"With Goals" (30+1 goal setting errors)

"30 Common Goal Setting Errors"

One must always remember their You, Inc! is a business and discipline is required always!

1.  Goals are set too low

2.  Goals are set too high

3.  Corporate goals are not set before individual goals are identified

4.  Corporate goals are not well communicated to others involved in their ultimate accomplishment.

5.  Individual is held accountable for something beyond their control

6.  Failure of goals to identify joint responsibility for a particular objective

7.  More than one person is given responsibility for a particular objective

8.  Goals are accepted uncritically

9.  Goals are inflexible

10. Success indicators are not expressed as a range

11. Conditions prevent achievement of goals

12. Management is not committed

13. Failure to measure the most common, routine objectives

14. Useless numbers are hung on goals

15. Autocratic management

16. Individual is unable to set own goals

17. Individual and management disagree on individual goals

18. Failure to get commitments

19. Can't get rid of bad goals

20. Failure of management to think through the implications of the individual goals

21. Management is reluctant to add to individual goals

22. Failure of management to introduce new ideas from outside the company

23. Failure to set intermediate target dates

24. Old goals are retained even after being proved infeasible, irrelevant, or impossible

25. No effective evaluation of results

26. No pictures

27. No affirmations

28. No commitment

29. Not clearly defined and stated

30. Ambiguous target date  . . .

31. NOT KEEPING TRACK OF PROGRESS or COMPLETION

“With Goals”

cji

1/6/19

As each day passes

time is already spent

whether organized or not

24 hours never recovered

how much better controlled

by the user of the time

only way is with goals

clearly defined written

avoiding the common errors

inching forward with direction

as each day passes!

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