“If you don’t know where you are heading to, any path will take you there.”
There is little doubt that goal setting – or more precisely the motivation to attain goals – has proven performance benefits.
So that’s good.
And let’s face it, actually setting quality goals isn’t really very difficult. There are a number of subtle variations, but the SMART model serves well for the vast majority of cases. In short the SMART model provides a set of criteria against which to test the quality of set goals:
Get your goals looking SMART and you are a long way down the track to improved performance, right?
Apparently not.
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