Aflaj Al Khaleej

PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

“WHAT GETS MEASURED, GETS DONE.”

Goal

CREATE PERFORMANCE

MEASURES THAT ACTUALLY HELP

YOUR BUSINESS.

Why have metrics?

Creating your metrics

Balanced Scorecard

Monitoring

WHAT TO EXPECT?

Are you already using them?

Importance of metrics

What do you already know?

Red flags

WHY ARE METRICS IMPORTANT?

Do you have a goal?

Do you motivate your employees with targets?

ARE YOU ALREADY DOING THIS?

Keeps daily activities on track with strategy

Goals are motivating

Benchmarks help with trend analysis

Employee engagement

WHY ARE METRICS IMPORTANT?

The best measures are obvious

This is easyThis can be delegatedFocus is needed Tying measures to pay is the only way to motivate

Measures always increase performance

Measures are in place to ensure staff are spending their working hours on the right activities

FACT OR FICTION?True

True

Do you have over 100 measures?

Are measures selected by an individual?

Are there measures that have resulted in dysfunctional behaviour?

Are measures implemented without a cost analysis?

Is there cynicism about performance measures?

RED FLAGS

Have a team to select

Measure things that matter

Select measures that measures multiple areas of the businessExample: measure profit versus only revenue or cost

TOO MANY METRICS IS HARMFUL

How is this used already?

What do you already know?

Importance of metrics

Red flags

WRAP UP: WHY METRICS?

KPI Definition

Human Behaviour

Strategic Alignment

Critical Success Factors

How to Create Measures

CREATING METRICS

What’s A KPI?

MEASURES THAT FOCUS ON CRITICAL

FACTORS FOR TODAY’S AND TOMORROW’S

SUCCESS.

= KEY PERFORMANCE

INDICATOR

Action orientedImpactfulTied to a teamKPIs are supported by management

24/7Daily / weeklyNon financially basedMotivating

A KPI MUST BE…

Human Behaviour

Balanced & Strategic

Known Critical Success Factors

Create Measures

Monitor

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THE PROCESS

Lawyers are measured by the number of cases

closed

How could these metrics go wrong?

HUMAN BEHAVIOUR

Penalties to a truck driver on being late

How could these metrics go wrong?

HUMAN BEHAVIOUR

FinancialCustomerInnovationInternalStaff orientedEnvironment

BALANCED & STRATEGIC

.

THE SMALL BUSINESS SCORECARD

Financial • Revenues, assets, sales, expenses, profit margin,

Customer • Customer service levels, close rates, retention rates, prospects

People • Retention, delegation, succession, recognition, training, recruitment

External Environme

nt• Awards, branding, partnerships,

public awareness, charitiesContinuous Improveme

nt• Innovation, training

Operations • Technology, processes

‘Need to haves’ in the organization

Related to strategy

Easy to understand

Agreed upon in a team

5-8 maximum

CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS (CSF)

Engagement with staffRecruiting the right

people all the timeDevelop peopleInnovate dailyGrow leadersMake decisions

slowly, implement rapidly

Always deliver on time

CSF EXAMPLES

Find commonalities between CSF

Find a way to measure

Measure with a range

CREATE MEASURES

EXAMPLES

Critical Success Factor Metric (KPI)

Engaged staff Staff missing training over next 2 weeks, reported daily

Grow leaders Number of recognitions in past 2 weeks

Innovation # planned for next 30 days -90 days (reported weekly)

METRICS EXAMPLES

# of customers who ordered in XX weeksDate of last customer interaction

# of quality problems found# of new initiatives completed# of feedback survey initiatives completed# of times a caller hangs up# of times a customer is transferred

time it takes for a problem to be resolvedtime between workplace accidents# of times that a phone call isn't answereddate of next eventnumber of applications for job posting% of staff working part-time# of recognitions and awards in last 2 weeksfeedback on recruitmentlength of service by staff# of positive press releases

debtors over 30 days/90 daysnumber of overdue projects % of key work carried out by contractorslast update of each webpagenumber of invoices paid latenumber of strategic relationships

number of employeesnumber of finished projects this month% of time spent on qualitytime spent on innovationimprovement in productivityunplanned versus planned maintenancedate of next innovation to key services% of employees below age xx% of employees with IT literacynumber of training hours booked

% of managers who are women% of cross trained personnel

KPI Definition

Human Behaviour

Strategic Alignment

Critical Success Factors

How to Create Measures

Examples

REVIEW: CREATE METRICS

OBJECTIVES:

Implementation

Reporting

Abandonment

MONITORING

Roll out into team performance measures

Test measures for behavioural alignment

Change or remove measures where appropriate

IMPLEMENTATION

Use visualizationSimplification Frequency

Daily reports to team

Weekly updates to management

REPORTING

Stop creating unread reports

Remove KPIs that aren’t reviewed or changing

Remove KPIs that are harmful, duplicated, or unnecessary

ABANDONMENT

Implementation

Reporting

Abandonment

WRAP UP: MONITORING

Goal

CREATE PERFORMANCE

MEASURES THAT ACTUALLY HELP

YOUR BUSINESS.

Why have metrics?

Creating your metrics

Balanced Scorecard

Monitoring

WHAT WE COVERED

“WHAT GETS MEASURED, GETS DONE.”