“What gets measured gets improved.”
Imagine playing a game with no scoreboard. Why would anyone try their best?
If you want your team to improve, put up a scoreboard measuring their individual performance, and put it in a public place.
People will immediately pay attention and significantly improve their behavior on that activity.
We believe this so much at my companies that we printed write on wipe-off scoreboards with grid lines ready to be deployed on any key metric!
We measure things for about two months and talk about it at weekly meetings. Then we shift to a new thing to measure. If you measure the same thing all the time people get immune to it.
We celebrate the top performers of course!
What scoreboard are you going to put up today?