Goal Setting 7

[UtilityLouie]

I'll tell you what...

I've been doing project work for 20 years and every year it's the same:

***Email from manager***
"It's goal setting time! Set your goals for the next year please and make sure they are S.M.A.R.T. (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Timely)"
***/end email***

What I invariably do is make my goals a couple of projects I'm on with the deliverables being the measurable items associated with them, but doing this leaves me feeling "empty".

Goal setting shouldn't be just "doing what I'm supposed to do in my job". It's supposed to be growing, learning amd expanding yourself. With the weight of project work I typically see every year, figuring out some "attainable" self improvement goals is next to impossible. I don't have enough time to finish my project work.

My question to fellow members:

Any suggestions?

Ideas?

Thoughts?

Your input is appreciated.

 

[SWComposites]

"In case of work, if we could be able to integrate our personal goal in different aspects like professorial development, team development, health and safety and make it integrated with the project organizational goals or the organizational goals then it would be a success."

SKPA - could you point the rest of us to a source for the management elixir that you have been drinking? seems like some mighty potent stuff.

Otherwise, I completely agree with Snorgy et al. It is best to get one's managers goals before writing yours, and its best to write one's goals in the vaguest possible terms and make sure they are not dependent on the performance of anyone else.

SW

 

[ctopher]

berkshire,
Yes, very much so.

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