We have a tradition here at Manager Tools folks of releasing our setting goals cast over the Christmas break.

Many people take the quiet time around the holidays to think about the coming year and set personal, professional, and business goals.

I do.

I recommend it.

To support you in that, we are re-releasing three podcasts about goals and goal settings.

One in this manager-tors Cast, one in the next Career Tools Cast, and then

the last in next week's Mandator Tools Cast. So you can get all three of them in just one week or eight days. This week is how to set annual goals. This was originally

a three-part cast, but we smushed it together for you so you don't have to go looking for the different parts.

After you, this introduce... together for you so you don't have to go looking for the different parts. After this introduction you're going to hear Mike introduce the cast and you'll hear

him twice more at the beginning of the second and the third part.

And if you need to pause, when you hear him introduce part two or part three,

those would be good moments to do so.

As Wendy likes to say from her upbringing in Great Britain, happy Christmas.

Welcome to Manager Dools. Today's topic, how to set annual goals, part one of three. Hi everyone this is Mike and welcome to manager tools many managers are going through

goal setting efforts right now for 2008 and typically at this time a year we get lots of

questions about goals and goal setting sometimes they they're dispiriting. Managers spend an awful lot of time

wordsmithing their intent into corporate frameworks. All that time would be far better spent thinking

about goals themselves and how the achievement of those

goals will help the organization. A lot of managers also have to create goals that

are smart and as you'll find in today's cast we don't recommend you're doing so unless you have to.

We just like them so much we almost call this cast smart goals are stupid.

Yeah yeah we really don't like them.

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