Agree goals
Using a structured approach to goal setting not only sets your team up for success rather than failure, it also makes it much easier to review and give feedback on performance. If you have been specific in your goal setting, then there will be far less ambiguity over how successful your team have been in meeting their objectives.
Related topics
- Advice on expectation setting with your researchers
- Our video ‘Coaching approaches – questions’ which introduces the goal-oriented GROW technique in the Coaching skills section
- A download on GROW questions (pdf) in the Coaching skills section
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