Impact

• Setting goals helps the employee to understand his impact on the success of the company. When a manager helps an employee to set goals, and then outlines to the employee how those individual goals help the rest of the company to achieve production objectives, the employee understands how doing his job helps to move the company forward and promotes company growth. The impact of individual accomplishment on overall results is a strong employee motivator.
  
  

Teamwork

• Goals do not have to be confined to individual employees. When a team is given goals to achieve that tie in directly to the individual goals, then the team begins to develop a stronger sense of group cooperation. Each employee works to help her teammates to find more efficient ways to work together and achieve group goals. The feeling of teamwork that is strengthened by achieving group goals motivates employees to succeed for themselves and for each other.
  
  

Empowerment

• Empowerment is when employees are given the authority to make the daily decisions that affect their productivity. The process of running every decision through management, which slows down productivity, is eliminated. The employee is driven by his goals and in reaching those goals through better use of his work time and skill set. When employees are empowered to reach their goals, they develop a higher level of confidence in themselves and a greater satisfaction for their job.
  
  

Participation

• Employees that are actively seeking to achieve their goals are often struck with ideas on how to improve company productivity in other areas. For example, a shipping clerk may have an idea for improving the order-entry system that can add accuracy and efficiency to product shipping. It is something that will help the shipping clerk achieve her goals and also help the company lower administrative costs. When employees are motivated to achieve their goals, they participate in the growth of the business by offering suggestions on more efficient company operations.