Leading & Managing Teams:

Goal Setting

Online Courses

- Effective goal setting requires leaders to translate high-level corporate goals down to the business unit, and then break them down even further into team and individual goals. That way, employees can understand how their performance connects to company strategy, financial results, and incentives. In this course, leadership consultant Mike Figliuolo outlines how to set different types of business goals: quantitative, qualitative, commit, and stretch goals. In addition to linking goals to strategy, he emphasizes the importance of setting achievable goals, communicating them clearly, and providing resources so goals can be accomplished.

- As a manager, you want to set your employees up for success by helping them create smart goals that align with the needs of your organization and the skills the employee has and needs to develop. In this short course, the first installment in the Performance Management series, Dr. Todd Dewett digs into the manager’s role in managing performance, helping you master both goal setting and performance management. Learn how to create an environment that’s data driven and ensures support and accountability, as well as help your direct reports define and align smart goals.

Get started with objectives and key results (OKRs), the popular management methodology for goal setting that can encourage collaboration and alignment, clarify priorities, and empower employees to do their best work. Instructor Jessie Withers walks through the concepts behind OKRs, how to design OKRs for groups, and how to implement the framework across an organization. Jessie also discusses how to manage OKRs throughout the year, measure results, and create a culture of accountability.

Books

- Author: Marshall Goldsmith
- Summary: Many professionals get stuck at a certain level of success. For instance, they manage to climb to a middle-management position at their organization, but always get passed over for promotion to the executive level. Author and business coach Marshall Goldsmith believes that when a professional’s career stalls in this way, it’s usually because they’ve slipped into bad behavioral habits. In other words, they’ve started to treat their colleagues poorly. In this book, you’ll discover how you can reach your full potential by eliminating 21 harmful workplace behaviors.

- Author: Michael Hyatt
- Summary: THIS IS THE YEAR YOU FINALLY CLOSE THE GAP BETWEEN REALITY AND YOUR DREAMS. We all want to live a life that matters. We all want to reach our full potential. But too often we find ourselves overwhelmed by the day-to-day. Our big goals get pushed to the back burner-and then, more often than not, they get forgotten. It doesn't have to be that way! In Your Best Year Ever, Hyatt shares a powerful, proven, research-driven system for setting and achieving your goals. You'll learn how to design your best year ever by discovering • what's holding you back right now • how to overcome your past setbacks • the seven attributes of effective goals • how to quit-proof your goals • the role of habits in personal achievement • what to do when you feel stuck • and much more If you're tired of not seeing progress in your personal, intellectual, business, relational, or financial goals, it's time for you to have your best year ever!

- Author: Zig Zigler
- Summary: Do you ever find yourself confusing activity with accomplishment? In this book, legendary speaker and author, Zig Ziglar points out you can't hit a target you don't have. He shares the 4 Reasons People Don't Set Goals. Anyone can be, do, and have more. BUT... "You cannot make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific." Zig guides you through the 9 Steps of Setting Goals. And he encourages you with, "A goal properly set is halfway reached." Zig shares a quote by Oliver Wendall Holmes, "Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out."

Quick Guides & One-Pagers

Includes components of effective S.M.A.R.T. goals, Goal setting tips, Quarterly Discussions and Year-End Review Process.

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