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The road to hell is paved with metrics.

Markovitz Consulting

Michael Harris and Bill Tayler wrote a terrific article in the new Harvard Business Review on “metrics surrogation”—the tendency for people to mentally replace their business strategy with metrics. Although these metrics are supposed to reflect the company’s progress towards its goals, the focus on metrics can destroy an organization.

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The Anchor Metric – What is the C-Suite’s Ultimate End Game?

Actionable

As a course facilitator or consultant, if you want longevity in what you deliver, you need a strategy for elevating your clients’ perception of you beyond “content provider.” By knowing the C-Suite’s desired outcome, or, what we’ll call your anchor metric. ” How? appeared first on Actionable.co.

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The Anchor Metric – What is the C-Suite’s Ultimate End Game?

Actionable

As a course facilitator or consultant, if you want longevity in what you deliver, you need a strategy for elevating your clients’ perception of you beyond “content provider.” By knowing the C-Suite’s desired outcome, or, what we’ll call your anchor metric. ” How? appeared first on Actionable.co.

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The Leadership Ropes Course: Inspiring the Leap

Makarios Consulting

Leadership is a lot like a ropes course – you are confronted with challenge after challenge, each one testing your skills and giving you an opportunity for personal development and team growth. In this series, we are looking at elements of “The Leadership Ropes Course” that all leaders need to face – and master! Connection.

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The Leadership Ropes Course: Inspiring the Leap

Makarios Consulting

Leadership is a lot like a ropes course – you are confronted with challenge after challenge, each one testing your skills and giving you an opportunity for personal development and team growth. In this series, we are looking at elements of “The Leadership Ropes Course” that all leaders need to face – and master! Connection.

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Avoid a Delegation Trainwreck

Makarios Consulting

The end of the year came and the metrics were in line: they had achieved 25% sales revenue growth! As it was, she made plans and measured her team’s success based on one metric (total revenue growth), whereas the CEO had a combination of metrics in mind (total revenue growth + percentage of new clients). What happened?

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How to Use Corporate Training Metrics to Drive Value

LSA Global

Are corporate training metrics simply an exercise in futility that pleases training experts and HR but otherwise has no meaningful value to the business? Successful companies have learned that corporate training metrics have tremendous value in three areas: Helping to evaluate what matters (where to focus your efforts). What happened?

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