Performance Matters Blog

Has it been a while since your last employee engagement survey? Are you ready to re-engage but don’t know where to start? Here are six…

Influencers are not for social media alone. We can identify influencers throughout our organizations and engage them to help us drive intentional change and further…

Read Leah's experience of becoming and being an ally when a good friend of hers came out, and how leaders can create an environment of…

I was born in Oklahoma. My parents and my sister were also born there. Most of my relatives still live...

The challenge―you want to move to a digital learning approach for leadership development, but you are concerned about keeping human connection alive. You need something…

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…

Amid all the loss we experienced in 2020, we have reasons to remain hopeful. The incredible advances in science, greater sense of community and the…

Creating a culture of career growth improves the odds that your workforce will be willing, ready, and able to move into the roles that you…

February 1 marks the beginning of Black History Month, which brings back memories of being in high school February 1986 and getting kicked out of…

If you manage employees, you need to talk to them. That's a no brainer, right? Yet manager-employee conversations are more of a myth than a…

I’ve spent the better part of the year talking and writing about resilience, personal and organizational engagement strategies, and future-proofing...

Turn the page on 2020. Leave it behind. It’s tempting to do. Millions of individuals worldwide have been infected. Thousands...

Ah, 2020. What can I say? It’s been quite a year. Australian wildfires, Kobe, the COVID-19 disease, the COVID-19 recession,...

Whether or not we’d like to admit it, we all carry bias. Built initially as a product of our instinctive...

In June 1999, President Bill Clinton proclaimed June as Gay and Lesbian Pride Month; 10 years later, President Barack Obama...

As organizations have become flatter and more matrixed, leaders across all levels of the organization must find other ways to motivate and influence their colleagues…

Leadership research conducted by GP Strategies uncovered the need for four particular mindsets to lead effectively: growth, inclusive, agile, and...

Perhaps no aspect of life is more altered by COVID-19 than the labor market. After ten years of nearly uninterrupted...

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…

While some have been monitoring the threat of COVID-19 for a while, for many, the gravity of the situation seemed...