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  • About Us
    • Nick Setchell – RealTime CEO
    • Vistage & TEC WorkshopsNick Setchell has been working with Vistage, the world’s largest CEO organization, since 2001.
    • NewsSee what’s happening with RealTime CEO.
    • Economic Update Report
    • Contact UsReach out to us. If you’re interested in booking Nick to give a keynote address or workshop at your conference, please include the date and location.
  • Concepts
    • Fiscal Focus Financial Statement AnalysisUnlock the hidden numbers in your P&L and balance sheet to see how you’re performing in 11 vital metrics.
    • Should We? / Can We?View, in real time, the actual financial impact of the hundreds of business decisions your team makes every month.
    • 24 Month Rolling ForecastingBlend your trailing twelve months with a rolling 12-month forecast to get a complete financial picture of your business.
    • J Curve ManagementTrack the number of investments you’re undertaking, the 3 phases of each, and the 5 rules for managing them.
    • Return on Operations – ROOView your return on operations percentage — your ROO % — the most powerful number to measure business success.
    • CEO Performance AnalysisBenchmark your performance as a private-company CEO against others in your industry.
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CEO Performance Rating

How well are you really performing? Do you have a single measurement that quantifies the value that you’re creating from each dollar invested in the company?


Measuring Mid-Market CEO Performance

How do you measure your performance each year as a CEO? Are you able to measure it against the performance of your competition? Against that of your peers?

Public company CEOs can easily get a real-time independent evaluation of their performance by viewing their stock price. Mid-market CEOs typically don’t have public markets to measure how well they’re performing and what their company is worth.

The unfortunate reality is that the standard numbers that most mid-market CEOs rely upon quantify only past operational performance and give little intelligence on:

  • How much value they’re creating
  • How well they’re performing against their competition
  • How well they’re performing against their peers

Other than comparing company revenue, number of employees, or the size of their houses, cars, boats, or other toys, how do CEOs of mid-market companies obtain this information? For most, they need to bring in independent experts: bankers, analysts, or financial consultants with sophisticated performance-modeling tools.

CEO Performance Metrics

Fortune 500 financial executives have been using sophisticated tools to measure their performance and the amount of value they’re creating for decades.

Their teams produce the standard numbers required for public markets, but most use an even deeper set of numbers to gain a true understanding of their strengths, their weaknesses, and their performance, with numbers like TBR, CFROI, RONA, EVA, ROCE and EROCE.

Calculations do not change businesses. Influence and action do. Understanding how to measure the results of those influences and actions, an ultimate measure of the value you’re creating as a CEO, is the key to being a successful leader.

The Most Important Number

Do you have a single metric you use to measure your performance? Not your company’s performance (i.e. profitability, growth, etc), but your ability as the chief executive, as the business owner, to turn each dollar invested into multiple dollars?

If you had access to that number, would you use it?


"Nick's tools and guidance enable CEOs to have confidence that the measures that matter are the primary focus of all team members."

- Nicole Graham, Chief Executive, scosa, the Spastic Centres of South Australia Inc


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