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8 Tips To Improve Productivity With SMART Goal Setting

The document outlines the importance of SMART goal setting for enhancing employee productivity and aligning individual goals with organizational objectives. It provides eight tips for effective goal setting, including breaking down company-wide goals, ensuring clarity, keeping goals adaptable, and collaborating with team members. Additionally, it highlights four practices to avoid, such as playing it safe, ignoring past goals, lacking passion, and failing to track progress.

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8 Tips To Improve Productivity With SMART Goal Setting

The document outlines the importance of SMART goal setting for enhancing employee productivity and aligning individual goals with organizational objectives. It provides eight tips for effective goal setting, including breaking down company-wide goals, ensuring clarity, keeping goals adaptable, and collaborating with team members. Additionally, it highlights four practices to avoid, such as playing it safe, ignoring past goals, lacking passion, and failing to track progress.

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8 Tips to Improve

Productivity With SMART


Goal Setting

Elise Paulsen

Employee goals are the driving force behind business success. A


productive workforce needs effective goals in place that provide a clear
path to success and motivate employees to make their performance
initiatives a reality.

SMART goals can serve as a valuable tool to push action behind your
overarching organizational goals. For employee goals to work for you and
not against you, use a streamlined goal process that motivates and aligns
your employees.

What are SMART goals?

SMART goals have been around for decades, promoting accountability in


the goal setting process. They provide a simple, easy-to-remember
framework for team members to help easily plan out their goals.

SMART is an acronym that stands for:

• S: Specific
• M: Measurable
• A: Attainable
• R: Relevant
• T: Time-bound
These components of the SMART goal framework provide a narrow focus
with a clear definition of the goal. Plus, they allow employees to easily
track their progress, align goals to the rest of the organization, and boost
performance with a built-in deadline.

Consider these tips to make the most out of your team’s SMART goals.

8 Tips for Effective Goal


Setting

4 goal setting tips to use

1. Break down company-wide goals.


To successfully achieve long-term objectives, short-term key results need
to be accounted for on individual and team levels. Deconstruct your
organizational goals to provide insight behind who’s responsible for what
task. This helps align employees to bigger goals. Plus, it motivates them by
providing an attainable path to larger organizational goals.

2. Provide clarity.
Ensure clarity is leveraged behind every initiative, big or small. By doing
this, you can safeguard alignment within employee projects and ensure
that everyone is on the same page. Plus, it helps employees understand
how their actions shape the organization’s goals.

It’s critical that employees’ individual responsibilities are clear. This


prevents possible confusion that often leads to non-productive work.
Check-in with employees often to ensure they are on the right path and
encourage them to ask questions if they arise.
3. Keep goals adaptable.
Don’t hesitate to update goals to reflect how you and your employees
work. Simply adhering to what’s on the calendar can demotivate
employees and prevent worthwhile progress. Adapt when needed by
adding sub or mini goals that drive progress to produce optimal results.

While the SMART goal template provides a good jumping off point, accept
that goals might not always fit every component of the template’s
framework. Allow for flexibility that enables employees to reasonably
accomplish their goals with a process adapted to their work style.

4. Collaborate with team members.


Projects are typically completed with 3-5 other people, so building goals
jointly is critical to create accountability and ownership. Make sure
everyone is on the same page and is comfortable with the goals that are
set by building them out collaboratively.

4 goal setting practices to avoid

1. Playing it safe.
While SMART goals should be attainable, don’t set goals just to play it safe.
Ensure that goals are realistic, but allow your team members to reach
their full potential. Instead of focusing on possible failure that could result
from goal setting, focus on the growth and accomplishment that
ambitious goal setting can bring.

2. Ignoring the past.


While SMART goals lay out many important components of an effective
goal in their framework, they don’t encourage goal-setters to look back on
past set goals. By looking at the results of goals from the past and
adapting, you can make your goal-setting process more efficient.

3. Lacking passion.
It’s not always possible to get your employees excited about their goals.
But when proper communication is leveraged, speaking to the importance
of employee goals in the overarching success of the organization—
motivation, accountability, and passion increases.

When employees don’t create goals they are passionate and excited
about, they risk losing motivation and interest. Safeguard your employees’
productivity levels by connecting their goals to business success.

4. Setting, not tracking.


A key driver in accomplishing goals is tracking them. Don’t think that you
can simply set goals without holding yourself and your team accountable.
While the SMART goal template provides a starting point, tracking goals
with goal-setting software helps employees share achievements and
setbacks as they happen.

When a goal setting template is leveraged alongside an efficient goal-


setting software, leaders can stay on top of progress, drive productivity,

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