Goal Setting & Managing Alignment within Organizations and Performance Assessment

Setting goals and objectives is common within organizations. Looking back at what was achieved/performed from the goals is also common, typically leading to average results. Typically, companies are setting goals within senior leadership groups, or the “top hierarchy” yet the communication to the rest of the organization is not effectively taking place. Various departments and mangers know what their day-to-day jobs are, and they may hear about the top tier company goals or mission statement, but do they know how they personally help achieve those goals? Most don’t due to the lack of appropriate communication, written goals with objectives that are tracked. Linking goals through people, departments, and cascading from the top ensures that the top tier goals are not unattained.
High-performing organizations develop disciplined methodologies for goal setting, starting with strategic company goals and cascading these through every part of the organization. Follow-through, communication, tracking and acknowledgement are keys to successful achievement of these goals. This ultimately leads to differentiation within companies and their success.
In this presentation we will discuss successful goal and objective setting- the multiple ways to support the process -- linking goals up and cascading goals down throughout companies from a best practice perspective and a technology perspective. We will illustrate how to automate goals and objectives, track and follow-through on goals throughout the year allowing companies to look forward instead of behind. We will touch on measurement of goals through the performance assessment and how goals can have a direct impact on the performance and growth of a company.

HR Professionals, Directors of Talent Management, Managers

Setting goals and objectives is common within organizations. Looking back at what was achieved/performed from the goals is also common, typically leading to average results. Typically, companies are setting goals within senior leadership groups, or the “top hierarchy” yet the communication to the rest of the organization is not effectively taking place. Various departments and mangers know what their day-to-day jobs are, and they may hear about the top tier company goals or mission statement, but do they know how they personally help achieve those goals? Most don’t due to the lack of appropriate communication, written goals with objectives that are tracked. Linking goals through people, departments, and cascading from the top ensures that the top tier goals are not unattained. High-performing organizations develop disciplined methodologies for goal setting, starting with strategic company goals and cascading these through every part of the organization. Follow-through, communication, tracking and acknowledgement are keys to successful achievement of these goals. This ultimately leads to differentiation within companies and their success.

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