The more attempts you make at a goal that are successful, the more luck can be ruled out as a factor in your success.
If you need other people to do certain things to achieve your goal, it’s important to get them on the same page.
The command and control form of management is suitable only in crises and emergencies; in normal business operations, it is better to set goals, ask what support is needed, and check in on progress; also, it is important to recognize there is more than one correct way to achieve any goal.
Managers who recognize that how they say things is just as important as what they say, know something that managers who are not aware of that don't, simply that careless negativity can take even the highest performer’s eye off the goal.
A manager can shake someone’s confidence and morale, and not even be aware of it; many managers routinely shake their staff’s confidence, without ever being aware they did. Since this is detrimental to goal-focus, managers need to be more self-aware about their words and actions.
Managers who miss or cancel meetings with their staff make them feel devalued and unimportant. The result of this is time wasted on nursing psychological wounds, instead of time spent focused on goals.
Most employees need to be trusted to do a good job; Controlling, fearful, and untrusting managers who do not trust their staff, who do not give them freedom and responsibility, who criticize them at every opportunity, and monitor their every move, cause goal-damaging morale losses.
Even high performers can’t achieve their goals without the right support. New managers (and busy, unavailable managers) who leave their staff high and dry, and without sufficient support to do their jobs, will get less than the best goal performance, even from their highest performers.
Managers should be given retention goals; including the goal of retaining staff who contributed to getting a company or a team to where it is today.
True or false - there's lots to think about when it comes to goals.
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Dear Reader,
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