What are your goals for work, for business?
I have not taken time to set out my goals. Maybe I should. I was catching up on some reading this week, and read through FCC's AgriSuccess Journal from January-February. It had a few articles about goals. Kevin Hursh, editor of the FCC magazine, quoted Michelle Painchaud in his article "Is goal setting really worth the effort." Painchaud, head of Painchaud Performance Group in Winnipeg, says "Vision without action is hallucination." It's not enough to set goals. You have to act on them.
Hursh's article had recommendations from farmers who are part of FCC's Vision Panel. Here are a few samples:
—Most success comes from planning and knowing where you want to be and what you want to do.
—After writing down goals, reference them regularly to check progress.
—Goal setting has helped open communications between my husband and me.
—Before setting goals, we were floating and just making decisions in the moment.
I will write more about goals in an upcoming Grainews. In the meantime, if you have set goals and you'd like to share how they improved (or didn't improve) your business, please email me.
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Hi Jay,
I'm a farm managment consultant working with the firm of accountants Meyers Norris Penny (please excuse the blatant plug) and we see goal setting as a very important part of improving our client's business.
We use "planning days" in order to establish goals and then assess the business based on the balanced score card in order to cover the four key areas of people, operations, marketing and finance.
Having goals is a good thing but Kohl suggests this:
Those with goals in their heads earn 3 times as much money and attain 3 times as much wealth.
Those with written goals earn 9 times as much money.
Those with formal business plans make 20 times more money.