Let each employee plan his life - the precise outcomes he wants for himself, within a definite time frame - ten years from now, five years from now, within this year, within the next six months, within this month, within this week, within the next 24 hours. It should include his personal as well as official goals. He should repeat the same exercise for his organization - what four precisely defined things his organization should achieve within each of these specified time frames.

 

Organizational goals

The organizational goals with the time frames should be collected from each of the employee and fed into a computer to select the four most desirable goals for the organization in each category of time frame. The same should then be circulated among all the employees. The annual departmental goals then should be drawn to achieve the four topmost annual organizational goals.

 

Departmental goals

Planning and allocation of responsibilities should then be done to achieve the annual departmental goals. Individual goals should then be reconciled and modified according to these allocated responsibilities. One great advantage of this kind of goal setting exercise is that people feel and get genuinely involved in the achievement of goals since the goals they chase are their own.

 

Personal goals

Reviewing, from time to time, your goals, progress and changes that need to be made in the plan chalked out by you, in order to meet the changed circumstances is very essential.