Collaboratively Set Difficult, Specific Goals

Lesson 4 of 5 in Initiating Structure

What This Means

Working with employees to set difficult, specific goals is one of the most evidence-based ways to increase motivation and, it follows, performance.

In particular, it’s important to allow people to have a say in their goals, and for those goals to be ones that are tough-yet-attainable.

It’s also important for goals to be specific, as this pr…