KPIs: Key Performance Indicators A-Z: Performance Management

The fundamentals of choosing, designing, implementing and presenting KPI Metrics and Dashboards in Business Operations What you'll learn:
Practical tools and techniques that will enable you to implement a robust set of KPIs
Align your KPIs with the bigger business objectives
Present your data in a clear and engaging way
Enforce real, effective change in your business by choosing which metrics you should be measuring
Transform your working practices, whether as part of a larger company or for your own venture
Create complementary metrics that will work together to ensure the best possible outcomes
Deal with objections and resistance from other team members who don’t yet understand the transformative power of a solid set of KPIs
Take control of your performance and understand what drives improvements
Level-up your data skills so you can move up the career ladder

Requirements
Only an appetite to improve yourself and enhance your performance metrics
A desire to implement a robust set of KPIs
Ready to experience the rush and fulfilment of improving your business operations with the right set of KPIs

Description
Why you can’t afford to ignore KPIs…

Key Performance Indicators are essential to anyone who takes their work, business or craft seriously. Whether you’re an individual focusing on career progression, or a multi-level organisation wanting to improve productivity in your teams, KPIs are one of the most effective business strategies for increasing productivity, growth and turnover.

KPIs give you valuable insights so you can review your current performance objectively and highlight all the opportunities for improvement. Whether you’re a start-up with a sharp focus on growth, or an analyst implementing a new reporting system, this course will level-up your data skills and help you get a solid set of KPIs up and running so you can drive performance and bring profound benefits to your team, business or organisation.

KPIs: The Road To Rapid Improvements

This course provides you with practical tools and techniques to plan and structure your KPI strategy so you can make informed business decisions and achieve high performance in all aspects of your organisation. From looking at what KPIs are and why we need them, to how to choose the right indicators for your business, we’ll also explore how to effectively present your data to get the maximum impact using clear and easy-to-understand charts, graphs and infographics.

From understanding the hierarchy of KPIs to learning how team leaders and department heads can ensure their performance indicators align to achieve the overall company objectives, this course will take you through evaluating existing metrics and highlighting some cardinal sins that you’ll want to avoid. This course will make you feel confident in planning, implementing and reporting your most important performance data.

Take the lead!

By the time you finish this course, you’ll understand how to select and implement a robust set of KPIs that best suit your business, allowing you to analyse performance, make adjustments and motivate your team to create change and achieve great things. A good set of KPIs will bring extensive benefits to every team looking to get more from their performance - and you’re now in a great place to take the leading role in making that happen.

About Laurence Gartside

Laurence Gartside is a management consultant and business operations coach with a master’s degree in manufacturing, engineering and management from the University of Cambridge. He has consulted for numerous major companies around the world and is the founder of Rowtons Training.

In this course, you will learn:

• Practical tools and techniques that will enable you to implement a robust set of KPIs

• How to make sure your KPIs align with the wider business objectives

• Tools to help you present your data in a clear and engaging way

• Choosing which metrics you should be measuring to enforce real, effective change in your business

• Find it easy to create a set of KPIs that will transform your working practices, whether as part of a larger company or for your own venture

• Learn how to create complementary metrics that will work together to ensure the best possible outcomes

• How to deal with objections and resistance from other team members who don’t yet understand the transformative power of a solid set of KPIs

• Take back control of your performance and understand what drives improvements and what might be holding you back from achieving your full potential

• Level-up your data skills so you can move up the career ladder

Start getting your business back on track with a set of KPIs that will increase productivity, growth and turnover and transform your organisation TODAY!

Full Course Contents

1. Introduction to Key Performance Indicators

Benzo’s Ice Cream - KPI Course Overview

Welcome

The Green Mayor Joke - Part 1

The Green Mayor Joke - Part 2

The Journey

Who uses Performance Metrics?

2. Who uses KPIs?

What are KPIs?

Do we really need KPIs?

Why do we need KPIs?

Mission, Vision, Strategy, Goals

Example

Hierarchy of KPIs

3. Business Performance Management

Business Performance - Introduction

Business Perspective - Metrics

Operations Perspective - Metrics

Operations Perspective - Examples

Metrics vs KPIs

Objectives & Key Results (OKR)

Progress, Plans, Problems (PPP)

4. Choosing and Evaluating Metrics

Choosing and Evaluating Metrics - Introduction

Good Metrics

Bad Metrics

The Cobra Effect

Dysfunctional Behaviours

Sub part Optimization ≠ System Optimization - Part 1

Sub part Optimization ≠ System Optimization - Part 2

Evaluating Metrics

KPIs aren’t everything

Important Concepts - Introduction

Leading vs Lagging KPIs

Integrated / Complementary Metrics

Balanced Scorecards

5. Implementation

Implementing KPIs - Introduction

Start with what you can control

Objection Handling

Objection Handling - The “Real” Objections

Visibility of KPIs

Telling a story (with KPIs)

Telling a story (with KPIs) - Top Tips

6. Presentation of KPIs

Presenting KPIs - Introduction

Charts and Graphs

Line, Bar, Hybrid & Scatter Charts

Waterfall & Pie Charts

Histogram, Tables and Gauges

Presenting Data - Key Points

Reviewing Examples - Charts and Graphs Presentation

Infographics - Introduction

Infographics - Evaluating Examples

Dashboards - Introduction

Dashboards - Evaluating Examples

7. Conclusion

Wrap Up

Conclusion

How to Get your Certificate

Who this course is for
Those who wish to become an authority in their workplace on business performance improvement
People working in Production, Manufacturing, Industrial Operations, Business Operations
Supervisors, Consultants, Engineers, Planners & Analysts, Management & Leadership teams
Ambitious self-starters who want to have a bigger impact at work, improve things and get noticed