The Missing Attributes to Make Your Smart Goals Smarter

I’m always happy to pass on great info...and this is great info! I’ve included a few snippets below lifted from the full article.

If you want your leaders and managers to sustain the right amount of performance pressureto drive improved performance to meet important targets, make SMART goals SMARTER by adding these four attributes to your SMART goals:

1. Clear, Simple and Few. There cannot be any doubt about the direction and focus of what you want people to achieve and efforts, resources and energy should not be diluted. For big strategic goals, try not to have more than two or three goals at any one time.
2. Understood and Believable Enough. People must be able to articulate what they are trying to accomplish and believe that it is possible within your unique corporate culture and the market conditions in which you compete. Do not strive for 100% perfection. It will take too long. You just need enough understanding and belief to move forward cohesively so you can learn and inevitably adjust along the way.
3. Just Possible. Different than Achievable, potent high performance goals are a bit of a stretch. People should perceive the objectives to be challenging but within their control and just within their grasp to motivate them to push to their limits. remember, you want the goals to stimulate the next level of performance.
4. Meaningful, Fulfilling and Relevant.  The goals should be tied to intrinsic and extrinsic motivators proportional to the achievement of the objectives. Ideally the goals hold personal significance and are emotionally felt by the team while being aligned with the environmental circumstances.

Do you need more detail on this subject? Head on over to the full article here for more ideas and perspective. Afterwards, why not drop me an email to share your thoughts at [email protected]; or call me on (0404) 056-788.

Thanks,

Steve