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Chart your ultimate direction. Imagine a possible future. Invite input and ideas. Develop draft goals or objectives. Assess resources and implementation issues. Develop meaningful measures. Write final goals in SMART language. Go for stretching targets. Track performance. Persevere and expect to win. Maintain self discipline. Effective Goal Setting ➤ Contemplate what specific resources will be necessary in order to achieve your overall goals. ➤ Determine specific implementation steps that are likely to be necessary. ➤ Develop sensible milestones along the way that give you time to re-think or re-allocate resources. ➤ Develop measures for every individual goal that you set out to achieve. ➤ Apply measures that can identify numeric or “countable” gains in monetary reward, quality, time saved, etc. ➤ Check carefully that you are measuring the right things. ➤ Draw your targets on the charts or graphs that will be used to measure your performance. ➤ Begin each day with the question “What can I do today to get one step closer to achieving my goal(s)?”. ➤ Formally review your goals at least once a week; imagine how soon each can be achieved. ➤ Break seemingly unattainable goals into smaller chunks so you can experience progress along the way. ➤ Use different methods and tactics to achieve a goal when the first approach fails. ➤ No matter how small the task, relentlessly focus on finishing what you start. ➤ Recognize that self-knowledge, self-esteem, and self- discipline are the keys to achieving success with your goals. ➤ Monitor your own motivation, and seek out others to assist wherever necessary. ➤ Celebrate each time you achieve a goal—large or small. ➤ Immerse yourself in the payoffs or bene- fits of achieving your goals before you set specific targets. ➤ Set “stretching” targets by projecting what you can sensibly achieve, and then adding another 25% to the “hurdle.” ➤ Make sure your targets are just out of reach—not out of sight. P R E P A R E O R G A N I Z E A C T M O N I T O R Research has consistently shown that setting goals is one of the most effective strategies for achieving success in one’s professional or personal life. However, most of us falling short of our targets or even give up entirely after a few days, weeks, or months. Setting goals and then achieving them is possible; we simply need to approach the process step-by-step, in four stages: PREPARE, ORGANIZE, ACT, and MONITOR. This One Page Coach ® provides guidance on how to do just that. The illustration to the right and the information in the storyboard outline the skills that will help you set and achieve your goals. ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ 1. PREPARE 2. ORGANIZE 3. ACT 4. MONITOR Carefully plan your direction. Identify the resources needed for the plan. Set “stretching” targets. Review and adjust. M P M P M P M P A O A O A O A O 1. Copyright 1998. Team Publications Pty Ltd. One Page Coach ® materials must not be photocopied, changed, or copied in any other way. 2. 3. 4. ➤ Gather as much relevant information as possible on your overall strategies and direction. ➤ Critically evaluate how seriously you or your organization wants to achieve outcomes. ➤ Assess how realistic and tangible your goals are and what it will take to achieve them. ➤ Describe what success generally looks and feels like. ➤ Think 2-3 years into the future, and generate several creative alternative scenarios in which you and your team succeed. ➤ Brainstorm how present constraints can be overcome in order to achieve your imagined future. ➤ Share your vision of the future with your team or the people around you. ➤ Invite and encourage comment and input (positive and negative). ➤ Discuss and debate all inputs, and use the feedback to refine your thinking. ➤ Work backwards from your ultimate goal to think about what you need to start doing now in order to achieve it. ➤ Develop 4-6 overall goals or objectives in draft form to reflect these current steps. ➤ Keep these overall goals focused on the outcome rather than on the input. ➤ Finalize your written goals, based on identified resources and milestones. ➤ Make each goal SMART: (Specific, Measurable, Action-oriented, Realistic, and Time-framed). ➤ Ask others to review your written goals, to check for clarity.
Transcript of Effective Goal Setting - HRD Press · Effective Goal Setting Contemplate what specific resources...
Chart your ultimate direction. Imagine a possible future. Invite input and ideas. Develop draft goals or objectives.
Assess resources and implementation issues.
Develop meaningful measures.
Write final goals in SMART language.
Go for stretching targets.
Track performance. Persevere and expect to win. Maintain self discipline.
Effective Goal Setting
➤ Contemplate what specific resources willbe necessary in order to achieve youroverall goals.
➤ Determine specific implementation stepsthat are likely to be necessary.
➤ Develop sensible milestones along the way that give you time to re-think or re-allocate resources.
➤ Develop measures for every individualgoal that you set out to achieve.
➤ Apply measures that can identifynumeric or “countable” gains inmonetary reward, quality, time saved, etc.
➤ Check carefully that you aremeasuring the right things.
➤ Draw your targets on the charts or graphs thatwill be used to measure your performance.
➤ Begin each day with the question “What can I do today to get one step closer to achieving mygoal(s)?”.
➤ Formally review your goals at least once a week;imagine how soon each can be achieved.
➤ Break seemingly unattainable goals into smallerchunks so you can experience progress along the way.
➤ Use different methods and tactics to achieve agoal when the first approach fails.
➤ No matter how small the task, relentlessly focuson finishing what you start.
➤ Recognize that self-knowledge, self-esteem, and self-discipline are the keys to achieving success with yourgoals.
➤ Monitor your own motivation, and seek out others toassist wherever necessary.
➤ Celebrate each time you achieve a goal—large or small.
➤ Immerse yourself in the payoffs or bene-fits of achieving your goals before youset specific targets.
➤ Set “stretching” targets by projectingwhat you can sensibly achieve, andthen adding another 25% to the“hurdle.”
➤ Make sure your targets are just out ofreach—not out of sight.
PREPARE
ORGANIZE
ACT
MONITOR
Research has consistently shown that setting goals is one of the most effective strategies for achieving successin one’s professional or personal life. However, most of us falling short of our targets or even give up entirelyafter a few days, weeks, or months. Setting goals and then achieving them is possible; we simply need toapproach the process step-by-step, in four stages: PREPARE, ORGANIZE, ACT, and MONITOR. This OnePage Coach® provides guidance on how to do just that. The illustration to the right and the information in thestoryboard outline the skills that will help you set and achieve your goals.
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1. PREPARE 2. ORGANIZE 3. ACT 4. MONITOR
Carefully planyour direction.
Identify the resourcesneeded for the plan.
Set “stretching” targets.
Review andadjust.
M P M P M P M P
A O A O A O A O
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Copyright 1998. Team Publications Pty Ltd. One Page Coach® materials must not be photocopied, changed, or copied in any other way.
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➤ Gather as much relevantinformation as possible on youroverall strategies and direction.
➤ Critically evaluate howseriously you or yourorganization wants to achieve outcomes.
➤ Assess how realistic andtangible your goals are and what it will take to achieve them.
➤ Describe what successgenerally looks and feels like.
➤ Think 2-3 years into the future,and generate several creativealternative scenarios in whichyou and your team succeed.
➤ Brainstorm how presentconstraints can be overcome in order to achieve yourimagined future.
➤ Share your vision of thefuture with your team orthe people around you.
➤ Invite and encouragecomment and input(positive and negative).
➤ Discuss and debate all inputs, and use thefeedback to refine yourthinking.
➤ Work backwards from yourultimate goal to think aboutwhat you need to startdoing now in order toachieve it.
➤ Develop 4-6 overall goalsor objectives in draft formto reflect these currentsteps.
➤ Keep these overall goalsfocused on the outcomerather than on the input.
➤ Finalize your written goals, based onidentified resources and milestones.
➤ Make each goal SMART: (Specific,Measurable, Action-oriented, Realistic,and Time-framed).
➤ Ask others to review your written goals,to check for clarity.
Goal-Setting: Template
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Review:ClarityProcessOutputs
HOW? Research:Desires
AmbitionsLong-term intent
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Raise:Standards
TargetsPerformance
HOW? Write:Draft goals
Resource goalsClear objectives
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Record:Measurement
MilestonesProgress
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Reflect:On broad direction
On other inputOn the future
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Goal-Setting MatrixOrganization-wide Goals Departmental-wide Goals
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