Course Standard
This course teaches leaders how to turn KPIs into daily operating discipline: clear ownership, clean definitions, useful scorecards, strong review cadence, and real follow-up.
Module 01: KPI Foundations & Leadership Judgment
Understand what KPIs are supposed to do: focus attention, expose reality, guide action, and prevent leadership by opinion.
Open ModuleModule 02: Leading and Lagging Indicators
Build a balanced measurement system that watches both outcomes and the behaviors that create outcomes.
Open ModuleModule 03: Designing Operational Scorecards
Create scorecards that leaders can actually use during daily, weekly, and monthly operating rhythms.
Open ModuleModule 04: Dashboard Discipline
Build dashboard habits that prevent decorative reporting, metric clutter, and confusion about ownership.
Open ModuleModule 05: Daily Management Systems
Use KPIs in daily huddles, tier meetings, escalation routines, and shift handoffs without creating blame.
Open ModuleModule 06: Manufacturing KPI Applications
Apply KPI leadership to safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, labor, scrap, rework, and schedule performance.
Open ModuleModule 07: Office and Service KPI Applications
Measure administrative flow, customer response, quote speed, order accuracy, backlog, and information quality.
Open ModuleModule 08: Performance Reviews and Coaching
Use KPIs to coach behavior, develop people, and improve systems rather than ambushing employees with numbers.
Open ModuleModule 09: Root Cause and Reaction Plans
Convert missed targets into disciplined problem solving, containment, escalation, and corrective action.
Open ModuleModule 10: Executive KPI Operating Rhythm
Build the leadership cadence that keeps KPIs alive: review, act, follow up, improve, and sustain.
Open ModuleEarn a premium printable certificate.
Complete all ten KPI Leadership modules and pass the final certification exam with a score of 90% or higher to generate your official Scott Bales Consulting Academy certificate.
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