As we step into 2025, the role of HR professionals continues to evolve and adapt to the ever-changing needs of organizations and employees. With the focus on the department, setting SMART goals has ...

We’ve known for a while that legal operations teams are a strategic partner to the wider business, but thanks to research from organizations like McKinsey & Company, the legal ops function has gained ...

Once again it's that all too frequent time at my company where the HR people ask (command) each indirect employee to define Goals for the quarter and/or year. As a manager of engineers, this always ...

At their core, SMART goals are designed to help you stay on task and focused on your outcome. If you’re not familiar with ...

Goal setting is a critical element to any successful team. If businesses fail to create an environment for team members and leaders to set goals, they are firefighting. Firefighting is the concept of ...

When you set a goal, it should be “S.M.A.R.T.,” or so suggests the standard advice (even some of ours!). That stands for ...

As a professional, in order to grow, you have to set goals to help you move from one point in your career to the next. However, setting goals isn’t always easy. In many cases, you might know what you ...

Chances are you’ve heard of a SMART goal. The acronym SMART stands for specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-related, and it’s been around since consultant and former corporate planning ...

In many organizations, goal setting has become an empty ritual—a box to check off rather than a catalyst for growth. Too many managers, with good intentions, believe they are reducing employee stress ...

One of the curious disparities among people reporting a desire for a better life is the small percentage who set actual goals to make their lives better. This disparity is difficult to understand ...

If you’ve heard any consultant talk about goal-setting techniques, you’ve heard about the SMART goal framework, but the framework has its limitations. In 1981, George T. Doran, a consultant and former ...