New Year Resolutions – Not just once a year

Consider the ‘new year resolution’ and if I ask when you’d do it, well the clue would be in the question; you do them in the New Year.

It might be worth considering that actually a New Year Resolution can start technically whenever you want it to, as any day is a year later, the start of a new year.

Todd Thomas from the DeVos Graduate School of Management who conducts Resolution research found that, “CEO’s are less likely to make personal resolutions as opposed to ones directed at the companies they run.” 

Why? Well in my experience, it’s because the commercial aspect of  senior executives life is often more understandable and negotiable than what sits outside of it.

A provider of workplace employee benefits WorkplaceOptions did a survey recently that polled 700 workers on their resolutions for the new year; a 1/3rd of them involved ‘weight loss and improved fitness’.

Maybe there is an opportunity for the employee to demonstrate some more focused commercial goal setting within their resolutions to engender collaborations and sustainability and for the leadership Cadre to set and share more personal goals to increase the humanity in the observation and experience of others.