Better KPIs. Better Strategy. Better Results.
If you’ve attended KPI training before and come away with frameworks but not answers — or designed KPIs that ended up measuring activity rather than results — the PuMP Blueprint workshop is a different experience. It’s a structured, hands-on KPI training workshop built around a proven eight-step method for designing measures that genuinely evidence your strategy and drive improvement.
Not a generic introduction to KPIs, but a complete methodology you can apply from day one.
Strategy fails in execution when success isn’t defined clearly enough to measure — and KPIs aren’t designed to drive it forward. In this hands-on PuMP Blueprint KPI training workshop, you’ll learn how to:
- Make hard-to-measure strategy measurable — and easier for teams to align to.
- Choose measures that align to outcomes and drive action — not just reporting.
- Build measurement that supports better decisions and stronger execution — without measurement overload.
PuMP is more than just a practical and engaging KPI training workshop — it’s the missing piece to create, execute and achieve an evidence-based strategy.
Most organisations don’t struggle with data.
But they do struggle with measurement.
Most leadership literature and executive programs talk about why measurement matters in executing an evidence-based strategy. But they do not provide a practical method for designing better measures that can evidence success.
It’s a strategic skills gap.
Strategy and performance professionals understand that evidence of success matters — but they’re rarely given a practical method for designing measures that actually provide it. Instead, they’re stuck trying to make legacy KPIs and existing data do the job.
They continue to struggle with:
- Strategic goals that are too intangible to measure, so there is no evidence of success
- KPIs that are not aligned to strategy, and legacy metrics don’t match
- Little strategic alignment across the organisation, so strategy isn’t executed well
- Too many KPIs and metrics, and measurement overwhelms instead of focuses
- KPIs, metrics and targets that drive unintended behaviour, and accountability is unmanageable
- KPIs only used for reporting rather than decision-making, so dashboards lack insight
Without the strategic skill of proper performance measurement, measurement is little more than a reporting industry, a compliance burden, and a leadership frustration — instead of the strategy execution and improvement engine it should be.
PuMP fills the gaps in strategic leadership skills
Those struggles listed above won’t go away with more data, more dashboards or more measurement delegation. They appear repeatedly because organisations are still using measurement practices designed decades ago.
It’s time for measurement to be seen as the strategic skill it truly is.
Unlike most KPI training workshops, with the PuMP Blueprint, you can close that strategic skills gap and solve all those struggles in a structured way to translate strategy into meaningful, measurable results. You can stop drowning in activity metrics and start measuring what truly drives performance.
PuMP is your way to clear goals, fewer but better measures, and insight that guides the right actions to improve performance and execute strategy.
It closes this skills gap in a way that saves you many times more effort than you know is already wasted every year, with an ad hoc approach to KPIs.
“It was taking on average 64 days to place training failures in new positions, and the Directors asked us if we could get that down to around 14 days. We used PuMP to help us do that. We invested probably $10,000-$12,000 and got back close to a $500,000 gain [in 7 months].”
Steve Silvers, Federal Aviation Administration, United States
With PuMP, measurement becomes a learning system, a decision tool, and a performance driver.
Measurement only adds value when it answers the questions that actually drive decisions. Here’s what that looks like with and without PuMP:
| Before PuMP | With PuMP |
| Is our strategy working? We don’t know when strategy progress is gauged by projects and initiatives, not measurable outcomes. | Measures reveal progress toward strategic results. And the right projects and initiatives are aligned to get those results. |
| Are we focusing on what matters? Priority overload is a huge challenge today, risking a scattergun approach to resource allocation. | Measures signal organisational priorities. Resources can be prioritised to the performance gaps with biggest impact on overall success. |
| Which initiatives drive results? Initiatives continue because of political momentum, because there is no ROI to evaluate them in the context of strategic results. | Measures link initiatives to outcomes. Dashboards of the right measures give a quick and objective way to decide what’s working, and what needs adjustment, and what should be stopped. |
| Are we learning fast enough? In today’s world, strategy needs testing and adapting much more often to stay relevant. | Measures create feedback loops. With measures aligned directly to strategic results organisation-wide, strategic assumptions can be tested and new performance drivers can be found more quickly. |
| Are decisions evidence-based? Decisions are based on seniority, opinion or politics. And teams hesitate, waiting to be told what to do. | Measures support everyone in objective decision-making. Evidence-based management is shared organisation-wide, every team owning and delivering on their contribution to the strategic direction. |
“Our performance framework [created with PuMP] is a credible evidence-based tool that we use to engage with corporate and public funders to enhance the position of public libraries in the social infrastructure offered by local and state governments.”
Hanlie Erasmus, Associate Director of Public Library Services, State Library of South Australia
What are the strategic skills of measurement?
In this highly practical KPI training workshop, you’ll learn how to:
- Make Strategy Measurable: Turn broad goals into clear, measurable performance results.
- Map Strategic Alignment: Connect every team’s goals and KPIs to the strategic direction.
- Design Meaningful KPIs: Create measures that are feasible, aligned, and insightful.
- Build Buy-In: Get stakeholders engaged in owning performance.
- Implement Measures Properly: Define data, ownership, and reporting requirements.
- Interpret Performance Signals: Understand whether performance is truly improving.
- Create Actionable Reports: Focus discussion on improvement, not explanation.
- Reach Performance Targets: Use measurement to drive real improvement and strategy execution.
In the workshop, you will learn, practice and master these skills through the practical, logical and proven techniques of PuMP’s 8-step process. Right now, you can get a taste for what meaningful KPI design involves in this free guide: How to Design Good KPIs.
How the PuMP Blueprint Workshop works
You don’t just learn PuMP. You practice it and apply it.
Our PuMP Blueprint KPI training workshops are led by our global PuMP Partners. They have the most expertise in PuMP worldwide, coupled with exceptional teaching, facilitation and coaching skills.
“Mark is a great trainer who knows his stuff, and is considered in his approach to helping participants discover the answers for themselves. I really valued Mark’s training style and the approach he took throughout the workshop.”
Nicole, PuMP Blueprint Workshop, Canberra
Live Workshop Options
- In-person (3 full days): Deep focus, immersive learning, real-time application and the ability to connect with your peers in the room.
- Online (5 half-days): Flexible format with time between sessions to reflect and practice, delivered via Zoom.
In both formats you will:
- Learn each step of PuMP, through instruction, examples, discussion and demonstrations.
- Apply it to real goals and KPIs, with the practical templates.
- Leave with drafted measures and plan to put what you learn into practice, and get real results.
And you can expect to get great value from the PuMP Blueprint workshop, given its track record since 2006:
“PuMP has been a standout experience. The method brings a sense of calm and clarity that’s rare in performance work and it creates order in a world that’s usually full of noise, gimmicks, and messy methodology. I found the process grounding, practical, and genuinely confidence‑building. It’s the first measurement approach I’ve used that actually reduces stress instead of adding to it.”
Kate, Department of Defence
Who the PuMP Blueprint is for
PuMP is sector and industry agnostic – it works for everyone. It is used in government, non-profit and private sector organisations, of all sizes, around the world.
Whatever organisation or business you work in, you will find the PuMP Blueprint an invaluable skill set if you are responsible for or involved in:
- Executing strategy at all organisational levels
- Improving team, process, function or project results
- Designing KPIs to monitor any result or achieve any goal
- Building a performance culture based on evidence-based decision making
This workshop is ideal for a wide variety of roles:
- Strategy and performance professionals
- Leaders of all levels – from the board room to the shop floor
- Improvement teams
- Reporting and analytics practitioners
A few examples of the sectors that use PuMP widely include defence, education, energy, emergency services, environment, financial services, healthcare, local government, mining, non-profits, primary industries, tourism, transport and utilities.
Many practitioners who attend a public workshop go on to bring PuMP into their organisation through a private workshop for their team — or by becoming a PuMP Champion internally.
“I regularly use PuMP terminology and logic in my day-to-day mahi… Being taught to apply what is best fitting for your environment was great and means we can have the critical conversations needed, rather than it being seen as an inflexible end to end process which is hard to get stakeholders to buy into.”
Matt Moloney, Senior Advisor, Ministry of Social Development, Wellington New Zealand
What makes PuMP different
PuMP isn’t a dashboard tool. It isn’t a KPI library. It isn’t a reporting framework.
PuMP is a methodology.
PuMP is a deliberate and repeatable process for choosing, implementing and using performance measures to improve results, organisation wide.
It does what no other approach is doing:
- Starts with making sure goals are measurable before trying to measure them
- Builds KPIs from evidence of success, not available data
- Engages people who will work with the KPIs in their design and implementation, to build ownership
- Creates alignment and accountability in a way that drives transformational and lasting performance improvements
- Leaves nothing out – every important decision point in choosing, implementing and using KPIs is embedded in its techniques
That’s why PuMP is still at the leading edge of performance measurement training, after 20 years of worldwide programs.
And it’s why many of our organisational clients adopt and embed PuMP, and why many of our graduates keep using PuMP throughout their careers:
“I was first introduced to Stacey’s PuMP philosophy almost 20 years ago when I was in local government and we were struggling to understand our progress towards achieving our corporate and strategic outcomes. PuMP is simple, logical and so effective that my team and I used it in the development of all our corporate strategies at GCCC and it is still used there today.”
Stephen Varady, ARA Director and Chairman of Award Committee, Australasian Reporting Awards, Australia
“This has been a refresher for me after having undertaken PuMP about 18 years ago. Still wonderful and still relevant to the world of performance and reporting.”
PuMP Blueprint Workshop participant, March 2026
Your learning doesn’t stop when the workshop ends.
Your implementation is supported through our free global PuMP Community, providing you with ongoing access to:
- PuMP Template updates and different language versions
- Interactive Q&A sessions with PuMP peers around the world
- Case studies with PuMP users
So learning turns into real application.
Our goal isn’t to sell workshop seats. Our goal is for your organisation to adopt and use PuMP and transform its performance and impact in the world.
“Between Mark‘s excellent delivery, the course content itself, and the engagements with the other participants, I have not enjoyed a course as much as my PuMP experience in a long time. Stacey and the team want you to succeed, and have set up the training and post training support with that in mind.”
Iain Rowley, Performance and Assurance, Defence
PuMP is a professional certification.
PuMP is certified by APMG, the world’s leading accreditation and exam institute for professional certifications.
PuMP Certification demonstrates your ability to develop performance measures that are meaningful, aligned to strategy, implemented efficiently and focused on driving performance improvement. This is a powerful capability to include in your resume and give you an edge over other candidates for promotions and new positions.
Australian & New Zealand PuMP Blueprint Workshops…
Following are the fees for PuMP Blueprint Workshops coming up in Australia and New Zealand. These workshops are provided by Stacey Barr Pty Ltd. (Click here to jump to other regions.)
| Full Fee: | $3900AUD per person ($4290 with GST) |
| Early Bird: | $3200AUD per person ($3520 with GST) |
| Group Rate with Early Bird: | $2900AUD per person ($3190 with GST) |
| Group Rate after Early Bird: | $3600 per person ($3960 with GST) |
Upcoming workshops:
| DATES | WORKSHOP LOCATION | FORMAT | FACILITATOR | REGISTER |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 7-8 & 12-14, 2026 | Online via Zoom | 5 half-days | Mark Hocknell | REGISTER HERE early bird ends 4 September |
Notes for Australia & New Zealand:
- Workshop fees are in Australian Dollars (AUD).
- Workshops will incur a 10% GST for Australian registrations.
- Group bookings are for 2 or more people from the same organisation, in the same booking and a single payment. If you don’t register colleagues in the same booking and a single payment, the group discount no longer applies, and it is not retrospective.
- A condition of registering for this event is your agreement to the terms & conditions.
- If you cannot register online, you can download our offline registration form, fill it out, scan it and email back to us at [email protected].
“I cannot speak highly enough of Stacey and her Performance Measure Blueprint… I highly recommend Stacey’s training as the best in the business.”
Melinda Varley, Director Business Performance Management, Australian Public Service
Global PuMP Blueprint Workshops…
These upcoming workshops are offered by our international team of licensed PuMP Partners.
| DATES | WORKSHOP LOCATION | FORMAT | FACILITATOR | REGISTER |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 15-16 & 20-22, 2026 | USA, online Rolter Associates | 5 half-days | Brook Rolter | REGISTER |
| September 7-9, 2026 | Africa, Dubai, in-person BSEA | 3 full days | Peter Ndaa | REGISTER early bird ends 3 August |
| September 14-18, 2026 | UK & Europe, online Rubica Analytics | 5 half-days | Paul Frith | REGISTER early bird ends 14 August |
| September 23-24 & 28-30, 2026 | USA, online Rolter Associates | 5 half-days | Brook Rolter | REGISTER early bird ends 28 August |
| November 23-25, 2026 | Africa, Cape Town, in-person BSEA | 3 full days | Peter Ndaa | REGISTER early bird ends 19 October |
| November 23-27, 2026 | UK & Europe, online Rubica Analytics | 5 half-days | Paul Frith | REGISTER early bird ends 23 October |
Notes for international workshops:
- The registration links will take you to our PuMP Partner websites to register directly with them.
- PuMP Partners may offer different formats for the PuMP Blueprint Workshop to those offered in Australia.
- PuMP Partners may have different pricing, terms, and conditions, since they operate in different countries with different circumstances.
Terms & conditions for workshops hosted by Stacey Barr Pty Ltd
Please note: our licensed Partners may have different terms and conditions to ours, since they operate in different countries with different circumstances.
Guarantee
If during the workshop you decide to withdraw from it, and wish to obtain your money-back guarantee, you must do so either at the workshop, or in writing within 2 weeks of your attendance at the workshop.
Cancellation Policy
You may make substitutions at any time prior to the workshop. No substitutions can be accepted after the workshop start. Cancellations and transfers to a future course will incur a $198 service fee per registrant. Registered participants who do not attend the workshop or who cancel less than 2 weeks prior to the workshop either forfeit the workshop fee or can transfer to a subsequent workshop (one transfer only).
Program Changes
Stacey Barr Pty Ltd reserves the right to alter dates and/or times of the workshop if registration criteria are not met or if conditions beyond her control occur. All efforts will be made to contact each registrant if changes occur. If the program is not held for any reason, our liability is limited to the workshop fee only.
Early Bird Rate
To qualify for the Early Bird rate we must receive your registration and payment on or before the Early Bird dates listed to the right, with the workshop locations. Because we want to be equally fair to everyone, we do not extend the Early Rate for anyone, under any circumstance. Early Bird and Group Rates can be combined, and prices are indicated above.
Group Bookings
The group discount is for 2 or more people from the same organisation in the same booking and in a single payment. Early Bird and Group Rates can be combined, and prices are indicated above.
Intellectual Property & Consultant Use
Certification and training in PuMP® is for internal facilitation and personal use only. Any other use of PuMP, either commercially or not, requires special permission or a license from Stacey Barr Pty Ltd.
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Do You Have Any Questions?
If you have any questions at all about the PuMP Performance Measure Blueprint Workshop, please email us at [email protected] and we will respond within 2 business days (usually much faster).