It is common for employee goals, set as a part of an annual performance review, to be forgotten during the year. Goals get written down on a paper form that is filed away, and only consulted when it's time for the next performance appraisal. An employee's daily work and priorities are then easily affected by the crisis of the day, new requests or changes in direction. The result: individual, departmental and organizational goals are often not achieved.

So how do you drive accountability for goals throughout your organization and keep employees productive and focused on the right things?.....

Encourage SMART Employee Goals

In order to engage employees and foster accountability, organizations need to have their employees set SMART goals - specific, measurable, achievable, results-oriented and time-bound. But remembering to capture all these elements in the right level of detail can be challenging.

Managers and employees creating a new goal are visually reminded to provide a title, detailed description, milestone, method for measurement, and start date and due date.

Help with Prioritization

Everyone deals with juggling priorities. When faced with competing priorities, employees often struggle to know which goals are most important, and to focus their time and efforts effectively.

Reminder to Self...

Ever wish you could get someone to remind you about goals, milestones and due dates? There should be reminder sort to help employees to remind their goals, milestones and due dates to focus on more important rather than unnecessary task in between.

Align Employee and Organizational Goals

Research tells us that one of the keys to employee accountability is helping employees understand how their daily work contributes to organizational success. Employees need to know that their work and efforts matter.

Employees can visually see how their personal goals are contributing to the achievement of organizational goals and track their progress and status. This increases both their sense of accountability and contribution.

Monitor Progress on Goals

Accountability and monitoring tend to go hand in hand - it's human nature to be more mindful of completing a task when we know someone is watching and cares about our progress, and when we can see the larger effect of our actions. Monitor progress on goals of the employee to keep them updated on the completion of task and overall goals

By Priti Shah

Laurent & Benon Management Consultants Ltd, a public limited company with its corporate office Gurgaon with Pan-India presence. We as an organization strive to offer the right Human Resource Solutions at the right time and enable our clients to enhance the net worth of their human resource capital.

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