The Culture of Reviewing Data
Reviewing data as a team frequently is important because it fosters collaboration, ensures alignment on key metrics, and drives actionable insights that can improve business performance.
How should you and your team start reviewing data? Easy! Just Start and Keep it Simple
How do you and your team currently review data? Do you do it together? In a silo? Or never because you are too busy?
If you said yes to the last two options, you are not alone. And if you want to change, it’s not too hard.
Try this for the next 30 days:
Of all the data your team currently produces, pick the top 5 data points that matter to your business.
Have a meeting early in the week, as a cross-functional team, and collectively review the top 5 data points selected.
Compare the data to last week, last month, last year, a goal, a benchmark. It doesn’t matter, just start doing comparisons.
Encourage everyone at the meeting to ask questions about why the data is different from what you are comparing.
Leave the weekly meeting with one action resulting from the data review. P.S. the action can be anything that feels important.
Repeat this process weekly. Resist the urge to cancel or re-schedule the meeting. Include follow up on the action from the previous week’s meeting.
Pro-Tip Set the stage to avoid judging the questions even if the explanations seem obvious or not important.
At the end of the 30 days, do a quick retrospective and see what modifications make sense for moving forward!
As always, I would love to hear from you!
Christina | christina@itsthepod.com