To lead your team to success, you need to establish clear, motivating goals, plan how to achieve them, and follow up to learn from successes and failures. In this course, you'll learn how to set the right goals and establish processes to translate objectives into performance. You’ll find out how to measure performance effectively so you can gauge progress against goals, inspire your team to learn and improve, and steer clear of common pitfalls that occur with performance measurement. By developing these skills, you’ll be able to guide your team to meet and exceed expectations and deliver valuable results to your organization.
Set and Implement Goals
Set and Implement Goals
This course is part of Lead for Results: From Planning to Execution Specialization
Instructor: Harvard Business Review
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Intermediate level
Some related experience required
1 week to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace
What you'll learn
Establish clear goals to focus efforts and boost performance
Align goals to organizational priorities and strategy
Define clear objectives, critical success factors, and key performance indicators
Set reasonable and inspiring performance targets
Skills you'll gain
- Performance Reporting
- Organizational Strategy
- Performance Analysis
- Performance Measurement
- Productivity
- Performance Improvement
- Organizational Effectiveness
- Performance Management
- Analysis
- Team Performance Management
- Employee Performance Management
- Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Performance Metric
- Goal Setting
- Business Priorities
- Smart Goals
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There are 3 modules in this course
Goal setting is crucial to personal and professional success. By knowing how to set the right goals, you can boost both your team’s results and your own. Learn why goals matter, the different types of goals, and how to align your goals with your organization’s key objectives.
What's included
13 videos22 readings1 assignment
Performance measurement gives you a way to gauge progress against goals. Learn to set targets, collect and analyze data, and use measurement to better manage performance.
What's included
14 videos39 readings1 assignment
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