Chapter 7 Step 4: What Is the Measurable Gap?

Behnam Bakhshandeh

DOI: 10.4324/9781003155928-10

Recognizing a performance gap sounds easy. But doing so is often overlooked.

Chapter 7 is about finding performance gaps between “What is happening” and “What should be happening” and how to measure such a gap. This step in high-performance coaching is critical. Carrying out this step makes it possible for performance coaches to find, or facilitate others to find, issues that warrant attention.

  • This chapter addresses these issues:
  • What is analysis?
  • What is a performance gap?
  • What methods can explain individuals’, teams’, and organization’s present and future performance gaps?
  • What are performance gap metrics?
  • Some example of gap analysis ...

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