Performance Matters Blog
- February 17, 2023
Maintaining Business Continuity: 7 Tips for Organizations of All Sizes
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
The Ultimate Guide to Emergency Preparedness and Management
Thinking about emergency situations and how they might affect your organization is not always at the top of your mind....
- April 8, 2022
Five Organizational Change Management Trends for 2022
As Organizational Change Management (OCM) continues to evolve, key areas are trending as major focal points that practitioners and executives...
- April 6, 2022
Strengthening Your Technical Workforce
The technical workforce is often saddled with the responsibility of the most difficult – and often most dangerous – jobs...
- January 14, 2022
The Evolution of eLearning for the Modern Learner
Back in the day, eLearning started as a way to get information out to a large audience, and it proved...
- January 7, 2022
4 Steps to Improve Your Engagement
Resolutions for Personal and Professional Achievement Full disclosure: A version of this blog appeared nearly a decade ago. Its principles...
- December 30, 2021
GP Strategies’ Top 10 Resources of 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: Best Practices to Elevate Virtual Learning Delivery
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
Addressing the Technology Skills Gap in Aerospace and Defense
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
Rebuilding, Reskilling, and Reenergizing the Commercial Airline Workforce
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
The Power of STEM Roles
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
Why a Continuous Training Program is Essential
Any professional can tell you it’s critical they keep up with the latest knowledge in their field or they risk...
- May 28, 2020
Understanding the Relationship: Asset Management to Asset Performance Management
There are various schools of thoughts on what asset performance management (APM) is and how it relates to asset management...
- December 20, 2019
6 Steps to a Whole New Technical Organization
The start of a new year has people turning to diets, fitness, and self-improvement initiatives with the concept of a...
- 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...
- July 25, 2019
Designing Technical Training With Precision
As the workforce continues to change, age, and retire, with new employees taking the place of long-serving technical workers, training...
- 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...
- July 22, 2019
Improving Your Operator-Driven Reliability Strategy
There is an old saying in the restaurant industry: when the food or service begins to break down, management or...
- June 13, 2019
The Disaster Recovery Reform Act of 2018
Natural disasters, oftentimes unavoidable, can have a catastrophic impact on individuals, communities, and the world. Following a significantly disruptive hurricane...
- May 29, 2019
Seeking Validation in Learning
The traditional implementation of a learning management system (LMS) is a solved problem domain. There is a certain amount of...

