COURSE OVERVIEW:
A SMART goal is a carefully planned, clear and trackable objective. It stands for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-specific.
Setting SMART goals can help you move forward in your career and achieve the success you want. While goals can be challenging, using the SMART framework can organise the process and provide structure before you begin.
The classic goal setting definition boils down to the process of identifying something you want to accomplish and establishing measurable objectives and timeframes to help you achieve it. Goal setting can help you in any area of your life, from achieving financial freedom to adopting a healthy diet. When you learn how to set goals in one area of your life, it becomes easier to set them in other areas.
Goal setting is vital because it helps you decide and focus on what’s really important to you. Effective goal setting also lets you measure progress, overcome procrastination and visualise your dreams. If you don’t know what you want to accomplish, you can’t create a plan to get there. Goal setting is the vehicle that will drive you to your desired destination.
Goal setting also keeps you accountable. Whether you’re learning how to set goals at work or in your personal life, telling others about your goals makes you more likely to establish the patterns that will accomplish them.
Effective goal setting is the fundamental key to success. Whether it’s increasing your intelligence, taking up a new hobby or rekindling a relationship, setting goals lets us create our future. Setting goals helps us grow and expand, pushing ourselves to transform in ways that we never imagined. In order to feel truly fulfilled, we need to know and feel like we’re working to achieve something. Progress equals happiness, and setting goals is what gets us there.
Setting goals keeps you moving, increases your happiness, and significantly benefits your organisation. When you set goals, you create a vision of what your life or your business could look like. Then you start pushing yourself and your team to get the best results possible.
In this course you’ll learn how to set SMART goals, how to make a plan, and how to acquire the resources and power necessary to achieve your goals.
The first part of this course begins by discussing ten guidelines for evaluating and writing down your SMART goals in a way that nearly guarantees your effort will be rewarded. Then examines the potential obstacles to reaching your goals and the strategies for removing them or minimising their impact. Also, discusses many strategies to optimise the probability of achieving your goals. Finally, looks at a practical system for setting priorities that will help you concentrate on the tasks for reaching your goals.
The second part begins by explaining the benefits of effective goal planning and the key planning steps for reaching your goals. Then discusses how to develop your delegating skills that will enhance your achievement of goals. Then explores the ways to get the power to get things done and help you reach your goals. Finally, looks at ways to put power to achieve your specific goals within the fundamental constraints of time, resources, and performance.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
By the end of this course, you will be able to understand:
- What is SMART goal setting?
- Why is goal setting important?
- Why have goals anyway?
- The benefits of goal setting
- How to set personal goals?
- How effective goals are written in specific, measurable terms?
- How effective goals can be visualised?
- How effective goals are achievable?
- How effective goals have realistic deadlines?
- How effective goals are manageable?
- How effective goals are analysed for their potential problems?
- How effective goals require action to eliminate or minimise the consequences of potential problems?
- How effective goals include a regular review of progress?
- How effective goals yield rewards that are of value to you?
- The potential obstacles to reaching your goals
- How to manage perceived risks associated with meeting your goals?
- How to reduce your fear of failure?
- How to build confidence in your skills and abilities?
- How to put your goals in order of priority?
- The strategies to optimise reaching your goals
- How to know the resources required for reaching a goal?
- Why work with goals that are compatible?
- Why be willing to ask for help with your goals?
- Why accept the responsibility for doing the work that is necessary to reach your goals?
- How to minimise the interruptions that block your progress toward your goals?
- How to be flexible to changes that affect your progress toward a goal?
- How to identify the benefits of reaching your goals?
- How to develop the persistence to work toward your goals?
- Why review your progress toward your goals regularly?
- How to balance your efforts among the goals that are important to you?
- How to reach your goals by concentrating on those things that relate to your goals?
- How to set your goal priorities?
- The key goal planning steps
- How to ensure a fail-safe goal plan?
- The strategies for building a delegating attitude
- How to achieve your goals?
- How to get the power to get things done?
- The different types of power
- Project management for goal achievers
- How to develop your response strategies to manage risks?
- How to implement the plan?
COURSE DURATION:
The typical duration of this course is approximately 2-3 hours to complete. Your enrolment is Valid for 12 Months. Start anytime and study at your own pace.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
You must have access to a computer or any mobile device with Adobe Acrobat Reader (free PDF Viewer) installed, to complete this course.
COURSE DELIVERY:
Purchase and download course content.
ASSESSMENT:
A simple 10-question true or false quiz with Unlimited Submission Attempts.
CERTIFICATION:
Upon course completion, you will receive a customised digital “Certificate of Completion”.