Ask coaching questions to help the employee land on goals that connect to their motivations and the business’s growth needs.

Three essential leadership conversations to boost team alignment, trust, and performance for a successful year.

If you want to have a great year, you’ll boost your likelihood of success by setting goals. And using goal setting theory, specifically, is the best way to ensure you achieve all that you aspire to.

After four decades of leadership, here’s a practical, no-nonsense approach to setting clear, actionable goals that drive real results in 2026 and beyond. Why many leaders struggle with goal setting in ...

The prevailing business leadership advice has always assumed that goal setting is a top-down process. During my time at consulting firm Bain & Co., and later as vice president at the large auto-parts ...

When Caroline Adams Miller learned about the science of goal setting, her professional and personal life changed forever. It was 2005, and Adams Miller was a student at the University of Pennsylvania ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Geri Johnson January 1 ...

Goals are standards that individuals use to evaluate how well they are doing now relative to where they want to end up. Goals basically guide our choices. Once you have a goal, the hard part is ...

Ideally, go-getters set goals that are ambitious and then follow through. But obstacles almost always get in the way. Perhaps the biggest obstacle is one of our own making: We just don't care all that ...

Goal setting was priority for many people during January, but a pastor says people wanting to live life effectively, must ...