Management By Objectives

Looking for a way to keep your team of employees on track?  Employees need something to follow.  If you are looking for a tool to help manage your team consider Management By Objectives or MBO's as they are commonly called. 

What Are MBO's or What Are Management By Objectives? 

These are a path you and your team can follow to success or failure but at least it is a path.  Employees want their manager to lead and MBO's are a great way to create way to set the path for your employees and team to follow.

How Do I Create MBO's? 

First decide what timeline your MBO's will define.  Generally this is a business quarter (3 months) but can be anything even a month.  Then define what the broader MBO's are.  Give 3-5 per team.  For example an IT team might use MBO's like 1: Training 2: Travel 3: Infrastructure updates and improvements 4: Strategic IT Objectives 5:  IT Maintenance.  Within each MBO define some key milestones.  For example in the training MBO it might state which training class needs to be competed and by what date.  In the IT Maintenance MBO it might define what is the maintenance usually as a heading 1 or A as what is the update or patch or upgrade etc.  Get as specific as you need.  Define the target dates so you can guide your team to each MBO objective step by step.

Management By Objectives will allow you to restart your team each time period on a path that is clear to follow and more importantly clear to manage to.  Keep them tied to the dates you establish and within a few time periods you'll have the group thinking as one in terms of meeting their MBO's.

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