Develop Your Authenticity As A Performance Measurement Expert
There are at least three good reasons why your authenticity as a performance measurement practitioner really matters. Firstly, people need quite a bit of coaching before they’ll trust performance measurement. Secondly, you’re going to need an energy source to persist until people stop resisting measuring. Thirdly, inspiration works much better than edict at engaging people to measure. Your authenticity boosts all these things.
Want to know how to boost your authenticity?
What do you BELIEVE about performance measurement?
Why do you believe we should measure performance? What do you believe a performance measure really is (and is not)? Do you believe it’s more important to measure people, or processes? Your authenticity comes from well grounded beliefs, not just adopting someone else’s views (not even mine!).
A sample of my beliefs about performance measurement are:
* the purpose of performance measures is to focus us, to give us feedback and to be a fulcrum to leverage faster performance improvement
* milestones, like “implement Project X by December 2011″, are not performance measures
* measures are tools to help people improve performance, not tools to measure people’s performance