Goal-based leadership is based on four management principles:

1. Use your empowerment to take the initiative based on one’s own mission and own insight
2. Focus on how your key Stakeholders (interested parties) evaluate your performance
3. Track and improve one’s own capabilities which improve performance
4. Collaborate with your key Stakeholders in developing the most competitive supply chain

The management practices used in Goal-based leadership is based upon many lessons learned from facilitating management teams. The method used identifies and prioritizes the goals, indicators and actions efficiently and effectively. These method is:

1. Generic – applicable to all organisations in terms of size, type, level and management system
2. Selective – identifying the vital few pieces of information in order to exclude what is less important
3. Stakeholder focused – the process must be centred on how key stakeholders evaluate the organisation’s performance and capability, and on collaboration with those stakeholders
4. Fast – applicable on all levels/units in parallel to save lead-time. All steps interrelate seamlessly for the desired outcome
5. Complete – provide support throughout the process from initial analysis to follow up on strategy implementation including progress reviews of actions and goals achieved

Most managers focus their skills, efforts and time on operational, business-as-usual, tasks; whilst these are important for the smooth-running of any business, modern organizations need their managers to do much more. They need their managers to handle their business-as-usual activities and, at the same time, drive the strategic activities that are such a fundamental part of survival in the rapid and ever-changing business environment. You can use your Management Team far more effectively if you learn to share and delegate strategic tasks and act through your goal drivers and relationship managers.

Many management models and methods are not efficient to apply for managers working in a highly competitive environment of 21th century. Learn more about the shifts.

Top-down approach in goal setting. Goals are cascaded from the top and a subset of goals is identified from the bottom. This leads to a hierarchy of goals.	=>	A new approach in goal setting based on empowered Management Teams working in networks driven by their own mission and own insight. Carried out on all units/levels of the organization in parallel.
Goals are identified from the overall vision, strategy and pre-determined perspectives (e.g. finance, customer, process, innovation)	=>	Goals identified are based what measurable characteristics the Key Stakeholders (Interested parties) evaluate the performance and the ability to perform.