Book Recommendation: The Dream Manager by Michael Kelly
If you don't know the personal goals for the people in your organization, you will never get the most out of them. Only when human's are in alignment and meeting their personal goals are they happy, and therefore most productive. Michael Kelly's incredible book The Dream Manager gives practical tools in an easy to understand format. I can't recommend more highly.
As you set business goals with your employees for 2018 make sure to leverage this approach for personal and professional goals: have the employee complete 60 day, one year, three year and someday goals. Then focus on personal goals and back those into their business goals. In other words, if an employee would like to make a downpayment on a home, find out what amount of money they would need and then show them the activities that will lead to that income and then hold them accountable.