Performance Matters Blog
Corporate Performative Allyship: It’s Hurting Your Bottom Line
Many individuals and organizations claim to be allies, but not all are genuinely committed to supporting marginalized groups. Performative allyship,...
Mergers and Acquisitions: How DE&I Seals the Deal
Leading an organization through a merger or acquisition can feel like spinning plates before a live studio audience. Trying to...
Organizational DE&I and Personal Allyship for Cynics
Over time, diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) efforts have become pillars of many companies’ mission statements and communications. Everyone wants...
Employee-Led Development: The Key to Engagement
GP research consistently shows the impact of employee engagement on productivity, turnover, and employee well-being. Because of this, organizations worldwide...
4 Elements of Leading High-Performing Teams
Due to COVID and its aftereffects, your team may look a lot different than it used to. Organizations have upsized...
Leaders in New Roles: Is There a Crisis of Confidence… or Competence?
In our work with clients, we often use a conceptual phrase to frame the skills necessary for good leadership: competence...
Well-Being Conversations: Why Should Leaders Bother?
As GP’s vice president of leadership development, I have unsurprisingly been taking part in a lot of conversations about employee...
The Reality of Extended Reality in Learning and Development
What Is Extended Reality? Extended reality (XR) is a catch-all term for virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed...
It’s Crunch Time: What’s the Future for L&D?
You can find transformation everywhere. From how we travel via apps, to how we cook using YouTube, and even down...
Seven Learning Trends to Adopt and Develop in 2022
Failure can become our most powerful path to learning if we’re willing to choose courage over comfort. —Brené Brown Organizations...
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...
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...
Choosing the Right Mentor
I have a confession to make: I once had a mentor that I didn’t like all the time. She could...
The Paradox of Progress, the Pandemic, and Women in Leadership
Women’s history month comes to a close at what feels like a turning point for women in the workforce and in leadership. It’s a confusing…
Connect First, Coach Second
If you want a coaching culture, work to make sure your people aren’t robots, that they’re not too serious, and that they’re not forgetting that…
Create a Coaching Culture in 10 Minutes
It is imperative that managers learn the skills and develop the abilities to be effective coaches, but once they do, coaching can be done in…
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,...
