Developing goals should include
- defining the term goal
- visualizing one’s future
- determining the relationship between goals and success
- identifying resources (e.g., human, financial, environmental, community, material)
- identifying management skills (e.g., time management, task prioritization, project management)
- creating a list of long-term and short-term goals, using the SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound) goal format
- selecting an important long-term goal and writing short-term goals to support it
- defining value and identifying the relationships among values, goals, and behavior
- examining factors that affect goals.
Process/Skill Questions:
Thinking
- What factors influence your short- and long-term personal goals?
- What are consequences of failing to set goals?
Communication
- How does communicating your goals with others influence your success?
- Why is it important to write short-term goals to support a long-term goal?
Leadership
- How do your values affect your goals?
- How do goals contribute to success?
Management
- What circumstances would make you feel it is necessary to re-evaluate your goals?
- How can using the SMART goal format contribute to success?
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