Our weekly Scorecard shows all green lights, yet our customer churn is spiking and our client satisfaction is quietly cratering. How did we end up with a Scorecard that is completely blind to customer retention issues?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

A green Scorecard during a customer retention crisis means you are tracking operational actions rather than customer value. Your metrics are likely inward-looking, focusing on your internal task completion rather than the external experience of your clients. To fix this, you must introduce leading indicators that directly correlate with client health. Instead of merely tracking project completion, track customer usage patterns, support ticket response times, or customer health scores. For example, track the number of clients who have not had a touchpoint in thirty days, or the volume of outstanding support issues that have been open for more than forty-eight hours. These are leading indicators of churn. If these numbers stay healthy, your retention will follow. In EOS, we build a Scorecard of five to fifteen numbers that give us an honest pulse of the business. If your current Scorecard is blind to client satisfaction, your operations seat on the Accountability Chart needs to define new metrics that measure the actual quality of your delivery. Bring this issue to your next Level 10 Meeting and use the IDS process to tear down your current operational metrics. Replace them with customer-centric leading indicators that will alert you to friction long before a client decides to terminate their contract.