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Unless You Track Your Progress, Setting Goals Is a Waste of Effort
Once you’ve written down a company or a team goal, two questions arise. Who is responsible for the goal (accountability), and how do you review the results (performance review)?
These goals are designed to try new things, experiment and break old habits. It’s reaching for the moon and landing among the stars.
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Being overwhelmed may be the new normal, but taking on too many responsibilities may be watering down our overall impact.
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Keep a list of three potential topics ready for discussion. When they say they have nothing to discuss, you can jumpstart the conversation with one of your items.
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Productivity does not come from sitting idle at the office for hours.
Employees who are able to manage their time well and have a great work-life balance are more productive and should be valued over a person spending a lot of time in office but achieving little.