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Clear goals and priorities for everyone

The Challenge

Without clear goals and priorities, it's hard for team members to know what to work on next and why. As a result, deliverables may not align with the project goals or overall business strategy. It's a challenge to keep all teams informed and in sync, especially when working on multiple projects and when priorities change. Setting clear goals and making sure that work is aligned with priorities is key to productive collaboration.

Best Practices

The following strategies can help teams of any size set clear goals and priorities:

Separate long-term goals from short-term goals to plan and prioritize effectively
Clearly define each goal, make sure it is realistic and measurable
Set goals and priorities together with the teams that will work on them
Write all goals and priorities down
Communicate goals and priorities to everyone, including all changes and updates
Break goals down into milestones or tasks and track each accomplishment
Review goals, priorities and progress regularly
Stick to goals, be accountable, but allow for flexibility to ensure goals still align with evolving business needs and vision

GoodDay was created with these best practices in mind and offers many tools that enable and automate them.

How GoodDay Helps

Brings planning, goals, priorities and execution together into one space where monitoring progress towards goals is automated and is always based on complete and up-to-date information.

Goals, plans, and reality

Set up a Big Screen to visualize what was planned, completed, is still in progress, or has been rescheduled. This screen will show a high-level overview of current goals and priorities and will also help see any issues that require immediate attention and review.

Current priorities

Priorities Big Screen provides an overview of the team's current project and task goals. When all priorities are visible, every team member has the necessary information about business goals to align their individual work in an optimal way.

Custom priorities

It may be a good idea to customize the list of default priorities if you need to adapt the system to your workflow requirements, need a more granular view, or simply need to find the right words to emphasize the importance of tasks and projects.

Milestones, events and deadlines

Setting up your goals as milestones, events, and defining deadlines, is a good tactic to make goals measurable and time-bound. GoodDay clearly shows if milestones and deadlines were reached or missed, and this helps understand how well users or teams are moving towards set goals.

Plans and priorities for today

My Work dashboard allows everyone to manage their priorities on a tactical, micro-level - for each day. This view can be shared with other team members to make sure daily priorities are aligned for the whole team.