From the course: Building High-Performance Teams
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Setting goals
From the course: Building High-Performance Teams
Setting goals
- One of the coolest elements of leading a high-performing team is the people on that team are typically very goal oriented, but goals are very dangerous if you don't set them well. I encourage people to set two goals. If you only set one goal, there's a problem with that. If you set it too low, your team is going to coast, and if you set it too high, they'll be really frustrated if they don't achieve it or if they don't believe it's achievable in the first place. So what I encourage you to do is set two goals, first a commit and then a stretch. A commit goal is the promise to the organization that you will absolutely deliver this without fail. The stretch goal is the if everything goes great and we get a little bit lucky, we can hit that number. We're not exactly sure how we'll get there, but it'd be great if we do. Now, commit goals, it needs to feel attainable. People need to look at it and say yes, I am confident I can…
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