Let Your People Set Their Own Goals

If you're a good leader you should be able to coach and teach your people to set goals for themselves as individuals, and goals for their department as a group or a team. If you can successfully do that you'll gain two very powerful results:

1. Studies have shown that people who are allowed to set their own goals tend to set those goals higher than the boss would have set for them.

2. People who set their own goals tend to achieve them no matter how much extra time and effort is required.

About me: Dan Pelley teaches Setting goals as part of his "Managing for Results" program, one of five programs leading to a Certificate in Supervisory Management. Other topics include an overview of the management process, organizing resources, scheduling, contingency planning, and time management.

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