Do You Know that Mountain Hikes Mirror Life’s Journey?

by Jeffrey Keefer | Jul 25, 2023 | Camino de Santiago, Challenges, Change & Transformation, Eco-Spirituality, Goals, Inspiration, Nature, Opportunities, Spirituality, Spirituality & Spiritual Guidance | 0 comments

Tips for Reducing Stress and Being Thankful in Difficult Times

by Jeffrey Keefer | Nov 24, 2022 | Challenges, Inspiration, Learning, Opportunity | 0 comments

In this video, I discuss tips for reducing stress and being thankful in difficult times. Thanksgiving is a time to be grateful for all the good things in life, but it can be hard to maintain a positive attitude when things are tough. Let’s try to transform...

SMART Goals Prioritize Short-Term Success

by Jeffrey Keefer | Aug 1, 2019 | Challenges, Coaching, Goals, Organizational & Workplace Learning, Reflective Practice | 0 comments

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

by Jeffrey Keefer | Jul 31, 2019 | Challenges, Coaching, Goals, Organizational & Workplace Learning, Reflective Practice | 0 comments

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...

Is the Organizational Focus a SMART Goal Challenge?

by Jeffrey Keefer | Jul 30, 2019 | Challenges, Coaching, Goals, Organizational & Workplace Learning, Reflective Practice | 0 comments

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

by Jeffrey Keefer | Jul 29, 2019 | Challenges, Coaching, Goals, Organizational & Workplace Learning, Reflective Practice | 0 comments

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...

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About Me

Jeffrey M. Keefer, Ph.D., is an educational consultant, institutional researcher and accreditation officer in higher education, professor of research methodology, nonprofit capacity building and strategic planning consultant, talent development coach, spiritual life advisor (chaplain) at New York University, spiritual director, and Wikipedian.