Goal Statements And Leadership Paper

The use of goal statements and leadership are both very important when discussing strategic planning and the betterment of a business of an organization. According to Kelly (2011) when setting goals, management may find it to be an ever changing and growing process that requires them to change goals and reformulate as new information becomes available. With Diabetes education on prevention of the disease, knew information and ways to educate or prevent the disease happen often so a reformulation would need to take place so that more improved goal could be used often. According to American Diabetes Association (2014) the current preventative information promotes lifestyle changes that involve moderate weight loss of 7% of body weight, increased

Accord to Kelly (2011) unclear goals can be difficult for someone to determine if the goal has been met because the goal can be too broad. Clear goals, like specific goals, are very detailed and can help the organization determine what criteria have to be meet for the goal to be met. Just like with specific and general, depending on if the managers pick clear or unclear when wording a goal can determine how successful the team is in showing that they have achieved said goal. Single and multiple goals can also be seen in a similar way. With single goals, you just have one goal and it can be a broad goal that covers a large amount of information. Multiple goal types, look at relationships within the system and builds goal upon goal within on single goal and takes these relationships into considerations (Kelly, 2011). Multiple goal types are more detailed in informing on what wants to be achieved and single goals are broader in what wants to be obtained but limited in explaining exactly what wants to be

According to Kelly (2011), through the use of national surveys that directly survey the patients’ perception of care, managers can now change goals and make improvements to they system so that not only is the patient getting the best care available in that organization but so that the patient also feel satisfied with their care. This survey is called Hospital Consumer Assessment of Health Providers and Systems (HCAPS) and is a requirement as part of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reporting Hospital Quality Data for Annual Payments date program for reimbursement (Huppertz & Smith, 2014). Furthermore, Huppertz and Smith (2014), found in their study that if comments were used as part of the survey and they received these results soon after a negative incident, then administrators and managers could help to find a solution while the incident is fresh on everyone’s