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SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

They then spent the day in conversation with President Obama’s former aide and “body man”, Reggie Love ; learning how to build their personal brands, getting career development advice from a panel of black executives, and coaching each other on setting actionable goals. He immediately suggested that there be a session on setting SMART goals.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

As the new year begins, most of us have goals or resolutions for 2024, but how many of us are working on a 10-year plan? For more than two decades, my wife Diane and I have been very intentional and consistent about visualizing our goals for the coming year and outlining the routines and actions that we think will best help us achieve them.

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OCTOBER 23, 2019

This is a process that almost no one enjoys – neither the reviewer or the reviewee. There are a lot of reasons why annual performance review processes usually suck. Third, in many organizations, the annual review process is directly tied to the compensation process. Here are three. First, they’re annual.

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MARCH 22, 2023

For lower performers, the line of sight to the next set of goals is likely shorter and more focused, and the support from you is likely more directed. This kind of preparation is very similar to the visualization process that great athletes go through before competition. How do you want them to feel at the end of the conversation?

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DECEMBER 18, 2019

And, then, in a couple of weeks, we’ll wipe the slate clean and start pursuing the goals of 2020. Before you officially shut things down for the holidays, frame up a short list of goals, opportunities or challenges you want to take on in 2020. Our brains needed time to process and connect the dots. So does yours.

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JUNE 20, 2016

Set Goals Together — Diane and I have always been very goal oriented and have invested a lot of time over the years in having conversations to set goals together. The Life GPS® process that I’ve written about here before has been an important tool in clarifying personal goals.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2021

One is that a lot of leaders’ plates are so full with commitments in the arenas of home and work that it feels like there’s not a lot of bandwidth left for work in the community. Most everything on the list speaks to Diane and me, but we’re putting a lot of our personal emphasis and effort on goal number two, zero hunger.

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