Once the measurable amounts are determined and have been agreed with the team, it’s one thing to know them and understand them, but another to ensure that they are met and correctly measured. Routines confirming the measurable amounts, time spent on certain activities is as essential as merely identifying and agreeing on something.  

So how would you come about checking that people are in fact not lying when it comes to goals and they spend their time really working (that is the time they say they worked was actually spent for procedures they are asked to perform)? There’s no quick fix, no easy solution or magic tool. There are routines you can come up for your company, specific for your business and specific to your measurable amounts.

The things you can do include regular monitoring of personnel, electronic timecards to record movement to and from work place, measuring results against worked hours and so on. You can also compare results by people provided they ought to give the same performance results.

It’s not so much what exactly you’re doing as long as you do something that also gives results.