Past Event: Beyond SMART Goals


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We currently have goal-setting methodologies galore. There isn’t a company in existence that hasn’t set its share of SMART goals (most commonly defined as Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time-bound). And most managers have gone through extensive training on the mechanics of constructing cogent goals. But SMART goals can still be pretty dumb.

Too often SMART Goals act as impediments to, not enablers of, bold action, and actually encourage mediocre and poor performance. “Hold on a minute,” SMART goals seem to say. “Don’t push beyond your resources, don’t bite off more than you can chew, stay within your limitations.” Maybe if we weren’t so focused on making sure our SMART goals were written correctly on our goal-setting forms, we might ask, “Is this goal fundamentally wimpy?” A well written goal may prevent you from being too impulsive, but when’s the last time it stopped you from copping out?

We need to take our existing SMART Goals and infuse them with a whole new level of energy and excitement . Most organizations are pretty good at filling out forms correctly. What we’re less adept at is making sure the content on those forms is gutsy and challenging enough to result in something great. After years of studying extraordinary organizations and the leaders who enable them, we’ve distilled the critical success factors into a goal-setting methodology called HARD Goals. Rather than making sure your goals fall within the realm of the eminently achievable, HARD Goals push everyone involved beyond their current self-imposed restraints (and help them discover where their limits, if any, really exist). This will help your SMART Goals achieve more than you ever imagined.

Some leaders are already very good at setting HARD Goals. If you look behind the scenes at every great accomplishment, you’ll find a challenging goal; a goal that tried and tested people’s beliefs about what was possible. You’ll also find a person or people who weren’t afraid to meet that challenge. In this 60-minute teleconference called Beyond SMART Goals, you’ll learn how to push your people to achieve the extraordinary, even in the toughest of times.

This 60-minute teleconference & webinar will show you:

  • The 3 hidden flaws that set-up SMART Goals for failure
  • 2 steps to take your existing SMART Goals and make them more powerful
  • 4 keys to setting goals that test every one of our limits
  • Why goals that serve something bigger than ourselves are so motivating
  • Whether or not you should use a competitive threat or rival to motivate great performance
  • 3 tools for describing and presenting goals so vividly that to not reach it would leave us wanting
  • How to make your goals as critical to our continued existence as breathing
  • Why you should NOT give people all the Skills, Budget, Time and Authority they need to complete their goals
  • 3-part test for assessing whether your goals are too difficult or not difficult enough



    FORMAT:
    This special event gives you a Teleconference Line to hear the audio, a Webinar Link so you can watch content on your computer screen, and Slides to Download so you can keep all of this great content for later use.



    PRICING:
    This 60-minute interactive session is $249 $199 only for the first 100 registrants. You can invite as many colleagues as you’d like to listen in on a single phone line via speakerphone. You will also get slides to download before the session.

    DATE & TIME:
    This 60 Minute LIVE Teleconference is being held on Friday, November 13th at 12:00 Eastern Time. 24 hours before the event, you will receive an email with detailed instructions for calling in and downloading handouts.

    THE FACULTY:
    Mark MurphyMark Murphy, Chairman & CEO of Leadership IQ
    Mark Murphy is one of the country’s leading management experts. Mark has lectured at Harvard Business School, Yale University, and more. His clients include Microsoft, IBM, GE, MasterCard, Merck, AstraZeneca, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins, and hundreds more.

    Mark leads one of the largest leadership studies ever, and his groundbreaking work has appeared in Fortune, Forbes, Business Week, Investor’s Business Daily, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and many more. He has also appeared on ABC’s 20/20, CBS News, Fox Business News and NPR.

    Mark has authored 3 bestselling books, including Generation Y and the New Rules of Management, The Deadly Sins of Employee Retention, and Leading on the Edge of Chaos.

    Mark Murphy is a 3-time nominee for Modern Healthcare’s “Most Powerful People in Healthcare” Award. And Mark won the Healthcare Financial Management Association’s Helen Yerger Award for Best Research.

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