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Interview Patty

Set Up Your Employees for Success in 2015

You can Set your Company up for Unparalleled Growth

1. Discuss personal goals alongside professional aims. - Achieving fulfillment and overall happiness in the workplace is crucial to

your employees’ productivity. Economists at the University of Warwick carried out a number of experiments to test the idea that happy employees work harder. They found that happiness makes people about 12 percent more productive in the workplace. Listen closely to employees' personal goals and make an effort to help your staff achieve them.

2. Connect employee aims to larger company objectives. - Your employees want to know how their work contributes to larger company strategies, so show them the big picture. Share the company’s overarching goals for the year and discuss how staffers' individual efforts can help accomplish this mission. Tie everything back to the role employees' goals play in reaching the company’s overall success, whether it’s realizing certain production numbers, leadership development or other measures. Be sure staffers know how integral they are.

3. Set challenging yet achievable targets. - The most effective goals are challenging but attainable. When discussing goals with team members, emphasize the importance of setting aims worth achieving. Make sure you ask, “Will these goals make a difference to both you and the company as a whole?”

4. Write the goals down. - The act of writing goals down on paper may seem elementary, but a 1979 Harvard study made the benefit clear. In his book What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School, Mark McCormack discussed research in which Harvard MBA students were asked, “Have you set clear, written goals for your future and made plans to accomplish them?” The results revealed that only 3 percent had written goals and plans, 13 percent had goals (but not written down) and 84 percent didn't have any objectives at all.

Fast-forward 10 years to when these individuals were interviewed again. The former students who had goals but didn’t write them down were earning twice the amount as those who had none. The few who had written down their goals were earning, on average, 10 times as much as the other 97 percent of the class combined.

5. Create a plan for success and stick to it. - Once goals are set, ask employees to explain how they plan to meet them. Encourage them to break down the goals into tasks, set interim objectives (especially for a large or long-term project) and periodically monitor progress. Writing down milestones on a calendar will help them visualize the path to success. And by staying on top of employee progress, you can extinguish troubles early on.

By setting goals at the beginning of the year, you create a long-term vision for the company and instill motivation in your employees. It will help all players involved organize their time and resources and ultimately result in a more fulfilling, productive year.

Source: entrepreneur

Patty Block, President and Founder of The Block Group, established her company to advocate for women-owned businesses, helping them position their companies for strategic growth. Charting the course for impactful, sustainable, profitable businesses, the beacon is control: of your strategic direction, your money, your time, your staffing, and your ability to bring in business. The Block Group brings together the people, resources and ideas that build results.

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