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Putting the Goal Before Your Work
The document emphasizes the importance of setting SMART goals—specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound. It highlights the need to break down larger goals into smaller, manageable steps and to clearly define what the goal is. Additionally, it encourages outlining necessary prework and establishing accountability for goal achievement.
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- 2. “Plan your workand work your plan.” SCHOOL OF INFORMATION STUDIES | SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY 2
- 3. We know aboutSMART, but we don’t do it. S Specific or Significant M Measurable or Meaningful A Attainable or Action-Oriented R Relevant or Rewarding T Time-bound or Trackable SCHOOL OF INFORMATION STUDIES | SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY 3
- 4. And we don’tbreakdown goals into smaller manageable goals. We think of the big goal and not the smaller goals (steps) it will take to complete it. SCHOOL OF INFORMATION STUDIES | SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY 4
- 5. What do youneed to do before to set goals? Define what the goal REALLY is! What is your goal? SCHOOL OF INFORMATION STUDIES | SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY 5
- 6. What must happenfor you to achieve that goal? Any prework? Any information needed? Any specific steps? SCHOOL OF INFORMATION STUDIES | SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY 6
- 7. How will yoube held accountable? SCHOOL OF INFORMATION STUDIES | SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY 7
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Editor's Notes
- #2 Most of us have heard the phrase “plan your work and work your plan,” often in a moment of despair when we wonder what to do next. The conundrum of what to do next is due to fuzzy goals. This working session will begin information on goal setting, which is that upfront work needed before you plan. There will then be time/structure for participants to develop their goals (personal or organizational) and the outcomes that go with them. In other words, what do you want or need to achieve, and how will others (i.e., your boss) know that you have achieved them? What (broad or specific) steps do you need to consider, in order to get from start to finish? The wall has an 8:3 aspect ratio, so if you want your powerpoint to use the entire real estate, your page size should have an aspect ratio of 8:3 o Powerpoint saves embedded images at 150 dpi, so if you want to embed high resolution images – that take advantage of every single pixel, your powerpoint should be 76.8” x 28.8” . My version of powerpoint limits the resolution to 56” x 21” – but that still gives plenty of resolution and you would need to be close to the screen to notice any difference. In practice, 40”x15” would be great – and 20”x7.5” wouldn’t look terrible. You just don’t want to embed a high-resolution image in a powerpoint that is 8” x 3” – because the embedded image will be scaled down to at most 450 pixels tall. o The bottom quarter of any powerpoint will not be easily viewed if there are lots of people sitting in chairs – so best to not put too much important information down there.