How do I track team performance fairly?
Short answer
Measure a few things each person can control: jobs completed, callback rate, close rate, and response time. Compare people to their own trend rather than to each other, and use the numbers to coach rather than to score.
Before you start
- Work assigned to named people.
- Job outcomes recorded consistently.
- Agreement on what good looks like.
- A regular one-to-one rhythm.
Step by step
- 1
Measure only what they control
Close rate, response time, callbacks, and completed jobs. Not the weather or the ad budget.
Metrics people cannot influence breed resentment, not improvement.
- 2
Normalize for job mix
Compare like with like before drawing conclusions about who performs.
Whoever gets the hard jobs will always look worse on raw numbers.
- 3
Track the trend per person
Their own three-month direction matters more than the team ranking.
Improvement is the behavior you actually want to reward.
- 4
Use it in one-to-ones
Bring the numbers to a coaching conversation, not to a group leaderboard.
Public rankings encourage gaming and hiding.
- 5
Pair quantity with quality
Jobs completed alongside callback rate and review scores.
Speed without quality just moves the cost to next month.
- 6
Fix systems first
When several people miss the same mark, the process is the problem.
Coaching individuals against a broken process wastes everyone's time.
What good looks like
- Conversations are grounded in evidence.
- Improvement is visible per person.
- Quality is measured alongside output.
- Systemic problems get named as such.
Common mistakes
The ways this goes wrong in insights, and what to do instead.
Public leaderboards›
People optimize the metric and stop helping each other.
Do this instead: Review numbers privately in one-to-ones and celebrate outcomes as a team.
Ignoring job mix›
The tech assigned the hardest work looks like the worst performer.
Do this instead: Normalize by job type before comparing anyone to anyone.
Volume-only metrics›
Rushed work raises completion counts and callbacks together.
Do this instead: Always pair output metrics with callback rate and customer feedback.
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