Gauging Levels of Activity & Effectiveness

A powerful technique you can employ in your next team meeting.

Do you want to focus attention on the issue of activity and effectiveness among your team? Well here is a very powerful exercise you can apply at your next team meeting.  

It will enable you to get a consensus on the key opportunities for improving performance, while side-stepping the issues of personalities and politics that can often get in the way of taking action & making change.

Re-framing The Performance Debate

There is a simple equation with which all the best managers are familiar. It is the ‘activity multiplied by effectiveness’ formula at the core of success. It is important in re-framing the debate around performance in any team.

‘Quality multiplied by quantity’ in terms of calls and meetings is the same formula in different words.

To apply the activity – effectiveness formula in a new more creative way – think of performance in terms of the two dials on the dashboard of a car.

The Rev Counter For

The first dial is the Rev (RPM) counter showing if the engine is running idle, or fast.  This corresponds to the level of activity,or to be more precise the number or quantity of calls, meetings and opportunites being pursued. To change this dial you press the accelerator – firing up up the engine.

The Speed Dial For

The second dial is the Speed dial showing miles or kilometers per hour (Mph, or KMph).  This is the results dial – showing the effectiveness of calls, meetings and opportunities, measured by win rates and conversions.   To change this dial you use the clutch and the gears.

So, let’s examine the power of getting your team to use the dashboard analogy in your next team meeting.