Metrics that Matter

Practically all organizations have metrics, but in most cases, they don’t provide the information we believe they provide, they are constructed improperly, and they are difficult to comprehend and manage.

This course will help you understand how to create metrics that truly matter and avoid the pitfalls of poorly conceived metrics.

Description

This highly-interactive, fun, and fast-paced session provides a framework for understanding and applying tools to meet real business needs. You will walk away from this session with increased confidence to generate creative ideas, techniques to recognize/replace unproductive thinking patterns, and a methodology to foster creative potential and innovation.

Participants are encouraged to think about real-life organizational problems and bring these situations to the program to discuss and brainstorm together. By walking through these problems together, participants will learn the steps to creatively solve problems.

Audience

Supervisors and managers at any level can benefit from a better understanding of metrics.

Outcomes

Participants will walk away with these skills:

  • Understanding the difference between measures and metrics, and how/when to manage each
  • Identifying bad metrics
  • Learning the basics of operational and financial performance, and what metrics to use for each
  • Learning to design key operational and financial metrics to provide managers insight and improve organizational performance
  • Creating examples of metrics that matter for your organization

Venue

Cintas Center
1624 Musketeer Drive
Cincinnati, 45207 United States
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Phone
513-745-1094

Storytelling with Data

Data is needed to make smart and appropriate business decisions. However, if data is not presented in a compelling way, the decisions can be undermined.

Description

Data provides the foundation for making smart and appropriate choices in many contexts. However, it is not unusual for managers to be overwhelmed by the amount of available data within their organization and the marketplace. To tell an effective, data-inspired story, it is important to know the intended audience and present the most applicable information in the most effective way.

This session will begin by helping participants understand what questions need to be addressed and discerning what data is relevant to answer those questions. Then, the program will focus on what makes a story convincing and how to adapt stories to the needs of different audiences. This will be followed by applying that understanding to create powerful, data-driven stories that will change mindsets and facilitate the right business choices. Participants will also explore the interpretation of data and ensure that data is used accurately and completely.

Audience

Professionals in any industry wanting to improve data-driven storytelling practices.

Outcomes

Participants will walk away with these skills:

  • Discovering the end objective that needs to be assessed
  • Identifying the data that best informs the end objective
  • Clarifying how to interpret the collected data
  • Understanding the audience and how they need to receive information
  • Translating the data into an effective story for the target audience
  • Incorporating relevant visuals to support the story behind the data

Venue

Cintas Center
1624 Musketeer Drive
Cincinnati, 45207 United States
+ Google Map
Phone
513-745-1094