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Putting
Motivation Into Perspective
when Setting Business Goals
The difference between achieving formal goals versus
informal goals is one of motivation.
If you've ever worked in a corporate management
position, you're no stranger to MBO - the concept of
establishing goals and their importance to any
organization that practices management by objectives.
Even if you've never been in a position where you had to
define specific, measurable goals, you may not realize
that you do this every single day. By not consciously
saying so, you are actually setting goals and you are
usually better able to achieve them with far less
analysis than accomplished through formal goal setting.
Quite often with
formal goals, we may make progress towards our
objective, but not have a clear understanding of the
process required - and we often see a decline in our
motivation to continue effectively.
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This
is perhaps most often seen in group work environments
where one or two members of the group seem to "Get It",
while others just sort of follow along, contributing
only when asked and simply waiting for others to ensure
the goal is achieved at some hazy future point.
Yet as individuals, we are often able to accomplish our
own informal goals almost subconsciously. Each and every
day of our lives, we plan, act upon and accomplish
innumerable short-term goals, while simultaneously
working towards longer-term goals, by establishing
patterns of activity.
For example, you may get up a 6:00 AM each weekday,
shower, dress, have breakfast and drive to your place of
employment. Odds are you've done these thousands of
times without giving it a second thought and yet, you
are in fact achieving five goals every morning.
You're able to do this for several reasons - first of
course, you understand the primary goal of getting to
work on time each day at the task level. Next, your
motivation for doing so no doubt includes the desire to
avoid being fired for continued tardiness. Another
motivation is simply a need to demonstrate being a
reliable member of the organization.
On a longer-term basis, we often plan for and follow
through on everything from vacations and holidays to
paying off our mortgages and other debts. Here again, we
have plenty of motivation to do these things and we do
them subconsciously. And yet we often meet or exceed
these goals with little or no effort.
What's most interesting is that with our personal
life's goals,
we rarely use any elaborate system to track and complete
these tasks. No software, no systems and at best - we
might scribble a reminder note to ourselves and stick it
on the fridge or on the side of our computer monitor.
Let's face it, there's no reason why you could not apply
the same approach to your business or work related
goals. A task is a task, whether it's having to put
trash out before the refuse truck arrives on trash day,
or having to ensure a critical order was placed and is
being tracked.
If you can find your motivation for staying on top of
things at the office as you do at home, you'll never
again have any serious difficulty meeting your business
goals!
Richard Rossbauer
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Ralph Waldo
Emerson
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