This month’s Professional Development webinar was on the topic of Metrics that Drive Action & Results.
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Members of my professional development program can download this webinar for free.
This is a very useful webinar to download if you are managing any type of project or program and:
- You need to see more urgency
- Your are not sure if your strategy is good enough
- If there is a gap between what you are measuring and the results you are seeing
- You need measures that will motivate the right behaviors in your team
- Want practical tools for managing project timelines more decisively
- Need to keep your team motivated and focused on the right things
Here is what we talked about:
How to test your strategy
In this webinar I covered the most common mistake that organization make with regard to strategy.
If your strategy is not concrete enough to be measurable, you will never be able to create good metrics and ensure execution.
I talked about how to test your strategy for concreteness, and make sure that you refine it to be measurable in a practical way that drives action.
The right metrics are critical to forward progress
Organizations often measure things that are easy to measure instead of measuring things that will get them the outcome that they want.
For example “number of bugs fixed” is a measure of a detail that is easy to measure, where “% of happy customers who are willing to repurchase or recommend,” while harder to measure is a much more valuable measure.
In the webinar, we talked about the difference between measuring details, or steps in the process and measuring the actual outcome you need.
While outcomes are harder to measure, putting the effort in gives you the right result. You are measuring what you want to see.
We talked about how to change bad (detail measures) into good (control point) measures.
Timelines and Urgency
Many leaders lament that they do not see enough urgency in their organizations.
If you want to see more urgency, schedule it!
In this webinar I share how to structure timeline as both an operational and communication tool to create the urgency and progress that you need to see.
Working backwards from the outcome
Whenever there is a new long term initiative, it suffers from the fact that it will take a long time to do.
Humans are not great at staying focused for the long term. New initiatives often die shortly after the exciting kickoff, when the hard work needs to be done.
Also when your organization thinks you have a year to get something done, the thing does not feel urgent in the first weeks and months.
The problem with this way of thinking is that when people think they have year to do something, they don’t start. They work on more urgent stuff in the moment.
Each week, each month, people feel like they have plenty of time to get to the long term thing.
The problem with this way of working is that you end up at the 10 month point with 12 months of work still to do.
In the webinar I showed how working backwards from the endpoint will result in a much more concrete action plan that will create urgency and keep people focused on executing the longer term, strategic projects, even when short term pressures arise.
The webinar:
I put together this webinar to give leaders ideas and specific techniques for creating metrics and timelines that drive action — Metrics that create the necessary behaviors to implement long term initiatives, instead of letting them die after the exciting kickoff.
The webinar covered how to drive momentum, urgency and progress.
From this webinar you will learn:
- The difference between good measures and bad measures
- Outcome oriented thinking and metrics
- The important difference between details and control points
- How to keep your team focused and motivated for a long time
This webinar is loaded with valuable resources
This webinar will give you many ideas for how to keep your team motivated and on track, reduce execution risk, and ensure forward progress.
And it includes important worksheets and templates for how to define and track control points and how to communicate timelines in a clear and motivating way.
Members: Download this webinar for free.
Non Members: You can purchase this individual webinar or podcast (links below).
More, useful webinars for motivating your team:
As a member, just around this topic of metrics, execution and team performance you can get these other related webinars:
- Leading Business Transformation
- Motivation, Deadlines and Commitments
- Good Strategy, Bad Strategy
- Increasing Team Performance
So if you are not yet a member, you might as well join and get them all for free!
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