for the Best Fit and Best Value of Your Organization
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Employee development is a powerful tool when done well that is easy to use, but more importantly,
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provides internal and external customers considerable ROI by providing a system that not only
GlobalScholar empowe rs your workforce but enables dynamic ways to get the most out of your talent.
• Develop employees beyond simple assessments; give immediate feedback and remediation real time
• Retain top skilled employees, develop leaders, and reduce expensive turnover
• Control risk and reduce the cost of expensive turnover while building workforce succession
• Align optimal workforce development to your organization’s goal and standards
• Link knowledge, skill development and training to employee performance
• Automate performance and development activities while reducing administrative hassles
Pinnacle Corporate Suite provides unmatched, powerful administrative management to get started
quickly, save time, and reduce administrative inefficiencies. Yet, the solution is also simple so users
can intuitively and accurately perform their functions on day one – without in depth training. With
GlobalScholar, you never have to compromise power and simplicity. You have the flexibility to
configure the system to map to your preferred processes. And, only GlobalScholar provides powerful
assessment and analytics tools to eliminate skill and knowledge gaps, ease managers’ tracking and
reporting of assessments, and improve an organization’s ability to drive real‐time, data‐based talent
development.
Pinnacle Corporate Suite includes the following modules and more:
• Integrated Dashboard‐ Email, Meetings, Announcements, Discussion Boards and Social Media Modules
• Content, Curriculum, Assessment and Learning Plan Development Tools Modules
• Content, Curriculum, Assessment and Learning Plan to Business Objective Alignment
• Online, Offline and Hybrid Employee Development Modules
• Learning Plan by Individual and Group for Career & Succession Planning
• Reporting – Custom, and Out‐of‐the‐Box
• Real Time Analytics Module
• Electronic Records Management Tool
• Transcripts and Certificate Modules
• Integrated Virtual Classroom with Voice/Chat Enabled Whiteboard
• Collaboration Modules resident through the entire LMS
• Supplemental and Professional Learning Module
• Powerful Multiple Feature Employee and Course Scheduler
• Pinnacle Corporate Suite Integration API to existing data sources
In addition, Pinnacle Corporate Suite provides workflows, forms, email notifications, and reports. Full
service data syncs, analytics and user/competency imports are simple. The dynamic UI, messaging,
tool sets and features are configurable to best fit with your processes and match your organization’s
branding. A seamless learning management system integration and/or migration is available when
you use Pinnacle Corporate Suite.
Pinnacle Corporate Suite’s core offering includes a robust Electronic Records Management Toolset
with a robust wide set of goal management and employee development tools that come standard in all
Pinnacle Corporate Suite implementations:
Learning Plan and Goal Management
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The Learning Plan and Goal Management module ensures every employee is focused on objectives
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that fit in line with an organization’s core objectives. Using a hierarchical goal structure, every
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sight to strategic organizational objectives. With Pinnacle Corporate Suite integration of business
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Jay@GlobalScholar.com communication. The hierarchical goal structure allows easy alignment among organizational goals,
departmental goals, and individual goals.
Additionally, with advanced data normalization tools such as simultaneous development rating, drag‐
and‐drop content training plan, development plan, and assessment functionality and standards
alignment, Pinnacle Corporate Suite ensures that your data is not only accurate, but dynamically
aligned for making critical business decisions.

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Multi­Rater Feedback
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The ability to incorporate ‘Multi‐Rater’ feedback into learning management workflows allows users
to give
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Content and Individuals are able to receive balanced feedback from multiple sources and provide
input for co‐workers and other employees.
Standardization of Objectives and Performance
Pinnacle Corporate Suite provides a powerful real time data analytics tool that allows managers to
view data on performance across multiple levels in a real‐time, graphical comparative context. This
tool provides a flexible, easy‐to‐use method for the executive team to review development of
employees, departments, divisions, etc resulting in consistent application of standards. Any changes
made during the process are tracked, so a thorough audit trail is always available.
GlobalScholar Standards Research Based Model
The GlobalScholar Standards Research Based Model was developed to identify the most fundamental
competencies necessary for successful leaders and individual contributors. Based on industry best
practices, the GlobalScholar Standards Research Based Model contains ADDIE and SCORM content
development, training key standards, objectives and competencies, which typically enables
companies to cover an organization’s standard competency requirements. Based on the individual
function assigned, each key standard, objective and competencies provides the opportunity to have
hundreds of integrated development and coaching abilities and activity options. Additionally, for job‐
specific competencies, administrators can import their own existing competency framework, leverage
third‐party off‐the‐shelf content, or work with one of GlobalScholar’s content and development
partners.
Individual Development Plans
Employees can also use Pinnacle Corporate Suite to track personal development goals for career
planning. Individual development plans are also fully integrated with the Pinnacle Corporate Suite.
Learning Plan by Individual and Group for Career & Succession Planning
The Learning Plan by Individual and Group for Career & Succession Planning module enables you to
assess current talent and plan for the future. Development performance rankings and data on
employee potential can be gathered through skill and knowledge assessment or can be linked into the
Electronic Records Management Tool and Analytics Modules with an API to feed into the LMS Tool
from an existing performance appraisal. Supervisors and HR, with granted permission, can instantly
access an employee's current development, position summary, targeted learning plan and progress
along succession paths.
Employees can target multiple future positions and view gap analysis reports that detail
developmental needs to reach targeted positions. An online profile or résumé, created and
maintained by employees, supervisors and human resource administrators, can be accessed when
searching the employee database.
Pinnacle Corporate Suite Integration (Learning Management System Integration)
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company goals, align related learning activities from a performance appraisal, and rate skills and/or
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Special Features and Functionality:
Easy­to­Use Dynamic­User Interface
Pinnacle Corporate Suite users can expect to intuitively and accurately perform their functions on day
one — without in depth training. After thousands of hours of customer validated, user‐experience
testing, the interface balances Ajax and flash based user interface and feature set usability with a no‐
nonsense approach to making the most common tasks simple, efficient and comfortable.

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Pinnacle Corporate Suite
Comparative Tools
• User Rating – Pinnacle Corporate Suite’s user rating capability simplifies the rating process by
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enabling users to share qualitative and quantitative data. Employees and managers can compare the
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content and training of all of their employees at the same time via Analytics Tool or point and highlight
functionality. Analytics and user rating system not only saves time, but more importantly, promotes
consistent, data collection across the organization, which is critical for making informed business
decisions.
• Electronic Records Management Tool – The centerpiece of the Pinnacle Corporate Suite is the trainer’s
electronic records management book. You can record learner performance from trainings,
assessments, activities, job role and departmental projects, and update your data on a daily basis.
Integrating learner development information from all sources, the Pinnacle Corporate Suite is the
home of all development‐based data, from work attendance records, to eligibility for job role programs
or assistance. Password protection allows controlled access to learner information so that a learner’s
privacy is protected at all times.
• Analytics – Only GlobalScholar can offer this point and highlight real time data mine technology that
makes the development management system more intuitive, easier‐to‐use, and more effective for data
accuracy. Multiple functions within the software are more intuitive, including: rating content, rating
employee training, assessing skills gaps, standardizing and customizing employee development
performance and empowering employee achievement.
• Standards Based Lesson and Assessment Alignment Tool – Pinnacle Corporate Suite provides a
powerful standards and alignment tool that allows insight to view data and individuals across multiple
supervisors in a comparative context. This tool provides a flexible, easy‐to‐use method for the
executive team to edit and approve ratings given to employees, resulting in consistent application of
standards. Any ratings changes made during the calibration process are tracked, so a thorough audit
trail is always available.
Powerful, Flexible Administrative Toolset
GlobalScholar understands how much time and effort goes into directing development management processes.
Nobody matches GlobalScholar on its ability to shape processes and eliminate manual performance tasks. For
example, GlobalScholar’s reporting tool allows administrators to visually develop multiple reports in a visual
interface without any technical intervention and save to a favorite’s folder. The user can see a graphical
representation of the report, without having to run or print it – a cost and time savings. And menu options,
workflows, and notifications are also highly configurable. That’s just the tip of the iceberg. In the end, everyone
can focus on what matters most—coaching and development.
Configurable, Integrated Email Reminders
Pinnacle Corporate Suite provides a refined, robust yet easy‐to‐use email notification module, which reminds
users of events, milestones and deadlines related to development processes. Email notification pushes
information out to the users' e‐mail inboxes, keeping them fully aware and communicated. The automated email
functionality is fully integrated into the system workflow and can trigger email notifications without requiring
administrative intervention. Users have full control over content and mailing lists, as well as how and when
notices go out. Add to this the collaboration module resident throughout the LMS and communication is easily
accomplished and managed.
Integrated Adaptable Workflows
GlobalScholar believes that employee development activities should not be isolated as separate processes.
Organizations cannot succeed at developing tomorrow’s leaders or solving talent shortage issues by only
aligning goals, providing assessments, or scheduling learning activities in isolation. Only GlobalScholar
integrates the data from these modules, with its real time Analytics and Records Management Module,
organizations can integrate processes themselves.
Dynamic Development Plans
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Reporting and Analytics
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Jay@GlobalScholar.com Pinnacle Corporate Suite reporting functionality gathers integrated data from multiple modules for
sophisticated analytics. GlobalScholar is constantly updating its standard library of hundreds of graphical, easy‐
to‐interpret reports in three general categories: Individual, Operational and Executive. Pinnacle Corporate Suite
dashboards provide information at a glance to any audience you choose.
Systems Integration
GlobalScholar has years of experience extracting and exchanging data with all kinds of systems, including most
data based systems and the in‐ house systems. On an ongoing basis, your Pinnacle Corporate Suite –dashboards,
reports and other functions may include performance‐related data from external systems based on your needs.