Success is a huge motivator for most employees. As a manager, it is important to realize your most engaged, high-performing employees by setting realistic stretch goals for them. These types of goals go above and beyond your employees’ standard performance goals and promote creativity and innovation. After taking this online training, managers will learn how to align stretch goals with performance goals and determine the appropriate situation to use a stretch goal.

This course shows how stretch goals can motivate a team and how they can also lead to stress and burnout if not approached correctly. Setting realistic expectations and milestones creates a positive environment for celebrating small victories.

In this course, managers will also learn how to decide whether or not to use stretch goals. This decision depends mostly on the environment of the company. Use this course to prepare your managers and supervisors to use stretch goals appropriately to get the most out of their teams.