A Practical and Powerful Tool to Get People Interested in KPIs
July 26, 2016 by Stacey Barr | Leave a CommentFiled Under: Getting Buy-in, Getting Executive Support, Getting Started
Filed Under: Getting Buy-in, Getting Executive Support, Getting Started
Seth Godin wrote a great little piece called Show Your Work,about why we should show people our work before it's done, before it's perfect, before it's ready. This invites their collaboration, and better work is the result. Do you do that when you work on KPIs?
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Getting Buy-in
Weasel words are the enemy of measurability. When a goal is written with them - agile, benefits, capacity, diversity, efficiency, fit for purpose, holistic, livability, productivity, sustainability, and so on - that goal is impossible to meaningfully measure. But yet there is often resistance to removing those weasel words.
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Getting Buy-in, Making Strategy Measurable
To 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
Problem: You have to sit down with your team, and work out your performance measures. You want it to be collaborative and fruitful, but you're dreading it because in the past it's generally been cumbersome and futile. Solution: You have to do something different.
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Getting Buy-in, Getting Started, Meaningful Performance Measures
One of the biggest objections to measuring performance is the perceived effort and time it will take to do it. Is it true? Is the benefit of measuring not worth the burden? (more…)
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Are you holding back from better performance measurement because your leaders aren't open to it, or because your colleagues are too busy, or because your organisation isn't ready for it? What's really holding you back is YOU and not them...
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Getting Buy-in, Getting Executive Support, Getting Started, Performance Leadership
Guest author Jerry Stigall, Director of Organizational Development at Denver Regional Council of Governments, has written a guest post on what to say when they say "we're not measuring that because it's outside our control".
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Getting Buy-in, Getting Started, Meaningful Performance Measures
If you don't have time to measure what matters, poor performance will continue to use up more of your time. Here are 5 strategies to give a higher priority to measurement.
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Getting Buy-in, Getting Started, Performance Culture
We want people to be engaged - or have buy-in - to performance measures so they will support the implementation of those measures, and use them to improve performance. But dragging them to KPI meetings and presentations, and loading them with lists of measures to review, rarely gets true buy-in. Solution: the Measure Gallery.
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Getting Buy-in, Getting Executive Support, Performance Culture
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