Setting Your Goals

Step 1: Understand and decide upon your goals - Set your long term and short term goals. *

Goals could be Long Term (What needs to be achieved) and Short Term (How to achieve).

Long term goals may be understood as something that could be an end result. The usual timeframe for a

long term goal could be 10 years or longer. Short-term goals are generally objectives to be completed in

a year or less. These could be understood as the means for achieving the long term goals.

Step 2: The short term goals must meet the criteria SMART

Specific individuals know what exactly is to be achieved

Measurable proposed goals can be tracked and reviewed

Attainable goals may be difficult but not unreasonable

Realistic* goals must support the vision of the organization

Time-bound goals are to be achieved within a stated time.

Step 3: Prioritize your Goals

Distinguish between what is your need and want and accordingly decide your priority

YOUR TASK

1. Conduct 360 Feedback/Peer Evaluation

2. Using the four areas of Personal Scorecard set one long term goal in each area (4)

3. Using the SMART goal criteria set at least 2 short term goals (objectives) for each of your long-term goals (i.e distributed across objectives and how SMART those are)