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Smart Goals and Your Organization’s Future
Smart Goals and Your Organization’s Future
No organization can succeed in any field unless its people know what they are doing and where they going
Atlanta,
GA,
United States of America
(prbd.net)
11/08/2011
August 11, 2011. No organization can succeed in any field unless its people know what they are doing and where they going. In other words, your employees need to know what the organization’s strategy is and how it affects them. Yet even employees in some of the most sophisticated companies in the world are not aware of the strategy and what it means for them.
Smart goals are an excellent means of imparting your organization’s strategy to all of the employees. The sales department can know what sales levels are expected. Manufacturing can know what level of production to expect and human capital can know what the hiring goals are.
Smart goals impart strategy because they are simple and specific. A smart goal tells an employee what the strategy, how it is to be achieved and gives her a time table for achieving the strategy.
Smart is an acronym that stands for Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Time-based. The employee knows what the goal is, how to measure success, he knows that the goal is realistic, what it means to the company and he has a time table for its adoption.
The sales team could know that they are supposed to increase sales of product A by 10% in six months. The manufacturing team could know that they are supposed to have the new production line up and running by January 1. The human capital group could know they are supposed to hire twenty new salespeople and have them on the job by September 15.
These are Smart goals because they are specific, measurable and time based. Management will have to make sure they are realistic and in keeping with the company’s strategy. For example, the sales team might know the market is soft and increasing sales of product A without significant discounts is unrealistic. Management would have to check with accounting to see if the sales would be profitable with those discounts. Manufacturing might know that the equipment for the new production line will not be available until February. The sales team might not have enough work for twenty new salespeople.
This means that everybody in the organization has to be aware of the smart goals. It also means that there should be a smart goal committee or group composed of representatives from all bodies creating the smart goals and devising the strategy for their implementation. That way the organization can create smart goals that will help it achieve its strategy.
Author BIO: John is a Trainer/Motivator who specializes in Management Training, Leadership Training, and Leadership Development.
Contact: John
Email: onlinemerchant@gmail,com
Phn: 920-400-2995
Website: http://leadershiptrainingblog.wordpress.com
Address: 440 Rizal Ave. Atlanta, GA. 30301
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Email: onlinemerchant@gmail,com
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