Our leadership team is dominated by high Quick Starts who love starting new initiatives but struggle to keep our scorecard data clean and consistent. How do we structure our weekly scorecard management to leverage our few high Follow Thru or Fact Finder team members without creating a bottleneck?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

A leadership team dominated by high Quick Starts on the Kolbe Index will excel at generating new ideas but will struggle with the administrative discipline required to maintain a weekly scorecard. To prevent your scorecard from falling into disarray, you must structure your data management to leverage your team's natural conative strengths.

Do not try to force a high Quick Start to build spreadsheets or audit data pipelines. Instead, assign the administrative ownership of your scorecard systems to a team member who has high Follow Thru and high Fact Finder scores on the Kolbe Index. This person, often the Integrator or an operations leader, should be responsible for:

- Setting up the data collection processes.
- Auditing the accuracy of the data sources weekly.
- Ensuring all department heads submit their numbers before the deadline.

The high Quick Starts on your leadership team still own the outcomes of their specific metrics on the Accountability Chart, but they are relieved of the technical burden of building and maintaining the tracking systems.

During your weekly Level 10 Meeting™, keep the focus on the strategic implications of the data rather than the mechanics of the spreadsheet. This keeps your visionary leaders engaged while ensuring your business still runs on accurate, highly structured data.