ManagePro & MProLite, desktop and browser-based respectively, provide a
goal planning software that extends to managing the
supporting work flow of projects, tasks, action plans and results, helping you generate:
- Improved Organization and Focus Improved Coordination around visible Priorities
- Goal Planner software that provides Improved Feedback loops and Status Updates
- More effective and less time consuming meetings
- Digital dashboard, with Balanced Scorecard and management alerts
to support achieving goals
- Effective integration with Outlook, allowing you
to drag and drop email correspondence directly into
ManagePro as progress updates and to dos.
Take a moment to review what research has had to say about using goals as a vehicle for managing work.
Based upon: A Review of Research on the Application of Goal Setting in Organizations. A analysis of 27 studies in different organizations spanning more than 10 years and focused upon:
- Using Goals does Improve Performance!
Production is significantly higher when work is structured around goals, versus when it is not. Both quantity and quality show improvement when using goals, with quantity showing the largest gains.
- Goals, Performance and Managers
Managers who are a goal planner, who set goals for their reports
and supervise or give feedback on the outcome, generate
significantly higher productivity than managers who supervise, but do not set goals, or set goals but don't provide feedback.
- Goals, Performance and Top Management
Planning and goal setting is strongly correlated with
improved performance and increased commitment by employees, but only when given encouragement and support by top management! Lack of involvement by top management is defined as a lack of personal involvement in driving the
corporate goal setting process down the organization.
- Goals, Specificity and Individual Performance
Being specific about setting goals, even if using goal planning software, only
increases performance for individuals who have high achievement needs.
Achieving goals is one characteristic of high
performers.
- Goals and Self Fulfilling Prophecy
People that have a track record of success, respond to goals with increased performance, while people who have a history of more losses than wins do not have such an increase. What you believe about yourself comes true.
- Goals, Performance and Maturity
If people have self confidence, maturity and a sense of control over being able to earn rewards for their efforts, they respond to stretch goals with increased performance. Those that are low on these traits do poorer with stretch goals.
- Feedback and Performance
Feedback helps performance when: its relevant, given with helpful presentation and timing, and directed to people who have high achievement motivation. People with low achievement goals do not show a correlation between performance and feedback.
- Goal Setting, Learning and Performance
If you want to improve learning, combine it with goal setting. In order to maximize the benefits of training upon performance, don't just send people for training, tie it into specific performance goals.
- Participating and Goal Acceptance
Participating in goal planning works better than assigned goals, but only sometimes. Actually the larger impact upon performance is
corporate goal acceptance. Whether participants get there by participating or being assigned is probably second in importance.
ManagePro & MProLite help you generate:
- Improved Organization and Focus
- Improved Coordination around visible Priorities
- Improved feedback loops and Status Updates
- Smart goals and objectives
- Digital dashboard, with Balanced Scorecard and management alerts.
