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Dana Robinson is a recognized thought leader in the areas of performance consulting, strategic partnering, and human performance improvement. She has co-authored seven books with her husband, Jim Robinson. The most recent is the Performance Consulting, 3rd edition, co-authored with Jack and Patti Phillips and Dick Handshaw. Dana is currently lead performance consultant with Handshaw Inc. and can be reached at dana.robinson@handshaw.com.

Dana Robinson

To mark ATD’s 75th year, we’re talking to industry experts. In this installment, Dana Robinson offers clear insight into some of the trends making an impact on the field of performance consulting.

Analytics Skills Core to Performance Consulting

Findings and recommendations on performance improvement plans from an ATD's research study.

Why Performance Improvement Is Essential

If you want to boost performance in your organization, develop your performance consulting skills.

6 Insanely Brilliant Questions That Boost Performance

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January 2018 TD Authors: What's on Your Bookshelf?

What it takes for the talent development function to become a strategic partner.

Transitioning From Order-Taker to Impact-Maker

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Chain of Evidence

According to Dana Robinson, performance consulting is a strategic process that produces business results by enhancing performance of both people and the infrastructure of the organization.

Performance Consulting: Today and Tomorrow

Dana Robinson details four actions leaders need to take to ensure the investment made in learning yields impact to the organization.

Performance Consulting Tips: What Are You Doing to Ensure Skills Transfer to the Workplace?

Each year, learning and HR solutions are implemented with minimal performance change or impact. This is because performance improvement requires the implementation of multiple solutions—single solutions, such as learning, rarely result in the desired performance change.
Performance consulting is a process designed to achieve business results by maximizing the performance of people and organizations. But what do people who work as performance consultants actually do? How is this different from more traditional approaches to talent development? And how do talent development professionals successfully adopt this methodology?
In this webcast, Dana Robinson and Chris Adams will answer these questions. After participating, you will be able to:

Define performance consulting and why it is a strategic—not tactical—process.
Describe the two components of the mental model used by performance consultants when they discuss requests for learning and other solutions.
Ask powerful questions when responding to a learning solution request.
Identify three proven practices for transitioning to a performance consulting approach.

  

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