If one of your goals is to have your employee develop meaningful, challenging, and realistic goals, he should have a clear understanding of your goals. Without this, his goal-setting can become more of a random process.
Perhaps an employee knows you well enough to establish goals that will meet your approval, but perhaps an employee does not. And further, it is possible that larger issues in your company have dramatically changed the nature of goals that employees should be striving to meet.
Ideally, the leader of your organization has articulated some clear and specific goals to the people who report to him or her. These employees would then establish their goals in conjunction with the topside leader. This process would repeat itself through the entire organization, with all employees at each level establishing goals that support the goals of their supervision. As the employees at each level meet their goals, the organization has a better chance of moving closer to the goals that were originally articulated by the leader.
As a result, it would be helpful to provide your employees with more information on your goals. However, prior to doing so, you should think about getting more information on your own supervisor’s goals.
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