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What are your Professional Resolutions for 2017?
Personally, you may have resolved to exercise more, get healthy, spend less, improve relationships, lose weight, or the like, but why not set some professional goals as well? Make sure your goals are realistic, specific, personal and accountable. Here are some ideas for professional goals as shared by Monster and HCareers:
- Focus on Your Passion
- Take Better Advantage of Your Talents
- Raise your Profile
- Spend Money to Make Money
- Recharge each Week
- Hire Excellent Performers
- Don't Take Business Matters Personally
- Improve your Online Presence
- Stay in Touch with your Contacts
- Stay Focused
- Stay Marketable
- Ask for What you Want
- Keep an Open Mind
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The Importance of
Organizational Goal Setting
Along with personal and professional goals, organizational goals are critical. Employees who understand and act upon their roles aligned with business goals are more productive, skilled and contribute greatly to the bottom line. Oracle's white paper on goal setting is an excellent roadmap to implementing goals within your organization. Goals should be SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and timely) and they should address both business and professional development.
For goals to be effective, they must be monitored, ongoing and must be aligned with the individual, team, division, and company. Setting goals promotes satisfaction and confidence in others. When managers and teams set and promote goals together, defensiveness is eliminated and collaboration is promoted.
For more information, check out the Oracle article for SMART goal worksheets and team exercises for developing objectives for your company.
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Congratulations to Naira Yaqoob for being the first to submit her answers to last issue's puzzle! Here's a new opportunity to receive our comprehensive RoboHelp 2015 Workbook (a $50.00 value) for the first person to complete and submit the puzzle to admin@lightext.com below. Enjoy!
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3. A new...
4. Guess
8. Not the past or present
10. What your CPA might prepare
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12. Lightext does this
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1. Commitment
2. Employ
5. Think like new
6. Projection
7. Think on the past
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