Team objectives
Featured in the Setting Objectives and Seeing Them Through training manual
By Beverley Williams
Category: Performance Management
Credit price: 3 download credits (Single user)
Agreeing team objectives can be more difficult than agreeing individual objectives, as more people need to be involved in the process. However, more people also means: more ideas; more experience, skills and knowledge; greater support within the team; and a combined determination to see objectives through successfully. All these potential benefits make the careful management of the process of agreeing team objectives worthwhile. This training activity introduces the team leader to a method of agreeing team objectives that has been designed to gain maximum input and commitment. The team leader can use the training activity to agree real-life team objectives by substituting the examples supplied with their own material.
You open the training activity by telling the participants that they are going to spend some time focusing on SMART objectives in the context of setting team objectives. Then you emphasise the importance of agreeing rather than imposing objectives. Next, you talk about how difficulties in agreeing individual objectives can be magnified when you need to agree team objectives. You outline a step-by-step method that can be used when agreeing team objectives, then run either or both of two exercises where objectives are set for a particular area. You follow each exercise with a plenary discussion, remembering to focus on assessing the method used, not just the outcome. (You may wish to use the method to focus on setting genuine team objectives for an area that currently needs to be addressed.) Finally, you take personal key learning points from the participants before ending the session by distributing a key learning points handout, giving emphasis where appropriate.
Who is it for: This training resource is intended for use by trainers to introduce line managers to a method of agreeing team objectives that has been designed to gain maximum input and commitment.
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 4 |
| Max Group Size: | 10 |
| Typical Duration: | 03:55:00 |
| No of Pages: | 15 |
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Purpose: This training resource is intended for use by trainers with participants who are involved in the objective-setting process and who are familiar with SMART. This training activity can be used by a trainer to introduce team leaders to a step-by-step technique that can be used when agreeing team objectives. By substituting real-life material in place of the examples supplied, it can also be used by team leaders to agree objectives with their own teams or with teams that interact with each other. Ideally, participants should already have covered ‘Objectives: What they are and why they exist’ and ‘Introducing the SMART objective’.
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