Goal Setting and Accountability

Goals are easy to set; staying accountable to them is the challenge. 

Goals are your aspirations, and holding yourself accountable is how you reach your goals. No matter how lofty or many your goals are, staying accountable makes all the difference.

Goal setting allows you to plan your attack, and accountability gets you ready to attack your plan.

You can be a high performer in your workplace and be brimming with ambition and talent, but you'll truly thrive in your role unless you actually are accountable for your ideas.

However, patience and perseverance are essential to wait for your dreams to become real.

Accountability in the Workplace

Accountability helps you make consistent, steady progress and accelerates your performance.

To generate a culture of high performance, it is critical to instill the element of accountability to drive success and infuse passion in its workers.

The policies that shape the culture must be expected of all, from the owner down to new hires.

When everyone demonstrates accountability, trust is developed, which is the backbone of high-performing teams.

How can individuals set goals?

1. Do a Self Audit: An honest assessment of yourself helps you set lofty yet realistic goals. Find your strengths and weaknesses and set your goals to improve your strengths and mitigate your weaknesses.

2. Set Small Targets: Small targets make great goals achievable. When you see little steps to your vision, you will be able to get close to it by taking one step at a time. But when you leave your goals as one giant mountain, it appears too huge to tackle immediately. So, set your eyes on one step after the other and celebrate when you achieve each one.

3. Be fearless: Fear holds you back. To deal with fear, you should :

• Identify its causes
• Determine the probability of happening of fear
• Plan ways to avoid it. If you're afraid of the meeting making a presentation, preparing better could reduce your fear.

4. Schedule: To avoid distractions, create a schedule, and commit to it. Better scheduling increases your productivity.

5. Measure your success: Track your progress against your schedule and a unit of progress ( a metric that quantifies your goals).

6. Be resilient: Life might throw challenges in the path of goals you're near to achieving. But you have to be resilient and believe that you will achieve great things.