Article - 52 Week 9 Personal Goal Setting Precedes Corporate Goals:

Personal Goal Setting Precedes Corporate Goals:

We hear about goal setting as a management rhetoric or rather a fad in our corporate climes. This over-kill of goal setting in our work places, does not mean that we can be really productive without it. First of all, goals need not be grandiose in design or sound. Goal needs to be simple and clear. Sometimes it is difficult to think in simpler and clearer blocks. We need to think of what we want to achieve in a year, and then try to quantify our projected growth, as objectively as we possible can. The same needs to be broken into blocks of months. 

A monthly block looks less daunting and gettable at first sight. But when you go about getting there, you realize that you are almost stuck. That is where we have to believe in ourselves to hold on tenaciously. We have to be careful to our vulnerability to frustration. Revisiting the past to find splinters of unattended patches is important here. And the challenge would be to think and find better ways of getting things done to get at your goal. This introspection and innovating on the strategies ahead, should be a group think to have a better quality of newness in addition to adding commitment and cooperation from the full team. 

Even in our personal & professional work spaces, we need to set goal for ourselves. We can not be part of a bigger goal, if we are unable to set personal goals for ourselves. Personal goals need to be congruent with the larger team goals, or else we are on the wrong job. While setting goals for ourselves, we need to keep our focus on gettability, objectivity of the goals, reviews, re-strategizing, improvising, measuring progress, and celebrating the mile stones. Progress goes something like a fly-wheel - slow at start and building almost an unstoppable momentum towards the end. At that stage, we could stretch our goals.

It's a haunting dilemma as to how we can set our personal goals. We need to understand that our professional achievement is not an isolated space. Our family life, mental state, physical health, intellectual sharpness, and even a good social life affects our professional productivity. If we lack in any one of them, it does affect our professional prowess. Therefore, it becomes imperative that we need to bring in incremental and measured improvements on our family life etc. Many of us buy the story of our corporate set-set goals to such an extent that we forget to improve ourselves first. When we do that, we work far too hard, far too late, and drink far too much caffeine to tire ourselves to exhaustion or burnout. With mounting stress, we keep neglecting our personal improvements. This can lead to stress in family, health, and a fractured social clime. 

Therefore, personal goal settings are far more important for us and their positive effects shall give us the ammunition to participate in the corporate goal settings.

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