Hope the new year is off to a good start for you and your company.

Here's our first TIP this year...may you be inspired to continue to embrace new opportunities to develop corporately and personally.

Great Goals Generate Great Results

(according to Richard Haasnot in Five-Minute Managing)

• Get ready to set goals. You need data, very good data, to set great goals. Collect, review, and learn from past performance. Clearly set your needs and make sure everyone agrees these really are needs.
• Get specific. So many goals fail to inspire and guide action because of vagueness. Have the courage to ask for exactly what you want - define it so well that everyone knows where the start and finish lines are located.
• Bring your measuring tape. The specifics need to be measurable. If not, you will not know where you are or whether you have finished.
• Is it doable? No one likes to go on a career suicide mission. Goals can be a stretch but people need to know the reasons a goal is achievable. The building blocks to goal setting need to be logical and understandable.
• Does it fit? One last question before you launch: “Is this goal compatible with other current or envisioned goals?” If the answer is not an easy “Yes,” retool before you launch.
• Slave or Master? Make goals your servants by embracing problems as learning opportunities that lead to more, not less, success.

Success to you,