Yes, your organisation is unique. But don't use a tailored KPI approach to find better measures; use a better KPI approach to create tailored measures. (more…)
Break outdated and useless KPI habits by using memes that are quick and easy ways to remember the principles to meaningfully measure performance. (more…)
A common reason for avoiding performance measurement is that the culture isn't ready yet for KPIs. But the right process of performance measurement can be a fast-acting catalyst for culture change, bringing together purpose, focus, feedback, ownership, collaboration, learning and improvement more quickly and easily.
Evidence-Based Leaders have a certain spirit that other leaders do not. This spirit comes from their ability to both bear and bare the undiluted truth from KPIs about what isn't working; to have more tolerance for accurate bad news than inaccurate good news.
When measurement is done to people, the wrong things change. But when measurement is done through dialogue, it dignifies everyone, and the right things change.
Buying KPIs from online libraries or hiring experts to develop them might seem like the best way to get the right ones. But it only perpetuates the problem and fixes nothing. (more…)