Goal Setting

Dan covered (as part of today's training) a piece on goal setting. Seemed better and more detailed/specific than SMART.

7 steps/parts, order matters:

1. What do I want?
2. When will it be done?
3. What are the obstacles? List them.
4. What do I need to know?
5. Who do I need to know (and what do you need to get from them)?
6. Lay out the game plan - milestones on the way to the goal.
7. What's in it for me?

What I liked about this set compared to SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, time-bound) is the better transition to execution. The difference rings particularly true with respect to my missteps doing the CJAS re-org thing. It's funny that as a more execution/implementation-oriented guy, my main error was not an inclarity in setting the goal, but rather a failure in following through. It feels like this model fills a lot of the gaps from back then.

We'll see..