Elevating What Works

Elevating What Works

Good Leaders Do This

Create Clear, Relevant Objectives

Lesson 1 of 5 in Prioritizing and Organizing Work Level 2

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Ben Baran
Aug 20, 2025
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What This Means

Providing a clear direction for others to work toward is a central leadership responsibility. One way to do this is through creating and using objectives and key results.

This starts with creating objectives, which are clear, concise statements that define what the team or organization is trying to achieve.

Objectives should be ambitious, i…

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