HR Besties: Effective Goal Setting: From KPIs, OKRs to Personal
HR BESTIES
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🗓️ 22 January 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Today's agenda:
- Did we date?
- Cringe corporate speak: big rocks (or BHG's)
- Hot topic: all things effective goal setting in and out of the workplace
- What are our goals and how do we set them?
- Goals can be dependant on the role in an organization
- Best practises for recording and keeping goals
- Evolving, changing course, and reaching goals in small increments
- Encouraging professional development goals is a green flag
- Taking time to celebrate achievements
- Jamie and Josh's *spicy* goal for 2025
- Questions/Comments
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| 0:00.0 | So you know how we talk about, like, harassment at work, and if you ask out a colleague, if that's |
| 0:11.6 | considered harassment, and people have different opinions, if it's like the first ask out. Well, |
| 0:16.4 | what if someone asks you if you've had a relationship with them previously because they're not sure? |
| 0:24.3 | How could you forget me? |
| 0:26.4 | Not harassment. I mean, it's an inquiry. It's an inquiry, technically. |
| 0:31.0 | It's inquiry. Sometimes do you ask the question? So I've mentioned I used to be work for a radio company and I was a lawyer for the |
| 0:39.3 | radio company. And so part of my job was to create like offer letters and contracts and |
| 0:44.3 | things like that. But it was a little bit interesting because a lot of the radio on-air |
| 0:48.6 | personalities have different names, right? Like they're like smooth Jackson. Hot shop, Bubba Jones, whatever. |
| 0:55.2 | Yeah, like hot. Yeah, hot Bob. Bob. Bobba gum shrimp. What? Yeah, that, whatever. Kid |
| 1:03.5 | Craddick. I don't know. There's a real one. Yeah, yeah. Well, I also didn't realize that for some of them. |
| 1:08.5 | Like, some of them aren't like Hot Bob. It'll be like, you know, Randy Jones. And that's not their name. Like, their name is like, |
| 1:14.3 | Paul Waffles. And you're like, okay, I can see why you'd have that name. But so it was so eye-opening to me to see these people's names. And I kind of have like, with colleagues and be like, okay, what would your radio name be? |
| 1:25.3 | You know, all the like non-work conversations. |
| 1:28.0 | But so once I was doing one and I looked at it and would be like, you know, whatever name, AKA. And I looked at it and I was like, oh my God. And I went to the head of programming and I was like, who is this? Because this was like in like Ohio or something. And I was like, was he ever in Louisville? And here was like, oh, yeah, he used to be. |
| 1:47.2 | And I was like, was he ever in Louisville where I'm in here |
| 1:45.7 | like, oh yeah, he used to be. And I was like, oh my God. I was like this was like my DJ |
| 1:49.8 | growing up because I was in the generation that hopefully some of you all listening, like we would |
| 1:54.9 | walk around with like a radio. We would listen to the hot nine at nine on W DJX, my station. And we'd call in and request. And we'd request |
| 2:03.2 | songs for like, we'd be 12. We'd request songs for like the hot 16 year old down the street. Like, play |
| 2:08.0 | this. Play this was the DJ. And I was like, oh my God, he was my favorite DJ growing up. |
| 2:14.7 | And so I'd do the contract. contract and thankfully this program director would send them |
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