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Recession-Proof Your Organization
Transform it into a performance-based enterprise now.

The odds are rapidly building that the economy is on the verge of recession. At the beginning of the year, many economists placed that chance at less than one-in-three; a majority now claims the chances have climbed to 50-50 or higher. Goldman Sachs, the biggest Wall Street investment bank, has stated that a recession is inevitable this year.
 
During recessionary times, it becomes more and more important for organizations to embrace performance-based solutions. Only through these solutions will an organization become more effective – people do what you want them to do – and efficient – people perform their assigned tasks in the least amount of time.

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Steps To Becoming A Performance-Based Organization
Many organizations are taking two steps at a time to establish and communicate a strong business strategy, and many are turning to Criterion-Referenced Instruction. CRI guarantees that every learner will be able to demonstrate competency in each and every skill needed to meet management's expectations for job performance.
 
Unlike academic training; which only closes skill gaps; CRI provides clearly stated performance objectives, includes only what is needed to perform to expectations, and meets the specific needs and characteristics of learners. As a result, success is measured by key business measures, not the number of courses offered.
 
Here are some tactical steps we recommend to clients who want to become performance-based:

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Case Study
CRI Culture Change In A Leading National Insurer

A leading national auto insurance company was seeking a credible and relevant learning methodology that produced measurable results. Their current academic-style learning and development strategies simply weren’t working; those strategies provided information overload that focused on extraneous knowledge, not performance.

This client had two goals in mind: to set clear and achievable measures of performance throughout the organization and to hold departments and individual workers accountable for achieving previously unreachable results by changing the learning culture. In short, the client was seeking an effective and efficient way to ensure significant return on its training investment.

As a result, this national insurer contacted CEP. We helped them transition from an activity model, where success is measured by the amount of information provided, to a performance model, where success is measured by key business results that better serve internal business partners.


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CEP specializes in advising Fortune 500 organizations on how to link one of your largest assets, your people, to business results. We help organizations align workforce performance with business strategy and bottom line results.

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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.
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