Hey !
One of the biggest pitfalls for businesses is not having clearly defined goals for each member of the team,
And not having a process to allow them to set goals and attain them.
It causes a lack of:
Definite plans to carry out
Desire and Direction,
Alignment within the team to achieve and hit the targets for your business in any given quarter.
Think of goals as a GPS. If you dont know what the destination is, its pretty hard to map your way there. You will take every road, turn, exit, and not really get anywhere.
Although your goals as a business may be clear, its the team that makes those dreams and goals become a reality,
Therefore the team must also have their own targets and roadmap, moving the ship forward in unison.
Have a Quarterly Goal setting session as well as Monthly sessions with the team. Get together in the office or on zoom/kumospace/google-meets to take 1-2 hours and build your futures together!
With that being said, we want to share the 5 Step Goal-Setting Tool, that all of our team member uses every Quarter, which helped us hit our business goal in our first year as a start-up:
1. Who are you?
This is a deep and thought-provoking question. When do we ever sit down to ask ourselves who we are? Common answers are our names, past experiences, things we own. Are these the true answers to this question? When we get clear on ourselves, we get clearer about our goals.
2. The Wheel of Life
6-8 Areas of life from mission, to finances to money. We want to be masters of our LIVES, not just in our work. Use this to briefly assess whats been going well and what hasn’t, and what you can do to improve.
3. The GAP
Simply State your vision for where you want to be in 12 months, where you are now, and what you need to do to close that gap. This helps you to be truthful about your current situation, get clear on where you want to be, and what needs to be done in the process to get there.
4. Set Yearly and Quarterly Goals.
Start by setting your 12 month goals. These tie to your vision in the step above. After that, evaluate how your previous quarter went, then set goals for the upcoming quarter. This helps you to keep everything aligned, where your vision, longer term and shorter term goals, are all like pieces of the puzzle, coming together to map out your destination
5. Limiting beliefs
State what your current limiting beliefs are, how they have negatively impacted your life, what you want to CHOOSE to believe, and how those new beliefs will positively impact your life. This process allows you to become more aware of your internal dialogue, and spot any patterns that have kept you from achieving certain goals in the past. This is a moment to reinvent yourself.
And that’s it!
Implementing this 5-step goal setting process grew our whole teams skillset, mindset, build deeper connections between us all, and helped elevate the company to where its at now.
And , we think this might be for you and !
Be Brilliant!
