No kidding! I really just created and ordered The T-Shirt.

Back in my guest appearance on David James’ Learning & Development podcast in 2020, I said I wouldn’t hold my breath about the awakening or Pivot to Performance in L&D.

David just published an article in Forbes magazine – here – Going From Learning Provision To Performance In L&D – and is one of today’s champions of Performance-Based Instruction/ Training/ Learning.

There are others who champion this notion of Performance – but we are a tiny minority overall – across the population of L&D Practitioners and Leaders.

As someone who was “schooled” in a Performance Orientation in T&D (as it was called back in 1979 when I joined the field/profession).

And that Performance Orientation starts with Analysis or Discovery or Figuring It Out or whatever you need to call it in YOUR CONTEXT.

For example, in a manufacturing enterprise, they might call it Requirements Definition. In a merchandising enterprise, they might call it Marketplace Analysis – or something along those lines.

Get out your erasers, and color me hopeful. Because…

Maybe “we can get THERE from here” – and maybe, just maybe, we can/will begin to answer Rummler’s lament – in his article that was first a foreword for a book in 1969, that – “We Can’t Get There From Here” – and we will act as Performance Technologists.

This was back when “technology” meant “application of science,” not digital stuff or computer stuff.

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Go for Performance!

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