Do Your Business Initiatives Align With Your Business Goals? 

While financial growth, a respectable reputation and a happy workforce are common aspirations for businesses regardless of size or sector, exact business initiatives and goals are often more nuanced and complicated.

Additionally, even when organizations have the same goals, how they achieve them may differ significantly. As a leader in your company, you should ensure that your business’s initiatives and efforts reflect the realistic and responsible pursuit of its goals.

Steps to Ensuring Business Goals and Initiatives Are Aligned

As you and other decision-makers in your business assess current operations, future implementations and eventual goals, be mindful of the following essential strategies and steps:

1. Articulate goals clearly. A business’s leaders, managers and staff must work toward the same goals. Work with other stakeholders and decision-makers to ensure that you’re on the same page regarding where your company wants to be in 5, 10 or 20 years. Communicate these decisions clearly and companywide while being as transparent as possible.
2. Assess your workforce. Look inward and determine how various departments, teams and employees may play key roles in the future of the business. Cultivating talent and growing leaders from within your business can help maintain a healthy culture, while also streamlining operations and limiting hiring and onboarding costs. On the other hand, while such decisions should not be taken lightly, if certain members of your organization do not align with future plans, you may need to adjust your workforce accordingly.
3. Identify measurable metrics. Abstract, anecdotal and esoteric results are often unhelpful as your business attempts to ensure its efforts and initiatives are helping push itself toward eventual goals. Identify statistics and metrics that can be clearly analyzed, such as employee turnover and client retention rates.
4. Encourage innovation. While your business’s leaders may be relied on to make the big decisions, that doesn’t mean other employees can’t offer significant contributions. Foster and maintain a culture that welcomes all employees to take the initiative to pursue new and exciting ways to achieve company goals.
5. Revisit goals regularly. Even if you think you know where your company is headed, pivoting is often necessary in the business world. As your organization evolves and grows, reassess initiatives and goals on a strict schedule (e.g., quarterly or biannually) to ensure that aspirations continue to make sense and that various efforts are adjusted accordingly.

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This blog is intended for informational and educational use only. It is not exhaustive and should not be construed as legal advice. Please contact your insurance professional for further information.