Employee Performance

Breakthrough performance in Literature:

Basho Matsuo is regarded as the first great poet of Haiku—an ancient form of poetry that has endured for centuries. Haiku conjures a powerful mental image in the reader’s mind in three short, free-form lines:

an ancient pond / a frog jumps in / the splash of water
[Basho 1686]

Basho was a master at striping away all of the non-essentials or interferences of the world and encapsulating the essence of a single moment. Haiku flawlessly executed exemplifies simplicity on the far side of complexity.

InsideOut’s front line products and services are designed to help employees achieve breakthrough performance. All of our offerings are built on the same principles that govern Haiku: help people strip away the non-essentials; find the simple essence or core; generate breakthrough power through focused attention.

Front Line Performance Offerings

Breakthrough Performance: Tools for the Front Line

Help your Front Line employees apply a simple process to consistently achieve breakthrough results … on demand! This engaging and easy-to-implement program helps employees improve performance and personal accountability, increase engagement, and develop trust with peers, co-workers, leaders, and managers. read more

Keynote for Front Line Audiences:

Engage and inspire your employees to achieve their full potential. This compelling keynote address helps them understand the key elements of human performance and how to reduce interference and focus on the things that produce breakthrough results. read more
Jane Semrow, director of workforce relations at Thrivent Financial for Lutherans wanted to help her team members cut through the clutter and find the core tasks that would yield results. Her organization offered InsideOut’s Breakthrough Performance: Tools for the Front Line to employees. She explains, “I realized that this was something different than anything I'd experienced. It was simple and applicable, yet profound. It just worked.”