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

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This is a guest article from Steve Farber, author of the fantastic new book Greater Than Yourself. In challenging times, Steve’s advice is more important than ever.
How Do You Get Back Up? A Counterintuitive Approach to Thriving in Challenging Times
By Steve Farber, Author of Greater Than Yourself: The Ultimate Lesson of True Leadership

A while back, I received a distressed email from Ken, a young manager at a high-tech company.
Ken and I had never met, but he had read my first two books and had done his best to apply the ideas and practices of Extreme Leadership to the way he’d …read more