Enhancing Performance Through SMART Goals

Summary:
Webster's dictionary defines a goal as "the end toward which effort is directed." When you set a goal, you have a result in mind. That specific, imagined result enables you to focus your efforts so that you can achieve it. Cultivation can be defined as "improving by labor, care or study." In this SMART Goal seminar, we're going to combine these activities to produce an understanding and commitment to setting and achieving useful goals that provide valuable results for the individual and the organization.

Objectives:

• To learn to write well-formed goal statements using the SMART acronym.



• To teach associates to break down goals into manageable steps.



• To encourage participants to structure a plan for goal reminders and goal reassessment.



• To embrace goal-setting not as solely an annual event but as a regular occurrence that promotes continuous growth and development.

Program Description:
This session focuses on learning the specifics of the SMART system and applying it to all goal-setting activities. Associates will work with their peers to enlist the aid of co-workers who will help hold them accountable to their goals. Through a team effort associates will be more sensitive to upholding team and personal goals.

Participants will explore common feelings about achieving goals, learn ways to enlist support for their goals, and readily identify the components necessary to achieve success. The facilitator will present winning formulas for goal-setting and achievement through numerous exercises and role play activities.

Key Associate Learning:

1. Each participant gains a better understanding of how to utilize the SMART Goals format to develop goals that are specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-bound.



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4. Improved teamwork and goal communications.



5. Tools for determining the best approach to goal achievement.

Approach:

½ day facilitated seminar

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