FIVE

Determine Your Key Result Areas

YOUR KEY RESULT areas are those things that you absolutely, positively must do to fulfill your responsibilities and achieve your business goals. There are seldom more than five to seven key result areas in any job or in any business. Your job is to determine what the key result areas are for your work, and then to develop a plan to complete them and continually improve in each area.

You begin by asking yourself this question: What have I been hired to accomplish? Why am I on the payroll?

Again, think on paper. If you are in charge of a business unit or department, why does it need to do to justify its existence? What are you and your team expected to accomplish to fulfill your responsibilities to the company? ...

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