What happens when you ignore goal setting in your business?

How can goal setting in your business turn your team’s performance from OK to outstanding…

What’s hockey got to do with your business success?

Do you have goals in place for you and your team?

What have you done to future-proof the success of your business?

Goal setting – time to clarify how to measure success in your business

How can your business learn from pensioners who had recent knee and hip replacements?

What have 2 orthopaedic hospitals and a collection of Scottish pensioners got to do with goal setting in your business?

Discover how a group of recovering knee and hip replacement pensioners in Scotland could be putting your business to shame…

Is your business ready for the challenge of goal setting – learn from hip and knee replacement patients

How can the same principles used in recovering patients in Scotland be applied to your business

How can your business future be transformed with ambitious and attainable goals

How to measure the ambitious and attainable goals in your business

Why short terms goals are important to keep your team motivated

How can process and outcome goals help your business succeed

1. Most business owners when they go into business have one goal, to make enough money to survive the first month!

It's frustrating when your business achieves less than it should, but are you doing enough to help yourself? Click here to learn the value to your business of goal setting.

2. Are you doing enough to help your business? Do you have goals in place for you and your team? A goal in sport is the difference between winning and losing, success or failure, in business a goal is not as obvious, but just as important, click here to learn why…

3. Just as goals have an effect on motivation, motivation has an important effect on goal achievement. The key is to prove the power of goals.

This is easy to an elite athlete, but what about trying to explain the success of goal setting to a group of pensioners who have just experienced the agony of knee or hip replacement…

Are they ready for the challenge of goal setting? Would you be in their situation? Click here to learn more…

4. Click here to read how a study conducted in 1992, done inside two of Scotland’s busiest orthopaedic hospitals provided stark evidence that goal setting works. These same principles can be applied with great success to your business too.

5. Ambitious goals inspire and attainable goals sustain but, to really succeed, you need both.

Why is ambition important, and why does it matter? Click here to discover more.

6. Ambitious goals stretch thinking and push performance. But they’re tough, and wins come slowly.

That’s why short-term attainable goals are essential, because small wins keep motivation alive. Click here to discover more.

1. Most business owners when they go into business have one goal, to make enough money to survive the first month!

It's frustrating when your business achieves less than it should, but are you doing enough to help yourself? Click here to learn the value to your business of goal setting.

2. Are you doing enough to help your business? Do you have goals in place for you and your team? A goal in sport is the difference between winning and losing, success or failure, in business a goal is not as obvious, but just as important, click here to learn why…

3. Just as goals have an effect on motivation, motivation has an important effect on goal achievement. The key is to prove the power of goals.

This is easy to an elite athlete, but what about trying to explain the success of goal setting to a group of pensioners who have just experienced the agony of knee or hip replacement…

Are they ready for the challenge of goal setting? Would you be in their situation? Click here to learn more…

4. Click here to read how a study conducted in 1992, done inside two of Scotland’s busiest orthopaedic hospitals provided stark evidence that goal setting works. These same principles can be applied with great success to your business too.

5. Ambitious goals inspire and attainable goals sustain but, to really succeed, you need both.

Why is ambition important, and why does it matter? Click here to discover more.

6. Ambitious goals stretch thinking and push performance. But they’re tough, and wins come slowly.

That’s why short-term attainable goals are essential, because small wins keep motivation alive. Click here to discover more.

Blog 1 – Goal setting – the clearest way to measure the success of your business

When they go into business, most owners have one goal – to make enough money to survive the first month!

It's frustrating when your business achieves less than it should, but are you doing enough to help yourself?

For your business to grow and be successful, you need to do some planning.

As a business owner, you should not fear setting goals. And it is important to remember that goals don’t always need to be about making money.

Ask yourself:  What aspect of my business do I want to improve most this year?  Is it launching a new product or service, creating a better workplace culture, or enhancing customer satisfaction?

You can set goals related to anything that is important to the strengthening of your business.

Are you doing enough to help your business?

Do you have goals in place for you and your team?

Do you have goals in place that guarantee the future growth and success of your business?

In football or hockey, a goal is a fundamental part of the game, the difference between winning and losing, success or failure. In business, a goal is not as obvious, and yet…

…a summary of more than 1,000 studies into business goals suggests:

“There is strong evidence that the increases in job performance produced by goal setting have important economic and practical value.”

So even if you fear setting goals, the fact is that, if you ignore them, your business will achieve less than it could.

Click here to discover how to use goals in your business today and watch your business thrive.

Blog 2 - The Scots Who Proved the Power of Goal Setting

How do you test the power of goal setting?

Try it with 68-year-old Scots recovering from hip and knee surgery – one of the most painful recoveries imaginable.

In 1992, patients in two Scottish hospitals were split into two groups:

• No plan:  standard rehab
• With a plan:  patients wrote down specific weekly goals in booklets

The difference?

• Those who wrote down specific goals walked twice as fast as those without goals.
• And they got in and out of chairs three times faster.

It worked because the successful patients set goals that were:

• Specific:  “Walk to the bus stop at 3:30pm.”
• Realistic, but challenging:  Painful, but doable.
• Forward-looking:  They anticipated setbacks – “If it rains, I’ll take a coat.”

Locke & Latham’s Goal Setting Theory explains that goals must be specific, ambitious, attainable, and supported by feedback.

Goal setting isn’t just paperwork. Done well, it drives faster recovery, resilience, and performance.

If ambitious, attainable goals can help elderly Scots overcome excruciating surgery, imagine what they could do for you and your team.

Click here to discover more about the power of goal setting.

Blog 3 - Ambitious and Attainable – Finding the Sweet Spot when it comes to goal setting in your business

Ambitious goals inspire and attainable goals sustain but, to really succeed, you need both.

Why is ambition important, and why does it matter?

Ambitious goals stretch thinking and push performance. But they’re tough, and wins come slowly.

That’s why short-term attainable goals are essential, because small wins keep motivation alive.

For goals to stick, you must make them:

1. Specific
2. Attainable
3. Committed to
4. Backed by feedback

These two types of goals are key:

• Performance goals:  Improve what you already know. Think checklists – pilots, surgeons, and hotel cleaners all use them to get better, safer, faster.
• Learning goals: Build new skills, such as learning a language, managing a team, or cooking a new recipe.

Both are critical because performance keeps you sharp, and learning keeps you growing.

Process and outcome goals can also help:

• Process goal:  The daily steps to get there, e.g., “Improve product speed and simplicity.”
• Outcome goal:  The big target, e.g., “Grow market share to 20%.”

Without process goals, outcomes remain wishful thinking.

Don’t treat goal setting as a tick-box exercise.

Click here to learn how to use ambitious and attainable goals, backed by process, learning, and feedback, to stretch people, build belief, and achieve extraordinary results in your business.

Your business wins when your goals are both ambitious and attainable…

How often do you set goals for your business?

Do you approach goal setting as just another annual planning exercise, or do you use it as an opportunity to focus on ambitious, yet attainable, goals that challenge both you and your team?

In this 'Proven Goal Setting Success' edition of Business Breakthrough, you will learn, in the time it takes to drink a cup of tea:

• that your business goals can be both ambitious and attainable
• the difference between performance goals and learning goals
• why outcome and process goals are crucial for the motivation and engagement of your team
• how specific, ambitious, attainable, and committed goals worked for hip and knee surgery patients

Click here to discover that, when you are clear on the goals of your business and when you track, measure and obtain feedback on the process and the outcomes, your team will build momentum to reach even the most ambitious of goals.