Managing Organizational Goals

Course Description:
As a manager, you are responsible for setting the goals for your team and for managing their work. Organizational goals can often get lost in layers of management and not get communicated to the individual contributors. In the absence of goals, employees can feel unmotivated or can even set their own goals for achievement, which will result in poor and conflicting team performance. In this course, you will develop skills needed to establish tactical goals for your team based on organizational directives and general goals from your manager and create and manage action plans to achieve these goals.

Course length: One day

Course Content
Lesson 1: Establishing Team Goals
Topic 1A: Clarify General Team Goals
Topic 1B: Create a Goal Map
Topic 1C: Translate General Goals into Tactical Goals

Lesson 2: Developing a Team Plan
Topic 2A: Create Action Plans for Achieving Goals
Topic 2B: Develop a Contingency Plan

Lesson 3: Achieving the Team Plan
Topic 3A: Implement the Action Plan
Topic 3B: Evaluate Success

Appendix A: Creating the Action Plan: Notes
Appendix B: Evaluating Success: Notes