Are your performance reports stacking up unused in piles on your desk or bookshelf, instead of 'stacking up' as great food for your decision-making?
--> How-to Kit: How to Design Useful and Usable Performance Reports

Overview:

Unfortunately, many performance reports are filled with extensive narrative and tables of statistics and numbers. When information is presented this way, it means that the only way to glean the important information from the report is to read it all. Who has the time to do this, especially when reports are 10, or 20 or even 60 pages long!

You can spend 5 minutes reading through the statistics in a table to determine the direction of a trend in a performance measure, or you can spend 5 seconds looking at a well designed graph of the same set of statistics, and get an even more valid answer!

It's just so important that your performance measures and KPIs are communicated clearly, succinctly, engagingly and in a way that facilitates decision making and performance improvement. No matter whether your reports are paper-based, web-based or dashboard-based, you need to appreciate how to design them so they are clear, succinct, engaging and actionable.

This How-to Kit lays out, in easy to follow instructions supported by examples and a powerful report template, the essential elements of designing the content, structure and layout of performance reports that make performance measures easier and faster to use.

How it helps you:

The benefits of using this How-to Kit to help you design your performance reports are many:

• remove useless clutter from your report, by making conscious choices about what information types will answer the questions you need to answer about business performance

• make the report faster to read and use by making your information in the report more visually digestible, and organising the report so it has a familiar logical structure

• more validly interpret your performance results by including traffic lighting rules - based on valid statistical tests of differences in your data - that direct your attention to where it is needed most

• focus on results that need your priority attention first, rather than robotically reacting to each individual performance measure, irrespective of its current importance and urgency

• enjoy the task of reviewing performance, but giving your reports a signature design that makes the most of colour, layout and formatting

Who it's for:

• Performance measurement practicitioners and consultants who lead and facilitate teams to create and use KPIs or performance measures.
• Corporate Planners who facilitate strategic or operational planning sessions and want to be sure that performance reports support the execution of strategy and review of performance results.
• Business Analysts who want to be proactive in assisting their managers and clients get the most out of their measures via powerfully designed performance reports.
• Managers who want to create the kind of performance reports that will inform their decision making easily and quickly.
• Project Officers who want to measure the impact of their initiatives, goals and project outcomes.

What's included:

• Easy to follow instruction booklet, well organised, easy to follow and in colour
• Resources including templates, examples and handouts to use with your team and make implementation easy and quick
• Bonus audio of Stacey's exclusive interview with Stephen Few, author of "Information Dashboard Design" and "Now You See It"

Complementary products:

These how-to kits work together in a process of identifying which results to measure, designing the measures, defining the details for how to measure them, and reporting measures for use in decision-making and performance improvement:

• How-to Kit: How to Make Your Strategy Measurable
• How-to Kit: How to Design Meaningful Performance Measures
• How-to Kit: How to Define Your Performance Measures

Save more than 25% with all 4 How-to Kits:

This is just one of four How-to Kits (the other three are listed just above). The four work together to step you through the essential steps of measuring what matters.

You can save heaps by purchasing all four How-to Kits together for $297AU - and you'll also get a copy of my e-book Making Graphs Useful as a free bonus. That's a saving of over 25%.

Order all four How-to Kits here...

More information:

Learn more about this how-to kit, and designing measures, in this 3 minute video (if the video doesn't appear, make sure you've unblocked ActiveX controls in your web browser):

** Please note: All How-to Kits are now DIGITAL ONLY **

If you have any questions about this product, please email us at info@staceybarr.com and we will respond within 48 hours (usually much faster).

Stacey Barr
the Performance Measure Specialist