Week 7 Discussion

Select the goal you posted in your Week 6 Shared Practice using the Personal Values Survey. You will use this goal to develop an action plan for achieving your goal.

To prepare for this Shared Practice:

• Draft your goal and state a reasonable timeline to meet your goal.
• Specify at least two objectives which will help you reach the goal.
• Identify at least two measurable milestones you will need to complete to meet your objective: and
• Determine a timeline to ensure that progress on individual milestones can be measured. (Hint: As you determine the timeline to meet the individual milestones, it may be necessary to reconsider the timeline you established for the greater goal.)

When you have completed this exercise, you are ready to draft your goal in paragraph form for your Shared Practice. Your post for the Shared Practice should be in the range of 5–7 coherent paragraphs and should cohesively present your action plan to achieve your goal.

Post your action plan to the Week 7 Shared Practice discussion thread. Your post should include the following:

• Your specific goal for professional and personal development with an explanation as to why you selected this goal. Your explanation should address how the questions your colleagues posed in the Week 6 Shared Reflection helped you refine and clarify your goal.

• A reasonable timeline for achieving your stated goal.

• At least two objectives you have identified that will help you reach your goal with a rationale that explains how your objectives support the goal.

• At least two measurable milestones for ensuring progress for each objective you identified as well as the timelines you have established for each milestone.

*** Make sure what you are posting makes strong and precise connections to previous and/or current course content. You need to bring in some of the content from the topics in the assigned reading. Your initial post should contribute to the topic. It should demonstrate that you have read, understood, and critically evaluated the topic.***

Using previous week reading materials and previous experience and examples to support your argument is STRONGLY encouraged.

Remember to utilize the grading rubrics posted in the classroom to ensure you are meeting the requirements for your discussion board postings and your weekly assignments. Your grade is based on how well you meet those requirements.

MAKE SURE GOAL MEETS ALL THESE REQUIREMENTS

I would like to you work to meet the SMART goal requirements. If this is something that you are just always going to do, then that is a principle to live by, not a goal. For example, saying “I am going to eat raw vegan for a week” is specific, timely, and measurable. I can track and measure what I eat for the week. But if I have a goal that was “I am going to eat healthy in all my meals” this is not a SMART goal. It is hard to measure healthy. If I wanted to lose 10 pounds in 6 months to have a more healthy weight, that is something I can measure.

Here are the areas that require additional thought when you develop a goal:

Specific: As it states in the resources “A specific goal has a much greater chance of being accomplished than a general goal. To set a specific goal you must answer…:

*Who: Who is involved?

*What: What do I want to accomplish?

*Where: Identify a location.

*When: Establish a time frame…

EXAMPLE: A general goal would be, “Get in shape.” But a specific goal would say, “Join a health club and workout 3 days a week for 60 minutes for the next six months.”

Measurable – “Establish concrete criteria for measuring progress toward the attainment of each goal you set.” I do not see how you measure “being humble”, how do you measure that…perhaps you have an idea that I am not seeing?

Timely – “A goal should be grounded within a time frame.” What is the time frame to have this goal met?

Can you take another look at this? Perhaps review the http://topachievement.com/smart.html website, to help you refine your goal to be more tangible. The reason this is important is next week we are looking to set objectives and milestone for these goals, so the more specific the better.

How is the goal measurable? What will you measure to know whether you are achieving your goal? What actions will you be taking that you want to accomplish that is different from what you are doing now? In the weeks ahead we are setting objectives and milestones, so it is best to be as specific as possible in setting a goal.

You need to use this goal from week 6 to do week 7 discussion. YOU have to make sure you follow the SMART GOALS REQUIREMENT when answering the questions. I have attached your original work done so you dont have to start over you can fix it and spice up the goal

Goal from week 6

My goal is to motivate my followers within the first month of being a team leader in the organization I aspire to join after finishing this course by appreciating people’s work and skills. I expect to start working towards this goal from the first project as a team leader. Some of the metrics I will use to measure the achievement of this goal will be the willingness of the team members to accept subsequent projects, or take responsibility when handling the next project. The actions that will guide my achievement of this goal will be to provide the team members or my followers with opportunities to apply their skills and knowledge by assigning tasks and responsibilities. Also, I will set different goals and not punish failure. What makes this set of actions different from what I am doing now is the aspect of not punishing failure. Instead, I will identify the effort each team member puts into the responsibilities they have during a project and recognize, as well as appreciate it as a form of motivation.