What are SMART goals?

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Coaching & Setting SMART Goals
Mentoring
By smart goals, we mean setting goals and targets which are specific,
measurable, attainable, realistic and timely as well as tangible. Jotting down your
Coach Training goals on a piece of paper and evaluating them regularly can bring you closer to
them at a much faster pace than you would have ever expected or imagined.
Leadership Now let’s study the basic criteria required for setting down a SMART goal.
Training
A goal should be specified in clear cut terms, should be straight forward and
should emphasize on what you want from them. It should be able to answer three
Soft Skills Training basic questions which might be lingering in your mind- what exactly do you want
to accomplish, why do you want to achieve it, and how would you do the
needful? If your set goal can provide answers to these three basic queries in an
Team Building easy and understandable language, be rest assured that you have laid down the
right foundation towards achieving your goal successfully.
HR and Business
Programs A goal should be measurable in terms of achievement and success, over time
and with consistent effort. A measurable goal would provide you with an easy
Workshop analysis of how much have you managed to acquire in a specified time period.
Facilitation Weighing and measuring your progress from time to time will enable you to be
focused on your target and stuck to the track, thereby adding on to your
excitement and enthusiasm when you find yourself nearing your ultimate goal.
Psychometrics
Opportunities give way to attainment of future goals. Developing and evaluating
The Orange Academy the right attitudes, skills, abilities and financial capacities to attain that goal takes
provides coaching & you a step ahead towards achieving that goal. However, to experience that joy of
mentoring services; success and achievement, it is very important to lay down goals which are
and leadership training practically attainable. Your commitment should stand erect for something which
& development is humanly reachable and not for something which is out of reach, so as to keep
services. Our clients you motivated on your path towards success.
include several of the
best known companies When you set a goal, you have to weigh and analyze it from different
across industry sectors, perspectives like the skills that it would demand, whether the project would be
where we work with congenial with the overall strategy of the organization and does it gel with the
some of their senior- ultimate goal of the enterprise as a whole and so on. To be more precise, a goal
most executives. We should be realistic and achievable with some consistent effort put into its
are headquartered in fulfillment, as against being illogical and unrealistic.
Bangalore, but work
with clients all across A time limit, set for the successful attainment of a goal, provides you with a zeal
India and overseas. and purpose to work more effectively and efficiently so as to complete your
targets well within the specified time period. Timely completion of goals is very
crucial to maintain continuity in your plan of action, or else it would not take much
time for a goal to become vague by losing its authenticity and urgency. Also, a
tangible goal, which can be felt and experienced with any one of the sense
organs, is more specific, measurable and attainable, as compared to an
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Authored By Akash Chander,
Principal Coach
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