Excel is a wonderful tool to manage all your business data. It makes it easy for managers to track all the data they need to act swiftly.

Question is, is it simple enough for your frontline teams to use? And, can it really double up as a KPI dashboard for your team’s metrics?

Teams need something that is easily accessible. And when it comes to data on your team’s performance, things should be exciting and super interactive. Which, Excel can’t be all the time.

Let’s see a few issues that you might face when using Excel.

No clear visibility

Metrics are what drive your team’s performance and to find these metrics, scrolling through rows and columns filled with data can become very complicated.

Teams often get confused with this influx of data. It is hard to find the data that they need in a sheet full of numbers.

Not sharable

Sure, you can attach an Excel sheet to a mail and send it to your teams. But that’s not what we mean by sharable.

Employees can find it hard to keep track of all the Excel sheets they download in a given month, just to find out how they’ve performed.

You need to be able to show them their individual performance metrics, with ease.

Next steps

When you are dealing with metrics relating to your team’s performance, just showing them just their numbers on a sheet is not enough. What you do with these numbers is what matters.

Isn’t improving the team’s performance the ultimate goal of every company? You should be able to give recommendations that help them improve.

Not team friendly

Many run a mile if asked to do calculations on Excel. Just asking your team to calculate their monthly progress to find out the top performer is a mammoth task in itself. Teams might not be willing to do a string of calculations just to check their performance. And in most cases, they will not even have the time to do so.

Data drilling

When you have teams with hundreds of people in each, it gets difficult to filter out individual data or even a specific team’s data. It can get a bit messy when you have all the data in one sheet. You can safely bid your goals of improving each team member’s performance goodbye.

What you need is a clear, structured display of data. This will help you make decisions in a more informed way.

Chances of human error

According to this Forbes article, there is about an 88% chance that your spreadsheet contains an error. And this stems from the fact that most of the data entry is done by the users themselves, often with no formal training. To add to that, in the event of there being a small error, it could lead to major repercussions.

Even though Excel is a flexible and incredibly powerful tool, we’ve seen the host of problems it can present. We think there is a better way to track your team’s metrics, and we’ve got just the tool to help you drive performance, and get complete visibility of the KPIs that you set for your teams.

Bsharp Score lets you cut through all the clutter to show your teams the data they need. Their targets. Their actuals. How they are faring against others.

Bsharp Score can help you supercharge your team’s performance with complete visibility of targets, reminders to keep them on track, and suggestions to keep them improving.