There are at least three good reasons why your authenticity as a performance measurement practitioner really matters. Do you know what they are? (more…)<...

Most performance measurement systems are never fully brought to life because of poor performance culture change management. The following prompts are a framework to design your performance measurement system, acknowledging that it is a change process, just like any other initiative your organisation faces in the spirit of continuous improvement and adaptation.

We all know that what you measure influences people's behaviour. So if you want people to collaborate to improve corporate performance, rather than compete to improve personal performance (often at the expense of corporate performance), measure for collaboration, not competition.

Measuring what matters is more important than most things we do. Here are 21 ways to become more conscious of what you can stop doing, to make time for performance measurement. (more…...

It's time to take performance measurement and management seriously. We've wasted too many years playing around at the edges of measuring performance in our organisations. Debating over what kind of scorecard framework to use. Investing in dashboard software because of the bells and whistles and flashing traffic lights. Measuring things just because we ...

5 Stars -- The Social Side of Performance Measurement This has to be the absolute best book I have read in this field of performance measurement.

5 Stars -- Smashing those unchallenged assumptions about appraisal

If you grapple with performance appraisal, then it might be worth thinking through the assumptions that you have built your performance appraisal system upon. And that's how Tom and Mary's book can help. They describe a series of assumptions that most performance appraisal systems are based on, and the...

Buy-in is that state when people are committed to something, when they are convinced of its worth for them and no longer have objections or fears that get in their way of adopting it. It’s when they feel a sense of ownership about it. Most of us want our people to feel this way about KPIs and performance measurement, but we don't realise that we might actually be getting in the way of b...