How do you incentivize employees with tough-to-measure roles?

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I work in a sales development team as a solutions developer, i.e. I build sales and operations efficiency tools.



So, one part of the department is made up of roles like mine; we do different tasks that involve lots of different kinds of work. On the other hand, the salespeople of course have quotas and metrics.



My manager asked our team how we should go about measuring and incentivizing our performance - he doesn't want to leave us out of the rewards program that's starting, but he can't measure us like the salespeople.



How should we go about measuring our performance if what we do changes all the time?






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    So, one part of the department is made up of roles like mine; we do different tasks that involve lots of different kinds of work. On the other hand, the salespeople of course have quotas and metrics.



    My manager asked our team how we should go about measuring and incentivizing our performance - he doesn't want to leave us out of the rewards program that's starting, but he can't measure us like the salespeople.



    How should we go about measuring our performance if what we do changes all the time?






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      So, one part of the department is made up of roles like mine; we do different tasks that involve lots of different kinds of work. On the other hand, the salespeople of course have quotas and metrics.



      My manager asked our team how we should go about measuring and incentivizing our performance - he doesn't want to leave us out of the rewards program that's starting, but he can't measure us like the salespeople.



      How should we go about measuring our performance if what we do changes all the time?






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      So, one part of the department is made up of roles like mine; we do different tasks that involve lots of different kinds of work. On the other hand, the salespeople of course have quotas and metrics.



      My manager asked our team how we should go about measuring and incentivizing our performance - he doesn't want to leave us out of the rewards program that's starting, but he can't measure us like the salespeople.



      How should we go about measuring our performance if what we do changes all the time?






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