Organizations have been struggling to set and measure their goals for as long as the planning industry has been around. Add the rapid growth that can occur in tech companies and goal setting can become even more difficult. […]
By the time I came across the PuMP® Performance Measure Blueprint and it’s creator, Stacey Barr, I had already been in the workforce for 20 years, become vice president of a 500 million dollar company, worked at an Olympic games and consulted for five years. […]
Leaders seem to invest an inordinate amount of time in developing strategy and plans, but neglect to provide a systematic approach and direction for their employees to successfully execute and measure the impact. Yet, more and more leaders say they want to make more evidence-based decisions. […]
Do you struggle to get the right measures on your KPI dashboard? Well, you are not alone. One of the most frequent questions I hear is “How do I build a KPI dashboard that people will use?” […]
You know what they say, don’t you? If you want a different result you have to change your approach. If you want performance measurement to be easier, faster, more engaging, more meaningful AND to hit more targets, you have to change your approach. […]
Have you heard people throw out terms like Key Performance indicators (or KPIs for short), metrics, indicators, and measures? And have you secretly wondered what they really mean? Truthfully, this performance measurement business can seem like a complicated world but, it doesn’t have to be. So, let’s start by simplifying a couple things: First, all [...]
Four simple steps to improve the execution and performance measurement of your strategic goals Want your teams to deliver more impact and do less “busy work” in 2017? Then K.I.S.S. (keep it simple and specific) your goals! Why is it important to keep your goals simple? Easier for teams to connect to emotionally (and care [...]
Gloria Loree is the Executive Director for Global Marketing at Canada’s tourism national marketing organization. Gloria and nine members of her team and agency attended the Vancouver PuMP® Performance Measurement Blueprint Workshop earlier this year. After a few months of working with them to de-weasel their strategic plan, build a results map and design more [...]
Want your team to remember your Strategic Plan? Have them draw it! When executing a strategic plan, leaders universally complain of the lack of early adoption. Leaders thought it might be the size of the strategic plan, so the “one page strategic plan” emerged. Leaders summarized that if there is less information to read, employees will be more likely to remember and apply it. […]
When you look at your organization’s performance report is it bursting at the seams with measures that get responses like “Hmmmm, that’s interesting” or “So What! What does counting that tell me?” Perhaps the report is more likely to be ignored than read at all. Why does this happen? Often it’s because the report has [...]
