I was speaking recently with a friend who was relatively new to his job and was confused: He had two major project responsibilities with deadlines approaching, didn't have adequate time to complete ...

How are you doing on your New Year's resolutions? If you are not as far along as you had hoped, you are not alone. That's because most people set resolutions that are broad or unrealistic. In Troutman ...

Clear goals, objectives and targets will help ensure that measurable progress in your strategic plan. Goals, objectives and targets should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound ...

Just as a business plan provides goals for the organization to reach over the course of a given period of time, written key performance objectives will provide tangible goals for your employees.

It is easy to view the task of drafting learning objectives as a mere administrative hurdle—one more box to check for a syllabus or a department review. However, when we move beyond the "paperwork" ...

When you set a clear objective, you or your direct reports are able to focus attention and energy on a concrete aspiration—anything from a small task to a career ambition. In fact, it's not really ...

For example, a good collaboration solution can speed the time to create critical deliverables. For a consulting organization, a SMART objective for a SharePoint proposal library solution might be to ...

A surefire way to measure whether your online marketing objectives were achieved is to focus on the number of tweets, Likes, and +1s you get, and a sky-high Klout score, right? Not exactly. Just ...

Cost-effective learning in business requires that people know what to learn and why they are learning. But that is not enough. We should also evaluate the learning to make sure that the time and money ...