Establish Accountability - Daily, weekly and monthly objectives
What are your staff’s current daily goals; what about weekly or monthly? Do you even ask them? Do their objectives align with your own? What about with your overall organization’s goals? Remember the football (soccer) analogy from before; only two out of eleven are pulling in the same direction as your organization. That means nine out of eleven are somehow pulling against you. Setting simple objectives can lead to huge benefits in accountability, even if you simply have your staff email your team with their three objectives for the day. It can be anything. It can be “skip the coffee run for the day, and drink coffee from the office coffee pot,” all the way up to “deliver a high profile project to the customer.” By simply documenting what they are aiming to achieve that day and starting to socialize it, they are better able to keep these goals top of mind, to ask themselves, “Are my actions aligned with my objectives for today?” Then have a brief weekly meeting to establish who hit their goals. You do not want to attend this as the manager of the team, but as a participant who is looking for a support system to help them reach their long term objectives by keeping everyone on task. What would it take for you to ask your team to share three objectives a day?
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