There’s little use in setting goals if you only review them once a year or even two or three times a year. Each and every month , you need to…
- Review your goals, objectives and targets
- Monitor if you’re ‘on target’ or ‘off target’. In fact, there’s a very good reason to monitor twice a month—once mid-month and then again at the end. If you leave your monitoring until the end of the month, you have no way of meeting the monthly target, but midway through you can do many things to get on target by the end of the month
- After monitoring progress, you can then alter, amend or scale up your tasks and activities to make sure you get back on target or take advantage of the over-
achievement, to blow your targets out of the water
With this level of monitoring, coupled with the frequency of doing it, you’re much more likely to achieve the targets you set your business—on one condition…
…and that leads on nicely to the heading of this article — IMPLEMENTATION.
To achieve any of your goals, objectives and targets, implementation and follow-through is key.
Sure, sometimes you can get lucky and, when a business has momentum, this can continue for some time, but it’s never worth the (foolish) risk of inactivity.
As a general rule, you’ve either got to do more or change what you’re doing, if you want to improve performance. Doing the same thing won’t change anything. It really is that simple. But, ultimately, one question I often ask clients is ‘How badly do you want it?’ Time will tell!