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Presents

Online Workshop On

Your KPIs Are Creating the Problems You're Trying to Fix

Date: 20th August 2026

Time: 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM

Venue: Online - Zoom

Your KPIs Are Creating the Problems You're Trying to Fix
Understanding How Performance Measures Quietly Shape Organisational Behaviour

Most organisations invest considerable effort in defining KPIs, reviewing dashboards, and driving accountability through performance measurement. Yet despite achieving targets, many continue to experience recurring firefighting, conflicting priorities, departmental silos, and inconsistent customer outcomes. 

 

The challenge is often not the KPI itself, but the behaviours it unintentionally encourages. Performance measures influence decisions, priorities, collaboration, and resource allocation every day. This workshop challenges leadership teams to rethink whether their KPIs are driving the behaviours they actually want—or quietly creating the operational problems they are trying to eliminate.

What is this Workshop About?

 

Performance measurement plays a critical role in organisational success. However, KPIs do far more than measure results—they influence how people make decisions, prioritise work, collaborate across functions, and respond under operational pressure.


This Executive Insight Workshop explores the hidden relationship between KPIs and organisational behaviour. Participants will discover how well-intended performance measures can unintentionally create local optimisation, conflicting objectives, short-term decision-making, and recurring operational instability.


Through executive discussions, practical business examples, and leadership reflection, the workshop encourages participants to move beyond measuring results and begin evaluating the behavioural consequences of their performance systems. Rather than focusing on KPI development techniques or dashboard design, the session helps leaders understand how performance measures shape organisational outcomes and how better performance conversations can support long-term business success.


Key Learning Outcomes

 

Participants will be able to:

  • Understand how KPIs influence organisational behaviour beyond performance measurement.
  • Recognise hidden trade-offs created by conflicting or isolated KPIs.
  • Differentiate between achieving targets and improving organisational performance.
  • Identify behaviours that KPIs unintentionally encourage across functions.
  • Recognise how local optimisation affects enterprise performance.
  • Develop more effective leadership questions around performance measurement and organisational outcomes.

Participant Takeaways

 

Participants will leave with:

 

  • A different perspective on the role of KPIs in shaping organisational behaviour.
  • Greater awareness of hidden trade-offs created by performance measures.
  • Practical leadership questions for evaluating KPI effectiveness.
  • Better understanding of the relationship between measurement, behaviour, and organisational outcomes.
  • Fresh executive insights for improving cross-functional performance discussions.

Workshop Methodology

 

This workshop is delivered as an interactive Executive Insight Session combining executive learning with practical business reflection.


Participants engage through:

  • Executive Insights
  • Interactive Group Discussions
  • Reflection Exercises
  • Practical Business Examples
  • Cross-Functional Scenarios
  • Leadership Conversations

Why This Workshop Is Different


Most KPI workshops focus on developing better metrics, dashboards, or reporting systems. This workshop takes a different approach. It explores how KPIs influence behaviour, decision-making, collaboration, and organisational performance. Rather than teaching participants how to create KPIs, it challenges leaders to understand the behavioural impact of performance measurement and encourages more thoughtful leadership conversations around organisational success.

Who is this Workshop for?

 

  • Chief Executive Officers (CEOs)
  • Chief Operating Officers (COOs)
  • Business Unit Heads
  • Functional Heads
  • Operations Leaders
  • Supply Chain Leaders
  • Finance Leaders
  • HR Leaders
  • Quality & Continuous Improvement Professionals
  • Senior Managers

Ideal Organisations:

 

  • Manufacturing
  • Logistics & Freight Forwarding
  • Supply Chain & Distribution
  • Warehousing
  • Engineering
  • Retail & E-Commerce
  • Healthcare
  • Infrastructure
  • Technology & IT Services
  • Service Organisations

"Across Domains and Business Functionality"

The behaviour you reward today becomes the culture you live with tomorrow—choose your KPIs wisely.

FACULTY PROFILE

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Mr. Praveen Krishnan

 

  • Praveen Krishnan is a Business Transformation and Operational Excellence professional with over 22 years of experience in the Logistics, Supply Chain, Freight Forwarding, and Warehousing industry.
  • His expertise spans ISO Management Systems (development, implementation, internal auditing, certification readiness, and continual improvement), Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Business Intelligence systems for executive decision-making, and the development and implementation of SME Risk Management Systems.
  • He is the Founder of SSHV™ Consulting, where he partners with leadership teams to improve organisational clarity, predictability, and control by identifying hidden organisational conditions that influence operational performance, leadership decision-making, and long-term business outcomes.

Fees

Rs. 250/- + 18 % GST  fee for MMA members 

 

 

*Fee once paid will not be refunded.

Workshop - Your KPIs Are Creating the Problems You're Trying to Fix

 

Date : 20-08-2026 (Thursday)

 

Time : 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM.

 

 

Venue : Zoom

Contact Us

 

HARI PRASAD S R
DGM-MMA (9952932169)

dgm@mmachennai.org

 

or

 

Mail to training@mmachennai.org

 

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