Every January, offices quietly reset. New planners appear on desks. Fresh notebooks open in meetings. To-do lists look neater ...

The start of a new year is a natural time for defining two distinct types of goals. First, most professionals and teams are formalizing annual business plans or objectives that specify what outcomes ...

Leadership development goals are personal to each leader, built on self-evaluation and a deeper leadership philosophy that ...

Why do some employees do better than others? According to goal-setting theory, one reason is that they have better, clearer goals. These goals guide their behavior towards better workplace output.

The Harvard Business Review suggests personal or professional goals are famously hard to achieve. If the effort outweighs the perceived reward, we are tempted to give up on our targets. Also: 5 ways ...

When a well-thought-out plan isn’t succeeding, what should the response be? Abandon the plan entirely? Hope that it just needs more time to work? Or get to grips with why it’s not working and make ...