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Education, Strategy, & Purposeful Living
How do you navigate the cost of learning?
What sort of world would we have if we could improve ourselves in any way possible, at any time, without any limits? Want to get an MBA? Great, let's start today. Want to figure out how to fix those leadership challenges you face at the office? Fine, do this, and it's...
SMART Goals Prioritize Short-Term Success
Many of us have the experience of creating SMART goals, especially during that once-a-year time when organizations tend to focus upon them. You know, we set our goals for the next year, and while they are often organizationally-focused and based on the context we know...
SMART Goals Assume Contextual Stability
Continuing our exploration of challenges to the notion and practice of SMART Goals, after the one I recently wrote related to the goals being more for my organization than for me, we come to the ever-present conflict that all project managers face. How do we build...
Is the Organizational Focus a SMART Goal Challenge?
Yesterday I invited us to consider if anything seems somehow distancing or not quite right about how we perceive SMART Goals. One way of considering this involves being aware of when our eyes sometimes glaze over or we have an immediate reaction when we hear them used...
Challenges to SMART Goals
I spent 5 days last week exploring SMART Goals, those that are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound, and how they can be applied to individual professional development needs. While SMART is not the only goal-setting framework available, it is...
Time-Bound Goals Give us Structure
Today is the fifth and final part of my 5-part SMART Goals series, those that are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound. Basic information exists on what they are and how they are used, yet there are fewer resources for how to write and apply them...
Relevant Goals Matter
Today is part 4 of my 5-part SMART Goals series, those that are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound. Basic information exists on what they are and how they are used, yet there are fewer resources for how to write and apply them to professional...
Actions that Help Us Develop are Achievable
Today is part 3 of my 5-part series on SMART Goals, those that are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound. While basic information abounds on what they are and how they are used, there are few resources for how to write and apply them as...
Measuring Professional Development Goals
Today is part 2 of my 5-part series on SMART Goals, those that are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound. While basic information abounds on what they are and how they are used, there are fewer resources for how they can be written and applied,...
Professional Development Goals must be Specific
This week begins a 5-part series on SMART Goals, those that are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound. While basic information abounds on what they are and how they are used, there are fewer resources for how they can be written and applied,...