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.

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 ...

It is possible to be involved in a lot of things and not have any outcome. This is because doing a lot of things doesn't necessarily mean one is productive. Activities don't ultimately mean progress.

We’ve been taught to set goals our entire lives. We set goals to get better grades in school. We dream about saving up enough to buy our first car. We make resolutions to lose weight, travel more, ...

When many people set a goal, they encounter an obstacle and begin to doubt that they can really achieve that goal. What if you thought about goal setting as, by definition, an ordeal? An ordeal that ...

In the 1960s, Professor Edwin A. Locke of the University of Maryland identified a link between goal-setting and employee performance. Since then, Locke's theory of goal-setting and task motivation has ...

On Wednesday, February 17, Ayelet Fishbach presented insights into the psychology of motivation and goal-setting to a live webinar audience of more than 1,000 people as the Center for Decision ...

It’s that time of year when we’re all thinking about what we’d like to accomplish in the New Year. Recently, there has been a push for setting goals for the New Year instead of daunting — probably ...

Setting goals and managing time are fundamental pillars of personal and professional success. As a matter of fact, these two concepts are interconnected, not separate. Together, they form a powerful ...