#354: 5 Things You Might Have Missed When Setting Your Goals
It’s time we checked on our own progress, and make sure you are on track to meet your 2024 Goals
As leaders, we work with our team regularly, checking in on them. Whether weekly or monthly one-on-ones, we must ensure they progress towards the agreed-upon goal. After all, those goals lead your company to better profits, happier employees, and a brighter future. It’s great to be the boss.
Before you throw your shoulder out, patting yourself on the back, it’s time you gave yourself a checkup. Where are you on your goals? Not the teams’, but yours? You have to answer to someone, too, you know. It’s lonely at the top, and your accountability partner is you.
Are you on track?
Did you set a schedule for your goals? We are already in Week 6 of 2024. According to statistics, 86% of you have already given up on your New Year’s Resolutions. But fear not; the last time I checked, there were 52 weeks in a year, and you have plenty of time to get back on the road to success.
If you set a goal to lose ten pounds this year and gain five in January, it’s not over. You have to refocus your energy and figure out what is happening. What have you done right, and what have you done wrong? Were there hurdles and obstacles you didn’t foresee when setting your plan?
Ziglar’s Seven-Step Goal-Setting Process
As a Ziglar Legacy Trainer, we were certified to work with Mr. Ziglar’s seven-step process. A workshop behind this is about 90 minutes long, and we can help facilitate one for you and your entire team. In this workshop, you would learn that these steps must be followed to set the goals properly. If you are already off-track, maybe you missed a step or didn’t forecast something. These are the seven steps, and they are pretty self-explanatory:
Identify your goal
What are your benefits
What are the obstacles
What skills or knowledge do you need
Who do you need to help
Detailed planning of what you need to do
Set the date
Reasons you may be behind
It’s never too late to restart, reorganize, or reprioritize if there is a benefit. Where did you fall short in the goal-setting process? Goals are often set using only two of the above seven steps. Most people identify a goal, set a date, and then improvise. Not enough thought is given to determining who, what, where, when, and why they are working on a goal. Although writing it down is important, there is more to it than that.
People fall short because they lose motivation to reach a goal or forget why they set it in the first place. Your goal’s benefits should be your motivation. Are you motivated to lose this weight? Or is it just doctor’s orders?
Did you plan for the obstacles you would encounter? Maybe January was filled with many client dinners and lunches, which put you on the wrong side of the scale. January in the Midwest can be cold and wet, and you don’t get a chance to get outside for those runs. Did you even have exercise in the plan?
Look at this past month and determine what slowed you down on this goal. Nothing has stopped you yet; that is a decision you must make. Are you ready to quit? I would hope not. What if your employees all gave up in February after missing their January target?
Give yourself a checkup from the neck-up, and don’t give up. Lead by example. Show your team that even though you are behind in your goals, you’ve devised a plan to conquer them. Being transparent with others about your progress is also essential.
At the Kole Performance Group, we suggest that you do this every month. Make sure you don’t get too far behind, and when you do have successes, celebrate them. If you are coming up short, maybe you need an accountability partner. Connect with us for a 30-minute complimentary consultation to see if we can help.
Now go gettem’ You’ve got this!