Goal Setting for Human Resources: A Revolutionary Management Tool That Works

My column "Goal Setting for Human Resources: A Revolutionary Management Tool That Works" appears in this month's AI-CPA Career Insider. I note:

"Over the past 17 years I have assigned a goal setting exercise to approximately 2,500 MBA and undergraduate students. The exercise involves the students’ development of a mission or visualization of what they would like to achieve in light of their personal values and a specific action plan. About one third of the students have considerable difficulty in expressing their mission and goals. Even when MBA students have been out of school for six or seven years and have achieved managerial levels of responsibility, it is difficult for many to “own” their career paths or to visualize achievements in which they believe. Only about a third of students can express a mission or visualization of what they aim to achieve in light of concrete values. Most students know that they want to make more money; move up in the hierarchy; or start a business. But few can express a tangible picture of what they would like to achieve or why."

Read the whole thing here.