You’re probably familiar with the concept of SMART goals. SMART is commonly defined as Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time-bound. Organizations use these goals with two primary aims.

As a professional, in order to grow, you have to set goals to help you move from one point in your career to the next. However, setting goals isn’t always easy. In many cases, you might know what you ...

When you set a goal, it should be “S.M.A.R.T.,” or so suggests the standard advice (even some of ours!). That stands for Specific, Measurable, something, something, Time-bound—there’s disagreement on ...

Various business tasks require different leadership approaches. This is the basis for Situational Leadership, a leadership model introduced in 1996 by Drs. Paul Hersey and Kenneth Blanchard.

Long-term success in goal achievement involves intrinsic motivation and seeing goals as identity changes, not just arbitrary targets. The SHAPING goal-setting system offers a framework focusing on ...

Big goals are not so hard to accomplish if you’re tracking them regularly, according to Samantha Ripley, a salesperson in Colorado Springs who is using “goal tracking” to write what she hopes will be ...

One of the curious disparities among people reporting a desire for a better life is the small percentage who set actual goals to make their lives better. This disparity is difficult to understand ...

If you want to get stuff done, you have to stay focused. One way to do that? Work with smaller milestones. For example, instead of making a list of all your goals for the year, break it down to what ...

It’s fun to project the performance of a startup idea. We’ve all taken the time to think about how many customers we can attract in the first year, how much we can make, and how far the business can ...