From the course: Management Essentials
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Goal setting
- One of the best ways to improve your employees' performance is to set SMART goals. SMART is an acronym for specific, measurable, actionable, realistic, and time-bound. For the most effective goal setting, teach these three ideas to your employees. One, write SMART goals and action steps. Two, visualize success in meeting goals. Three, follow up with goals and celebrate successes. First, let's look at an example of writing SMART goals. Last year I won professor of the year at my university. I also served as a reviewer for my junior faculty member, Steve. Steve's goal was to learn how to become a better teacher so that one day he could be professor of the year. Although appreciative of this sentiment, I explained that be a better teacher is not a SMART goal. To begin, I asked Steve to make his goal more specific. I suggested that he rewrite his goal to be "I want to be evaluated as a better teacher "by my students, "as teaching evaluations are the main source "of data for our…
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