What’s the Improving Human Performance Track All About?

Interested in Improving Human Performance? Attend the Improving Human Performance Track!
The 2023 Global TapRooT® Summit is being held on April 24-28 at the Margaritaville Lake Resort, Lake Conroe, near Houston, Texas. There are eight best practice tracks. This article explains what you will take away from the Improving Human Performance Track.
When you combine the Improving Human Performance Track at the Summit with the pre-Summit Stopping Human Error Course, you have a one-two punch to energize and reinvigorate your efforts to improve human performance.
What? You don’t have a human performance improvement program? Then you definitely need to attend the Stopping Human Error Course and the Improving Human Performance Track.
What’s in the Improving Human Performance Track that will help you improve human performance? Read on…
Human Performance Improvement Track Sessions
Here are the sessions that make up the Human Performance Improvement Track:
- Digital Procedures: What Management Needs to Consider Before, During, & After Adoption | Dr. S. Camille Peres
- Advance HOP Techniques (HOP 2) | Alex Paradies & Kevin McManus
- Using TapRooT® to Improve Learning Teams | Alex Paradies
- Sharing Human Performance Improvement Best Practices | Reb Brickey
- NASA Lessons Learned From a Spacewalking Incident | Chris Hansen
- How to Stop Non-Conservative Decisions | Alex Paradies
- Building a Roadmap to Success | Rick Hulse
- Using TapRooT® for Positive Outcomes | John Beam
- How Admiral Rickover Built the First High-Reliability Organization | Mark Paradies
Please Note: You can customize your Summit experience by choosing sessions from one of the seven other best practice tracks if one or two of the sessions in the Improving Human Performance Track aren’t right for you.
Alex Paradies is the Track Leader

Alex Paradies is an:
- Experienced TapRooT® Instructor
- Lean Transformation leader,
- Materials Engineer
- With experience in manufacturing, who
- Studied human factors at the University of Tennessee and the University of Michigan, and
- co-developed the Stopping Human Error Course with Mark Paradies
and will help you get a completely new understanding of human error when you attend the Stopping Human Error Course and the Improving Human Performance Track.
After the Stopping Human Error Course, this track will add even more best-practice knowledge for you to take home and put to work when you develop a custom human performance improvement plan.
Here is why Alex thinks you should attend the Improving Human Performance Track…
Doesn’t that sound like an outstanding set of sessions to help you improve human performance at your facility?
But Wait, There’s More!
The Improving Human Performance Track is an important part of the Summit, but the Summit is so much more.
Pre-Summit Courses
We already mentioned the Stopping Human Error Course that you can choose to attend to start the Summit week. But if you’ve already attended the Stopping Human Error Course, there are nine other courses to choose from being held on April 24-25:
- TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis Course
- Equifactor® Equipment Troubleshooting & TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis Course
- Effective Communication Certification
- TapRooT® Evidence Collection and Interviewing Techniques Course
- Measurement, Trending, and Predictive Analytics: How the Best Use Data to Improve Work
- Getting the Most From Your TapRooT® Software
- Audits and Proactive Improvement Using TapRooT®
- TapRooT® Executive Leadership Course
- 2-Day Risk Assessment and Management Best Practices
All of these courses are full of valuable knowledge and techniques that you can put to work in a performance improvement program. Click on any title above for details about that course.
Keynote Speakers
Next, during the Summit, we have five outstanding, insightful Keynote Speakers…

CLICK HERE for a complete description of their presentations.
Anyone interested in human error should surely want to attend RaDonda Vaught’s session about her experience with the criminalization of healthcare human error.
Networking
Next, the networking at the TapRooT® Summit is amazing. People often say that even though the best practice sessions and the Keynote Speakers are great, networking is the most valuable aspect of the TapRooT® Summit. You can learn so much from your peers.

CLICK HERE for a quick reminder of why networking at the Summit is so important.
Fun!
Finally, I can’t talk about the important features of the Summit without mentioning how FUN the Summit is. We think that making the Summit fun actually improves the learning experience.

How do we make the Summit so fun? I think it starts with the great people who are TapRooT® Users and TapRooT® Instructors at the Summit.
Then there is the Wednesday night reception.

Plus, the Margaritaville Lake Resort is a really fun place to hold the Summit.
REGISTER NOW!
Pull out all the stops to attend the Summit and a pre-Summit Course. Your company needs to improve human performance, and you will take home a great deal of new knowledge you can put to work.
Don’t wait. Get approval to attend and REGISTER NOW!

CLICK HERE to register one or more people and take advantage of the Summit and pre-Summit Course discounts.
