| If you're serious about taking your business | | | | 3. Look for the data for that measure, or get it |
| destiny into your own hands, then you've got to | | | | as easily as you can. Get as much history as you |
| start measuring what matters. And the best way | | | | can, too, to have an instant time series. [Delegate |
| to get started is to start with just one measure. | | | | this.] |
| If you're not measuring now, despite how | | | | 4. Set up a routine to capture the data in a simple |
| important you know it is, then something is | | | | spreadsheet. [Delegate this.] |
| obviously holding you back. Make it easy on | | | | 5. Set up a graph in the spreadsheet that |
| yourself, and focus on just one result you want | | | | automatically updates with new data as it's added. |
| to be better in your business, and have the | | | | [Delegate this.] |
| discipline to make that result better. | | | | 6. Review your measure for a few weeks, until |
| The measuring is really just an enabler in the | | | | you find a way to make it improve. [Don't |
| process, not the reason for it. | | | | delegate this.] |
| If you treat the following little checklist as a | | | | 7. Go back to step 1, to choose another result. |
| process, and you keep rolling through it, before | | | | If your Strategic Plan on a Page is your map to |
| long you'll not only have a collection of powerful | | | | success, then your Business Dashboard is your |
| measures for your business, but you'll also have | | | | navigational system. |
| improved your business performance too: | | | | TAKE ACTION: |
| 1. Choose just one result that's important to your | | | | Download my Simple Excel Dashboard Template |
| business. [Don't delegate this.] | | | | now, choose a measure, and give it to your |
| 2. Decide the best way for you to measure that | | | | assistant to start collating the data. I've included a |
| result, and how frequently. [Don't delegate this.] | | | | few sample measures for you too. |