KPI Professional (KPI-P) Certification Program - UK

Overview

KPI and performance measurement development is a discipline that involves articulating what an organization is trying to accomplish and then identifying the most meaningful and useful indicators of success. Simply selecting standard measures from a long list of possible measures is not effective. Performance measures, or KPIs, are a key part of any strategic management system, as they are critical to assessing the effectiveness of strategy implementation. KPIs also help with analysis of the gap between actual and targeted performance, and with measurement of organizational effectiveness and operational efficiency. Operational measures, project measures, risk measures, and employee measures provide an early-warning system throughout an organization to help improve performance. Meaningful and strong KPIs provide insight into whether strategies are working, whether programs, projects and services are on schedule, on budget, and delivered effectively.

KPIs focus employees’ attention on what matters most for success, and allow for measurement of accomplishments. Most people — whether executives, managers, strategy or performance professionals, or analysts — struggle to develop and manage KPIs or use performance information to make better decisions. This program helps participants who are working to find meaningful KPIs, get true buy-in to performance measurement, align measures to strategy, and use measures to drive improvement to reach targets.

This program is designed for all sectors — business and industry, government, and nonprofit— and provides participants with practical tools to developing meaningful strategic and operational performance measures, and then develops their skills through a series of practical application exercises.

Delegates are taught how to use several tools, including the logic model and cause and effect, that are used by organizations around the world. Delegates are also taught how to understand and articulate desired results, determine what to measure, set targets and thresholds, develop composite measures using lower level performance measures, measure outcomes, outputs, processes, and inputs, and produce visually appealing reports and dashboards that better inform decision making throughout an organization.

This course is designed to help delegates understand the Fundamentals of performance management, then successfully develop, deploy, and manage meaningful KPIs for strategic, operational, or program management.

Who Should Attend

The KPIP certification course is recommended for:

• Teams or individuals with performance measurement/ management responsibility
• Senior managers or leaders who are establishing, leading, and managing performance management and/or measurement programs and systems
• Managers, planners and analysts who are part of a strategic planning and management team and are seeking the best practical ideas for improving organizational performance
• Employees who have been tasked to plan, develop, or improve dashboards, KPI scorecards, business processes, program and project management portfolio management or other measurement systems
• Managers, planners, or analysts who are involved with defining performance measures or complying with regulatory and other reporting requirements
• Budget analysts who need performance information to formulate budgets and evaluate programs

Benefits of Attending

• Learn best practice techniques to more effectively and efficiently develop, deploy and manage KPIs as part of a strategic management system
• Understand important business drivers that ensure a successful performance measurement system implementation
• Contribute to organizational success by measuring what matters most
• Apply what you have learned to your own organization's performance measurement architecture