Data Driven Decisions to Support Your Personal/ Professional Goals

For a long time already business world agrees that data driven decision making benefits companies with new opportunities, growth in revenue and support by predicting future trends and needs as well as generate valuable insights. At the same time it helps to minimize risks and become less vulnerable. Taking it as a good example why not to use more data to achieve your personal and professional goals?

Everyday we are equipped and offered with more and more tools that aim to support us when making from smallest to great responsibility decisions and it only takes our curiosity to try and evaluate what benefits us as individuals. In this article I would like to share some simple tools that can be used in your daily life and hopefully encourage you to look for more, specific ones matching your needs.

1. MyAnalytics by Microsoft

Fast paced environment requires a lot of planning and prioritizing. MyAnalytics tool created by Microsoft analyzes your Office 365 and provides you with weekly and monthly data and insights to help you to become more efficient. By measuring your focus and collaboration time, proactive network management and well-being you can see risks and avoid it by rescheduling your calendar or taking other decisions needed. Good thing is that you can easily compare different periods and see if your effort made based on previous data have positive impact.

2. LinkedIn SSI (Social Selling Index)

Another tool that can be used by the ones who are dependent on their network, relationships and influence in their daily life is provided by LinkedIn and can be found via link: https://www.dhirubhai.net/sales/ssi . This is a dashboard of four components: establishing your personal brand, finding right people, engaging with insights and building relationships. It takes only one click to see your result as well as compare yourself in the industry and within your network. Good news that score is recalculated every week so results of your new actions you can see very soon.

3. Photofeeler

If the first two examples were provided by systems, this one is different. By using https://www.photofeeler.com/ you can get unbiased feedback on your pictures given by the users. In this golden times for social media we start many conversations online so having pictures that support our goals (to get in touch with more people by being a nice person to reach out or to show your competence or make an influence in your field or you can name it) is something worth to check. Just add your picture and wait for people rating and comments about it fitting business world.

There are many more great tools but for the very end I want to emphasize one thing:

Growth in results is achieved when continuously seeking for better. It means that when you finish one circle GOAL -> DATA -> DECISION -> RESULT -> INSIGHTS, here is just the beginning of new round.

Please share easy to use tools that you find the most valuable and help the community to become more data driven.

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