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Measuring Right: Understanding Goodhart’s Law

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If you don’t frame your metrics right, they can distort behaviors. Narrowly defined targets can become proxy of the goal while ignoring several other factors that contribute to accomplishing the real and meaningful outcome. Over to you: How would you manage metrics so that they enable right behaviors?

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Metrics: Are They Mapped With Your Business Objectives?

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Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Metrics: Are They Mapped With Your Business Objectives? You can measure almost anything in your business, but if those metrics don’t serve a real business objectives, they are just numbers with no real meaning. Identify metrics : What metrics can effectively help you meet your goals?

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Quality: Setting Right Goals

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Most improvement initiatives are heavily focused on internal goals – increasing productivity/efficiency, eliminating waste, reducing defects/costs and so on. Processes around these goals are written and implemented. People are trained, tools are implemented, energies are directed and everyone starts working hard to meet these goals.

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SHRM India Top HR Influencers 2022 Edition

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The list is compiled by an independent agency to analyze online activities through the lens of metrics related to frequency of sharing, reach of ideas, engagement with their content and topical focus. After all, influence is never a goal in itself. More about what leadership influence really means here.

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Optimize the Whole

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If your metrics are narrow, you will never be able to focus on systemic metrics that may really help your business and the customer. When you have narrow functional metrics, people in each function will work hard to achieve their goals and yet, organization will not realize benefits of having such metrics.

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Developing Leaders: Why Training Interventions Fail?

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Leadership development efforts are not aligned with strategic goals and leadership development programs are oriented around commercial products that have limited relevance to actual needs or an organization. Use of incorrect “make-believe” metrics to gauge effectiveness of leadership development programs.

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Building a Business Culture That Works for Everyone: An Interview with Diane K. Adams

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Every leader and every employee must continually ask the question, what’s the newest and best way to accomplish a goal–whatever that goal might be. At Qlik we regularly do full-blown culture assessments with the help of metrics and organizations like the Great Place to Work® Institute. Adams] Very. Leverage your talent.