Driving Organizational Success With Effective Goal Management

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Goal management is about more than just the annual assigning of goals and reviewing of employee performance. It's about getting every employee to use and develop their talents, skills and experience to help the organization meet its overarching goals.

While effective goal management is especially critical in larger organizations, it can also have a dramatic impact in smaller ones.

Goal Alignment is Key to Goal Management

Goal alignment plays a key role in effective goal management. Every employee's role and every employee goal should be tied to the organization's overall strategy, not just to their manager's success. That way you can rationalize conflicting priorities, based on a higher level common goal. Without alignment, everyone is managing their own personal goals in a discrete way. While an individual may be successful in meeting all their personal goals, their work may not in fact contribute to the success of the organization overall; it might even work against it. Goal alignment helps to ensure that everyone's individual contributions move the organization forward in the right direction.

Employee performance management software can make it easier to communicate organizational goals, link employee goals and keep track of everyone's progress.

 

Make Goal Management Systemic

For goal management to be successful, it needs to be engrained in your corporate culture so it keeps everyone's focus on the success of the overall organization, and helps everyone to see themselves as part of a larger team. With systemic goal management, the whole team succeeds or fails; no individual division or department can succeed at the expense of another.

Using an online employee performance review software tool can help by making the larger organizational goals visible to everyone, and allowing employees from across the organization to link their personal goals to higher-level organizational goals. Further, it gives everyone a "line of sight" view of progress on linked goals, so everyone can see how they're contributing and the effect of their efforts, so they can celebrate milestones and successes.

 

Goal Management Should be Ongoing

Effective goal management is ongoing. It requires a regular continuous dialogue between managers and employees that includes: feedback and coaching, prioritizing, and employee development and career planning. This ongoing dialogue helps to ensure that individual and organizational performance stay on track, and allows everyone to adjust their goals as needed to keep pace with evolving business and market requirements.

Again an automated employee performance management tool that allows managers and employees to keep notes on performance, provide updates on goal status, plan and track important development activities, and get automatic email reminders of performance management tasks, helps to make goal management a part of everyday work life. It also makes it faster and easier for managers and employees to document goals and communicate progress, so they're more likely to keep the dialogue going.

An automated tool centralizes all information on employee performance into one convenient location, so employees, managers and senior leaders have instant access to the information they need, while confidential employee performance data is kept secure.

 

Read How Halogen Software Customers Have Harnessed their Talent Through Effective Goal Management

The Zoological Society of San Diego refined its corporate culture by introducing a new strategic plan. They then gave their managers the tools they needed to effectively manage employee performance and challenged them to each choose three individual goals that were directly tied to overall organizational goals. In this way, they achieved organizational goal alignment and ensured that ongoing feedback and reviews became the norm for employees.

Global IT infrastructure leader Savvis wanted to support the rapid growth they were experiencing and align corporate strategy with individual employee performance. Halogen eAppraisal supported them in managing performance year-round and makes it easy for supervisors to provide ongoing feedback, check progress and make sure goals and objectives are aligned with the company's.

 

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