Goal Setting

1. https://www.jiujitsutimes.com/goal-setting-for-2015/

2. CAREER ACTION PLAN
What is your ultimate career goal?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H6uJT16FtE

3. ACTION PLAN
 An effective action plan should give you a concrete timetable and
a set of clearly defined steps to help you achieve your objective.
 Helps you focus your ideas and provides you with an answer to
“what do I do to achieve my objective?”
Where am I now?
Where do I want to be?
How do I get there?
Take Action.
Review the plan

4. CAREER ACTION PLAN
 Career Objective/Mission Statement
 Personal Core Values
 Goals & Objectives
 Strategic Planning
 Implementation
 Follow up/Evaluation
Due Wednesday, February 8th

5. CREATING YOUR PERSONAL MISSION STATEMENT
The most effective way to begin with the end in mind
is to develop a personal mission statement.
Develop a mission statement, one that focuses what
you want to be in terms of character and what you
want to do in reference to contribution of
achievements.
Stephen Covey

6. CREATING YOUR PERSONAL MISSION STATEMENT
“To….(what you want to achieve, do or become)….so
that….(reasons why it is important). I will do this by….(outline
specific behaviours or actions you can use to get there).”
“I value….(highlight 3 values)….because….(outlines reasons why those
are important to you). Accordingly, I will….(what you can do to live by
these values).”
“To live each day with….(choose three values or principles)….so
that….(what living by these values will give you). I will do this
by….(identify specific behaviours you will use to live by these
values).”
http://www.carrollk12.org/Assets/file/MVH/Resources/Portfolio%20-%20Mission%20Statement.pdf

7. PERSONAL CORE VALUES:
 Personal core values are beliefs or convictions that you
embrace as standards of behaviour that you are unwilling to
compromise.
 They will guide your attitude, decision-making and
behaviour.
An example of a personal core value might be:
“I value excellence above convenience and therefore will
always do things to the best of my ability even when it is
difficult to do so.”
 Other personal values are honesty, integrity,
professionalism, teamwork, service and good health.

8. “Your beliefs become your thoughts.
Your thoughts become your words.
Your words become your actions.
Your actions become your habits.
Your habits become your values.
Your values become your destiny.”
Mahatma Ghandi

9. SET S.M.A.R.T. GOALS
 You build your future by developing concrete plans to
reflect your priorities
 These become your goals for the next year
 It is important that you develop focused goals
 Specific
 Measurable
 Achievable
 Realistic
 Time Stamped

10. SPECIFIC
 Goals need to be clearly stated so they are easily
understood and easy to remember.
 Define whether the goal is short term or a long
term goal.
 short term is immediate to one year
 long term will be two to three years

11. MEASURABLE
 The only way to know whether you accomplished
your goals is if you have some way to measure it.
 Use numbers, if possible, to evaluate your
progress.
 i.e. I will send out 25 resumes within six months.

12. ACHIEVABLE
 Is your goal achievable in the allotted time
 Impossible goals guarantees failure and low
morale
 What steps must you take in order to achieve
your goal?

13. REALISTIC
 Be realistic about how long it will take to reach
your goal and the steps required to get there

14. TIME STAMPED
 Without a defined deadline or time frame, it is too easy
to procrastinate
 Have a set time limit for each of your goals

15. http://anaidza.com/what-is-a-smart-goal-acronym-smart-goals#forward

16. ACHIEVING YOUR GOALS
1. Make a Commitment
2. Keep Track of Your Progress
3. Break it Down
4. Get Help
5. Revisit and Revise
6. Keep Your Eye on the Prize
7. Be Consistent
8. Let Your Goals Grow
9. Focus on Positive Thinking
10. Celebrate Every Success

17. STRATEGIC PLANNING
 Outline strategic steps to achieve goals and
objectives in logical sequence using P.E.R.T.
 Start with your ultimate career objective or
goal and work backwards (start with the end in
mind)

18. P.E.R.T. CHART
 Project Evaluation and Review Technique – used to
analyze and represent the tasks involved in completing
a given project
 Timeline is drawn horizontally
 Tasks are written vertically, end node or goal at top, self-
assessment at bottom.
 Under each task steps are included in the document, and the
time needed to accomplish these steps
 Review points are established to review “where you want to
be at this point”

20. STRATEGIC PLANNING – TIMELINE
 Create from your timeline chart a critical
path that you can reference
 Establish timelines (weekly, monthly) for
each item on your chart
 Results, check-off results, reward yourself
when one of your defined goals or
objectives is reached

21. CREATE A TIMELINE
Where you
are now
Goal 1 Goal 2 Goal 3
Mission
Statement
Where am I now?
Where do I want to be?
How will I get there?

22. IMPLEMENTATION – FOLLOW-UP
 Present this completed document to someone who will be an
accountability partner with you help you evaluate and attain
your goals
 On your finished document you will, determine what this
accountability structure will look like and establish a timeline
for the accountability follow ups (ie. Once a week, once a
month, etc)
 Have your accountability partner sign the bottom of that page
indicating that he/she agrees to partner with you in helping you
attain your future goals

24. WEEK #3 - ONLINE WORK
 Research Why 3% of Harvard MBA grads made
10 times more than their classmates (100
words)
 Outline the importance of goal setting to
your job search (200 words)
 Watch this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgYm
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