Learn the difference between Goals and Objectives, use the SMART technique to create tasks.

1. Setting Goals & Objectives
February 2012 - Where Are Your Resolutions?
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2. Business and Personal
✤ Of all the functions involved in management, planning is the most
important.
✤ “Failing to plan is planning to fail”.
✤ Be Prepared

3. What are we Learning?
✤ Recognize the difference between goals and objectives
✤ Understand the importance of setting goals and objectives
✤ Describe Year End Review and Creating the New Year
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✤ State what SMART objectives are

4. Goals vs. Objectives
The terms “goals” and “objectives” are often used
interchangeably, there is a difference :
✤ Goals: ✤ Objectives:
✤ General ✤ Specific
✤ Intangible ✤ Measurable
✤ Broad ✤ Narrow
✤ Abstract ✤ Concrete
✤ Strategic – long-range ✤ Tactical – short-range,
direction set to accomplish goals

5. Quiz – Goals vs. Objectives
✤ Which of these are goals and which are objectives?
✤ Reduce credit card debt
✤ Improve community volunteering
✤ Complete all scheduled car maintenance before hurricane season
✤ Improve heart health

6. Year Planning -
2012
✤ Goals
✤ Finance
✤ Health
✤ Travel
✤ Career
✤ Objectives
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7. Year Planning -
Review
✤ Start in the Past
✤ Last Year Objectives
✤ Completed
✤ Open - Still important?
✤ Mint / budget spent
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8. Goal Planning
✤ Find a safe place
✤ Food, Beverage
✤ Undisturbed
✤ Internet or Paper
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9. S ! Specific
M ! Measurable
A ! Achievable
R Realistic
T ! Time-oriented
SMART Objectives

10. Specific Objectives
✤ Specific objectives are:
✤ Concrete
✤ Detailed
✤ Focused
✤ Well-defined
✤ Straight-forward
✤ Action-oriented

11. Specific Objectives cont’d.
✤ When setting objectives that are specific, ask:
✤ What am I going to do? Use action verbs such as develop, execute,
conduct, build
✤ Why is it important to do this?
✤ Does it meet a Goal?
✤ When do I want this to be completed?

12. Measurable
Objectives
Measurements for objectives help you
know when you have accomplished them.
If you set an objective that is measurable,
when you complete it you have tangible
evidence of completion.
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13. Achievable Objectives
✤ Achievable objectives are those that you can actually accomplish
(something you can do within the time frame set)
✤ Not an aspiration or vision.
✤ Achievable objectives need to challenge you but not so much so as to
be unattainable or to cause frustration.

14. Realistic
Objectives
Realistic objectives are those that you
have the resources to accomplish
including:
Skills
Funding
Equipment
Do I need to rearrange my priorities to
accomplish?
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15. Time-Oriented Objectives
✤ Time-oriented objectives are those which have deadlines for
completion. The time frames create sufficient urgency and
lead to action.
✤ For a complex objective, break into small parts
✤ With a date. For. Completion of each.
✤ Have I included this date in the statement of the objective?

16. How did we do?
✤ Although the terms “goals” and “objectives” are often used
interchangeably, there are significant differences:
✤ Goals are general, intangible, broad, abstract, and long-range
directions generally set at planning events
✤ Objectives are specific, measurable, narrow, concrete, and are short-
range plans generally set to accomplish goals.

17. Tools
✤ Mind Mapping
✤ Todo - List
✤ Evernote
✤ Accessible
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18. Choose Your
Focus
✤ Physical
✤ Emotional
✤ Mental
✤ Spiritual
✤ Financial
✤ Family
✤ Fun / Recreation / Creativity
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