Yours, mine, or ours? Whose goal is it anyway?
Ask any leader how to help teams achieve their goals, and they are likely to mention factors related to specificity, measurability, and achievability. While all of these factors are important, a well-crafted goal can still fail if the team is not unified in their determination to successfully achieve it together. If leaders want to help teams achieve their goals, they involve them in how the goal is developed. That’s why the “A” in our smarter S.M.A.R.T. goal model stands for “agreed-upon.” In the first two installments of this series on our adapted S.M.A.R.T. goal model, we focused on the importance of specificity (being clear about what we’re working to improve) and meaning (emphasizing why the goal is worth achieving). With that foundation in place, the