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AEES Executive Certificate in Performance steering and control

Choose indicators that decide, not dashboards that decorate. This AEES certification attests performance steering and control.

  • AssessmentProfessional assessment
  • Attempts2
  • PreparationIncluded
  • France
  • Canada
Description

Performance steering and control

A vague familiarity with “Performance steering and control” is no longer enough. This belongs with Leadership and strategy. You hold a course, you change an organisation and you make an impact readable. People are hired to decide, not just to name the topic. This AEES certification is for professionals, managers and leaders who want to choose a useful indicator, judge a performance gap and report without dressing the figures. No diploma is required. What is required is a working command of written French, and the will to show the subject on a real file, in a company, a public body or a partner organisation.

You are not joining a long degree. You take “Performance steering and control” seriously enough to use it, and seriously enough for someone else to read it on a file. Everything happens online, around a job you already have. You prepare if you need to, then you sit a professional assessment. The AEES Executive Certificate, if it is issued, is proof in your name, and it can be checked. It holds in a CV, a move or a cooperation. It is a short specialisation, issued by a higher-education institution. You see at once what you are buying: a targeted title, not a course catalogue.

Afterwards you can carry “Performance steering and control” into a team, a file or a new responsibility, and explain your choices to a manager, a funder or a partner institution. Others will see that you can choose a useful indicator, judge a performance gap and report without dressing the figures, including outside your own organisation. If you succeed, AEES issues an AEES Executive Certificate in your name, with a unique serial number that can be checked in the public register. The award stays in your workspace. It shows a professional judgement you have demonstrated, useful for a CV, a new post or work in common.

Skills

What this certificate attests

The capabilities the assessment attests if you pass.

  • Choose a useful indicator
  • Judge a performance gap
  • Report without dressing the figures
  • Hold a review that decides
  • Refuse reporting that hides the problem
  • Decide the action
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Knowledge & research

Related scientific readings

Scientific readings related to this certificate.

Preparation included

To prepare for the assessment

After purchase, a preparatory course is available: 6 written modules, without an instructor, at your own pace. You are not required to follow it before opening the assessment. Each module sets out the notions, a commented case, the points to keep and a FAQ. It covers Object, Indicator, Gap and Ritual.

When you are ready, you enter the assessment: a file already open, incomplete facts, conflicting views. You move through successive decisions. This is not a full taught programme with pedagogical supervision.

Structured written course

Notions, objectives and concrete examples, organised progressively.

Applied case

A commented professional situation to anchor the theory.

FAQ and preparation

Frequent doubts, then questions to go further on your own.

  1. Module 1, Object: Choose what you measure, and what you refuse to measure Performance steering begins long before a dashboard is built. The first managerial act is to decide the object of measurement. You are not choosing a software feature or a color for charts. You are choosing to observe a specific phenomenon that matters to your objective, over a defined population and time, with a cost you accept and a behavior you want to encourage. If you choose the wrong object, later steps only amplify the mistake. This module focuses on that first act. You will link a concrete business purpose to a precise object of measurement. You will draw a boundary around what is in scope and what is out of scope. You will refuse to measure items that are popular, easy, or noisy if they do not serve the purpose, create perverse incentives, or breach ethical or legal constraints. You will come out with a definition that a colleague could apply without ambiguity.
  2. Indicator Many dashboards are crowded with numbers that impress but do not guide action. The purpose of this module is to make every indicator earn its place by linking it to a specific decision. If no decision changes when the number changes, it is not an indicator for steering. It is decoration. You will learn to convert an objective into a clear question and then into a measurable indicator with an owner, a formula, a source, a frequency, and decision thresholds. You will also learn to test whether the indicator is feasible, comparable, timely, and resilient to gaming. This avoids the trap of measuring what is easy rather than what matters.
  3. AEES Executive Certificate - Performance Steering and Control - Module 3: Gap A gap is the distance between what is happening and what was intended. It can look numerical and neutral, yet it is a management moment. When you read a gap correctly, you create options. When you treat it as a justification, you remove agency. This module trains you to treat gaps as choices. Your role is to decide with discipline, not to explain away variance. In practice, many reports show green, amber, and red. These colors suggest action, but without defined thresholds and decision rights, they become decoration. You will learn to set a baseline and tolerance, recognize signal versus noise, and apply decision rules that focus scarce resources on material issues. You will also learn how to phrase a gap so that a review meeting must choose an action.
  4. Module 4 · Ritual: Decision-focused performance reviews Performance improves when teams decide and act, not when they comment and defer. The ritual you install around performance reviews creates that bias for action. It shapes who prepares what, how facts are presented, what questions are asked, how decisions are made, and how commitments are tracked. This module shows you how to turn a recurring meeting into a disciplined decision ritual. A good ritual is intentional. It has a purpose that matches your performance objective, inputs that are validated, a simple sequence that respects time, and an output that documents a decision and assigns accountability. It prevents drift toward commentary, showcases facts over anecdotes, and gives the right people the right forum to choose a course of action. When the ritual is stable, people prepare better, issues surface earlier, and decisions happen faster.
  5. Module 5 · Dressing: Reporting Without Hiding the Problem Performance steering only works when decision makers see the situation as it is. Dressing happens when a report is edited, framed, or visualized in a way that makes performance appear better than it is or obscures the cause of a gap. It can be intentional or accidental. In both cases, it weakens control. This module shows you how to recognize dressing patterns and replace them with transparent reporting that supports decisions. You will learn how to trace an indicator to its source, check definitions and denominators, expose time-series behavior, and present uncertainty. You will also see how to write neutral commentary and how to challenge data without attacking people. The goal is not to humiliate teams. The goal is to keep management attention on facts that matter, in time to act.
  6. Module 6/6, Correction: Decide the Action, the Owner, and the Date Correction is where steering becomes real. In earlier modules you defined the objective, chose the indicator, assessed the gap, created the review ritual, and reported without dressing. Now you must decide what to do. A correction is not a vague intention. It is a specific change to a process, a system, or a behavior that is owned by one person and due on a clear date. Your role is to translate facts into a decision, then hold the decision to account. In practice, the hardest part is choosing the right lever and keeping it simple. Many teams generate long action lists, then deliver little. This module shows how to go from root cause to a short list of priority actions, how to assign a single accountable owner, and how to set dates that stick. You will also see how to express acceptance criteria and how to close an action with evidence. The approach works at any scale, from a shop floor correction to a cross functional initiative.