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Goal Setting for Leaders and Team Members: Strengthening Vague Goals

Goal setting can be challenging when aspirations are vague and lack clear measurability. In this course, you'll learn to make goals clear, measurable, and impactful.

Alice Meredith - Pluralsight course - Goal Setting for Leaders and Team Members: Strengthening Vague Goals
by Alice Meredith

What you'll learn

Goal setting can be challenging when aspirations are vague and lack clear measurability. In this course, Goal Setting for Leaders and Team Members: Strengthening Vague Goals, you'll learn to make goals clear, measurable, and impactful. First, you'll explore how to diagnose common weaknesses in goal descriptions, KPIs, and target metrics that lead to ambiguity. Next, you'll discover how to transform unclear "what" statements into precise and impactful goals, develop specific KPIs that genuinely measure progress, and establish clear, measurable targets that definitively answer "did we get there?". Finally, you'll learn how to clearly define the "why" behind any goal, outlining its value to individuals, teams, the business, and customers. When you're finished with this course, you'll have the skills and knowledge of effective goal setting needed to move beyond vague aspirations to truly effective goal setting.

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Alice Meredith - Pluralsight course - Goal Setting for Leaders and Team Members: Strengthening Vague Goals
Alice Meredith

Alice has vast experience as a multi-level senior leader with retail operations and human resources as specialties. Experience includes 27 years of leadership supporting technology companies holding positions of Regional Director, District Manager, Senior HR Market Manager, and Senior Manager Labor & Employee Relations.

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