IN THIS EPISODE: Upcoming Events: We've started but they're still registering... Practical Tip: Should You Measure Your Mission? Your Questions: Destry asks "How do you measure without work losing its meaning?" Getting More:

I love mantras. I love how they can carry a paragraph full of meaning in just a few words, and because of this be fabulous reminders of what matters. I have mantras for running ("light and quick, here and now") and mantras for dealing with setbacks ("onwards and upwards!") and - yes, you guessed it - mantras for measurement!

Following the performance measurement framework of PuMP®, this diagnostic tool will facilitate a discussion about how performance measurement currently stands in your organisation, and will broaden people's awareness of what good performance measurement is really all about. It contains clear instructions for how to facilitate the discussion, a rating scale to assess your current performance ...

Recently, one of my Performance Measure Blueprint attendees, Greg, sent me an email with the subject line "I thought you might get a laugh out of this - My first Measures Newsletter". (more…)

The people who make up your Measures Team aren't in it for the glory or the glamour. No, performance measurement can be a dirty job, particularly when you're faced with an organisation that stills sees it as threatening, boring and a bureaucratic waste of their time.

IN THIS EPISODE: Feature: 7 Tips to Prepare Your Measures Team For Success. Q&A: How do you build the motivation to improve performance skills and making them important to the staff? Quick Tip: Success loves speed.

Managers and Executives don't usually invest in performance measurement, they invest in the benefits that good performance measurement will bring them, so long as those benefits are relevant to what's on their radar right now. And that's the role of a good KPI business case: to show how better performance measurement can make it easier and faster to achieve their priorities.

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.

Accountability isn't the answer to underperformance. Performance can only improve with a relentless focus on finding solutions to the constraints that hold performance back. (more&...

Just as the principle of leverage can apply to many different situations and contexts, from bicycles to business process reengineering, the lessons I'm learning from my running coach, Rina, and other world-class athletes also seem to apply to my work as a Performance Measurement Practitioner. The pursuit of excellence in anything, it seems, is based on a core set of principles.