There is a cool company in Vancouver called Lululemon. They create yoga wear, and have now expanded North American wide. They also have a cool culture, one built upon values, goals, a great manifesto, and I would add, inspiration. I have always admired how Chip Wilson, their founder (a good friend of  Nurse Next Door and our  key n0te speaker at last years annual Franchise Partner conference)  has instilled in his company the principal that all employees must learn how to set personal goals, and then actually set them. Four times per year. 

This summer, they launched their own “30 Day BHAG Challenge.” In case you have never read any of  Jim Collins work, a BHAG means “Big Hairy Audacious Goal.”  For this challenge, employees had to state their BHAG, and then start working towards accomplishing it. They had employees from all over North America set out to accomplish goals from running a half marathon to living everything inside their manifesto to becoming a  certified yoga instructor at an ashram in India.

At Nurse Next Door, we do something similar through our dreams program.  If you walk into our office you will see every employee’s top dream for the year on our “Dream Wall” and most employees will have their own personal painted pictures or vision boards on their desks.

As employers, I think we have a duty to help make an impact on our employees personal development and lives, and what better way to do it then teach people how to set and accomplish a goal or a dream.

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