SMART provides the clarity, focus and motivation you need to achieve your goals!
SMART Goals
Are Goals Important?
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Why Set Smart Goals?
What are SMART Goals?
How to Implement
Today's Agenda
Is setting a goal even a good thing?
Do goals cause you stress?
Are Goals Important?
Setting goals gives you long-term vision and short-term motivation
Why Set Goals?
Greater direction, greater focus
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Increased productivity
Higher levels of motivation
Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time-bound
What are SMART Goals?
Why do I want to accomplish this?
What are
the requirements?
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Specific: Well-defined, clear.
What do I want to accomplish?
What are the constraints?
How to measure progress?
Quantifying your goals.
How to know when the goal is accomplished?
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Measurable: What evidence will prove you're making progress?
How can the goal be accomplished
What are skills required?
What are the logical steps to take?
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Achievable: Goal must be achievable and attainable.
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Realistic: Realistically achieved with given resources and time.
Is this the right time?
Is the necessary resources available?
Goal is in line with long-term objects?
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Time-bound: Goal has a start and finish date.
When?
How long?
But why SMART goals?
Goals that aren’t SMART are often more like wishes and resolutions.
Examples of SMART goals
To grow in my career, I need to improve my PowerPoint skills. By taking online classes and reviewing tutorials, I’ll improve my PowerPoint skills so that it only requires 25% of my work time.
SMART goal:
SMART goal:
I’m going to write a 60,000-word novel in 6 months, finishing on June 30th. I will do this by writing 2,500 words per week.
Set your next goal!
Now it's your turn!
Measurable
So what do you want to achieve?
Let's walk you through your goal!
Specific
The goal should be very precise with no room for misinterpretation.
What metrics are you going to use to determine if you meet the goal? Progress should be easy to track.
Achievable
The goal should be attainable. Do you have the skills needed to achieve the goal? if not how can you attain them?
Realistic
The goal can be realistically achieved given the available resources and time.
Time-bound
If the goal is not time-constrained, there will be no sense of urgency and, therefore, less motivation to achieve the goal.
Remember:
“A goal properly set is
halfway reached.”
-Zig Ziglar
Thank you for participating!
Now go get started on your goal!