Manager: What are YOUR Goals?
June 17, 2009 by Phil Gerbyshak
Filed under Business
It’s mid-year, so instead of focusing on your team, like we’ve been doing, let’s focus on YOU.
Manager: What are YOUR Goals?
My goals fall into 3 buckets this year: Learning, Succession Planning and Projects.
All of my goals are due on/before November 15th, 2009.
The goals I set have 2 key parts:
- Measurability
- Timeframe
After that, my goals update format is very simple:
- Goal name
- Status
- Next Steps
I’ll step through my 3 buckets. This is helpful for me and for you, as now I am sharing my goals with you, so I am now accountable to you for my results. I will report back on/about November 15th, 2009.
Learning goal
- Read and review at least 12 new books a year. I can listen to audio books when I work out, and I can read books when I’m in airports and between meetings.
Status: What books have I read and/or reviewed:
- The Genius Machine by Gerald Sindell (review and author interview coming soon)
- Upbeat by Rajesh Setty (book review)
- Greater than Yourself by Steve Farber (book review)
- Who’s Got Your Back by Keith Ferrazzi (review coming soon)
- Ignore Everybody by Hugh Macleod (review coming soon)
Next steps: Read 7 more and review 10 more books.
Succession Planning/Training Goal
- Identify and train my next in line
Status: In progress. Training is going well.
Next steps: Continued attention is required to complete this goal by year end.
Projects Goal
- Successful completion of 4 key projects to move our IT department forward
Status: 1 project complete, 2 just kicked off, 1 will kick off in another week
Next Steps: Continued attention to projects, process map all processes, understand support/training needs, attend project meetings, inform team as needed.
Manager: What are YOUR goals?
You’re welcome to leave your goals in the comments.
I’d also like to hear if you have a different format for goals and/or if this was helpful for you.
Untitled photo credit to michale
This is very important point.For good manager you have
Learning, Succession Planning and Projects Goal.
yes I agree with your post.
Learning is most important in your life it teach you lot of thing.
so always learn from different sources.
planning is second step that are important in achieving your goal.
so without planning you cannot go ahead.
Project Goal: IT is important for all manager to set their project within time. it may increase confident in you.
this step is most in any field not in IT field.
successful manager is that who manage all thing properly within time.
You may want to check out http://www.GoalsOnTrack.com, a very nicely built web app designed for tracking goals and todo lists, and supports time tracking too. It’s clear, focused, easy to navigate, worth a try.