Welcome to the first newsletter for Workplace Matters! 

We've arrived at the year 2010 and are celebrating our 5^th year in business and we are launching our monthly newsletter.  Our goal is to provide you with relevant insights and resources to help you shape your company culture and improve employee performance.  

Our first article is focused on why goal setting is important to organizational success. Is your company engaging employees through goal setting?  You have great people working for you, but is getting them on the same page, headed in the same direction a challenge?  If so, read on ...

  Five Reasons To Set Goals 

and One Reason Why Not To 

"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible"
- Anthony Robbins

Imagine setting off on a journey to sail across the ocean without a set destination.  You may have a sense of the general direction you are headed, but no specific path to get there.  You may find yourself in England, realizing you wanted to get to Africa.  As Yogi Berra would say, "If you don't know where you are going, you might end up someplace else."

Now imagine you have decided you want to get to Africa, but you have no compass to guide you.   How will you know whether or not you need to correct your course?  How will you know whether the efforts to correct your course are fruitful or futile?  When will frustration set in?

Not having company goals can be akin to sailing across the ocean with no particular destination or road map to guide you.   Organizations that lack clear goals are not taking full advantage of employee commitment and performance potential.  As a result, organizational success is hindered.

 By setting goals and measuring their success, employees are able to see where they are going, what they have accomplished, and what they are capable of.  With each success, they should be able to accomplish more. 

Here are five key reasons why business leaders need to set goals for their organization, teams and employees.  Read more ....

Each month, we will feature a best-in-practice resource or tool to support your ability to enhance employee performance and set your work culture apart from others.  Click here to get a free downloadable copy of a Goal Setting Worksheet.

With our Newsletter Launch in January, we're also happy to celebrate these landmarks with you:

• We are proud to be celebrating our Fifth Anniversary in Business! We would like to thank all our clients and strategic partners for your support and collaboration throughout our history. We look forward to continuing to work with you to create healthy and productive workplaces.

Workplace Matters is volunteering their time and talent to help the MEOW Foundation set up a Human Resources Committee.  We are seeking experienced HR professionals who can make a positive and lasting contribution to forward the MEOW Foundation's mission.  Please click here to find out more about the MEOW Foundation and the opportunity.

In this issue

  Reasons to Set Goals

  Workshops

  Goal Setting Worksheet

  Celebrating 5 Years!

  Volunteer HR Opportunity

"People with goals succeed because they know where they are going. It's as simple as that."

- Earl Nightingale

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