This document, which is part of a series of training materials explaining the benefits and use of performance-focused learning, examines the goal-based learning approach to education and training as a means of accelerating performance change. Each page of the document consists of a graphic and bulleted list of information pertaining to one of the following topics: changing performance; performance change curves; shifting the focus of education; knowledge and performance; comparison of learning environments; structure in a lecture-based environment; structure in a goal-based environment; developing a web of support for goal-based learning; typical support for goal-based learning; forms of goal-based learning; what goal-based learning is not; the paradox of goal-based learning as learning that is both flexible and consistent; developing goal-based learning; key lessons learned from goal-based learning; organizational readiness for goal-based learning; and other readiness factors. Contains 11 references. (MN)