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
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
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
Measure Up reader, Srini, asks this question: "Is there a set of KPIs limited to 3-6 which can help ALL businesses and non-profits?" Most people ask questions like this when they're just getting started with measuring performance. So while you take the time to also learn the process of designing the best measures for your organisation, here's my sug...
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Many of us struggle to get the support and buy-in to establish a proper and deliberate performance measurement methodology in our organisations. The timing just isn't right, or you just don't have a compelling enough case yet. One way to get started is to practice your own advice, personally.
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Getting Buy-in, Getting Started, Performance Leadership
One mistake organisations make in performance measurement is to not have a real KPI methodology. They treat measuring performance as an ad hoc activity or event. But when you do adopt a performance measurement methodology, another mistake is to do too ...
Filed Under: Getting Started, Performance Culture, Performance Measure Frameworks
If your KPIs suck, even though you've long wished for better ones, it's likely that something is holding you back. That 'something' could be a very good reason, or it could simply be an excuse that you're mistaking for a reason.
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Getting Buy-in, Getting Executive Support, Getting Started
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