Podcast 36: How Setting Goals, Prioritizing Sets Up Individual, Team Success

Co-hosts Dr. Tobin Porterfield and Bob Graham talk about
setting goals and prioritizing, which together make an important
soft skills for managers, leaders and any employee.

Setting goals, as in organizing and prioritizing your work, is
critical for team success. To make sure everyone is working
toward the same overall goal, we need to assign tasks. Those
tasks have to be completed on time or else others will be
waiting.


Among the topics they address:


Examples of where setting goals and prioritizing are critical
to achieving results.

How most of us have deadlines each day, week or month.

Why these goals have to be in sync

Tips for setting goals

Being SMART



We can set our own priorities in a day, evaluating what needs to
be done, what others might need from us, what we need from
others. The best employees are updating their priorities as
situations change throughout the day. They don’t write a list in
pen, but rather in pencil, with an eraser.


Good leaders and managers set realistic priorities and goals for
their staff, ideally with their consent and buy-in. Rather than
telling people what to do, they work with people to align
personal and organizational goals to be the same. This shared
vision can be powerful, especially when things go wrong. And they
will.


No matter how much we prioritize, things go wrong. How we deal
with it — by readjusting — can make or break us and our
organizations.


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