How to leap over barriers to performance

Is there an anti-performance movement afoot? Reinhart addresses that question and whether the HRD profession can afford to move backward to focus again only on learning when it has made such brea kthroughs in the past 20 years. She asks, ''Can there still be people who d on't understand that learning is an integral part of performance, just not all of it?" Reinhart defines performance, poses a hypothetical situation in which a per formance improvement approach is needed, and dissects the process of perfor mance analysis and removal of any barriers. The steps are a review of the b arriers identified in the analysis, creating a prioritized list of potentia l solutions, developing action plans, and implementing, tracking, and analy zing such plans. Nothing new there in approaching a performance problem, bu t Reinhart goes on to detail what each step involves. The article also describes several critical questions to ask during your or ganization's next performance analysis and development process, and offers suggested actions.