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In small business, time is always in short supply. You know you have to measure what you want to achieve, but you don't want to go out of business by turning too much of your attention to measuring it.
There are a few simple principles that can help you have meaningful measures without too much time or effort, and the following resources may be of some assistance:
ARTICLE: Start with these 5 basic performance measures
If you want to keep your number of measures to a minimum, then try these 5 basic performance measures. Spend as little time as possible tailoring them to your business; spend more time pilot testing them. You'll save time, and learn tonnes more about the best measures for your business through getting started with something, rather than waiting until you've designed the best way to measure.
ARTICLE: If you think you're too busy to measure...
When you're too busy to measure performance, you're actually too busy NOT to measure performance. You need to improve performance, or you'll stay too busy (and performance will just keep sliding). So finding the time to measure performance is not about finding some spare time hiding somewhere. It's about deciding what you're going to *stop doing* to free up some time!
ARTICLE: Save time by knowing when NOT to measure...
We're always talking about why it is so critical to have performance measures, what is most important to measure, how to design meaningful measures, how to measure the intangible things. But there is a lot of value to knowing when measuring something just isn't the best idea - and that will save you a lot of time!
RESOURCE: Focus on just one goal at a time (not free)
This digital kit (which you can download as soon as you've purchased it) will step you through the process of designing and implementing just a few performance measures for one of your goals. A great way to pilot test a fresh and common sense approach to measuring. Read more about Getting Started With Performance Measures now.
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