Better Annual Personal Performance Goal Planning

Joe Wynne is a versatile Project Manager experienced in delivering medium-scope projects in large organizations that improve workforce performance and business processes. He has a proven track record of delivering effective, technology-savvy solutions in a variety of industries and a unique combination of strengths in both process management and workforce management.

  Career Development  

Plan to make this year a decisive year in your professional development. How? By harnessing the edge that your project management skills give you to create a powerful career-boosting annual development plan. What? You’re not sure how to do this? Your previous annual development/performance plans have just included training and completing routine work? It appears, then, you have been missing out on some big benefits available through those project management skills you worked so hard to achieve.

Getting Started
The annual performance plan can be frustrating, and can even appear to be a waste of time. Using this new tactic, though, may help energize you to make this year different. Think about these questions:

• What are obstacles to getting project work done in your organization or department?
• What is needed in your workplace to improve productivity or efficiency?
• What improvements are needed most in your department?
• What improvements can be made to improve the project management process to bring big savings in cost or productivity?

Keep a list of what you come up with.

Selecting the Best Ideas
Now that you have some listed departmental/organizational performance gaps…

• Note the ones with the most value to the organization/department; these are the ones that will add the most value if resolved or partially resolved…

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