The Performance Manager
By examining what makes a high performing team, this workbook features practical steps you can take to improve your teams' performance.
TABLE OF CONTENTS The Performance Manager
What is a SMART Objective?
Objectives are like road maps. They help us to:
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define where we want to go
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plan the most appropriate route
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check to see how close we are to our final destination
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confirm that we have arrived.
You may use either objective, aim, target, goal or outcome to describe a statement which summarizes what an organization, a team or an individual is hoping to achieve. These words are all interchangeable, and mean the same thing. For the sake of simplicity, we are using the word objective throughout this workbook.
ACTIVITY 10
Think back to work situations in which you have been involved where planning and prioritizing objectives have been largely ignored or mismanaged at the outset of the project.What were the effects on:
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the project?
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the team?
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individual members of the team?
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Effect on the project
Not planning and prioritizing objectives before the work started had the following effects on the project:
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Effect on the team
Not planning and prioritizing objectives before the work started had the following effects on the team:
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Effect on the individual team members
Not planning and prioritizing objectives before the work started had the following effects on the individual team members:
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FEEDBACK
The effects of not planning and prioritizing clear and specific objectives mean that managers can take time-consuming detours and often find themselves a long way away from where they want to be.This can have...
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