When to use it
Use it to connect individual goals to team or organisational goals and make expectations explicit.
How to apply it
- Share the team's or organisation's objectives for the period.
- Ask each person to propose objectives that contribute to them.
- Agree the objectives and measures jointly in a conversation.
- Check progress at regular, agreed intervals.
- Review results at the end of the period and use them to set the next objectives.
Tip: MBO works poorly when objectives are simply handed down; the joint agreement is the point.