Atlanta, GA (March 2003) - CEP Press received three awards in 2003, making a total of eight awards in just two years for the young, independent publisher. The recent announcement came from the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI), who gave Awards of Excellence to each of CEP Press' three 2002 releases. After exclusively publishing the works of Robert F. Mager for five years, CEP Press became a full-service publisher in 2001. Since then, CEP Press has released six new titles, each of which has now earned awards from various publishing and professional associations.

The latest winning titles consist of How to Make Smart Decisions About Training: Save Money, Time, & Frustration by Paul G. Whitmore, Ph.D.; The Bottomline on ROI: Basics, Benefits, & Barriers to Measuring Training & Performance Improvement by Patricia Pulliam Phillips and Series Editor Jack J. Phillips; and Turning Research Into Results: A Guide to Selecting the Right Performance Solutions by Richard E. Clark and Fred Estes. Each of these books earned the 2003 ISPI Award of Excellence for Outstanding Instructional Communication. This award recognizes outstanding books that enable individuals and organizations to achieve excellence in workforce performance.

"We'd like to congratulate our authors on this meaningful accomplishment," said CEP Press Publisher Suzanne Joyce Lawlor. "You can imagine what an amazing experience it is to work with nine such talented individuals. With each new title, we simply continue to attract more and more positive recognition for CEP Press and its authors. Our readers have really begun to associate our name with books that are of the highest quality and practicality."

The following titles, released by CEP Press in 2001, earned the 2002 ISPI Award of Excellence for Outstanding Instructional Communication: Conquering Organizational Change: How to Succeed Where Most Companies Fail by Pierre Mourier and Martin Smith, Ph.D., Making an Impact: Building a Top-Performing Organization from the Bottom Up by Timm J. Esque, and The Business of Winning: A Manager's Guide to Building a Championship Team at Work by Robert Evangelista.

In addition, ForeWord Magazine awarded Conquering Organizational Change the Bronze Medal in their Fourth Annual Book of the Year Awards, while The Business of Winning was named one of two finalists for the Independent Publisher Book of the Year Award for Business.