Setting individual objectives is one of the best things you can do to improve performance – yours, your team’s or even that of an entire organisation.
Goal Setting Theory
The positive impact of goal setting is one of the most widely researched and scientifically validated aspects of today’s organisational science. There have been more than 100 scientific studies involving 40,000 participants from different industries. Two key researchers of goal setting and task motivation theory are Edwin Locke from the University of Maryland and Gary Latham from Toronto University.
The final step of the strategy cascade
Link all individual objectives with the overall strategy. If you don’t, you might end up with great individual objectives … but of no use to the organisation!
Also, focus on the way you secure agreement on the objectives. It’s the quality of the objectives – including the link with the overall company strategy – and the acceptance of these objectives that will make your individual objective setting a success.
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