Resource for Quality Teams: The Complete Guide to Quality Management Goal Setting

Quality management goal setting can be hard. You want goals that are achievable and ambitious, measurable and motivating – a delicate balance. Too often, Quality teams end up with goals that don’t provide a clear roadmap for improvement and leave them scrambling halfway through the year.

That’s why we created The Complete Guide to Quality Management Goal Setting, a practical, step-by-step guide (with quality management goal examples!) for Quality teams looking to set smarter, more impactful goals to drive continuous improvement.

Signs you need better quality management goals

Not sure if your quality management goals are setting your team up for success? If any of these problems sound familiar, you might be in need of a goal refresh:

• Your current goals are hard to track. If it’s tricky to track your goal progress, they’re likely too vague. Goals that aren’t specific make it hard to show real improvement.
• Training compliance has stalled. Non-compliance is a big deal, and if it’s happening more often than usual, it’s time to make some changes. Whether you focus on training material review or increased accountability, your goals should help tackle the underlying problem leading to non-compliance.
• Audits feel like fire drills. By the time a regulatory audit happens, the process should be muscle-memory. If they look more like fire drills, it’s time to set better goals around audit preparation.
• Documents are in a state of chaos. When “chaos” is a better description of your documents than “controlled,” your goals need to be updated to focus on decluttering, organizing, and streamlining your document management process.

How the Complete Guide to Quality Management Goal Setting can help

This quality management guide walks you through goal-setting strategies across the core pillars of Quality Management, including training, document management, quality audit management, and quality issues and change controls. Here’s a sneak peek of what you’ll get:

1. Learn how to create achievable, measurable quality goals. The guide will walk you through how to use the SMART framework to set quality management goals that are specific, measurable, and appropriately scaled to your team’s capacity.

2. Get tips to help you hit the most important training management goals. The guide includes five strategies to increase training compliance, plus shares a few sample training management goals you may want to adopt.

3. Set goals that keep your team audit ready. Discover six key audit management goals that help you stay inspection-ready all year round.

4. Improve document management with a few tweaks to your process. We detail four steps to get documents in a state of control, plus share four sample document management goals that can make a difference.

5. Learn how to track the effectiveness of quality issues and change controls. The guide shares 6 goals to help improve quality issues and change control management, as well as tips on how to track them.

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Ready to revamp your quality management goals? Get your copy of The Complete Guide to Quality Management Goal Setting here.