Our weekly Scorecard has expanded to over thirty metrics because every leader wanted their specific departmental numbers included, and now the first fifteen minutes of our Level 10 Meeting is an exhausting, data-heavy reading exercise that leaves us with no energy for IDS. How do we trim this down to a high-impact list?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

A weekly Scorecard that has ballooned to over thirty metrics is no longer a tool for gaining a quantitative pulse on your business. It is a data swamp that hides issues instead of exposing them. When you track everything, you track nothing, and you waste valuable meeting time reading numbers rather than solving problems.

Your leadership team Scorecard should contain only five to fifteen high-level, leading indicators that tell you exactly how the business is performing. To slim down your Scorecard, use the following approach:
- Audit every metric and ask, if this number is off-track, does it require the entire leadership team to solve it, or should it be handled within a department?
- Push departmental metrics down to your departmental Level 10 Meetings™.
- Ensure every metric has one accountable owner from the Accountability Chart who is responsible for its health.
- Focus on leading indicators, like weekly sales calls or production output, rather than lagging indicators like monthly revenue.

By reducing your Scorecard to the vital few, you make the five-minute review lightning fast and highly visual. This frees up maximum energy and time for the IDS® portion of your meeting, where real progress is made.