Setting goals for a new year can feel like trying to grab smoke—it's tough to make those big, exciting ideas actually stick.

We all want to set smart goals at work and in our personal lives, but there's an actual SMART goal system that's focused on setting achievable goals, and it's worth checking out. TMRW did some digging ...

We’ve known for a while that legal operations teams are a strategic partner to the wider business, but thanks to research from organizations like McKinsey & Company, the legal ops function has gained ...

You’re probably familiar with the concept of SMART goals. SMART is commonly defined as Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time-bound. Organizations use these goals with two primary aims.

Big goals are not so hard to accomplish if you’re tracking them regularly, according to Samantha Ripley, a salesperson in Colorado Springs who is using “goal tracking” to write what she hopes will be ...

Various business tasks require different leadership approaches. This is the basis for Situational Leadership, a leadership model introduced in 1996 by Drs. Paul Hersey and Kenneth Blanchard.

Long-term success in goal achievement involves intrinsic motivation and seeing goals as identity changes, not just arbitrary targets. The SHAPING goal-setting system offers a framework focusing on ...

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When you set a goal, it should be “S.M.A.R.T.,” or so suggests the standard advice (even some of ours!). That stands for Specific, Measurable, something, something, Time-bound—there’s disagreement on ...

A new year is a good time to evaluate priorities and set goals for the coming months. Although New Year’s resolutions are notoriously hard to keep, the sentiment behind them is admirable—a desire to ...

A goal is only as useful as the thoughtfulness of creating it. Like many overused marketing terms and cliches, a “goal” can become an overbearing or meaningless word or purposeless objective.