Performance Matters Blog
- May 19, 2020
Reskilling Dealerships for the New Normal from Surviving to Thriving
No one could have predicted the ways in which 2020 would expose organizational vulnerabilities while simultaneously forcing those same organizations...
- April 30, 2020
In the Future of Work, Learning Is Beautiful
I have seen the future, and I want to tell you about it. For the last few years, I have...
- April 21, 2020
Future-Prepare Yourself with Transferable Skills
Have you ever worried about the future of your job? Given that the unemployment rate in the US has jumped...
- April 17, 2020
Virtual Design Thinking: Can It Work?
Overnight your world has shifted. You have experienced an accelerated workforce transformation from in-person to virtual. Everyone is adjusting to...
- February 7, 2020
Webinar Q&A | 5 Learning Trends for 2020: Rehumanizing L&D for the Workforce of the Future
The needs of today’s learners are changing in challenging ways. On one hand, learners’ thirst for anywhere/anytime digital learning is...
- January 15, 2020
The Gift of Being Wrong
Some of us found our way to L&D because we were happiest in the classroom, while others are here to...
- October 13, 2019
Train Your Brain (and Avoid Brain Drain)!
As a learning practitioner, I often think about what I do in my life outside of work to learn new...
- September 4, 2019
Decision-Making Hacks for Leaders
Consider this—some sources indicate that the average person makes 35,000 decisions a day,* so the ability to make decisions quickly...
- August 20, 2019
Workforce of the Future – Workforce of the Past
We spend a lot of time focusing on the workforce of the future and our needs as a business to...
- August 5, 2019
Even Socrates went to the Marketplace: Soft Skills for ISDs and Other Thinkers
Like many intellectuals and creatives, we ISDs tend to be a bunch of beautiful eccentrics. That’s a great thing: our...
- July 23, 2019
Bridging the Skills Trade Gap: Ways to Ensure Future Success
The most pressing issue facing North American manufacturing is the lack of qualified technical labor. According to the U.S. Census...
- June 6, 2019
Using Design Thinking to Be Better L&D Business Partners
A senior manager in a learning organization recently said, “The business is our most important client; they have the money.”...
- May 23, 2019
Leadership Mindsets: How a Leader’s Attitude in Four Key Areas Can Drive Innovation
For some time now, I’ve been talking about leadership mindsets, which I’ve defined as the mental attitude you bring to...
- April 16, 2019
Design Thinking: Risks and Rewards
With applications ranging from organizational design to product development, a design-thinking approach lies at the root of some of the...
- February 1, 2019
If You Love Your Learners, Let Them Choose: The Case for Pull Learning
For too long, training has been synonymous with tedious WBT sessions that learners click through and forget. They won’t retain...
- January 10, 2019
Leading Future of Work Transformations: The Five Key Strategy Elements
There is a lot of speculation about what the future of work will look like, feel like, and function like....
- November 1, 2018
Three Traits of Adaptable Leaders
“The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability.” ~ Charles Darwin Change is inevitable. Leaders...
- October 3, 2018
The Learning Technologies Ecosphere: Creating a Sustainable Strategy
The Learning Technologies Ecosphere is a key part of the overall experience that we, as learning and development professionals, are...
- May 1, 2018
How to Capture Innovative Thinking from High Performers
It seems wherever you turn, people are talking about innovation. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines innovation as “a new idea, method,...
- February 15, 2018
Five Things Learning Professionals Want
Hint: It’s the same five things every other worker wants. No one would argue that competitive compensation, good health insurance,...

