Why Set Goals?
Top-level athletes, successful businesspeople and achievers in all fields all set goals. Setting goals gives you long-term vision and short-term motivation . It focuses your acquisition of knowledge and helps you to organize your time and your resources so that you can make the most of your life.
By setting sharp, clearly defined goals, you can measure and take pride in the achievement of those goals, and you’ll see forward progress in what might previously have seemed a long pointless grind. You will also raise your self-confidence, as you recognise your own ability and competence in achieving the goals that you’ve set.
Regrouping. During the pandemic, your team will be rethinking their priorities. Ensure they are clear about the direction in which you’re pulling
Your prime concern: your employees or members of your team
Make progress towards your longer-term goals by upskilling reskilling.
Learning is cementing its role as a centrepiece of the employee experience. This crisis provides companies with the opportunity to turn their commitments to continuous learning into a reality for all workers. Take advantage of this time to identify the skills that talent in various roles should acquire to stay relevant.
Asking the Right Questions?
- What goals and objectives have been accomplished so far?
- How has performance related to goals and objectives measured up against the success criteria agreed upon at the start of the year?
- What challenges emerged that had an impact on performance or goal accomplishment?
- What goals and projects still need to be accomplished?
- Which goals are no longer relevant or high priority? Should they be revised or removed from the priority list?
- What new priorities or projects have surfaced that should be included as new goals?
- What resources and support will be required to accomplish the goals that remain for the rest of the year?
- What obstacles or challenges might hamper performance going forward?
- What new knowledge, skills and capabilities will be required?
- How kind of assistance will you need to ensure success?