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Training/HR Insights   January 2007
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Linking Your Department to Overall Corporate Growth Strategies
How to add value for successful strategy execution

Learning leaders in high-growth organizations should proactively support that growth by linking the department’s strategies to the business. Although there are no standardized approaches for accomplishing this, experts at CEP agree that learning leaders need a keen understanding of their company and its workforce before making the necessary critical decisions. These decisions should be made based on a thorough understanding of the growth strategy, an analysis of the organization’s current workforce capacity and an assessment of the workforce’s strength and weaknesses.
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How to Sequence Learning for Maximum Impact
Our development tool helps reduce training time and frustration

The order in which skills are taught can make a big difference in how well (and how quickly) your students master course objectives. A skill hierarchy is a simple yet powerful tool that allows you to determine the most effective and efficient way to sequence your course. How? By arranging learning by the skills taught, not just the tasks learners will be asked to perform.
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Improving the Usefulness of Competencies
It takes more than competencies to transform performance

Many organizations develop competencies as a means of defining job performance. These competencies are usually high-level descriptions of desired behavior, such as “displays business acumen” or “works as a team player.” While these sets of competencies are customized for each organization, they are often so general that they could be applied to any management job in any industry. Most important, because the competencies are written in such vague terms, they don’t help guide desired performance.
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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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