Boosting engagement can be surprisingly simple: by making goals clear, real and tangible, then sharing them in a way that is easily understood, we can ensure everyone stays on the ball.
For the past 12 months, I have been asking myself – and others around me – why some people (like Olympic athletes) are highly engaged in what they do every day without decent pay, while others hate their jobs despite their often sizeable paychecks. I found some interesting answers to this question in Marcus Buckinghams’ new book Love + Work’.
After four years of refining Management by OKR to fit their processes, ergovia took it to the next level with the Goalscape visual goal management solution.
In competitive sports, many factors influence each player’s performance and the success of the whole team. Keeping track of everything is the key challenge for coaching and support staff: Goalscape is the answer.
Management by OKR (Objectives and Key Results): A visual guide on how to effectively achieve business and personal goals. It’s important to always have an eye on the big picture with common core goals – as these are key to high motivation and effective work engagement.
Managing teams with Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) has become really popular all over the world – especially since Google’s stellar ascent, attributed partly to the company adopting the OKR process in its early startup days.
Business leaders recognize that motivation is key to success, yet most organizations are terrible at it! Globally, almost 90% of working people are not fully motivated, operating far below the motivation level of Olympic athletes – or even kids at play!
A year full of unexpected challenges for all of us has passed, and another challenging year lies ahead. We have learned that we can rise to the challenges and keep on top of it all – as long as we stay calm and maintain the overview.
What Laura Vanderkam has to offer in her talk is as profound as it is simple. She sees the lack of time most of us so painfully experience not as a byproduct of a hectic modern lifestyle or growing demands in the workplace, but instead, as rooted in a lack of willpower to set priorities and make tough decisions.
Tomas Tunguz, a former Google Employee on how to avoid burnout. His message is simple:
You can not have it all. You need to prioritize and ask yourself: “Which are the most important things I need to do well”. So don’t set too many goals – set the right goals.
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