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Setting goals is a common practice in both personal and professional life. However, maintaining consistency in pursuing those goals can be challenging. In business, this challenge often manifests in the form of setting quarterly goals but struggling to maintain momentum in achieving them over time. This is where having an action plan framework can be instrumental in keeping you and your team on track.
Sometimes you might set targets that are a bit lofty or otherwise not “right,” which we can cover in a future post. But typically, you just get too bombarded with managing the day-to-day business to progress towards the bigger picture goals.
Setting strong goals as a team that aligns with your company’s vision is doable using certain goal-setting frameworks and getting better at them over time. Once you have a goal, executing and achieving that goal can be easy if you take the time to plan out the entire process and have a way to check-in and adjust over time. From there, it’s a simple matter of executing the plan each week to achieve the outcome you are targeting ultimately.
Anything is possible to accomplish if you have a plan and stick to it, but if you lack a plan and there’s nothing to stick to, you won’t achieve the goal.
At HelpFlow, we run 24/7 live chat and customer service teams for over 100 stores. We’ve been in business for seven years and have a team of over 100 employees producing millions in revenue. A big part of the success is our goal-setting process and execution routine, which we’ve improved quarter by quarter since year one.
Today’s post will cover how we create and execute action plans for our quarterly goals so you can use it within your business and your team. This post will assume you already have solid goals set that you’re working towards, but if you have questions on that process reach out… that’s a post for another day.
So let’s get into it! How can you create an action plan to hit your business goals.
After setting your goal, the next step is to outline a 12-week action plan designed to achieve it. Break down this plan into weekly tasks, each contributing to progressing towards your goal. While it may not be complex, mapping out the entire plan provides clarity on achieving the desired outcome and streamlines the weekly execution process we'll discuss further below.
Here are a few tips to consider:
Again, this is not rocket science, but it gives you the clarity to see exactly how to reach the goal you’re targeting and also simplifies the weekly execution process that will get you there.
Once you have your weekly action plan, you can check in on progress at the start of each week and set your targets for what to do in the coming week. Again, this is not rocket science, but it simplifies the process of executing towards your goals.
Each week, typically on the weekend or Monday morning, before doing anything else, do the following:
Once you have the weekly targets, you simply execute against these each day:
This weekly and daily process brings a clear and simple focus to each day so you can progress towards your goals. To be clear, you’re not mapping out your entire day hour by hour. Instead, you are being clear about the top three tasks that you demand to get done to progress towards your goals and then basically six more tasks that you want to get done as well. Nine things every day. Pretty simple
No matter how well you set goals or plan the entire quarter, curveballs are going to come up that will slow your progress or change your plans. Many people resist planning specifically because of this. If the plan goes out the window, why bother planning.
The solution here is simple – building and replanning into the plan!
We follow a straightforward yet efficient routine throughout the quarter. This approach has allowed us to consistently achieve our goals and maintain momentum, regardless of daily or weekly challenges. Essentially, we conduct a thorough review of our progress at the end of each month and then completely re-plan the remainder of the quarter.
Yet again, this is not rocket science. But baking in the ability to change the plan based on insights and lessons learned along the way drastically increases the ability to hit your goals.
Goal Setting is important, but the execution is what ultimately creates results. This is a proven process for planning to hit quarterly goals, executing weekly, and course-correcting along the way.
What are your current quarterly goals that you’re working towards? Do you have a week-by-week plan that you’re executing against? If not, get it in place and adjust it on a monthly basis to get to your outcome.
We have a google sheet template we use to plan our quarters as a team with each of the weeks mapped out. If that would help you, let us know in the comments, and we can share it with you (it’s a private google doc that we can share with you).
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