Goal Setting Skills Blog
Chris Farmer's Leadership and Management Training Blog
Welcome - the purpose of the blog page is to provide you with a never ending source of valuable, practical and entertaining information designed to help you get the best performance from yourself and others.
In these blogs you will find all the information you need to make faster progress in less time and effort. Here you will find all the information you need to achieve your goals. In addition to helping yourself to achieve your goals, you can use the same information to help others to achieve their goals.
Goal Setting Skills Blogs
Goal setting has ten steps:
- Write out the goal in the form of a broad statement of positive intent.
- Name the deadline by which time the goal needs to be achieved.
- Specify the goal using words to define any vague terms.
- Specify the goal using a visual image.
- Specify the goal using numbers and objective measures.
- Name the key point indicators that will be used to track progress.
- Name the skills knowledge and information necessary to achieve the goal.
- Name the material resources necessary to achieve the goal.
- Gain confirmation from the team, that the original deadline estimate is reasonable.
- Taking all the information so far gathered, write a full, detailed plan of action and immediately go to work.
Your organisation and everyone in it, should be focused upon achieving goals. Goal achievement is the reason for a team’s existence. A team is a group of people who work together to achieve a shared goal. Therefore, goal setting is one of the most important things you can do, because, the first step to achieving a goal is to set it.
Goal Setting Skills Blogs
If you Want to Achieve Goals Faster, Try Slowing Down
7 January 2025
Slow, careful action cuts errors and saves time. Learn how a measured pace helps you achieve goals faster in work, driving, learning and speaking. Start today.
Continue Reading >Get There Faster: Our Guide to Achieving Goals by Slowing Down
6 August 2024
Achieve goals faster by slowing down. Learn how the slow down to speed up method cuts mistakes, lowers stress and lets you work smarter not harder in daily life
Continue Reading >How to Create Smart Goals
18 October 2022
Create SMART goals that stick. Use eight questions to set specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-bound targets and plan success with our goal tool
Continue Reading >When to Use the P.D.C.A. Model
9 August 2022
Learn when and how to use the PDCA model after setting SMART goals. Follow Plan-Do-Check-Act steps to drive improvement, lift quality and hit targets.
Continue Reading >Where are the UK's Most Ambitious People In 2021?
12 January 2021
Discover the 2021 ranking of the most ambitious UK cities, see why Wales leads the way, and get six clear goal-setting tips to boost your own ambition today.
Continue Reading >Six Ways to Make 2021 your Best Year Ever
5 January 2021
Make this year your best: set ambitious goals, gain knowledge, prioritise time, build self confidence, cut negatives and generate energy with six proven habits.
Continue Reading >Eight Part Smart Targets
21 April 2020
Learn how the 8 Part SMART model transforms vague aims into clear, measurable and achievable goals, giving you and your team a proven map from idea to result.
Continue Reading >How to Make Progress In your Life
3 January 2020
Discover five steps to make progress in life: specialise, cut distractions, set measurable goals, act on evidence and persist. Use them to unlock growth.
Continue Reading >12 Steps to Make 2020 your Best Year Ever
31 December 2019
Discover a 12-step goal setting strategy that turns New Year goals into daily action. Learn to plan, act, adapt and keep moving forward for your best year yet.
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Other (45)
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