Overallocating to Meet Your Goals

Overallocating is a strategy that can help you meet your goals by aiming higher than you need to.

When you’re breaking department goals down and allocating portions of that goal to different teams, you can take an approach that’s known as overallocating the goal. This means, when you add up all the subteam goals, they amount to more than the overall department goal. This approach can improve your chances of hitting your high-level department goal, but this approach can also put unnecessary pressure on your teams to deliver more than they have to.

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