Setting Business Unit Goals

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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Goal Setting Courses Human Resources Courses Business Strategy Courses Performance Measurement Courses Financial Management Courses

Course Description

Overview

Learn how to set business goals for teams and individual employees, and link goals to strategy, financial results, and incentives.

Syllabus

Introduction

Welcome
Introduction
Goal-setting principles

1. Setting Different Types of Goals

Set quantitative goals
Set qualitative goals
Define supporting goals
Set commit and stretch goals

2. Linking Goals to Strategy

Work from the top down
Tie goals to strategy
Tie goals to financials
Tie goals to incentives
Overallocate goals

3. Preventing Goal-Setting Problems

Reality checking goals
Troubleshooting goals
Communicating goals
Providing resources to reach goals

4. Managing Goals after Setting Goals

Measuring goal performance
Revising goals
Holding people accountable
Avoiding pitfalls

Conclusion

Next steps

Taught by

Mike Figliuolo

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