Our leadership team members are hitting their weekly Scorecard numbers, but they are still dropping major balls on their core Accountability Chart roles. How do we align our weekly tracking with our structural seats?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

If your team is hitting their Scorecard numbers but still failing in their roles, you have a mismatch between your weekly measurables and the actual accountability defined on your Accountability Chart. A Scorecard is not a separate tracking tool, it must be directly derived from the five core roles of each seat.

To fix this alignment issue, review each seat on your Accountability Chart alongside your weekly Scorecard. Every single measurable on your Scorecard must have one owner, and that owner must be the person sitting in the corresponding seat. If a seat has a core role of customer retention, but there is no metric on the Scorecard tracking customer churn, you have a structural gap.

Go through each seat's five core responsibilities and ensure there is at least one weekly leading indicator tracking that responsibility. If a leader is performing poorly but their Scorecard looks green, it means you are tracking the wrong metrics. You need to change the measurables to reflect the actual outcomes they are accountable for producing.

By tightening the link between your Accountability Chart and your weekly Scorecard, you eliminate subjective debates about performance. Your weekly Level 10 Meetings™ will become much more productive because your metrics will finally tell the true story of whether your leaders are successfully executing their seats, making your operational data highly reliable for any future acquisition due diligence.