It Doesn’t Matter Where You Start to Improve Your KPIs
September 29, 2015 by Stacey Barr | Leave a CommentTo make useful progress with KPIs, we have to get over our obsession with getting it right, doing it perfectly and waiting for all all the planets line up before we get started. We’d be waiting for ever. And one way to get over these types of procrastination is simply to start where the energy is.
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Getting Buy-in, Getting Started
How to Introduce Operational Teams to Setting and Using KPIs
December 11, 2018 by Stacey Barr | Leave a CommentAyça Tümer Arıkan shares with us the detailed process she used to engage and facilitate two operational teams new to setting and using KPIs. (more…)...
Filed Under: Getting Started, Performance Leadership
How to Move From Activity Measures to Outcome Measures
June 11, 2019 by Stacey Barr | Leave a CommentActivity measures are easier to identify and implement, but they aren't good proxies for outcome measures. Follow these 7 logical steps to move from activity to outcome measures.
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Aligning, Cascading & Linking, Meaningful Performance Measures
Seven Tips to Prepare Your Measures Team For Success
January 31, 2011 by Stacey Barr | Leave a CommentFiled Under: Getting Buy-in, Performance Culture, Performance Leadership
Podcast Episode #10 – Features of Fabulous KPIs
February 28, 2011 by Stacey Barr | Leave a CommentIN THIS EPISODE: Feature: One Thing That Matters More Than Finding the Perfect KPI. Q&A: How do you know when you have the right/wrong KPIs? Quick Tip: Results before measures. (more…)
Filed Under: Meaningful Performance Measures, Podcast
Make Measurement Meaningful
January 2, 2024 by Stacey Barr | Leave a CommentThis excerpt of the full white paper explains the missing piece to measure performance meaningfully. (more…)
Don’t Use KPIs in Employee Performance Appraisal
May 3, 2011 by Stacey Barr | Leave a CommentOur organisational culture has so strongly tied KPIs to employee performance that, despite no proof it works and overwhelming proof that it doesn't work, few are willing to stop using KPIs in performance appraisals.
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KPIs for Individuals (Measuring People)
Is Culture Really Too Intangible to Measure?
May 26, 2015 by Stacey Barr | Leave a CommentCulture is a word we use to describe the interplay of values, beliefs, attitudes and behaviours within a group of people. In organisations, workplace culture is one of the hardest things to measure. But we want to measure it, because we want to influence it.
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Example Measures & KPIs, Making Strategy Measurable, Performance Culture
Are Your Goals Measure-Worthy If They Are SMART?
April 4, 2023 by Stacey Barr | Leave a CommentDespite frameworks about what makes a goal worth measuring, like SMART, many of our goals are still not meaningfully measurable. Try these 5 questions instead... (more…)
Filed Under: Making Strategy Measurable, Setting Performance Targets