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Today's cast, how to set annual goals.

Folks, each and every year around the holiday season, just in time for setting your new

annual goals for the next year, we re-release this set of guidance on annual goals.

We hope that this series of guidance helps you set your annual goals and gets you off on the

right start for 2025.

Welcome to Manager Dules.

Today's topic, how to set annual goals, part one of three.

Okay. Hi, everyone. This is Mike, and welcome to Manager Tools.

Many managers are going through goalting efforts right now for 2008.

And typically at this time of year we get lots of questions about goals and goal-setting.

Sometimes 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,

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