Common goal-setting pitfalls and solutions
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Goals feel mandated and disconnected
Focus goal setting on how employees’ work connects with their individual purpose and with the organizational strategy.
Common goal-setting pitfalls and solutions
Goals feel mandated and disconnected: Focus goal setting on how employees’ work connects with their individual purpose and with the organizational strategy.
Goals are siloed: Collaborate with key stakeholders to identify interdependencies and align on goals.
Goals become outdated and forgotten: Conduct check-ins to ensure that employees’ goals support their ongoing performance, development, and engagement.
Goals prioritize quick wins over long-term success: Differentiate between short-term task-driven performance goals and long-term outcome-driven learning goals.
Goals are siloed
Goals prioritize quick wins over long-term success
Goals become outdated and forgotten
Solution
Collaborate with key stakeholders to identify interdependencies and align on goals.
Solution
Differentiate between short-term task-driven performance goals and long-term outcome-driven learning goals.
Solution
Conduct check-ins to ensure that employees’ goals support their ongoing performance, development, and engagement.
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