Performance Matters Blog

  • February 17, 2023

As an emergency-management professional, I’ve seen companies big and small face the same fundamental challenge over and over: how to...

  • September 16, 2022

Thinking about emergency situations and how they might affect your organization is not always at the top of your mind....

  • April 8, 2022

As Organizational Change Management (OCM) continues to evolve, key areas are trending as major focal points that practitioners and executives...

  • April 6, 2022

The technical workforce is often saddled with the responsibility of the most difficult – and often most dangerous – jobs...

  • January 14, 2022

Back in the day, eLearning started as a way to get information out to a large audience, and it proved...

  • January 7, 2022

Resolutions for Personal and Professional Achievement Full disclosure: A version of this blog appeared nearly a decade ago. Its principles...

  • December 30, 2021

Leadership & Learning Strategies for Workforce Transformation 2021 has taught us the importance of being flexible. Our traditional assumptions about...

  • December 2, 2021

Virtual instructor-led training (VILT) became the go-to format as many organizations were faced with making decisions on how to move...

  • June 16, 2021

Though the next generation of aerospace & defense workers have grown up with modern technology, how can they gain knowledge that can only be acquired…

  • May 11, 2021

As travel picks up again, airlines are going to need to staff up. But how will the knowledge and skills that dropped out of the…

  • November 6, 2020

A STEM profession isn’t something I put a lot of thought into early on in my own career. It wasn’t...

  • July 10, 2020

Any professional can tell you it’s critical they keep up with the latest knowledge in their field or they risk...

  • May 28, 2020

There are various schools of thoughts on what asset performance management (APM) is and how it relates to asset management...

  • December 20, 2019

The start of a new year has people turning to diets, fitness, and self-improvement initiatives with the concept of a...

  • August 20, 2019

We spend a lot of time focusing on the workforce of the future and our needs as a business to...

  • July 25, 2019

As the workforce continues to change, age, and retire, with new employees taking the place of long-serving technical workers, training...

  • July 23, 2019

The most pressing issue facing North American manufacturing is the lack of qualified technical labor. According to the U.S. Census...

  • July 22, 2019

There is an old saying in the restaurant industry: when the food or service begins to break down, management or...

  • June 13, 2019

Natural disasters, oftentimes unavoidable, can have a catastrophic impact on individuals, communities, and the world. Following a significantly disruptive hurricane...

  • May 29, 2019

The traditional implementation of a learning management system (LMS) is a solved problem domain. There is a certain amount of...