Managing Organizational Goals
Course Specifications
Course number: 088684
Course length: 1.0 day(s)
Course Description
As a manager, you are responsible for setting the goals
for your team and for managing their work. Organizational goals can often
get lost in layers of management and not get communicated to the individual
contributors. In the absence of goals, employees can feel unmotivated or can
even set their own goals for achievement, which will result in poor and conflicting
team performance. In this course, you will develop skills needed to establish
tactical goals for your team based on organizational directives and general
goals from your manager and create and manage action plans to achieve these
goals.
Course Objective: You will develop skills needed to establish tactical goals for
your team based on organizational directives and general goals from your manager,
and create and manage an action plan to achieve these goals.
Target Student: This course is intended for the professional employee who is a team
leader.
Prerequisites: Prior to taking this course, the student should have knowledge
of corporate goals. Other courses that may be helpful are What Good Managers Do: The First 100 Days, Negotiating Skills, and Delegating.
Delivery Method: Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.
Hardware Requirements
- A Pentium 90 MHz or better, or a Macintosh PowerPC.
- Screen resolution of 800 x 600 @ 256 colors.
Platform Requirements
Software Requirements
- Microsoft® Windows® 95, 98, 2000, ME, NT 4.0, XP Home
Edition, or XP Professional 2000.
- Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 5.0x, 5.5, or 6.0, or
Netscape Navigator (excluding 6.0 and 6.1).
- Adobe® Acrobat® Reader® 6.0 or higher; Apple®
QuickTime® 5.0 or higher; Macromedia® Flash® Player 6.0.79 or
higher; or Macromedia® Shockwave® 7.0.2, 8.0, 8.5, 8.5.1 or higher.
- Turn off pop-up blocking (Internet Explorer users only).
Performance-Based Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- refine goals for your team.
- develop action plans and contingency plans for achieving
your team goals.
- manage your team and work with stakeholders in your organization
to achieve the action plan.
Course Content
- Lesson 1: Establishing Team Goals
- Topic 1A: Clarify
General Team Goals
- Topic 1B: Create a Goal Map
- Topic 1C: Translate General Goals into Tactical Goals
- Lesson 2: Developing a Team Plan
- Topic 2A: Create Action Plans for Achieving Goals
- Topic 2B: Develop a Contingency Plan
- Lesson 3: Achieving the Team Plan
- Topic 3A: Implement the Action Plan
- Topic 3B: Evaluate Success
- Appendix A: Creating
the Action Plan: Notes
- Appendix B: Evaluating
Success: Notes