Owners AND Employees Need to Have SMART Goals

Goal Setting for Team Members

Goal setting is an effective tool that encourages members of a team to strive for new heights – wherever they might reside in your organization.

Are you a goal setter? Do you encourage goal setting among your staff?

I encourage all of you to set 3-5 goals for the coming year and have your more senior staff do the same. Then have everyone share their goals with the team and meet monthly to track everyone’s progression on those goals. With complete transparency on everyone’s part, encourage teamwork and support among team members to help one another achieve their goals.

I encourage everyone on our team to have 3-4 business goals, an educational goal and one personal goal. If everyone achieves their goals, everyone win, including your company’s performance.

Remember to make sure goals are S.M.A.R.T. goals

Specific

Measurable

Attainable

Realistic

Timely

If you head into your year with no goals for yourself or your team, then how do you expect anyone to grow professionally and personally?

Goal setting – it works, and it’s something I incorporate it into my regular business process.

Andy