Impact Achievement Group Debuts Performance Advantage SimSeries™

Provides companies flexible leadership training for employee performance management

SEATTLE – June 3, 2007 – Impact Achievement Group, Inc. announced its Performance Advantage SimSeries™, a comprehensive way for corporate managers to learn the leadership skills to effectively manage employee performance.

The company will demonstrate the Performance Advantage SimSeries at the ASTD Conference and Expo, June 3-6 in Atlanta, at booth #336.

The Performance Advantage SimSeries includes the company’s five proven leadership training and communications modules. The series includes Principles of Effective Leadership™, Performance-Based Management™, Performance-Based Coaching™, Managing Workforce Discussions™, and Performance Problem Discussions™.

Corporations can use the SimSeries in a variety of training environments standalone e-learning courseware for both new and remote managers; a way for managers to review and practice leadership skills that motivate employees; and as a blended learning tool with managers in Impact Achievement Group’s live training series, "The Performance Advantage™."

"The Performance Advantage SimSeries provides corporations tremendous flexibility to provide immediate skills development for new managers, or seasoned managers to improve their present practices," said Lee Klepinger, president. "In order to create the best solution for our clients, we partnered with Success Sciences, Inc., an industry leader in choice-based, voiced-based simulation eLearning. The use of their proven, robust technology provides a dynamic learning environment for all participants."

The SimSeries’ highly interactive learning environment engages participants with choice-based content, case studies, activities, and tests, plus interactive voice-based simulation drills. All elements are designed to ensure comprehension and mastery of the most critical leadership skills for managing employee performance.

The Principles of Effective Leadership helps managers effectively navigate the four fundamental principles of performance leadership. They learn to align behavior to address the gap between managers’ words and actions – the primary cause of workplace cynicism. Managers learn to effectively leverage their time and influence for the best performance results. The course also debunks the false motivational assumption that morale is the road to high performance, and teaches managers what motivates their best workers. Finally, participants learn how to make employee accountability a key management tool.

In Performance Based Management, managers immediately apply useful diagnostic tools and fundamental principals in a ‘best practices’ performance management process. They learn to apply the four basic principles of effective performance management. In addition, managers are taught to accurately diagnose the cause and take effective actions for performance problems.

In Managing Workplace Discussions managers avoid bad communication habits and reinforce time tested communications skills to increase employee engagement in the organization’s goals and objective.

Performance Based Coaching helps managers discover the effective approaches in coaching employee performance. In Performance Problem Discussions managers learn to deal confidently and positively with conflict and performance problems. They also learn skills to preempt future difficulties and improve overall employee commitment and tenure.

About Impact Achievement Group

Impact Achievement Group provides assessment, coaching, customer loyalty and leadership development training that focuses on employee selection, retention, employee engagement and customer engagement. By integrating and blending the world's best assessment and recruiting processes, workshops and eLearning training, coaching and measurement programs, Impact Achievement Group helps organizations improve human performance to achieve bottom line results.