If you're going to set SMART Goals, you deserve to know the truth about their limitations. Every company in existence has set its share of SMART goals (the SMART acronym most commonly defined as ...

Business goals provide direction for your company and can motivate your team to reach milestones. Learn about the goal-setting process and types of goals.

Chances are, you’ve come across the phrase “SMART goals” before while reading entrepreneurial content on the web. Search Google for “smart goals business” and you’ll get over 260 million results. The ...

Why do some employees do better than others? According to goal-setting theory, one reason is that they have better, clearer goals. These goals guide their behavior towards better workplace output.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, October 31. YOGI Berra, a former major league baseball player, once said, "If you don't know where you're going, you might wind up somewhere else." I've heard this ...

It's a hope shared by many small business owners: you hope to hire and foster motivated employees who are productive, who exceed your expectations and who actively look for ways to improve your ...

Reflecting on the year that just passed, business leaders must examine how productively our time was spent and identify the situations where we can improve, both professionally and personally. It’s ...

Summertime is the often the beginning of a fiscal year for business and organizations and the most optimum time for strategic planning. As you begin to assess plans for your company and evaluate how ...

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A new year is a good time to evaluate priorities and set goals for the coming months. Although New Year’s resolutions are notoriously hard to keep, the sentiment behind them is admirable—a desire to ...