Your organisation grew and your overview did not
There was a time when you knew everything because you were there for everything. Now there are managers, and you hear what they consider important enough to tell you. Usually they are right. You just hear it once it has happened, and not while it could still be steered.
Does this sound familiar?
- Good news reaches you faster than bad news
- What was agreed for this year is nowhere you can read it back
- The monthly figures tell you what happened, not whether it is going as intended
- Asking how things stand produces a story, not a position
- You notice you are asking more often than you would like
What we do
At the start we agree the goals, record them and freeze them. From then on we have an hour of conversation with your manager every month, collect the position there and enter it ourselves. We weigh per goal whether it is going as intended and write down what we make of it. Your manager does not have to maintain anything and does not get a system to learn.
What you are left with
A position per goal every month, weighed and interpreted, and a signal the moment something deviates. You hear it in the month it happens instead of in the quarterly meeting afterwards. And at the close of every cycle there is one file covering the whole period. You ask less and know more.
This is not supervision
Your managers are not assessed on this. We take the recording off their hands so they can manage, and that hour a month is all it costs. What they get out of it is that their own work is on record: what was agreed, what was decided and why. At the next handover it is still there, even when they are not.
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Someone is leaving and the overview goes with them
A controller, an operations manager, someone who kept it running for years. The role can be handed over; what sat around it usually cannot, because it was never written down.
Role handover →Someone will look back, and then what is on the table counts
A buyer, an investor, a new shareholder. The financial picture is in the annual accounts, and that is the easy half. The other half is how the business was actually run, and that usually sits in people's heads.
Sale or investment →A board or a financier has arrived
A supervisory board, a bank with covenants, an investor with a seat, a grant body that wants to see something every quarter. From that moment on you are accounting for yourself structurally, and that is a different thing from giving the occasional presentation.
Board or financier →