Goal setting and achievement can be critical for the success and growth of a microbusiness. So why are so many goals forgotten, abandoned, or never reached? And how do you know you are setting the right goals for your small business? This podcast will explain how different people and their personalities affect how they interact with goal setting, and offers tips for success.

One problem many people have is setting deadlines when they mean to be goal setting. Are you guilty of this?

“I think a lot of people confuse setting deadlines with goal setting. And I think there is a big difference between the two… I would say sometimes I set deadlines for myself to get stuff done. It feels like a goal, because I can check it off my list. I can see that I accomplished something. But really when I give it some thought, it’s very different.”

“I met some goals. No, you’ve got stuff done.” – Sharon DeLay

Host Mary McCarthy is the President of YMT Consultants, an entrepreneurial consulting and training firm. It focuses on one-on-one work with microbusiness owners (business with 20 or fewer employees, including the solopreneur), assisting them to monetize and create systems for their small businesses.

Sharon DeLay is the Founder and President of GO-HR, a full-service HR consulting business. It works mainly with microbusinesses, doing everything from hiring to firing employees, and all Human Resource Management services that fall in between. “It can end up becoming your biggest challenge if you don’t manage it correctly.”

What You Will Learn in this Goal Setting for Success Podcast:

• How to effectively set goals for your small business
• Knowing the difference between Deadlines and Goals
• How to prevent your frustrations from making you give up on your goals (It happens to the best of us!)
• Mary’s Top 3 and Sharon’s Top 3 important aspects for setting goals

About that 1979 Harvard study on Goal Setting

Related Reading: “Goals! How to Get Everything You Want – Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible” by Brian Tracy

Sharon DeLay
GO-HR
4889 Sinclair Road, Suite 103
Columbus, Ohio 43229
P (614) 473-0122
sharon.delay@go-hr.biz
http://www.go-hr.biz/

About the Host:                                                                                                                                Mary McCarthy                                                                                                                               Host, The Successful Micropreneur Podcast                                                                           President of Your Management Team, Inc.                                                                          Co-Founder of the Women’s Small Business Accelerator, Inc.