Most organisations deploy KPIs. They set targets at the top, cascade them downward through the organisation, and measure whether people hit their numbers. This is KPI Deployment — and it is so deeply embedded in Western management practice that most leaders have never encountered an alternative. The targets arrive, the reporting follows, the variance analysis explains what happened, and the cycle repeats. The system produces accountability. What it rarely produces is capability. People learn to hit their numbers or explain why they did not. They do not learn to understand the process that produces the numbers, to distinguish the signals that predict results from the results themselves, or to design measurement systems that make performance visible while it can still be influenced.
This workshop series develops that capability across six sessions over seven weeks. The format is deliberately compact — forty-five-minute sessions built around three fifteen-minute blocks of theory, practical application, and reflection on practice. The spread across seven weeks is not a scheduling convenience. It is a design choice. Between sessions, participants apply the methods in their own organisations — running experiments, creating judgment criteria, identifying where their current KPI systems produce accountability without capability. The learning happens as much between sessions as within them.
The six sessions follow the SPFRDC sequence that connects strategy to capability. You begin with the strategic purpose of KPI management — how it maintains stability, measures improvement, and deploys strategy into the business. From there you move into planning — building KPI trees that trace from strategic results to process drivers, using process analysis to identify where measurement should live. The follow-up session establishes the routines and rhythms that make KPI management a living practice rather than a monthly reporting exercise.
KPI Management is a fundamentally different discipline. It begins not with targets but with understanding — understanding the process that produces results, identifying the Critical Success Factors that determine whether the process performs, and designing indicators that trace from strategic intent through cross-functional process drivers to daily controllable signals. The distinction between result indicators and process indicators is the architectural foundation. A result indicator tells you what happened. A process indicator tells you what is producing what is happening. KPI Management designs the relationship between them so that every result KPI traces to a process KPI that someone can act on today — not next month when the variance report arrives, but today while the conditions that drive performance are still influenceable.
Results analysis develops the diagnostic discipline — not just reading the numbers but understanding the factors that produced them and what those factors reveal about the management system itself. The improvement session turns the lens on the KPI management process itself — improving how you manage KPIs, not just what you measure. The final session addresses embedding — installing KPI management into the organisation’s management system as a permanent capability rather than a temporary initiative.
The pre-work grounds participants in the fundamentals through online learning — understanding different types of indicators, their uses, and the relationships between them — so that Session 1 can move directly into application rather than spending time on definitions.
This programme is for business owners, leaders, and managers in any organisation of any size and maturity who sense that their KPI systems produce reports without insight, targets without understanding, and accountability without the capability development that would make the targets achievable. It is available in both standard and AI-embedded versions, where a configured AI thinking partner supports participants between sessions in building KPI trees, diagnosing their current measurement architecture, and designing the process indicators that connect strategic intent to daily operational reality.
Course Content
This Course is Scheduled for February, April and July in 2026 – further details are in the Learning Hub
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Strategy
Policy/Strategy understanding and environmental awareness. The Reflection Matrix: learning from the previous cycle. Management System Audit: assessing catch-ball quality, CSF logic, governance rituals, and paradox awareness. KPI Definition Sheets.
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Planning
Gap definition and target setting. Building the TLSC (Total Link System Chart) and KPI Tree. Four levels: Integration KPIs, Process KPIs, KPD (Key Point Data), Task/Signal KPIs. Catch-ball as capability conversation.
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3
Follow-up
Visual architecture and the FMDS (Floor Management Development System). Three rhythm levels: daily, weekly, monthly. The diagnostic discipline: four questions at the board. OJD (On-Job Development) as the mechanism for capability building.
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4
Results Analysis
Reading the Reflection Matrix. Factor Analysis: Resources, Management, Policy, External. Distinguishing signal from noise. When to adjust the system versus when to hold steady. Architecture updates based on learning.
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5
Discovery
Problem versus Paradox: knowing which you face. TBP 8-step problem solving for problems. Theme Management for paradoxes. Standards development. Genchi Genbutsu: going to see before deciding.
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6
Capability Development
The OJD four-step cycle. Ability + α: developing beyond current requirements. The developmental dialogue shift. Level 4 leadership: developing others to develop others. Sustaining the system you’ve built.