Setting Team and Employee Goals Using SMART Methodology

Learn how to set employee goals to drive the behavior you want, establish business priorities, and help your employees focus on the right things.

Introduction

• Setting team and employee goals

1. Understanding Goal Setting

• Learn the importance of goal setting

2. Create SMART Goals

• How to use SMART goals
• How to make goals specific
• How to create measurable goals
• How to make goals achievable
• How to make goals relevant
• Define how a goal is time bound

3. Set Appropriate Goals

• Link goals to strategy
• Learn to build goals from the top down
• Learn to build goals from the bottom up
• How to set zero-based goals
• How to create a commit goal
• How to create a stretch goal
• One-third, two-third method for stretch goals

4. Implement Goals

• Outline activities to achieve goals
• Provide resources to achieve goals
• Link goals to incentives
• Review and reconcile goals
• How to use goals to change behavior
• How to use goals to build new skills
• Learn when to review goals
• Learn when to revise goals