THE MANAGER’S ROLE IN SETTING GOALS
“Employees get fired up about their goals if they have a hand in shaping them.”
—Tom Gegax, author of The Big Book of Small Business
Not that many years ago, individual goal-setting in the workplace went like this: the CEO called a meeting of the senior leadership team the day after the quarterly vision-mission retreat with top corporate management.
At the meeting, the CEO outlined the corporate goals and objectives for the next fiscal year, then instructed the senior staff to meet with their teams to disseminate the goals and “get all your people onboard!”
Implicit in this command, as senior staff knew from experience, was the need to increase company earnings and get the stock price up. The following ...
