I Love Wildly Important Goals

I love Wildly Important Goals This is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules -- . The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security. Top 10 Posts on Categories I love WIG’s â€" Wildly Important Goals. You should too. Several years ago, I took The 4 Disciplines of Execution course from FranklinCovey. The course was mostly about setting up the foundation, through goals, of excellent execution. The course covered how to build goals, measurement systems, and how to determine an objective’s importance. It’s a good course. But what fascinated me were WIG’s. Here’s the underlying premise: in their work, people can only concentrate on 2-3 big goals over a long period of time. A period of time such as a year â€" the time frame for an annual review. Any more goals than that become a distraction. Wildly Important Goals are simply defined: if we don’t do X goal, we will fail. That’s it. It’s wildly important because if we don’t do it, we will fail. This type of goal has great benefits â€" but also a few drawbacks. Let’s take a look. Wildly Important Goals’s Drive Employee Engagement When your sole work role is to complete one or two Wildly Important Goals, your attitude toward work changes in a lot of ways: I had the opportunity as a manager to implement Wildly Important Goals for one review period with my group. Initially, it was a little hard to determine what was wildly important â€" compared to just important (the enemy of “great” is “good”) â€" but once we did and got moving on the goals, some great things happened: To be fair, my belief is most companies, certainly most large companies, won’t implement this method of goal setting. There is some specific reasoning behind this belief: There is a growing body of evidence that yearly goals, while still prevalent in the vast majority of workplaces, aren’t that great, whether they are wildly important or not. The reason goes back to focus â€" focusing on a few (or many) goals is very difficult over the course of an entire year. The good news is that there is now a movement to focus on goals for the next three months. Quarterly goals that, while they could be a one-year goal at the end, are specific milestones that can be achieved in the quarter. Some companies have modified the goal delivery to a variable amount of time agreed upon by the manager and employee. And the  12-Week Year book has spawned a movement to chunk the goals into what can be done in the 12-weeks â€" because it raises the focus and importance of each week in achieving the goal. That means those quarterly goals can now be wildly important because of the shorter time frame. In my corporate world, I’ve only been able to operate with this type of goal one time and the experience was wonderful for all of the reasons I’ve listed above. I’m hoping with the changes in goal setting we’re now seeing along with the push for more quarterly goals that Wildly Important goals will return. What’s Wildly Important in your life that needs to be done? Trying to think of some good WIG’s. I work in water and mold restoration. Any good ideas? Reply That’s far too broad to come up with a goal. Basically, though, look at what you are doing this year. Determine that if you don’t do X, the entire year will be a failure. That’s the Wildly Important Goal. “Eliminate the lead in Flint, MI water supply by March 1st 2016.” Reply Great post. I bookmarked your blog will visit often check out more post later. 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