Set Goals
Goal setting is never an easy task. It is often difficult to distinguish realizstic goals from overly optomistic goals. When setting goals for your team it is important to keep two thingos in mind.
- Set realistic and achievable goals (SMART goals)
- Distinguish the diffrence bwtween realistic and unrealistic goals
SMART Goals
- Specific: A specific goal has a much greater chance of being accomplished than a general goal. To set a specific goal you must address the five W’s:
- Who is involved?
- What do I want to accomplish?
- Where will it take place?
- When will I reach it? (develop a timeline)
- Why is it important? (identify reasons, purpose, and benefits)
- Measurable: What gets measured gets done!
- Establish concrete criteria for measuring progress for each goal you set. When you measure your progress, you can stay on track, reach your target dates, and accomplish your goals efficiently and effectively.
- Attainable: Is there a way to make it happen?
- Develop the attitudes, skills, and financial capacity to reach your goals.
- Review overlooked opportunities to bring you closer to your end results.
- You can attain almost any goal you set if you plan your steps wisely and establish a realistic timeline.
- Realistic: A goal must represent an objective toward which you are both willing and able to work.
- Be sure that every goal represents substantial progress.
- Ask yourself what conditions need to exist to accomplish your goal.
- One way to know if your goal is realistic is to determine if you or your team members have accomplished anything similar in the past.
- Tangible: A goal is tangible when you can experience it with one of the sense: taste, touch, smell, sight, or hearing.
- When your goal is tangible, or when you tie a tangible goal to an abstract outcome, you have a better chance of making it specific and measurable and thus attainable.
- Abstract outcomes are vital, but you must create tangible ways to measure them.
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