Our weekly scorecard metrics are consistently green, yet our company is still missing its quarterly revenue and profit goals. How do we audit our scorecard targets to ensure they actually correlate with the financial numbers on our V/TO®?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

When your scorecard is entirely green but your financial statements are bleeding, your weekly targets are disconnected from your actual business requirements. This usually happens because leadership teams set scorecard targets based on what feels comfortable rather than what the business mathematically requires to hit its goals. To fix this, you must reverse engineer your annual and quarterly goals from your V/TO®. Start with your one year revenue and profit targets. Break those numbers down to a weekly level to find your true target. If your annual revenue goal requires sixty thousand dollars in sales per week, and your average contract value is ten thousand dollars, your weekly scorecard target must be six new signed agreements. If your close rate is twenty percent, your sales seat must generate thirty qualified proposals per week. If your marketing seat is only tasked with generating ten leads a week, your scorecard is green but your company is failing because the targets do not support the math of your V/TO®. Audit every metric on your scorecard and trace it back to a financial outcome. If a metric does not directly impact cash, revenue, or delivery capacity, it is a vanity metric and should be removed. Your weekly scorecard is a predictive tool, not a historical record. Ensure your weekly targets are mathematically robust enough that when they are all green for thirteen weeks, hitting your quarterly goals is a statistical certainty.