INDIVIDUAL DASHBOARDS PROVIDE INFORMATION ON PERFORMANCE - Colonel Ajai Lal

Colonel Ajai Lal - "The Leadershift Show"

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​Introduction
Dashboards are visual tools that provide objective information on employees using metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) in real-time. Having individual dashboards for every employee will help track, measure and reward performance and align efforts so that the management and members of the business units are clear on the direction to which all are heading. Performance management that is built on individual dashboards helps organizations monitor and track business processes and activities that align with its objectives and improve decisions of the business strategy.

Show Objectives
The show objective for this week is to emphasize to business owners the importance of having individual dashboards that provide information on performance. A deep dive and discussion explaining ways to ensure that every employee in the company has a dashboard that provides data and metrics for performance will be conducted. Easy access to information enhances faster decision-making and employee performance is easily tracked to reward top performers and support for those who need additional training.

Key Issues:

1. Dashboards are overwhelming
2. Business owners do not share all the necessary data with employees
3. Employees are not rewarded based on actual performance

 
What You Need to Know

1. There are 3 key types of dashboards: Operational, Strategic and Analytical
2. Individual dashboards ensures data transparency and accessibility to employees
3. Individual dashboards enable teams to make better decisions and also, make them more accountable
4. Gamification integrated dashboards make employees productive, engaged and happier in the work-place

What You Need to Do

1. Understand your target audience
2. Understand the data and metrics you want to display
3. Build a dashboard that is unique to your company’s requirement
4. Keep your dashboard to a single screen
5. Make the dashboard easy to look at, navigate and understand
6. Focus on information delivery and understanding
7. Design for immediate action
8. Test, evaluate, and tweak

 
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Written by Colonel Ajai Lal
Leadership and Executive Coach | Speaker and International Radio Host | Former Chief Business Officer at NIIT | Colonel in the Indian Army (Veteran) | Former Senior Military Observer – United Nations 
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About Colonel Ajai Lal
Ajai is a recognized expert in coaching and empowering leaders to develop their optimal potential. He is a seasoned global executive and a dynamic speaker who draws from his leadership experiences across a span of 45 years - 25 years in the Indian Army, 15 years in NIIT Ltd. and 5 years as a Leadership and Executive Coach.
 
Ajai has developed and mentored rising leaders in the corporate space and in the military. He has received several recognitions in the Indian military, the United Nations Medal for Distinguished Service, as well as numerous corporate awards, including the prestigious ‘Global Leadership Award’.
 
Ajai has been recently conferred the World HRD Congress 2019 - ‘Dr. Marshall Goldsmith Achievement in Coaching Award’ and the ‘Best in Class Leadership Coach’ at the ‘Thought Leaders’ Summit and Awards’ in 2020.
 
He has been a coach with IMD Business School, Switzerland for their ‘High Performance Leadership’ program. He has facilitated leadership development programs and coached C-level executives and senior management at various multinational corporations and some of his key clients include Deloitte, Adobe Systems, Edelweiss, Danieli Corus and Thermax Ltd.
 
For further requirements of Leadership Development or to engage in group / individual coaching you can reach out to him at: ajai@forwardconsultingco.com
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