Annual goals lose focus by March. Weekly goals lack strategic weight. Quarterly goals sit in the middle: long enough to accomplish something real, short enough to maintain urgency.

Quarterly planning used to mean a full day off-site. You’d fly to a resort, brainstorm in breakout rooms, and return with thirty pages of notes nobody reads. Then, ninety days later, nothing changed.

If you are an employed adult, you know that most organizations have written goals and objectives. That’s because goal-setting is a common practice in the workplace—and for good reason. Written goals ...

Our aspirations are what drive us to do our best. Being honest with ourselves and identifying what we’d like to improve can lead to personal growth and new opportunities we wouldn’t have reached ...

When many people set a goal, they encounter an obstacle and begin to doubt that they can really achieve that goal. What if you thought about goal setting as, by definition, an ordeal? An ordeal that ...

I hope you have big dreams, you know, those “big, hairy audacious goals” (BHAG) we all hear about. We also all know people who set fitness goals or health goals on January 1 and fall off the wagon, ...

Why do some employees do better than others? According to goal-setting theory, one reason is that they have better, clearer goals. These goals guide their behavior towards better workplace output.