Performance Matters Blog
- February 17, 2021
4 Strategies for Creating a Culture of Career Growth
Creating a culture of career growth improves the odds that your workforce will be willing, ready, and able to move into the roles that you…
- January 13, 2021
3 Conversations You Need to Have With Your Team
If you manage employees, you need to talk to them. That's a no brainer, right? Yet manager-employee conversations are more of a myth than a…
- December 24, 2020
8 Truths to Shape Your Success
I’ve spent the better part of the year talking and writing about resilience, personal and organizational engagement strategies, and future-proofing...
- March 17, 2020
Five Considerations for Managing Personal Engagement Now
As communities around the world respond to the coronavirus pandemic, many of us are facing jobs, communities, and homes that...
- September 20, 2019
Five Evergreen Strategies for Employee Engagement in the Future Workplace
Employee engagement is an organizational performance strategy. It’s also a highly personal equation: Every person has a unique relationship with...
- February 12, 2019
Can You Train Someone to Be More Engaged?
Spoiler alert: Not really. Engagement is an individualized equation, reflecting an employee’s personal relationship with work. There will never be...
- December 21, 2018
Have a Holly Jolly… Performance Review?
The first time I wrote about performance management, more than a decade ago, “Death, Taxes, and Performance Management” was a...
- October 11, 2018
Surveys: To Pulse… Or Not to Pulse…
I straddle the worlds of employee experience surveys, learning solutions, and performance improvement resources. No matter which “hat” I’m wearing...
- October 2, 2018
Don’t Let the Tail Wag the Dog And Other Engagement Measurement Lessons
Who doesn’t love trends? Digitization of the workplace, the Internet of Things, consumerization of the employee experience, and big data are just a few phrases…
- May 1, 2017
More Great Days at Work Start With You
The BlessingWhite X-model of employee engagement speaks to an organizational environment that allows employees to achieve maximum satisfaction, while at the same time making a…

