Mid Year: Review, Reflect, and Reorganise Your Goals

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In the chaos of everyday life, it can be easy to lose sight of our long-term goals and forget our priorities. But time is precious, and knowing what matters ensures we take action on the things that best use our time.

As tomorrow is the 1st of June, we want to put yourselves in a strong, pro-active position for the start of the next 6 months. And it doesn't need to be a complicated process. A handful of things that reaffirm our vision, boost our confidence, and set us on the right track, ready for the start of a fresh half of the year. No matter if it is for ourselves, our business, our team, our communication in French or English.

1. Take note of, and reflect on, your previous goals

Can you relocate those goals if you identified what you wanted over the last 6 months?

Did you keep track of these and rewrite them as the months went on?

Familiarise yourself again with your plans, dreams, and aims. With them in front of you, take note of what you achieved and missed. Reflect or journal on what worked and what didn't.

Ask yourself:?For those objectives you didn't hit this time, what are one or two things you could change to move forward?

This exercise brings awareness to the cause-and-effect nature of goal setting and re-establishes focus on your objectives.

Maybe there are one or two goals you could make an extra effort in the final stretch of this second half of the year to make work?

2. Put down your main wins and lessons

Bring your attention to the goals you achieved and those you didn’t get the chance to hit the previous 6 months.

Now is the right time to write down your top 3 or 6 wins over the past 6 months. Sometimes, you may discover that these wins and losses don't necessarily have anything to do with the goals you set before.

Often, we see successes that come about regardless of our initial plan. These wins can inform you what goals you decide to focus on ahead and to do more of what is already working.?This is also an opportunity to establish gratitude for what has happened. But it's also a moment to give yourself and to your communication in English or French some credit. No matter how small or big are your wins!

We sometimes neglect to acknowledge the things we've done that took work, energy, and grit.?What are those things? Give yourself, as a non native speaker, some love and a solid pat on the back. Celebrate your wins, celebrate the new opportunities your English or French Self opened to you: in your business, career, for you as a team or for your organisation. Get yourself a present, a reward for how wonderful you handled your French or English, experience, or a team trip to reinforce your progress, and make it memorable.

Bringing awareness to your wins adds more weight to the drive you have behind your actions and goals into the following half of the year.

It is a precious moment to note down some of the challenges you overcame, mistakes you made, and the losses incurred and reframe these experiences by identifying the learnings and the opportunities for growth and improvement. What are these lessons? What can be your take away??

This is a powerful exercise because it trains us to see opportunity in all our perceived setbacks. It conditions us to develop a growth mindset and a more robust, resilient approach to life, work, skills.

3. Write down your goals for the next 6 months and beyond

Next, you want to write a new list of goals and objectives that you can refer to regularly through next period. Break them down into categories for extra clarity.

This could be goals on your French and English (I would suggest you to provoke yourself and go beyond regular goals like grammar, vocabulary, fluency, etc):

• confidence
• synergy in your team
• become a better seller in that foreign language
• feel at ease when leading in French or English
• feel at ease one pitching in a non native language
• foster stronger connections
• become a better story teller
• become more cultural aware

But you can also extend it to business, professional or personal life:

This list represents your vision for what you want to happen in your Foreign Language the next period.

You can already identify goals for the next year, right down to the next 30 days.

I'd also suggest identifying that?one?primary goal that sits at the top of your goal hierarchy. It may be your main 6-month goal.

What?one?goal will you make sure to achieve when it comes to your French or English, whatever it takes or to make sure that your team is achieving?

As a first step, think about what is important to you. What matters more than anything else? What would you love to create in that second language? What profit would like to achieve thanks to it?

Brainstorm a few ideas first, and then choose the goals that speak to you the loudest. As a Leader, a HR Manager or L&D Manager, brainstorm together with your team.These goals can evolve over the coming months, and that's ok. The crucial thing is that you have a?sense of direction?and an?understanding?of what you're prioritizing.

Create that clarity now so you can start the next 6 month or the months after the summer break with a strong foundation and a purpose, knowing where you are going and what you are building in your French or English.

If you want help to identify and manifest your goals for the next 6 months, whether you're aiming to gain some clarity, enhance your language skills, excel in public speaking, or foster stronger connections, or build unshakable confidence, we'll empower you to surpass your goals, we are right here to revolutionise the way you communicate.

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