{"id":1023,"date":"2006-11-09T22:06:59","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T22:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/performance-improvement-vs-learning\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:04:58","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:04:58","slug":"performance-improvement-vs-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/performance-improvement-vs-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Performance Improvement vs Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Performance <span>improvement<\/span> is generally the intended outcome of learning, right? So, why do we tend to address them separately? People are far more likely to ask me if I am learning a lot in school versus whether my performance as an instructional designer is improving &#8211; which should be the desired outcome, right? However, I haven&#8217;t jumped on the &#8220;performance improvement&#8221; wagon <span>myself<\/span> and I&#8217;m trying to figure out why. Everything I have read so far regarding performance improvement makes sense, but I can&#8217;t shake the perception that it applies in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispi.org\/\">transfer of knowledge \/ work setting context<\/a>. Anyone care to share your opinion? <br \/>\n<!-- technorati tags begin --><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:right;\">technorati tags:<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/performance%20improvement\" rel=\"tag\">performance improvement<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/learning\" rel=\"tag\">learning<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Performance improvement is generally the intended outcome of learning, right? So, why do we tend to address them separately? People are far more likely to ask me if I am learning a lot in school versus whether my performance as an instructional designer is improving &#8211; which should be the desired outcome, right? However, I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-learning-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3107,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions\/3107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}