Too often leaders and their subordinates alike, feel that they don’t need to measure their performance. ‘I know my job – I know what I need to do – you don’t need to measure me or my results’. Nothing could be further from the truth.

How would you like to go to a basketball game where no one kept score or watch a Sunday golf tournament without a leader board?  Not much fun, huh? Exactly there would be no real point of the game if we couldn’t keep or know the score or the final outcome.  It would just be a bunch of people running up and down the court in funny pants or guys hitting a little white ball all over a grass playing field.

Whether we know it or not we all want to be measured in almost any endeavor we are involved with; either as a participant or a spectator or fan.  The same logic applies to building high performance organizations.  When team members are totally engaged in the team or themselves, and they are involved in setting the measures for the team or themselves, they will go to great lengths to ensure that the goals they helped set are reached – in many cases, in record time.

So don’t miss the great opportunity that measurements can be in building your team and its performance.