Help Your Employees Set Professional Goals With These 15 Tips

As an employer or team leader, one of your key roles is to help develop your employees’ unique strengths and interests within their respective roles. Regularly setting goals for your team members not only builds their engagement and work satisfaction, but also boosts productivity.

The start of a new year is a great time to review strengths — as well as areas that may need improvement — and to set appropriate benchmarks for each of your team members. Together, you and your employees can set professional goals that will best serve both their and your company’s interests.

Below, a panel of Forbes Communications Council members, which includes Kara Cowie, Vice President of Corporate Communications for SkillPath, explain how they strategize with their employees to set goals that ultimately increase engagement and productivity.