Improve Employee Accountability for Goals in Your Organization
It is common for employee goals, set as a part of an annual performance review, to be forgotten during the year. Goals get written down on a paper form that is filed away, and only consulted when it's time for the next performance appraisal. An employee's daily work and priorities are then easily affected by the crisis of the day, new requests or changes in direction. The result: individual, departmental and organizational goals are often not achieved.
So how do you drive accountability for goals throughout your organization and keep employees productive and focused on the right things? Halogen eAppraisal™ can help.
Encourage SMART Employee Goals
In order to engage employees and foster accountability, organizations need to have their employees set SMART goals - specific, measurable, achievable, results-oriented and time-bound. But remembering to capture all these elements in the right level of detail can be challenging.
Halogen eAppraisal makes it simple for managers and employees by providing specific fields on the new goal screen that prompt them for all the right information.
Managers and employees creating a new goal are visually reminded to provide a title, detailed description, milestone, method for measurement, and start date and due date.
Help with Prioritization
Everyone deals with juggling priorities. When faced with competing priorities, employees often struggle to know which goals are most important, and to focus their time and efforts effectively.
Halogen eAppraisal allows you to assign a weight to each goal and competency, so employees clearly understand the corporate value of each. Prioritizing and decision making are easier in this context.
Reminder to Self...
Ever wish you could get someone to remind you about goals, milestones and due dates?
Halogen eAppraisal can do just that for you. The New Goal screen has an easy to configure reminder option that will send you an email reminder, and keep reminding you until the task is done. Now you'll never miss a deadline because you forgot!
Align Employee and Organizational Goals
Research tells us that one of the keys to employee accountability is helping employees understand how their daily work contributes to organizational success. Employees need to know that their work and efforts matter.
Halogen eAppraisal lets you communicate this to employees in a very tangible way, by allowing you to set high level organizational goals, and then link employee goals to them. Employees can then visually see how their personal goals are contributing to the achievement of organizational goals and track their progress and status. This increases both their sense of accountability and contribution.
Monitor Progress on Goals
Accountability and monitoring tend to go hand in hand - it's human nature to be more mindful of completing a task when we know someone is watching and cares about our progress, and when we can see the larger effect of our actions.
Halogen eAppraisal provides employees and managers with unique tools to help monitor and communicate progress on goals.
Employees can easily view and record progress on their goals from their Personal Performance Panel. They can see at a glance, the list of goals they have to accomplish, their due date, and any links to organizational goals. Employees can indicate the progress and status of each of their goals, keeping their manager and the owner of any linked organizational goals up-to-date.
Halogen eAppraisal also gives managers access to a Goal Dashboard and a Goal Report that let them quickly see the progress and status of goals for their direct reports. Owners of organizational goals can also easily drill down and see the status and progress of each of the individual goals that are linked and contributing to an organizational goal, and can also communicate the status of the high-level organizational goal to all those contributing to it.
Monitoring this information on a regular basis can help identify areas requiring attention and keep everyone accountable and on track.
Read How Halogen Software Customers Have Increased Employee Accountability for Goals
The San Diego Zoo helped motivate its employees and boosted overall morale by introducing clear goals and accountability.
At AGF, employees are more focused on the achievement of their business unit's goals and have a better understanding of what they are working towards and why it is important.
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