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Be SMART: automate your goals!
This simple, free on-line application will help you manage your staff in a more effective and rational way.
If you manage people you know how difficult is to align their efforts to your goals. How many times you were surprised in a meeting with something that was not concluded? How many times you were told that things were “fine” but you were later disappointed by the numeric figure?
Success principle is simple: assign goals to people and track them, but applying it can be difficult. We live under time pressure and any second spent in formalizing or documenting decisions seems thrown away.
To better understand the benefits and techniques of dynamic goals management, you can read this small free booklet: The Goals Dashboard - an effective technique to drive your team to desired results ... up and running in 15 minutes. Click here to download.
Time ago I was looking for an automated solution and - at that time - I found none. Many goal management applications target exclusively goals assigned to you, other depend on a corporate effort to implement.
We needed an agile solution that could be implemented at department level and grow naturally and assign goals to external entities too.
We developed Goals4sure for our own usage and made it freely available. We needed a simple way to coordinate dynamic short-term goals in an highly distributed network of professionals and organizations, some internal but mostly external. We depend on specialized consultants, service providers, developers and marketing professionals. We shall be able to assign different kind of goals that include simple tasks, project schedules and performance targets.
Goals4sure has an agile profile: you can assign a goal in seconds to either internal or external people (whoever has an email address). This includes:
collaborators
employees
suppliers
consultants
service providers
partners...
yourself (just assign the goal to you).
Goals4sure will take care of:
communicating new goals
requesting periodic progress information
keep your dashboard updated
measure performance
constantly notify (email) update delays if any
Goals4sure help you define your goals the SMART way:
Specific: each goal is assigned to a single responsible.
Measurable: each goal is numerically quantified.
Attainable: each goal is constantly tracked. You can plot its trend to assess if
Relevant: each goal can be bound to a strategic objective
Time-Bound: each goal is assigned a specific time frame
Note: I was informed today that there is another similar application: Goaltrak, you would possibly consider.
Interested in partnership?
Would like to try or coach this technique with your clients, do you need any additional or technical detail? Please let me know! Component Bases Solutions has great interest in partnership with consultants. We can help you automate your proposed solutions in a very short time. We can also help to increase your visibility through links from many management tools we make freely available on the Web. Please contact for more detail.
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Posted at 03:31PM Feb 18, 2010 by admin in General |
