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LinkedIn Learning

Setting Business Unit Goals

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

Learn how to set business goals for teams and individual employees, and link goals to strategy, financial results, and incentives.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • Introduction
  • Goal-setting principles
1. Setting Different Types of Goals
  • Set quantitative goals
  • Set qualitative goals
  • Define supporting goals
  • Set commit and stretch goals
2. Linking Goals to Strategy
  • Work from the top down
  • Tie goals to strategy
  • Tie goals to financials
  • Tie goals to incentives
  • Overallocate goals
3. Preventing Goal-Setting Problems
  • Reality checking goals
  • Troubleshooting goals
  • Communicating goals
  • Providing resources to reach goals
4. Managing Goals after Setting Goals
  • Measuring goal performance
  • Revising goals
  • Holding people accountable
  • Avoiding pitfalls
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Mike Figliuolo

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