More and more frequently, peformance measurement specialists like Stacey Barr are asked: how can I get managers and executives to support performance measurement?
Despite the fact that you may not be in a position that affords you as much power as you'd like, you still can influence how your organization's leaders feel about performance measurement, and their support for it, but only by developing more empathy with their unique position.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:
In this interview, Stacey asks Gary Cokins of SAS about his great experience in working with C-level executives on the issues of performance measurement and performance management.
- How most executives feel about performance management: their concerns, fears, hesitancies in embracing it.
- When performance management is working really well, how it benefits executives (i.e. what's in it for them?).
- The DVF formula and how it helps performance measurement practitioners who want to influence their senior management team to appreciate the power of measuring and managing performance.
- Where performance management is going now, in some of the world's leading organizations.
About Gary Cokins, SAS, and Stacey Barr
Gary Cokins, CPIM, is a product marketing manager for performance management solutions for SAS, a leading provider of performance management and business analytics software. He is an internationally recognized expert, speaker and author in advanced cost management and performance improvement systems.
Gary is the author of "Performance Management: Finding the Missing Pieces to Close the Intelligence Gap" and the more recent "Performance Management: Integrating Strategy Execution, Methodologies, Risk, and Analytics." His knowledge is deep, his experience wide, and his sense of humor a delight!
Since 1999, Stacey Barr has specialized in business performance measurement. She is the creator of PuMP®- a unique approach that details the practical steps to choose, create and use meaningful measures that people buy into. Now, she is a teacher and mentor for corporate planners, business analysts, corporate performance managers, and others who practice performance measurement as a regular part of their role.
That’s why Stacey publishes practical how-to tips in her free email newsletter, Measure Up. And she also hosts the Measures & More Mastermind, an international network for performance measurement practitioners to grow their expertise, professionalism and leadership in performance measurement, together.
