Best Practices: Achieving Goals
Kathleen Schienle
Language: English
Pages: 144
ISBN: B00ADKPL9W
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Aiming high is essential to success. But by following through and completing what you've set out to do, you can truly outperform your competitors. Achieving Goals, a comprehensive and essential resource for any manager on the run, shows you how.
Learn to:
- Set smart and challenging goals for yourself and your employees
- Create a goal-focused environment
- Help employees meet their objectives
- Anticipate and overcome obstacles
- Measure progress and stay on track to achieve success
The Collins Best Practices guides offer new and seasoned managers the essential information they need to achieve more, both personally and professionally. Designed to provide tried-and-true advice from the world's most influential business minds, they feature practical strategies and tips to help you get ahead.
less burdensome? In this book, we distill the wisdom of some of the best minds in the field of performance management to help you achieve more through goal-setting. The language is simple and the design colorful to make the information easy to grasp. Quizzes help you assess your knowledge of goal-setting and goal management. Case files show how companies have succeeded by setting challenging goals. Sidebars give you a big-picture look at goal-setting and highlight innovative, out-of-the-box
aggressively for a promotion or a raise, even to the point of threatening to quit. Perhaps the most difficult to deal with are the employees who don’t accept any of your comments and argue every point. Work at making the situation more comfortable right from the start. If staff members seem nervous or withdrawn, talk about a few non-work topics to set them at ease. As you move into the review itself, don’t speak in terms of the person, but rather talk about the work and the job. Keep the
employees fail? Not exactly. The point of goal-setting is to define a target and the path to it, to grow and improve on the way to reaching it, and, ultimately, to contribute to the organization’s forward movement. If goal-setting is viewed as a continuous process, then these employees did not fail. Goals are a road map to an employee’s success. If employees takes a “wrong” turn or check out side roads on their journey, it doesn’t mean they will never reach their destination. In fact, it could
author of Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive Successful business people and achievers in all fields use the techniques of goal-setting, a process that helps you decide exactly what you want to accomplish and then helps you systematically chart your course to get there. Goals provide both long-term vision and short-term motivation. They keep employees focused and make it easier for you and your staff to organize time and resources to take advantage of opportunities. When workers
meet their goals are treated the same as employees who don’t, workers become disgruntled and demoralized, and employee turnover can result. POWER POINTS THREE PHASES OF GOAL-SETTING Goal-setting is a vital part of the cycle of managing your employees. The cycle has three phases: Discussion–A detailed presentation of the desired goal and expected outcome to all participants Compromise–All participants negotiate all aspects of the goal Agreement–A commitment to achieve the goals