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A Quick Guide to Essential Project Management Metrics

Epicflow

This is where project management metrics come into play – they provide project managers with useful insights as to a project’s “health”. What are these metrics, what are they used for, and how to calculate them? What are project management metrics and why do you need them? What are the most common project management metrics?

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Unemployed Agilists: Review the Hype Cycle & Your Agility to Help You Manage Future Job Changes, Part 4

Johanna Rothman

Instead, we can invite them to change, by showing the value with the pirate metrics. Yes, do start with the pirate metrics (from Dave McClure's 2007 talk ) so you can focus on the value you can provide. And use the flow metrics so you can see progress. See this post on my other blog: Where Are You in Your Changes?

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Key Components for Effective Coaching and Feedback from Managers at Work

LSA Global

Key Components for Effective Coaching and Feedback from Managers at Work Clear Goals and Expectations Our organizational alignment research found that strategic clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performance. Earned Trust Covey defines trust at work as having confidence in someone’s character and competence.

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It’s Time to Make Business School Research More Relevant

Harvard Business

Researchers have found that managers tend to be unaware of research-supported management insights reported in academic journals, and that such insights are typically excluded in practitioner-oriented journals. Relatedly, managers tend to hold on to long-held assumed truths that often management scholars’ studies have dispelled.

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Better Performance Improvement Plans

LSA Global

Our organizational culture assessment research found that the success of a Performance Improvement Plan largely depends on its design and execution. Do your managers know how to set clear goals and success metrics with their teams? Clearly defined metrics and regular assessments provide tangible evidence of progress.

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Top 10 Steps to Better Design Strategy Success Metrics

LSA Global

Top 10 Steps to Better Design Strategy Success Metrics Workplace metrics impact workplace behaviors and performance. Designing the right strategy success metrics can mean the difference between a leadership team collectively steering toward its strategic targets and veering off course. Makes sense right? Wells Fargo opened 3.5

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How to Measure the Effectiveness of Corporate Training

LSA Global

Let’s look at the research and a proven model to measure the effectiveness of corporate training. The Research: Measure the Effectiveness of Corporate Training The research on the impact of corporate training is sobering. Ideally, you and your key stakeholders should agree upon one or two key success metrics that matter most.