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Effective goal setting is essential if you want to increase productivity in the workplace. Supervisors and managers, however, must have the leadership skills to go beyond just setting goals. They must help their employees overcome one difficult obstacle.
"What the mind can conceive, and believe, it can achieve." - Napoleon Hill
That means that you can do anything you believe you can do..isn't that exciting?
But, what if you have employees who constantly fail to reach their goals - even when care has been taken to make those goals specific, measurable, and realistic?
The Obstacle
The issue may not be that the employees think the goals are unattainable. It's possible that, while very motivated, your employees don't believe that they deserve to achieve their goals.
Here's an example...
Sarah is working in the sales department for her company. She is meeting her general goal requirements, but, for some reason, she can't meet her higher level bonus goals. This is frustrating to Sarah, because she is one of the most enthusiastic salespeople in the department.It reminds her of how she was always a "B" student in school, even though she worked hard to get "A's." She thinks there may be a connection. If only she could figure out what the problem is...
Feeling Undeserving Makes It Difficult
It is very difficult to achieve a goal if you don't feel you deserve it. The goal can even be reasonable and very realistic, and yet, you may find that you will have a hard time reaching it.
Many people have this problem without even realizing it. They set goals for themselves, and when they do not attain them, simply think, "well, that just is not realistic for me." So they give up on it, convinced that they will never reach that goal.
The truth is that those people simply may not feel that they deserve success. These feelings wind up sapping the strength, energy, and focus that they need to reach their goals.
This can be just as detrimental as a goal set with unreasonable and unrealistic expectations.
Tell Employees To Take These Steps To Feel More Deserving
Write a list of reasons you don't feel you deserve to achieve the goal, and then think about how you can change each negative reason to a positive one. End up with list of positive reasons of why you do deserve to achieve the goal.List of all people who would be helped by your achieving your goal. Then list ways that achieving the goal would help you.
Take small steps - reaching smaller goals on the way to a big one will help you raise your deserve level one.
Visualize the goals as if they are already accomplished. Spend time each day picturing your goals, and feeling deserving of having achieved them.
The most specific, realistic, measurable goals will never be attained if the goal-setters do not believe they deserve success.
Once employees believe that they deserve success they will do what it takes to achieve their goals, and the biggest battle will have been won - the battle of the mind.
The feeling of deserving translates into employee motivation for achieving goals. Effective goal-setting and employee motivation are essential leadership skills for workplace supervisors or managers who want to increase productivity.
Visit http://www.confidencecenter.com/leadership to get instant access to our free Leadership Quiz.
Discover how effective are you as a supervisor or manager in the essential workplace leadership skills. The results - improved employee motivation, attitudes, skills, and productivity.
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Copyright: Written by Harriet Meyerson, president of The Confidence Center. You may print this article in your newsletter, magazine, or web site as long as you include the resource information.
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