Most organizations have not yet managed to create a “hard-wired” link between corporate strategy and individual employees' goals. Too often these goals -- which may even appear linked at first glance -- get created from a primarily bottom-up perspective without the beneficial view of top-down, cascaded strategy. The result: the vast majority of these goals do not impact strategic measures.

Since personal goals are designed to articulate the organization’s exact expectations for each employee, it is imperative that these are properly aligned to strategic objectives. The key to alignment is blending a top-down and bottom-up approach, which ensures the people tasked with executing strategy possess the abilities and understanding necessary to do so.

ActiveStrategy's Personal Goal Management (PGM) Module helps you make this link. See how.