The Equity Kicker

MAY 3, 2018

Let me start by saying that I’m a massive believer in the power of metrics. As a result we advise our companies to build KPI trees so employees in each department know what to do and there can be confidence that if everyone delivers the company will hit its overall growth and profitability targets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Some chaos is normal in every new business, but many wait far too long before they install metrics based on “best practices,” and fail to attack obvious bottlenecks with a vengeance. Be sure to attach employee bonuses and even overtime opportunities to measurable business results. Make employee management a proactive process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2022

Employees are still too often thought of as a commodity, to be acquired “just in time” for the lowest cost, and managed as a disposable asset. Employees are often ineffective because they don’t care about their work or because they don’t possess the skills to contribute. Use data analysis and metrics to measure for results.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

In his classic book, “ The Leadership Capital Index ,” Dave Ulrich, a best-selling author, business consultant, and business school professor, provides some real insights and metrics on what makes up the elements of goodwill in the minds of top valuation experts. I have paraphrased his key points here as follows: Leader personal impact.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Building A People-Centric Culture: From Employees To Contributors written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Janstch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Kai Anderson, a seasoned strategist and the leader of workforce transformation at Mercer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Before you act, shut up and listen to employees, customers, and futurists. Define realistic metrics to keep track of progress. You need metrics to incentivize the right team behaviors. Look at the big picture and then home in on the strategy that aligns best with your company and personal values and priorities.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In the war for talent, smart companies put engagement before metrics. The post Yes, Metrics Matter — But Engagement Matters More appeared first on Young Upstarts. Workplace trends expert Rick Grimaldi explains how to get started.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

A Facebook employee (FBe) gave a talk about measuring ROI/Value of Facebook campaigns. FBe's recommendation was (paraphrasing a 35 min talk): Don't invent new metrics, use online versions of Reach and GRPs to measure success. I don't think it is simply a metrics/measurement problem. Metrics are a problem.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Rounding out the team with employees and freelancers. Successful startup teams today have a mix of remote employees, freelancers, and contractors. You don’t have to be a heavily funded later stage startup to get access to “big data,” customer analytics, and metrics dashboards. Measuring progress with big data and analytics.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 24, 2023

Employee training is an essential aspect of any successful organization. Investing in employee training is also an investment in your employees, demonstrating that you value their development and growth within the company. Here are some of the factors to consider when implementing employee training for your workforce.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

It must be understandable, written down, and verifiable, with regular measurements and metrics to make it real, benchmarked against the competition. The process must be employee friendly, as well as customer friendly, and have feedback mechanisms to correct poor results. Make your service deliver process “happy.”

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2023

Venture Studios are an “idea factory” with their own employees searching for product/market fit and a repeatable and scalable business model. The venture studio’s employees have already identified a product, market fit and early customers — meaning someone else has eliminated many of the early risks of a new venture.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In a nutshell, an LMS helps a school or business deliver their training materials to their employees or students. LMS is commonly used for member training, employee onboarding , compliance training, partner training, and more. An LMS can also be used to train current employees to keep their training up to date. Conclusion.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Introducing new enterprise tools often requires workflows, processes, and employee role adjustments. Communicating these changes effectively or providing appropriate training can result in employee resistance, decreased productivity, and a lack of adoption. Another pitfall is inadequate preparation for change management.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 25, 2023

Here are a few ways to align workforce planning with financial objectives: Conduct regular analyses of the costs: these costs are associated with hiring, training, and retaining employees. This may involve analyzing the costs of recruiting through different channels, such as job boards, social media, and employee referrals.

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Board Effect

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Boards and organizational leaders who are serious about meeting DE&I goals also establish metrics and measurement processes to ensure that successes and challenges are tracked and reported. In other words, DE&I policies and practices must include metrics to gauge the success of those goals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2023

Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. Desperate entrepreneurs lose their leverage and die young.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 15, 2023

They offer other solutions, such as: Centralizing and securing employee data, including personal information, time off requests, and performance evaluations. Streamlining employee onboarding and offboarding, reducing paperwork and administrative burdens. Human Resources HR software solutions automate and simplify HR tasks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Rounding out the team with employees and freelancers. Successful startup teams today have a mix of remote employees, freelancers, and contractors. You don’t have to be a heavily funded later stage startup to get access to “big data,” customer analytics, and metrics dashboards. Measuring progress with big data and analytics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2021

It must be understandable, written down, and verifiable, with regular measurements and metrics to make it real, benchmarked against the competition. The process must be employee friendly, as well as customer friendly, and have feedback mechanisms to correct poor results. Make your service deliver process “happy.”

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2016

The idea is to create true partnerships with your employees, to share risks and rewards in a very concrete way—and it’s hard to get more concrete than the numbers on your bonus check. Executives and employees become frustrated, the directions of the change initiatives are challenged, and meetings become contentious.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

In his classic book, “ The Leadership Capital Index ,” Dave Ulrich, a best-selling author, business consultant, and business school professor, provides some real insights and metrics on what makes up the elements of goodwill in the minds of top valuation experts. I have paraphrased his key points here as follows: Leader personal impact.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

If you don’t understand your key financial metrics, you have no way of monitoring your business’s health—and you risk mingling assets, incurring penalties for filing taxes late, overlooking expenses, and running into difficulties paying bills and employees, just to mention a few! Information on why it’s important to know this metric.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 8, 2020

If your colleagues are relying on tools that are intuitive, accessible, and reliable, they shouldn’t have any trouble connecting with other employees. Company culture is easier to ingrain in your employees when you have everybody sharing a physical work environment, but it’s still a worthwhile goal to establish for your distributed team.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 19, 2021

55 percent of employees with flexible work options are high performers, compared to just 36 percent of onsite nine-to-five employees, according to a Gartner report. times more prone to encounter digital distractions than onsite employees. What goals will the employee need to set and meet in terms of their individual tasks?

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Employer branding is the reputation and image of a company as perceived by employees (past and present), competitors, and customers. Employees who dislike the job they do, and the company they work for, will speak negatively about them, which can be damaging in a world of social media and online review platforms.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Effective sales coaching is pegged on the accurate sales metrics that you can easily generate with the aid of sales coaching tools. Here are 4 categories of sales coaching tools sales managers can use to track sales metrics and drive sales. · Performance-oriented metrics. Improve employee retention rate.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 20, 2020

This means it can be easy to measure employees’ productivity based on the number of completed projects. If there are slight reductions in the metrics, payroll software will point out to workers who need to put more effort into their performance. With this record, you can determine the time spent by workers in your business.

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Board Effect

JUNE 25, 2023

A growing number of people are deciding where to put their time, money and energy based not only on the goals of a nonprofit, but also its commitment to environmental sustainability, leadership, employee diversity and other social responsibility issues. They can take a hard look at what they are doing well and what needs to be improved.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2018

The old way doesn’t work, and results more than ever in slow decision-making, lack of real connection with employees, and ignorance of what customers really want. Interact with employees and customers on a regular basis. Focus on two or three pertinent metrics in any situation. No change means you are falling behind as a leader.

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Board Effect

AUGUST 18, 2023

Do your employees work in a climate that is accepting and accommodating of differences? Do you receive donations from a company with a track record of employee complaints? Once information has been identified, staff will be able to use board management software to input and update metrics.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 16, 2024

Modern reports provide insights into a company’s governance, community engagements, ethical practices, and employee well-being, which reflect the widening public and private sector interest in transparent and authentic corporate accountability. This process includes investors, regulators, employees, consumers, and community members.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

People refers to the management and employees that are currently employed by the business. Committed employees and tenured management teams can act as a value driver as they are directly involved with the direction and growth of your company. Processes refers to operating procedures and employee handbooks.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 16, 2015

I review a lot of board decks with a beautifully hand-crafted page with metrics for the company. Good metrics are comparable across industries; comparative ; readily understandable; and help drive decisions. Comparative means that you can compare a metric across time periods, groups of users, or competitors. So how do you do it?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2022

The team, on the other hand, is focused on remaining upbeat, and leaders go out of their way to help employees in any way they can, even if that means staying up late at night to talk them through anything they're going through. My business pivoted as a result of the pandemic by becoming more remote for my employees.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2018

In top current companies, such as Google, Apple, and Netflix, cultural strategies that include greater employee freedom and fostering creativity are the norm. In fact, most see a more direct relationship between customers and their business success, so employee focus by default will end up in third place.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2021

Every business set their goals and objectives which help employees to prioritize their task and stay motivated. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) is a metric to monitor how effectively a business is accomplishing its specific objective. EMPLOYEE NET PROMOTER SCORE . The success of a business depends on how many targets it meets.

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