Well it’s that time of year again… when all of us sit down to do annual planning for the next year. I fear that many of us write down our goals and plans, read them to our workgroups and teams, then tuck them away on a shelf. I’ll have to say… 2014 has been the best year for my immediate working group… at least when it comes to staying on task for our goals. We literally read through our goals in what we called a “lightning round” workgroup meeting, every week, all year long. We even have some of the goals sequence numbers memorized. (I think everyone in our office has heard about Goal #246.) As far as applications go, through the year, we ended up switching to SmartSheet. For the first time, it feels like we have a clear, multi-user list of our goals that all our team can work on simultaneously. It’s affordable, we can upload files (including pictures), make multiple comments, sort by goal owner or priority or goal number or anything else, enter a date when the goal is accomplished, filter by unfulfilled goals, and a thousand more actions. And everything can be imported and exported to Excel. Check them out at…
So what did you and/or your team end up using throughout 2014 and what do you hope to use for planning 2015? Please click “Comment” after the web version of this item. Thanks!
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