Five KPIs for Christmas?

December 21, 2010 by Stacey Barr | Leave a Comment

It's not called the Silly Season for nothing. Christmas - as it's celebrated in Australia at least - means scorching Summer sun, crowded air-conditioned shopping centres and agonising deliberations about cold salads or hot roast for Christmas dinner. It also means gift shopping, my personal Nightmare Before Christmas. What would it look like to measure such madness?


IN THIS EPISODE: Article: How to Rebut 3 Common Objections to Measuring Performance. Q&A: Does linking salaries and rewards to performance change people’s attitudes and behaviour to ensure effectiveness? Quick Tip: What to do when you don't have the buy-in to start measuring performance.



It's obvious to most people why people who work in the strategy office, or even in quality or process improvement roles, need to have some degree of performance measurement skill. But that's not sufficient if your goal is to have a consistent approach to selecting performance measures throughout the organisation that keep everyone focused on what really matters in achieving the organisation's s...



If there's still some uncertainty or cynicism about performance measurement in your organisation, I'd suggest don't rush in and try and implement a corporate-wide performance measurement approach all at once. You'll probably get more traction if you get started with performance measurement using a pilot project.



Possibly at the root of all objections people have to measuring performance and having KPIs is their beliefs about why we do it. Before you can successfully overcome all the other typical objections people have - like not having the time, not knowing where to start, not seeing the need for it - you need to be sure first and foremost that people understand the real reasons why we measure perform...


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