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

Data-Driven Storytelling

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 data available to them within their organization and the marketplace. To tell an effective, data-inspired story, it is important to find and use the most applicable information.

Description

This session first aims to aid participants in understanding what question is at hand, differentiating between the types of data available, and pinpointing the data source that best explains the narrative behind the numbers. Discussion on what makes a good data-driven story will follow. Then, the program will explore the interpretation of relevant data to convey an effective narrative and visual story, guiding more informed business choices.

Broad discussion related to the type of statistical analyses needed for the data interpretation will be incorporated where necessary to aid understanding. However, the scope of the session does not cover data analysis in detail. Instead, emphasis is on telling a better story with the right data.

Audience

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

Outcomes

Participants will walk away with these skills:

  • Identifying the story that needs to be told as well as the needed data
  • Understanding how to interpret the collected data.
  • Translating the data into an effective story for the desired target audience.
  • Incorporating relevant visuals to support the data's story
  • Persuading an audience with a narrative inferred from data

Venue

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