Aligning Priorities with Goals

Posted by
Joni Rose
Mar 19, 2008

To prepare for the priorities session, start by creating a handout that clearly articulates the corporate goals. Also prepare notes on what priorities you feel, as the team leader, should be your team’s priorities to help achieve these corporate goals.

To start the session, ask your team to brainstorm a list of their current priorities. If you manage a large team, break them into small groups or pairs and then ask each group to report back. Create a master list on a flip chart. Once the master list of priorities is established, ask each individual, group or pair to identify the top three priorities that they spend the most time on during a typical work week.

Record the votes for the priorities on the master list by writing a 1, 2 or 3 beside the priority as each group or individual reports their top 3 priorities.

Now circulate the corporate goals and discuss how the priorities are or aren’t aligning with the corporate goals. If there is a misalignment, discuss strategies for creating more alignment and reinforce what you want the top priorities to be. If there are issues around why they are not the top priorities, determine solutions and task someone to implement the solution.

Using this technque you will build team alignment with corporate goals.

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