How do we cascade our leadership team scorecard down to departmental scorecards without creating a massive web of administrative tracking that nobody looks at?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

Cascading your scorecard effectively means avoiding an administrative burden. The goal is to ensure your managers are focused on leading their teams, not on endless data entry.

The Core Principle: Simplicity and Directness

Your leadership team scorecard should be streamlined, containing only the high-level metrics crucial for running the business. This ensures a clear overview without getting bogged down in specifics. For guidance on selecting these top-level metrics, consider [how to narrow down our massive list of metrics to just five to fifteen numbers](/qa/how-to-choose-five-fifteen-scorecard-metrics).

Departmental Scorecards: The Granular View

Each department head is responsible for creating a departmental scorecard specific to their team's activities. This scorecard will track the granular actions and sub-metrics that directly contribute to the overall leadership team numbers.

For example:

• If the leadership scorecard tracks total weekly sales revenue, the sales department's scorecard would include:
• Number of demos conducted
• Proposals sent
• Cold calls made by individual representatives

The leadership team does not need visibility into individual rep metrics, but the sales manager absolutely does. This hierarchical approach keeps tracking local and relevant.

Accountability and Problem Solving

For every number on a departmental scorecard, ensure there is a clear owner. This direct accountability is critical.

• If a metric on the leadership scorecard turns red, the department head should be able to quickly consult their departmental scorecard to pinpoint which specific sub-metric or activity led to the miss.
• This clean hierarchy empowers managers to identify issues and take corrective action efficiently, preventing extended discussions on [why numbers were missed](/qa/how-to-review-scorecard-under-five-minutes) during meetings. This also helps in addressing situations where [a key manager gets defensive](/qa/handling-defensiveness-around-red-scorecard-metrics) about red metrics.

Leveraging Technology Without Losing Humanity

While the process focuses on human accountability, consider how technology can support it:

• AI can prepare data before your [Level 10 Meeting](/qa/should-integrator-facilitate-level-10-meetings) and capture decisions afterward.
• The 90-minute Level 10 Meeting remains a human-centric interaction: your leadership team, reviewing the scorecard, addressing the issues list, and engaging in the IDS (Identify, Discuss, Solve) conversation.
• For optimizing scorecard metrics with AI, explore [how AI can optimize EOS Scorecard metrics](/qa/ai-in-optimizing-eos-scorecard-metrics-and-accountability) to enhance accountability without adding administrative burden.

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