Performance Edge
Training/HR Insights   March 2006
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Turning Leadership Competencies into Performance
Tips for Making Desired Performance Real

Many organizations have identified the need to build a stronger talent pool at the leadership level. For most companies, the first step is to identify a series of leadership competencies that describe desired leadership characteristics and traits. While competencies are useful as a starting point, much work must be done in order to translate these competencies into behaviors, and turn the identified behaviors into actual performance. Competencies alone don’t drive performance.
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Increase Training’s Value When Your Company Downsizes
5 Critical Actions You Can Take

With an uncertain economy and the continued popularity of mergers and acquisitions, downsizing and layoffs are something many companies are facing or will face in the near future. While downsizing is widely perceived as a viable means of improving financial and corporate efficiency, a series of studies, conducted over the past decade, have revealed the opposite is true.
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Changing Traditional Corporate Beliefs about Training
What You Can Do to Face the Challenge

There are still barriers for many of today’s performance improvement professionals. Foremost among these barriers are the very traditional beliefs about training shared by most corporate leaders—beliefs inconsistent with what we know about how people learn and what turns learners on and off. These beliefs are frustrating because they prevent the training organization from contributing fully to the organization’s business goals and strategies.
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CEP, The Center for Effective Performance, is the consulting leader in advising organizations on how to turn their workforce into a competitive advantage.  For nearly two decades, CEP has helped companies solve performance problems, develop training guaranteed to work, implement best practices, and create performance improvement strategies that translate into improved financial results.  As the world's leading practitioners of Dr. Robert Mager's research-based methodology, CEP delivers world-class, proven solutions that increase profitability and shareholder value.  Learn more about us at www.cepworkforceperformance.com.
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