Regency Apartments Selects Grace Hill, Inc. for Custom Course Development

July 11, 2012 - PRLog -- Grace Hill, Inc., a leading provider of online education and learning management solutions for the multifamily housing industry, today announced that Regency Apartments selected the company to develop its new online employee orientation course designed to meet specific company objectives.

An award-winning owner, manager and developer of apartment communities, Regency Apartments currently manages 17 properties in Illinois and Indiana and now employs over 100 associates.

“As our company has grown, we recognized the need to not only streamline our on-boarding process but also the importance of communicating our core values, history and philosophy in a consistent manner when welcoming new employees to our company,” said Teresa Kelnhofer, Vice President of Human Resources and Administration for Regency Apartments. “The employee orientation course Grace Hill created has exceeded our expectations and is helping to achieve our goals, saving our HR team valuable time and improving our human resource processes.”

Regency’s online employee orientation course was developed by Grace Hill’s in-house expert development team including design, animation, illustration and web development. The 30-minute course offers a variety of interactive components, hi-def video and critical HR compliance features to collect electronic employee acknowledgements for code of conduct, fair housing and anti-harassment policies.

“Grace Hill professionally designed the course with our goals and employees in mind,” commented Maggie Sprague, Media Specialist for Regency. “Their team provided the needed guidance and expertise to create an impactful, meaningful introduction to our company; all Regency employees are taking the orientation which has received excellent reviews.”

“Partnering with our clients to help them deliver their unique and company-specific training messages is very satisfying,” said Kara Rice, Grace Hill’s Chief Information Officer. “We truly enjoy helping our clients to improve efficiencies in their learning and development programs by moving their messages online.”  Regarding the Regency Apartments project, Ms. Rice remarked, “The Regency Apartments executive team has a very inspiring message to deliver to their new hires; we help them to do that in a dynamic, engaging way. What’s been surprising about this project is that we designed their orientation course for newly hired associates, but the Regency Apartments team is so enthused about it that even their senior associates are completing the training!”

About Regency Apartments:  
Regency Apartments, headquartered in Champaign, IL, owns and manages 17 apartment communities with nearly 3,150 apartment homes in Illinois and Indiana. Regency employs over 100 people working in its corporate office and three regions—Illinois, Bloomington, IN and Evansville, IN. For more information, visit http://www.regencyapartments.com.

About Grace Hill, Inc.:
Grace Hill, Inc. is a privately held company founded in November, 1998 and headquartered in Augusta, GA.  Grace Hill, Inc. is the multifamily industry’s leading provider of state-of-the-art online education, providing training alternatives that significantly reduce the overhead of educating employees and clients.  In addition to offering various course titles to the public via the Apartment Management Learning Center, Grace Hill’s in-house development team creates customized training solutions for individual clients, including property owners, managers and suppliers. The company also offers a custom-built, private-label Learning Management System, Vision.  For more information, call toll free (866) GRACEHILL (866-472-2344) or visit http://www.gracehill.com.