Goal Setting – A Roadmap for

success!

Nguyen Chi Duc

Ho Chi Minh City 13th May 2014

Agenda

Introduction

What is a goal setting?

Why do we need Goal Setting?

How can we set Goals efficiently?

Take-away

Q&A

Introduction

22+ years in IT consultancy services • 5 years in IT system integration

• 5 years in Big Four Auditing & Consultancy firms

10+ years of management in provision of enterprise management

solutions (Project management and ERP, CRM, Business

Intelligence – BI)

5+ years of working with customers and partners in Supply Chain

Community

2+ years with cloud computing and managed IT services

Education eMBA (2008)

BA, Foreign Trade, Economics University of HCMC

Introduction

Guest speaker, Lecturer and mentor for

Sniper Team – 1 of 2 Vietnamese Finalists

RMIT’s Business Plan Competition (BPC) - Nov 2013

Agenda

Introduction

What is goal setting?

Why do we need Goal Setting?

How can we set Goals efficiently?

Take-away

Q&A

What is Goal setting?

It’s is a plan to establishe a short – medium – long term

specific objectives, usually incorporating with deadlines

and quantifiable measures that identify ways to achieve

the objectives.

I want to be a good sales employee vs. My business goals are

a) - over achieve my sales quota every year;

b) to be a sales team leader in 1 year; and

c) to a sales Director in 5 years.

I want to be rich vs. I want to achieve of US$5,000/month

salary in 2 years, buy a car in 3 years and a house in 5 years

Agenda

Introduction

What is goal setting?

Why do we need Goal Setting?

How can we set Goals efficiently?

Take-away

Q&A

Why do we need a Goal setting?

What if we live without any Goal setting in study,

business, career and life?

Why do we need a Goal setting?

Control your life

GPS (Global Position System) of your life

Set a Future vision to identify where you want to go, what

you want to be

Why do we need a Goal setting?

Priority - Focus on your strengths and important

things to achieve

Limited resources e.g. health, money, time, etc.

Why do we need a Goal setting?

Make good decisions

Complete tasks/work efficiently

Be self-confident and enthusiastic

Make progressively and closely to success

Agenda

Introduction

What is goal setting?

Why do we need Goal Setting?

How can we set Goals efficiently?

Take-away

Q&A

How can we set Goals efficiently?

Activity: Write down your Goals (Pick any 2 of 5) (10

min)

1. Career & Learning

2. Wealth/Finance

3. Relationships (family, friendship, etc.)

4. Health & body

5. Contribution (e.g. social contribution, charity, etc.)

6. Personal talents/hobbies (e.g. travel, music, writing, etc.)

Share your Goal setting with your partner and

comment/input/advise to hers/his (10 min)

How can we set Goals efficiently?

Share with team about (2 – 5 min/each)

What is missing in the Goal setting?

What should be improved?

How to improve?

How can we set Goals efficiently?

1. Think about the “big picture” as your Vision

Ask yourself what you want to be? – what you want to do? in

3 years – 5 years – 10 years – 20 years from now.

How can we set Goals efficiently?

2. Break your vision or “big picture” down into smaller

steps and specific goals

Ask yourself about what you’d like to achieve in each area and

how to achieve it or what will be a roadmap to get it achieved

e.g.

Education: Which subject should I study – economic or IT or engineering

or finance? Which suits my interests and strengths?

Career: What is the ideal job for me? Steps to get that job? Any skillset or

degree or certificate do I need to get that job? Any roadblocks?

Wealth/Finance: Source of income? As an employee? Or start-up

business? How much money can I earn to live comfortably?

Personal talent/hobbies: how much time should I spend for football or

guitar learning, etc.

How can we set Goals efficiently?

3. Use SMART method to create an actionable plan

How can we set Goals efficiently?

Ex:

Criteria Goals/

Vision

What action will I

make this happen?

When Action Plan Who can

help me

achieve?

Education I want to

study

overseas in

Top 10

Universities in

USA e.g.

Harvard,

Duke, Yale,

etc. in 2018

- GPA > 9.0 in the

last 3 years of

high school

- Achieve TOEFL

>650

- Achieve

SAT>2,100

- By Q4-2016

- By Q4-2016

- Gather info of

shortlisted

universities’

standards,

requirements

- Attend seminar

on overseas

study (monthly)

Myself +

teacher/m

entors

Broaden

other

knowledge

- Active

participation into

Book

Reading/Writing

Competition

- Reading different

books apart from

text books = 1

book/month (at

least)

- Quarterly

- Monthly

British

Council

Health I want to

loose 5 kg in

3 months

- Go to gym 2

times/ week

- Play football = 2

day/week

May – July - Register gym

with Lan Anh

Club

- Register FC in

Tao Dan

me

How can we set Goals efficiently?

Make positive statements per goal that motivates

yourself

I study well and I can make it easily

Set priority of your goals and action plan accordingly

Visualize your rewards if achieved

Stick your goals in front of you e.g. office table, home

table

Agenda

Introduction

What is goal setting?

Why do we need goal setting?

How can we set Goals efficiently?

Take-away

Q&A

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Highly recommended books

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Thank you!

Please contact me via

duc@vietnamsupplychain.com

or

duc_nguyen71@yahoo.com

Cell phone: +84 903 847 999