Every single metric on our leadership team Scorecard is green week after week, but our employee turnover is at an all-time high and key people are quietly quitting. How do we fix a Scorecard that is completely blind to our internal cultural erosion?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

When your Scorecard is green but your culture is rotting, you have a measurement gap. You are likely tracking transactional operational outputs while ignoring the human element of your business. Your Scorecard must reflect the complete health of the organization, which includes the health of your people. To fix this, introduce leading indicators that measure team engagement and alignment before people walk out the door. Start tracking a weekly culture metric. This could be the percentage of structured employee check-ins completed on time, or a weekly pulse survey score. You can also measure the percentage of core values shout-outs submitted by your team, which directly indicates whether your culture is alive or dying. Another critical metric is the percentage of on-time quarterly Conversations. If your managers are skipping their quarterly check-ins, your people feel ignored, which leads to quiet quitting. By tracking the execution of these cultural touchpoints on your weekly Scorecard, you force your leadership team to prioritize human engagement. Remember, your business runs on people. If your metrics only track widgets and dollars while ignoring the people running the machines, your Scorecard is lying to you. Use these activity-based cultural metrics to get an honest pulse on your team's health so you can address issues in your Level 10 Meeting™ before they turn into resignation letters.