If you don't measure it, you can't manage it.

How to do it simply:

• Select a few metrics (too many will dilute your focus and impact negatively your results). Ensure they fully align with your strategy for greater impact.
• Your metrics should be easy to gather, measurable and understandable. If too complex or time consuming, it won't last (if they can be automated, even better!).
• Decide who is responsible for gathering the information & the cadence.
• Ensure your leadership / management team is accountable for progresses and results.
• Define baseline (starting point), targets and a timeline to achieve them.
• Decide which metrics you would like to communicate to the entire company versus managers only and which you would like to publish outside (in your CSR or sustainability report).
• Develop fun, simple, powerful and catchy metrics to encourage participation and engagement from everyone.

A few metrics you can start with (some would be confidential in the list below):

• quarterly employee satisfaction
• recruitment / turnover
• pay equity
• overtime
• hours of volunteering
• training hours
• gender diversity
• age repartition
• action from the Green team
• mobility carbon footprint