From the course: Goal Setting for Business Impact as a Manager
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Your circle of control and setting goals
From the course: Goal Setting for Business Impact as a Manager
Your circle of control and setting goals
- Here's an uncomfortable truth. You are not completely in control of every aspect of reaching your goal 100% of the time. Imagine you've set yourself the ambitious target of enhancing performance by 10%. Now, that could be increasing sales by 10%, increasing customer engagement by 10%, or decreasing cost by 10%. The list here is endless and will completely depend on your role. Now, you can at times be responsible for boosting your own performance, but it's where you will have goals that you're working towards that rely on your efforts alone. And even if this were the case, there will at times be circumstances outside of your control which can throw you off course. So does this mean there's no point setting a big goal that's going to create an impact? Absolutely not. It just means you have to be really clear about what you can personally achieve alone, where you need to influence others to enhance performance…
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