My current understanding of Human Performance Technology is using data to track people’s performance or progress toward completing job standards or skills. Technology is also used to create training that is performance-based to teach the necessary job-skills. I have managed a team in retail, and I have worked as a staffing supervisor for substitute teachers. I have had many conversations with people about the need for performance improvement. I understand how clear those conversations need to be. People need to understand the description of the job, the expectations, and standards, what they are being measured against, and how they will be measured on an ongoing basis. In this course, I would like to learn more about the tools and data available both to measure human performance and to help people improve their performance. I expect to contribute my personal experience and talking points to this class. In this course, I want to learn more about planning evaluation. We took one course on evaluation, but I want more practice creating a performance plan or training with evaluation in mind from the beginning. I want to work in organizational development, and human performance is a big part of professional and organizational development.