Summertime is the often the beginning of a fiscal year for business and organizations and the most optimum time for strategic planning. As you begin to assess plans for your company and evaluate how ...

If you're going to set SMART Goals, you deserve to know the truth about their limitations. Every company in existence has set its share of SMART goals (the SMART acronym most commonly defined as ...

Why do some employees do better than others? According to goal-setting theory, one reason is that they have better, clearer goals. These goals guide their behavior towards better workplace output.

Chances are, you’ve come across the phrase “SMART goals” before while reading entrepreneurial content on the web. Search Google for “smart goals business” and you’ll get over 260 million results. The ...

It's a hope shared by many small business owners: you hope to hire and foster motivated employees who are productive, who exceed your expectations and who actively look for ways to improve your ...

How are you doing on your New Year's resolutions? If you are not as far along as you had hoped, you are not alone. That's because most people set resolutions that are broad or unrealistic. In Troutman ...

Reflecting on the year that just passed, business leaders must examine how productively our time was spent and identify the situations where we can improve, both professionally and personally. It’s ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, October 31. YOGI Berra, a former major league baseball player, once said, "If you don't know where you're going, you might wind up somewhere else." I've heard this ...