Goal Setting:What’s Your Plan of ACTION?

Sarah Wild, Education SpecialistSwild@AlphaSigmaTau.Org

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1. Identify areas of needed improvement.

2. Categorize and prioritize. 3. Identify outcomes you

hope to see as a result of accomplishing goals.

4. Create S.M.A.R.T. goals. 5. Identify key stakeholders

in execution process. 6. Share identified goals to

ensure agreement and understanding.

7. Identify regular times to follow up/discuss progress.

Goal Setting Process

Examples (Steps 1, 2, 3)

Area of Improvemen

t

Intended Outcome

No regular communication with

alumnae and barely any attend the events we host each year.

Priority: Moderate

Limited understand or support for Pine Mountain Settlement School

and minimal sisters actually participate in hands-on service.

Priority: Moderate-High

Officers are constantly overspending and we barely had

enough money to attend Convention.

Priority: High

Continual, formal communication with younger & older alumnae. Higher attendance at alumnae

events.

Improved understanding of PMSS and increased involvement with service

opportunities rather than just philanthropic fundraising.

Chapter will lower overall spending and increase savings. Chapter will be

financially healthy, and chapter members will

better understand financialoperations.

ACTIVITY

Create S.M.A.R.T. Goals

Your goals are a plan of action

for the semester, specifically

what you are going to do.

Director of Philanthropy Goals: raise more money do more service in the

community find more service

opportunities

Poorly-Written Goals

….Vague

Well-Written Goals

Director of Philanthropy – Goals:

Raise $500 for Pine Mountain Settlement School with a Dodgeball Tournament in April, with 75% of the chapter in attendance

Participate in 2 Habitat for Humanity builds before May 15th with 80% of the chapter in attendance

Contact Center for Service and Leadership each month for list of service opportunities (list will be posted on the GINSystem on the 1st of each month)

ACTIVITY

Who are the specific individuals that are going to play a role in achieving

this goal?

Identifying Key Stakeholders

Why is this important? You can’t reach a goal as

a group if not everyone actually knows what they are.

You have to be able to evaluate group buy-in: Agreement? Personal Connection? Understanding?

Sharing Identified Goals

1st – Each officer shares her goals with her officer team/committee.

2nd – Each VP shares the goals of each officer on her team (and any committee she oversees) with the Executive Committee

3rd – Executive Committee shares the goals of all officers with the chapter.

Sharing Identified Goals

When is the best time to share identified goals and discuss them?

What is the best way to allow members to provide feedback and

input?

Sharing Identified Goals

Weekly?… Bi-Weekly?…Monthly?…

…Chapter Business Meetings?…Team Meetings?

…On the GIN System?

Follow-Up: What’s Our Progress?

When?

How/Where?

Less likely to over-program Increased organization in chapter

operations Lowered stress levels, confusion,

chaos Greater understanding of

accomplishment

The Benefits