Clear objectives will help measure progress in year ahead

Just before Christmas we held one of our regular HR forum meetings, which was a practical coaching session.

In the session we asked delegates to write down a New Year’s resolution or key objective for 2019. Responses varied from “being happier” to “being more organised” and, in one case, achieving a specific financial target for their business.

Most experts agree that it helps to write down objectives, and in the session, participants thought about what would help them to achieve their overall target and drew a “mind-map” as a way of illustrating their challenge and as constant reminder and motivator throughout the year ahead.