Increasing Employee & Client Engagement

We all have well intentions at the beginning of the year.  It feels like we get to start over.  I am sure you are like me and come up with your goals and resolutions for the year.  Only 18% actually work toward those goals throughout the year.  Even though about 12% actually accomplish the goals, only a handful of those review the goals they made last year to see if they actually accomplished it or not.

What does that mean?  We love to dream and think where we want to go, but it is just a shell of an idea with nothing at the core.

The biggest issues that keep us from our goals…  there is no action tied to the intention.  We have all been in meetings where goals, objectives and intentions are set, but no action steps are put in place and no one to champion it and lead it to the promised land.  

So the goals are deemed passive…  We hope they get done, but we don’t have a set of instructions that outline how they will get done and no one held accountable.  Hope will never be a strategy.

Many people will be looking for jobs this year… The goal cannot be just to get a job.  It has to be much more drilled down with mini goals & action steps.  You set clear steps, which might be to create a resume, buy a suit, join networking groups, have coffee with 3 different influencers a week, get new or addl training etc, etc…  These are small attainable things you do each day & each week so you can check them off.  Some are one time occurrences and others will need to be repeatable until the goal is accomplished.

The difference is this is not only proactive, but it is progressive…  It keeps you moving forward toward your ultimate goal.

So it takes several things to make sure your goals are attained.  Over the next seven weeks we will take a look at each of them.

1. Vision
2. Visualization
3. Passion
4. Clear Direction & Focus
5. Symbolic Reasoning
6. Defined Action Steps
7. Review & Update

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