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A Watson Wyatt Work Study found that companies
whose employees understand the mission and goals enjoy a 29 percent greater
return than other firms.
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It's goal planning time again!� When
planning your goals, be sure to put them into the SMART format before
communicating them to your customers, suppliers, or teams.� SMART
means:
S =
Specific
M =
Measurable
A =
Attainable
R =
Relevant
T =
Time-based
For more details on
What are SMART goals, see the
full article at�
http://ezinearticles.com/?id=1843732.
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and planning include:
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Many
of you may be looking for something a little more fun to help your teams
recognize the need to plan and meet goals.� If you are, then check out
the "Sea Turtles" activity in the archived issue from
Nov. 2005 on
Goal-setting.�
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It
is time for a gathering of the minds!� It's time to you to share too!�
After some of her speaking engagement, Shirley has been asked to provide
reports on various e-tools for time and meeting management.� So this is
one of her goals for 2009.� We need your help finding tools to
review.� If you know any great FREE tools, send the link and we will
check it out.� If you have any other ideas for articles you would like
to see, please let us know that too at
admn (at) shirleyfinelee.com.�
Links to e-tool articles will appear in future newsletters or on the blog.�
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FYI:�
Thanks for your support in reading and sharing article links last year.�
Shirley's goal was to write more articles and get higher hits in 2008.�
49+ new articles were written with all articles hits on
ezinearticles.com at
32,630 (up from 4,820 hits thru 2007) and were republished on over 273
other sites all together.� The most popular articles were in the categories of meeting
management and team-building.� With your help, we want to do even
better in 2009!
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For
now, to read more about goals you may want to check out my associates blog postings on
2bproductive.blogspot.com.��
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Utilize a
computer to track your progress toward the goal plan.� You can purchase
goal tracking software for a business or find websites that allow personal
goal tracking.� If you prefer to not learn something new, check to see
if your current business software has a goal feature or utilize your
spreadsheet software for tracking.� Most spreadsheets allow for easy
creation of graphs too.�
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"You are never too old to set another goal or
to dream a new dream." - C. S. Lewis
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