Performance Matters Blog
- April 30, 2019
Innovation Isn’t Always Shiny
Innovation isn’t shiny – it’s about problems. When people talk to me about innovation, there is usually something shiny involved....
- 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...
- March 27, 2019
Digital Learning: Look Up
I am often asked to help organizations introduce digital learning. The reason they choose digital learning usually has to do...
- March 15, 2019
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...
- 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 25, 2019
Leadership Essentials: Where Digital Dependence Meets Human Connection
At the heart of leadership development is the relationship between the leader and the individuals and teams being led. Because...
- November 16, 2018
Pause: The Power of Cultivating Space Between Words
“Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, … to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our...
- 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...
- September 25, 2018
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...
- August 8, 2018
Three Steps to Unlocking the Promised Benefits of Your Digital Transformation
The majority of transformations promise benefits; they are the reward for the effort taken to transform. In many cases those...
- July 26, 2018
The End of Flash: What It Means for Your Learning Assets and How to Prepare
With the news that Adobe will stop supporting the Flash Player plug-in at the end of 2020 and browsers disabling...
- July 25, 2018
Using Your New Technology as an Opportunity to Create an Agile, Fluid, & Well-Equipped Workforce
You have done your due diligence and examined both the needs of your organization and the strengths of potential enterprise...
- July 17, 2018
People: The Analog Connectors of Your Digital Transformation
Digital transformation is the transformation of business and organizational activities, processes, competencies, and models to fully leverage the changes and...
- June 5, 2018
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...
- May 31, 2018
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...
- May 2, 2018
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....
- 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,...
- March 14, 2018
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...
- March 5, 2018
Data Migration: Journey to the Cloud – Part 3
Welcome back! In my final installment of this three part series, I will cover the options available for Exporting data from Employee Central (EC) for…

