The person pulling our weekly scorecard data is often a junior admin, but the seat owner is a director who blames the admin when numbers are inaccurate or late. How do we draw a hard line between who compiles the data and who actually owns the metric on our weekly Scorecard?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

This is an accountability issue disguised as an administration problem. On your Accountability Chart, every seat has clear responsibilities, and every metric on your Scorecard has exactly one owner. That owner is the leader of the seat, not the person who types the data into the spreadsheet.

The director is fully responsible for the health, accuracy, and timely reporting of their numbers. If a junior administrator is responsible for extracting the data from your CRM or ERP, that administrator is simply performing a task. The director owns the outcome.

To resolve this friction, implement two rules.

First, the director must verify the numbers before your weekly Level 10 Meeting™. Coming to the meeting with inaccurate data or blaming a subordinate is a direct failure of their GWC™, specifically the capacity to manage their seat.

Second, if the data generation is consistently flawed, that is an issue that must be dropped to the Issues List and solved using IDS®.

The owner of the metric must build the process that ensures the data is accurate. If they cannot trust the administrator, they must fix the workflow or find a new resource. The scorecard metric always reflects the director's performance, never the assistant's data entry speed.