How Can Metrics and Professional Development Work Together?

I’ve worked with several organizations that have developed an either/or mindset – either metrics / or professional development. Metrics are important. It lets the organization know how they are doing. 

I’ve found it’s usually the mindset and behaviors of leadership that surround the metrics that need to change, not the metrics, or at least not all of them. 

Here is an article I wrote devoted to how these two critical pieces can work together.