What Do You Need to Succeed in 2019?
What do you need to succeed in 2019?
Is it more time dedicated to professional development? Training? Enabling technology? A coach or mentor? Look, performance success is nearly always dependent on additional resources beyond our personal capabilities for change. However, both individuals and even engagement teams we work with often look to engage resources they think they need without gaining clarity and alignment to the success they want to achieve.
If you have been working with us using the CARE framework for your performance success over the past couple weeks, by now you should have a clear line of sight to your personal path to 2019 success and your actions and activities should be in alignment with your organization, team, and peers. With clarity and alignment achieved we can now identify resources that will contribute to your success.
Your resources can include but are not limited to people, processes, technology, training, coaching, mentoring, really anything you need to assist you in achieving success in 2019. Make a list of all potential resources you feel you will need. As you determine your resources, ask these three questions to ensure they are resources that will make a positive contribution, not detract or become wasted.
• Why is this resource important to your success?
• How and when will I use this resource?
• How will I measure the impact of this resource?
If you can clearly articulate the answers to these questions then your resources stand a very good possibility of contributing to your success. Next week we tie everything together with enablement actions.
So, I will ask again, what do you need to succeed in 2019?
For more information on how to more actively engage in your organization join our DESTINATION: SUCCESS page, or contact us!
Cornerstone Learning is a performance and leadership consulting organization that has worked with clients all over the world. Our focus is working with individuals and organizations to create performance solutions that deliver top-tier results by inspiring, enabling, and developing employee-led, leader supported, and organization enabled performance. We are able to successfully deliver this through multiple products and services such as employee surveys, online training, performance assessments, and performance coaching. The goal at Cornerstone Learning is to assist our clients in enabling success by developing a dynamic and customized pathway to deliver role model organizational and personal performance.
Aligning Your Personal Vision for Success
Goooooooal!!!!!! To achieve success in soccer the foot, leg, body, head, eyes and mind must all be aligned to score a goal. To achieve personal goal success in business, your actions, activities, behaviors, and priorities must be aligned with your organization, team and peer’s actions, activities and priorities. Misaligned goals are one of the top contributors to employee disengagement, confusion, frustration, and wasted time, leading to a major loss of productivity.
Step two in your CARE model for performance success is to ensure you align your personal vision for success, enhanced role clarity and the priorities you identified in the gaining clarity phase to the stated organizational goals, your managers vision for team success and those peers where you mutually contribute to each other’s success.
Once a plan is created and aligned, set monthly or bi-monthly alignment sessions (30 minutes or less) with your leader, your internal and external customers and key contributing peers. At the end of those sessions you should walk away mutually aligned on what success looks like, what your contribution will be for the month(s), and any barriers that might exist - with a plan to overcome them.
Gaining and cultivating ongoing goal alignment is a major factor in contributing to personal goal success and enhanced overall employee engagement and connection. Next week is all about the resources.
For more information on how to more actively engage in your organization join our DESTINATION: SUCCESS page, or contact us!
Cornerstone Learning is a performance and leadership consulting organization that has worked with clients all over the world. Our focus is working with individuals and organizations to create performance solutions that deliver top-tier results by inspiring, enabling, and developing employee-led, leader supported, and organization enabled performance. We are able to successfully deliver this through multiple products and services such as employee surveys, online training, performance assessments, and performance coaching. The goal at Cornerstone Learning is to assist our clients in enabling success by developing a dynamic and customized pathway to deliver role model organizational and personal performance.
Establishing and Ensuring Continual Performance Clarity
This year, don’t set goals just to check an organizational box. Create a clear, aligned and agile personal performance plan that guides and delivers 2019 personal performance success.
In these dynamic and often unpredictable business cycles the SMART goal setting process of the past can be limiting and difficult to manage specific, time-bound targets when business models are disrupted, customer expectations/demands constantly shift and technology changes our world at any given time.
To thrive in these times, we are sharing with you a personal and organizational planning process we use with clients that provides clarity, alignment, resources and continually adjusts and enables performance success, no matter the prevailing performance environment. We call it CARE.
In this blog we will highlight the C (Clarity), establishing and ensuring continual performance clarity.
It is important to establish a clear foundation and vision for personal performance success. Start with clarifying the following:
Organization, team and personal performance success for 2019
Role definition - Ask Human Resources for a copy of your job description. Take the time to update it, if necessary, to ensure you are clear on what the organization expects from the role you are performing.
Key Actions
Priorities
Once you have initial clarity, it is imperative you continually define success and communicate with others the progress towards that success you are achieving and any barriers you encounter as the performance dynamics evolve. Gaining and providing clarity is an ongoing process.
Next week aligning your path to success with your organization, your leader, your team and your peers.
For more information on how to more actively engage in your organization join our DESTINATION: SUCCESS page, or contact us!
Cornerstone Learning is a performance and leadership consulting organization that has worked with clients all over the world. Our focus is working with individuals and organizations to create performance solutions that deliver top-tier results by inspiring, enabling, and developing employee-led, leader supported, and organization enabled performance. We are able to successfully deliver this through multiple products and services such as employee surveys, online training, performance assessments, and performance coaching. The goal at Cornerstone Learning is to assist our clients in enabling success by developing a dynamic and customized pathway to deliver role model organizational and personal performance.
Don't Forget Your Goals!
Don't forget to get your goals set for 2017! Use our course and resources to help set your personal and work-related goals! Watch our quick video below to see how we can help!
Cornerstone Learning is a performance and leadership consulting organization that has worked with clients all over the world. Our focus is working with individuals and organizations to create performance solutions that deliver top-tier results by inspiring, enabling, and developing employee-led, leader supported, and organization enabled performance. We are able to successfully deliver this through multiple products and services such as employee surveys, online training, performance assessments, and performance coaching. The goal at Cornerstone Learning is to assist our clients in developing a dynamic and customized blue print to deliver role model organizational and personal performance.
New Year. New Goals.
New year, new goals. That's right, it's time to sit down and focus on what we want 2017 to look like. We know, we know, most people dread them and avoid them, and yet, setting goals is incredibly important and directly correlated to the productivity in our personal journey, in our jobs, in just about every aspect of our lives. Thinking about and writing down goals is the foundation for achieving. If you don't know what you want to achieve, how can you achieve it? Well, whether it's increasing sales within your department, looking to gain a promotion this year, or just setting aside time for a family vacation, Cornerstone Learning is here to help you through the process with our Goal Setting online training course! Using a tried and true model for setting goals, we set you up for yearly success by guiding you through what your goals should look like, how you can measure them, and most importantly, how you can achieve them. We provide you with resources to assist in the goal setting process as well as tips and reminders that can keep you focused throughout 2017. Don't procrastinate any longer! Knock out your goals before you blink and we're already at mid-year!
Cornerstone Learning is a performance and leadership consulting organization that has worked with clients all over the world. Our focus is working with individuals and organizations to create performance solutions that deliver top-tier results by inspiring, enabling, and developing employee-led, leader supported, and organization enabled performance. We are able to successfully deliver this through multiple products and services such as employee surveys, online training, performance assessments, and performance coaching. The goal at Cornerstone Learning is to assist our clients in developing a dynamic and customized blue print to deliver role model organizational and personal performance.
Employee-Led Goal Setting: Accountability
In our final Goal Setting blog our focus turns to Accountability. Establishing clarity, alignment, and now accountability are the primary reasons any individual or organization should set goals. Goals, even if they are clear and completely aligned in the organization are nothing more than a “wish list” if accountability is not established.
When working with coaching clients we use a 4 A model to accountability that moves the goals from well-intentioned to completed. The 4 A’s of Accept, Act, Adjust, and Achieve will give you the framework for goal success.
Accept – Accept that you are accountable for delivering on your goals and the milestones created “no matter what”. Circumstances are going to happen (some even beyond your control) on the road to goal completion, however, once you accept accountability no matter what you will persevere through the obstacles and barriers to find your way to success.
Act – Turn your goals into action. Don’t wait to start and every day chart your progress. This is your personal measure of accountability. Keep your actions and reactions consistent and positive while giving deserving credit to others along the way.
Adjust – We must adjust along the way to goal success! While you don’t have control over all circumstances, you do have control over your reactions and your go forward responses. Be willing to adjust your plans, attitudes, even your perspective and thinking as circumstances dictate. Be persistent but flexible at the same time.
Achieve – Achieve one action, one milestone, one project, one goal at a time. Continually update others as you make progress. This enhances both clarity and alignment. Establish a personal record of success; accountability breeds success.
Now with your goals clear and aligned, with accountability established, if you stay focused on your plan, a firm foundation for 2017 success is set. Now go and make this year the best you have ever had. Wishing you the best in the holiday season and great success in 2017!
Cornerstone Learning is a performance and leadership consulting organization that has worked with clients all over the world. Our focus is working with individuals and organizations to create performance solutions that deliver top-tier results by inspiring, enabling, and developing employee-led, leader supported, and organization enabled performance. We are able to successfully deliver this through multiple products and services such as employee surveys, online training, performance assessments, and performance coaching. The goal at Cornerstone Learning is to assist our clients in developing a dynamic and customized blue print to deliver role model organizational and personal performance.