This half-day workshop is primarily designed for managers, but individual contributors would also benefit. After exploring the essentials of effective goal setting and the encouragement of responsibility, participants will practice drafting goals. The emphasis will be practical on the skills of creating meaningful and measurable goals, but techniques for creating and maintaining a "culture of responsibility" will also be covered.
Review of current practices:
Strengths/Areas for Improvement
Extent of employee involvement
Follow-up
Reward practices
Maintaining a motivating environment
Establishing a central focus for a team
Relating goals to team mission
Encouraging responsibility
Clarifying the intention of a goal
Speed/Quality
Initiative/Follow process
Extent of freedom to act
Development of new skills
Increasing visibly, rewarding
Using "SMART" model in evaluating goals
Practice: Creating draft goals
Workshop Take-Away’s:
Clarity regarding basic mission for one's group
Process for linking goals to group's mission
Key actions for encouraging commitment and the assumption of responsibility
