Performance Matters Blog
How Training and Succession Strategies Are Changing Technical Industries
Most organizations realize that success is heavily based on having the right people with the right skills in the right...
Digital Learning: Look Up
I am often asked to help organizations introduce digital learning. The reason they choose digital learning usually has to do...
Good Content Is the Foundation for Content Curation
“Content is king.” We have heard this phrase many times before. With the advent of new content curation technologies in...
Improve Your Data by Dropping These Five Poor Survey Questions
Oftentimes I hear that surveys are not a good way to collect feedback from learners. Or that people are getting...
Stop Buzzwords. Start Application.
We may be confusing the market, the learners, and ourselves. There was a time—not that long ago—in which I was...
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...
Personalization on the Manufacturing Floor
It is ALWAYS all about me. We can picture our kids saying this, we can stereotype millennials who want this,...
Blended Learning vs eLearning and Face-To-Face Training
A study from Towards Maturity, Beyond Blending: Improving the Impact of Formal Learning through Technology, suggests that the most successful...
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...
Evaluation Isn’t Hard When You Focus on Outcomes
People often say that evaluation of learning is difficult. It can be hard to measure the impact of training using...
Shifting to an “On the Job” Mentality: The key to maximizing the satisfaction of your L&D team
I have the awesome responsibility to share and evangelize how to integrate technology into training and learning experiences, using an...
Tools for a Better Data Strategy
Awhile back I was consulting on a project where the client wanted to apply more science to their decision-making. Though...
Don’t Assume Younger Learners Prefer to Learn Differently
“I know what I know.” The older and wiser we become, the more we stick with what we know and...
Learning and Collaboration Technology Conundrum – The struggle is real!
This week, six new interns started at GP Strategies. We are thrilled to have them here for the summer, working...
Webinar Q&A | Anchoring Your Content Curation Strategy
The future of work and the digital era is getting a lot of attention in today’s learning and performance space....
Webinar Q&A | Elite Teams: Developing Special Forces for Your Business
A majority of organizations often struggle with “siloed” behavior. Quite naturally, people and teams under pressure to perform focus on...
Ideating and Innovating: Could You Have This Conversation With Your Business Partner?
Imagine this conversation… The “Business Partner” (BP): I have this sales team. A clear differentiator between good and great sales...
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,...
Webinar Q&A | Augment This! Augmented Reality as Part of Your Learning Strategy
As learning professionals, we’re hearing about the realities more every day: virtual, augmented, and mixed. But what do we really...
Decision Before Data
In my consulting career I find that more and more executives are relying on data versus intuition to make business...
