Performance Matters Blog

It was already beginning to happen. Shoppers, though they didn’t realize there was a name for it at the time,...

Have you ever worried about the future of your job? Given that the unemployment rate in the US has jumped...

Business innovation used to be the preserve of disruptive new players in the market and organizations, such as technology or...

The needs of today’s learners are changing in challenging ways. On one hand, learners’ thirst for anywhere/anytime digital learning is...

L&D professionals are often still order-takers. Employees don’t know how to do something, so organizations use training as a Band-Aid...

It’s no surprise that innovation is a hot topic in the learning space. With new technologies, methodologies, platforms, processes, and...

A senior manager in a learning organization recently said, “The business is our most important client; they have the money.”...

For some time now, I’ve been talking about leadership mindsets, which I’ve defined as the mental attitude you bring to...

Innovation isn’t shiny – it’s about problems. When people talk to me about innovation, there is usually something shiny involved....

With applications ranging from organizational design to product development, a design-thinking approach lies at the root of some of the...

I am often asked to help organizations introduce digital learning. The reason they choose digital learning usually has to do...

We made it! The year 2019 is here and while each new year holds promise and a vision for what...

The Learning Technologies Ecosphere is a key part of the overall experience that we, as learning and development professionals, are...

The connection of innovation and mindfulness might, at first glance, seem antithetical. How could the introduction of something new and...

The challenge of unlocking innovation from within starts, first, with rethinking a significant misunderstanding we commonly hold about what it...

“The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change” —Heraclitus In few places is this old saying more appropriate than in...

This week, six new interns started at GP Strategies. We are thrilled to have them here for the summer, working...

The excitement of virtual reality (VR) has hit learning and development organizations. VR was once considered only for companies with...

Introversion Innovation While I am far from an expert in innovation, I can sometimes come up with a creative approach...

It seems wherever you turn, people are talking about innovation. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines innovation as “a new idea, method,...