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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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How to Understand Key Metrics in a New Industry

Tom Spencer

To help me understand these new numbers I use analogies based on my initial training to help me understand a new industry. All industries use numbers and metrics to describe performance, measure trends, and allocate status. Using the metrics for decision making. Competitors – How does the metric compare to direct competitors?

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How to Measure the Effectiveness of Corporate Training

LSA Global

Do You Know How to Measure the Effectiveness of Corporate Training? Although most believe that the ability to measure the effectiveness of corporate training is too challenging or too expensive, evaluating the impact and return on training investments can and should be done in the right situations. There is a better way.

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LSA Global Completes Instructional Design for Inexperienced Managers Training

LSA Global

Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced completion of a project for Instructional Design for Inexperienced Managers.

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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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Assessing Change Management Effectiveness: Essential Metrics

Epicflow

In this article, we’ll consider some essential metrics that can be used to assess the fruitfulness of change management efforts. . To assess the organizational performance, the following metrics can be used: . The assessment of individual performance may include the following metrics: . Metrics for Measuring Change Management.

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LSA Global Delivers Management Training for Scientists

LSA Global

Based upon new manager training best practices, people manager assessment data, and project post mortem feedback, the highly customized Management Training for Scientists was designed to address the myths, challenges, and success factors related to creating the conditions for teams to do their best work together. Job Relevance 98.2%