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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. Decreasing productivity, increasing regrettable employee turnover. Product performance issues.

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5 Tips to Be an Effective Time Leader

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I got so much done, and this was just highlighted by the day my internet satellite was installed—and I suddenly got dragged back into the distractions of email and social media and had the least productive day ever. So, here are my top tips to help you create unbridled productivity. Turn Off All Notifications . Track Your Results.

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January 2018 Leadership Development Carnival

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Productivity. Business leaders have learned that ethical leadership transforms organizational metrics.” Shelley Row of Shelley Row provided Confessions from a Goal Setter on New Year’s Day. Shelley Row gives us a workable approach to prioritizing the important goals for the year. Beth Beutler of H.O.P.E.

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5 Essential Steps to Transform Any Group into a GREAT Team

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But his team is underperforming…and despite his focus on strategy and skills and metrics, he can’t figure out what is missing. 1) Goals and Gear. According to the guide, all GREAT teams begin with a compelling common goal that requires people to work interdependently as a small part of something more significant than themselves.

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This Strategic Pivot to Address COVID Will Help Your Business Thrive

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For instance, the manufacturing startup’s salespeople started to encounter difficulties selling their high-quality tech products. At the close of operations day, set the next steps for each new initiative discussed, then set metrics of success and allocate the approximate resources needed to get the initiatives going.

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The Leader’s Opportunity

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As I engage with senior leaders to learn how they view leadership, the concepts they provide are almost exclusively financial metrics. Do your products and services help improve the quality of life of customers? They embrace goals, tasks, and projects and commit to completing them “on time and under budget.” Commitment.

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May 2019 Leadership Development Carnival

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Your metrics will show. Ignoring it will only make matters worse, and will eventually impact team productivity, results, employee satisfaction, and the leader’s reputation. Here are ways you can ensure your company can get and keep good employees to meet your short and long-term goals. The answer is no.