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Master your Metrics

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Mastering your metrics means knowing which measures best reflect the root cause of results. In a sense, traditional financial performance metrics like profit margin are blunt instruments when it comes to answering “why” questions. Changes in customer engagement or satisfaction metrics. So, how does a business measure relevance?

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More to Success than Money and Metrics

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He mentioned making money three times, and improving metrics four times, in response to Marie’s questions. Metrics and money.”. Aren’t you interested in metrics and making money?”. “I Money and metrics tell me our business is doing well, but they aren’t the reasons we’re in business.”. Quantitative Metrics.

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3 Ways to Create Meaningful Goals to Increase Engagement and Trust

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Andrew Carnegie told us that “if you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.” There is some debate these days over whether breakfast is so important, but there is no debate about goals. I am not saying that you don’t know that goals are important.

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Building a Mentoring Culture in Your Organization

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Once you have a role, you can add goals and metrics for success. Think about metrics such as surveying junior staff. Or, setting the goal that a junior position will learn at least one new skill within their field each month. Mentorship creates a healthy feedback culture.

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5 Tips to Be an Effective Time Leader

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Set goals for each day, week, and month, and then be ruthless in tracking these metrics. Be courageous and stay with it, as the more you focus on these metrics, the more energy you will put into achieving them—and then within a short period of time you will experience rapid results. Track Your Results.

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Leadership is a Process!

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Define the metrics you will use to measure progress. The goal is alignment. Get everyone on the same page pursuing a set common set of goals. Build relationships—get to know your people—their interests, family, key accomplishments, frustrations, and career goals. Tips for a successful implementation. Build momentum.

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Preview Thursday: Intelligent Disobedience

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Many, if not most, orders to do the wrong thing concern meeting numerical quotas or goals. He argued against tying job performance ratings and monetary rewards to numerical goals. At this writing, the pressure to meet numerical performance goals is roiling the entire education profession.