Benchmarking Goals
A plan to accomplish your goal is important, but part of that plan needs to be well-thought out benchmarks chosen in advance and reached along the way. These benchmarks are the best way to monitor your progress. Otherwise the likelihood of your reaching your final goal becomes as challenging as trying to fly a plane in fog by radio instruction when your control panel is malfunctioning. In order to reach your destination you have to do all the procedures in sequential order and follow all the steps and stages or it could mean serious problems.
In business there are costs to measure, productivity measures, cycle times, performance-based requirements, customer satisfaction measures of you and the product and other important measures. Determine upfront the benchmarks you need to give you satisfying results and useful stats for this and future projects. Then gauge that your targets are met or what you need to do to adjust them, so you can proceed on course.
What’s one project that didn’t turn out right because you didn’t benchmark along the way AND what measures and monitors would you apply if you were doing it today?
Tags: benchmarking goals, gauge your career targets, goal planning, monitor your progress
