Thoughtful goal setting can boost organizational success while supporting employee wellbeing in a world of constant change.

Setting employee and team performance goals is an essential responsibility for business owners and managers. However, measuring and improving an employee’s performance can be complex and daunting, ...

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.

Teams that dream big and connect with their goals are more motivated and tend to outperform those that select safe, manageable goals. The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network ...

Once or twice a year, there's a deliverable that presents a challenge to both managers and their employees: performance reviews. While many companies conduct annual reviews, some are adopting a more ...

Gaps in systems and processes between performance and compensation quickly become gaps in employee trust and experience.

As a business leader, one of the most important lessons I’ve learned is the value of setting clear, objective criteria for employee bonuses. Over the years, I’ve experimented with various bonus ...

The prevailing business leadership advice has always assumed that goal setting is a top-down process. During my time at consulting firm Bain & Co., and later as vice president at the large auto-parts ...

Maybe you set goals in 2020. And maybe those goals and plans were scuttled as everything shut down and your day-to-day living changed dramatically. Your plan to move ahead at work was tempered when ...