Smart goal setting in a corporation is straight forward. Your company must demand more profit. It sets the goals. Then it passes them down to your supervisor. Then a large chunk of the smart goals land on your desk. Your problem is to get these smart goals met.
Over 60,000 sites exist on the internet explaining how to use smart goal setting to achieve this. It can become confusing what the gurus are recommending. The happy answer is the certain themes run through all their advice. Below are most of the themes suggested; when to use each is simplified. It can be a good smart goals checklist.
Planning: When starting your share of the smart goals plan, ask yourself these questions:
- Are my goals clear?
- Are they specific?
- Are my priorities clear?
- Are my goals measurable?
- Are my goals achievable?
If you run into” No” on any of these queries, pause, and discuss them with your supervisor before trying to deliver the impossible. He’ll probably appreciate your pointing out the defects, before both of you blindly run into a wall that could damage both or your careers. By working together, with other employees, or other company specialists, you might well discover how to reach the profit delivery the corporate smart goals plan calls for, in an entirely different way.
Organization: When putting the smart goals plan to bed, and ready to organize its implementation, the same questions the goal setting gurus propose come up, and some of them repeat the above:
- Are my priorities clear? At best, it’s best to put the top three at the top of your organizational chart. Pick the top three that have the best chance of delivering the corporations smart plans profit. Industrial psychologists state you mentally can have up to seven, but its best to deal with three. The more focused you are, gives you a better chance to achieve the goal. Put the other priorities behind them, where they will help drive you to achieve the top three.
- Are my priorities “timeable”? This is another smart plans question. Can dates be set to complete the priorities and their backup actions? It’s essential that they be “timeable”.
You can use these base goal setting questions at any stage of your smart goals strategy: Planning, Organization, Implementation, Managing, Controlling, Measuring, and Actions to correct situations if the Measurements are not meeting your goal setting activity.
Keep the above simplified “how to” list handy. It can trigger your mind into the right direction, even on your every day employee matters. It’s preferable to trying to read even 1% (600) of the 60,000 plus internet sites!
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