How Focusing On Variation Frees Up Your Capacity
November 11, 2014 by Stacey Barr | Leave a CommentWork stress, projects behind schedule, and low productivity are all symptoms of an underlying problem with workload variability. You'll feel it as some months you can't get the important things even started, and other months you're pushing productivity past the redline. The solution lies in measuring the variation in workload, and not just the amount of it.
Five Steps For a Fast Performance Dashboard
October 3, 2023 by Stacey Barr | Leave a CommentMany (most?) KPI performance dashboards fail to inform, because people jump the gun and focus too much on the app and not nearly enough on the KPIs. (more…)
4 Ways to Measure and Monitor Progress
November 1, 2016 by Stacey Barr | Leave a CommentFiled Under: Improving Performance, Performance Measure Frameworks
What is a Performance Gap?
October 25, 2022 by Stacey Barr | Leave a CommentEvery KPI or performance measure linked to your strategy will have a performance gap. Find out what it is, how to calculate it, and what to do with it. (more…)
Filed Under: Getting Buy-in, Improving Performance, Setting Performance Targets
Performance Measurement Metaphors to Get People Engaged
October 27, 2020 by Stacey Barr | Leave a CommentPerformance measurement is a left-brain concept. But more people can become engaged when metaphors translate that concept for the right brain. (more…)
Filed Under: Performance Culture
How Does Each Step of PuMP Create Great KPIs?
January 11, 2022 by Stacey Barr | Leave a CommentPerformance measurement is a process. And when the steps of that process work well, like PuMP, we can easily create great KPIs. (more…)
Filed Under: Uncategorized
When You Don’t Have the Right Data, Use a Proxy Measure
December 10, 2015 by Stacey Barr | Leave a CommentHave you ever designed a new performance measure - a powerful one you felt excited about - and then discovered the data you needed was not in the right format or detail? Of course you have! It's a common challenge when you decide to measure something more deliberately or more meaningfully than you have in the past. But don't let the data problems put an end to your powerful new measure!
Filed Under: Data Collection and Integrity
The Story In Your Performance Data
November 10, 2020 by Stacey Barr | Leave a CommentYour performance data is trying to tell you a story you'll never hear unless you can ask it these 7 questions. (more…)
Filed Under: Analytics and Data Analysis, Improving Performance
How to Measure the Performance of Webcasts
March 14, 2023 by Stacey Barr | Leave a CommentMy team and I host a lot of webcasts as part of our engagement process. Here's the story about the results we want, how we measure them, and how performance is tracking. (more…)
Filed Under: Example Measures & KPIs