Lead Like a Pro: Mastering SMART Goals and Delegation

On today’s episode of Management Development Unlocked, Eric shares part three of this six-part series from his book, Lead Like a Pro: The Essential Guide for New Managers. Featuring chapters three and four, you’ll hear why it’s important to set SMART goals for your team, Eric’s brainstorming guidelines for setting team goals, and why you should be performing weekly one-on-one meetings with team members. Eric also shares why you must learn how to delegate effectively and how it can improve your relationship with your team. You’ll also hear about the six levels of initiative that can help bring out the best in everyone, along with Eric’s tips for helping you decide what to delegate.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

1. Creating clear goals for your team and how you benefit from them.
2. Understanding the purpose behind a goal and the four components behind a good goal.
3. SMART goals: specific, measurable, achievable (or aligned), relevant (or resourced), and time-bound (or trackable).
4. The benefits of SMART goals for new managers and how to set them in three simple steps.
5. Questions you can ask to identify a SMART goal.
6. Eric’s eight brainstorming guidelines for setting team goals.
7. Setting one-on-one weekly meetings with team members to make progress toward goals.
8. Altering SMART goals to fit your organization’s needs.
9. Learning to delegate tasks to your team effectively and how it can improve your relationship with your team.
10. The benefits of effective delegation and some reasons managers fail to delegate.
11. The ten commandments for effective delegation.
12. Delegating the right tasks to the right people and how to determine if a team member is ready for the task at hand.
13. The six levels of initiative, encouraging higher-level thinking from team members, and bringing out the best in everyone.
14. Eric’s tips for deciding what could be delegated to your team.

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