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Hello!
While SMART goals are useful, it's OK for long-range goals to be a little hazy.
This was the lesson learned a few weeks back on a holiday trip to a quiet seaside village, but more on how we learned this lesson after the menu for this month's Fulfilment:
- Next public workshop in Cape Town: "Improving Motivation": Find out how to discover your and your team's drivers and link these to improving performance and happiness and work. See the advert below for details.
- Article: Directions, journey, GPS, map book?: Marion, our associate expert on life skills facilitation and coaching, outlines how to ensure clear communication in strategic conversations by referencing our motivating drivers and our preferred responses to conflict.
Back to that lesson, on our drive of over 3 hours, we'd reached the seaside village with the use of our GPS devise, but despite being a little town, we were lost. After a call for help, we were guided to our correct destination, about 4½ Km from what our GPS confidently announced "You have arrived at your destination". If only we had the correct "vision" loaded in the GPS!
So we've spotted a few parallel lessons with leading a business or any team through goal-setting and working towards those goals:
- Be prepared to use multiple tools and methods along the way -- different tools serve different purposes at each stage of the journey.
- Don't settle for the first vision or destination as the goal -- test it against internal references like your drivers, values and beliefs, or external references like benchmarks, statistics, or even maps. A coach or mentor is qualified to help you assure that your goals and journeys are aligned with what's important to you.
- The worst plan is an immutable plan -- all plans are only a guide because, maybe when things don't go to plan, it's not things but the plan that is "wrong", so...
- ...don't succumb to analysis paralysis in setting your goals -- get moving in the general direction and...
- ...make small corrections (or big!) to the goal or plan along the way by checking milestones against the plan.
- Check that you've got the right people and resources on board for your journey -- the end seldom justifies the means, unless you're prepared to dishonour your principles a lot.
- Don't be afraid to call a friend or expert for help!
So while SMART goals aren't the only useful goals, just as with any business plan, review your progress and refine your goals as you approach them.
Until next month's Fulfilment, all the best!
Brent Combrink
Fulfilment editor and ProMentor's founding owner
Cell: +27 (0)82 425 2708
Email: brent@promentor.co.za
PS: Entrepreneurs, to help you keep focussed on your strategic objectives -- hopefully growing business value is one of them? -- consider joining our next 6-month Small Business Mentoring Program starting in August.
Next public workshop:
Improving Motivation
facilitated by Marion Adamson
on Wednesday, 23rd June, 2010, 08h30 for 09h00 - 12h00
Belmont Conference Centre in Rondebosch
An experiential workshop for managers and team leaders to create productive and happy teams
Are you too busy doing your own work to motivate your team? To excel today, managers and team leaders must not only work productively, but must also juggle many roles and cope with increasing stress.
With stress being a major killer in the work place, it makes sense that organisations explore how to help their people improve relations with each other while achieving required performance levels.
Improving relations within the workplace makes teams healthier, more efficient, more productive and more resilient to stressors.
Join our half-day Improving Motivation workshop and discover how to get your team motivated and moving.
What you will get from this workshop:
+ How to find out what really drives you and your people. (Hint: it's more than just preferences and prejudices).
+ A way to answer the question, "What makes me do or say what I do?"
+ Explore the link between these individual motivators and team performance.
+ Find the right language to engage and activate your team.
+ A 10-minute introduction to ProMentor's 2-day Improving Workplace Relations workshop for managers and teams. (Get a special discount on these programs by attending this workshop.)
Investment:
+ R570 including VAT, payable in advance via EFT or direct debit
Book or enquire now:
+ phone Brent (your host): 082 425 2708
+ email brent@promentor.co.za
Directions, journey, GPS, map book?
By Marion Adamson, expert life skills coach and facilitator
31 March 2010
When we understand the drivers that motivate us result in us 'being' a particular way, it is as if the fog hovering above our journey of self discovery lifts and we see the world around us with a fresh and crisp clarity. There are 2 major take home points: understanding our motivation, and, understanding how we respond to conflict.
Read more...
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