As a leader, you’re job is to help your team members reach their goals, and to an extent this involves helping them formulate their goals, but you must not define and set their goals for them. Not all of them, in any case. By asking members of your team to develop their own specific goals and activities as part of their business plan, you help ensure that they will own their goals and activities. If your employees don’t own these things, then they will look upon them unfavorably, as weight pressed upon them from above. If they make them their own, then they’ll have the passion and desire to reach them, surpass them, and set new goals.

