setting goals

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Creating your future personal goals

Ashraf MorsyTraining Manager – Suecal PharmaProfessional Certified Trainer, AUC. Cairo

Goal Setting


Learning Objectives

To Understand:• The definition of Goals.• The importance of setting personal goal philosophyTo Develop and Apply:• Steps of personal goal setting.• Review and updates plans for goal achievement.• The rewarding aspects of a setting goals.

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Goal definition© Goal is:

“A desired result that a person or a system, aim to reach through plans and commitments to achieve”

“A personal desired end-point in some sort of assumed development”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System


Setting Personal Goal Philosophy• Many people work hard, but don't get anywhere worthwhile.• A key reason that they feel this way is:

– They haven't spent enough time thinking about what they want from life.– Haven't set themselves formal goals. – After all, would you set out on a major journey with no real idea of your

destination? Probably not!


Setting Personal Goal Philosophy

• Goal setting is a powerful process for thinking about your ideal future, and for motivating yourself to turn your vision of this future into reality.


Setting Personal Goal Philosophy • The process of setting goals helps:

– Choose where you want to go in life. – Know where you have to concentrate your efforts. – Spot the distractions to avoid.


Setting Personal Goal Philosophy

• Models of setting goals:Top-level athletes. Successful business-people.Achievers in all fields.


Setting Personal Goal Philosophy• Added values of goal setting:

Long-term vision. Short-term motivation . Focuses your acquisition of knowledge and skills.Organize your time and resources.

http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newHTE_74.htm


Setting Personal Goal Philosophy• Added values of goal setting:

Take pride in Minor successors.You will also raise your self-confidence.

http://www.mindtools.com/selfconf.html


Set Personal Goals1. Create "big picture“. (>10 years).2. Break down into the smaller goals. 3. Develop plan, start working.

Lifetime goals ------------- Next five years ------------- Next year ----------- Next month ---------------- Next week ---------------- Today --------------- Start moving towards them.

Life time Goal

Medium time Goal


Step 1: Setting Lifetime GoalsCreate "big picture”


Step 1: Setting Lifetime Goals1. Consider what you want to achieve in your lifetime:

(or at least, by a significant and distant age in the future). – It gives overall perspective, shapes all aspects of your decision making.– Give a broad, balanced coverage of all important areas in your life.– Set goals in categories of your own (important to you):

– Career - Financial – Education - Family – Artistic - Attitude – Physical - Pleasure – Public Service - What else?


Step 1: Setting Lifetime Goals• Career

– What level do you want to reach in your career?– What do you want to achieve?

• Financial – How much do you want to earn, by what stage? – How is this related to your career goals?

• Education – Is there any knowledge you want to acquire in particular? – What information and skills will you need to achieve other goals?

• Family – Do you want to be a parent? – How are you going to be a good parent? – How do you want to be seen by a partner or members of your family?

• Artistic – Do you want to achieve any artistic goals?


Step 1: Setting Lifetime Goals• Attitude

– Is any part of your mindset holding you back? – Is there any part of the way you behave upsets you?

(If so, set a goal to improve your behavior or find a solution to the problem.)

• Physical – Are there any athletic goals that you want to achieve, or do you want good health deep

into old age? What steps are you going to take to achieve this?

• Pleasure – How do you want to enjoy yourself?

• Public Service – Do you want to make the world a better place? If so, how?

• What Else …………………… ?– Do you want to achieve any other goals?


Step 1: Setting Lifetime Goals2. Spend some time Brainstorming these things.3. Select goals in each category reflect what you want to do. 4. Trimming again to have a small number of really significant

goals that you can focus on.• Make sure that goals are ones that you genuinely want to

achieve, not ones that your parents, family, or employers might want.

(If you have a partner, you probably want to consider what he or she wants – however, make sure that you also remain true to yourself!)


Step 1: Setting Lifetime Goals• Tip:• Consider it as your future Personal Mission Statements© . • It brings your most important goals into sharp focus.


Step 2: Setting Smaller Goals


Step 2: Setting Smaller Goals1. Set a five-years plan of smaller goals.2. Create a one-year plan.3. Develop six-month plan.4. List one-month plan.“Smaller goals you should reach to achieve your lifetime goals”

5. Create a daily To-Do List you should do today to achieve lifetime goals.

“At an early stage, your smaller goals might be:1. Read books. / 2. Gather information. / 3. Search for models.

“Helps you to improve quality and realism of goal setting”6. Finally, review your plans.

http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newHTE_05.htm


Step 2: Setting Smaller Goals

• Tip:• You must pay enough attention to certain

Life/Career Balance.

http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newCDV_95.htm


Step 3: Staying on Course©• Keep the process going by: – Reviewing.– Updating your To-Do List on a daily basis.– Periodically review the longer term plans.– Modify them to reflect your changing priorities

and experience. (It’s good to schedule regular reviews using a computer-based diary.)


Step 4: SMART Goals©• Make your goals powerful by using the SMART technique. • While there are plenty of variants, SMART usually stands

for:S – Specific (or Significant).M – Measurable (or Meaningful).A – Attainable (or Action-Oriented).R – Relevant (or Rewarding).T – Time-bound (or Track able).

• Example:o My Goal is

o "to sail around the world". Vs.

o "To complete my trip around the world by December 31, 2015."


Step 5: Guidelines for Setting Your Goals

1) State each goal as a positive statement: Express your goals positively . Example:

"Execute this technique well" Vs. "Don't make this stupid mistake."

2) Be precise: Set precise goals, putting in dates, times and amounts (to measure). To know you achieved goal and take satisfaction from achievement


Step 5: Guidelines for Setting Your Goals

3) Set priorities: When you have several goals, give each a priority. Cause and Effect Model (Activity first, then Results). Helps to direct your attention to the most important ones.

4) Write goals down: This crystallizes them and gives them more force.

5) Keep operational goals small: Keep the low-level goals small and achievable. Keeping goals small and incremental gives more

opportunities for reward (Minor successors keep you motivated).


Step 5: Guidelines for Setting Your Goals• Set performance goals, not outcome goals:

– Set goals over which you have as much control as possible.– It can be disappointing to fail in achieving personal goal for

reasons beyond your control!• In business:

– These reasons could be bad business environments or unexpected effects of government policy.

• In sport:– They could include poor judging, bad weather, injury, or just

plain bad luck.– Keep control over the achievement of your goals, and draw

satisfaction from them.


Step 5: Guidelines for Setting Your Goals• Set realistic goals:

– It's important to set goals that you can achieve. – All (for example, employers, parents, media, or society) can set unrealistic goals for

you. – They will often do this in ignorance of your own desires and ambitions.– It's also possible to set goals that are too difficult because:

• You might not appreciate obstacles.• You might not understand quite how much skill you need to develop.


Achieving Goals


Achieving Goals• When you achieve a goal, take time to enjoy.• Observe the progress that you've made towards other goals.• With the experience of having achieved this goal, review the rest of your

goal plans:– If you achieved the goal too easily, make your next goal harder.– If the goal took a hard length of time to achieve, make the next goal a little

easier.– If you learned something that would lead you to change other goals, do so.– If you noticed a deficit in your skills despite achieving the goal, decide whether

to set goals to fix this.


Achieving Goals• Tip 1:

– Set yourself up for success when it comes to your goals. • Tip 2:• It's important to remember that failing to meet goals does not matter

much. “learn from experience”.• Feed learned lessons back into the process of setting your next goals. • Remember that your goals will change as time goes on. • Adjust goals regularly to reflect growth in your knowledge and experience.• If goals do not hold any attraction any longer, consider letting them go.


Example Personal Goals• For her New Year's Resolution, Susan has decided to think

about what she really wants to do with her life.• Her lifetime goals are as follows:

– Career – "To be managing editor of the magazine that I work for."– Artistic – "To keep working on my illustration skills. Ultimately I want

to have my own show in our downtown gallery."– Physical – "To run a marathon."

• Now that Susan has listed her lifetime goals, she then breaks down each one into smaller, more manageable goals.


Example Personal Goals• Let's take a closer look at how she might break down her lifetime career

goal – becoming managing editor of her magazine:– Five-year goal: "Become deputy editor."– One-year goal: "Volunteer for projects that the current Managing Editor is

heading up."– Six-month goal: "Go back to school and finish my journalism degree."– One-month goal: "Talk to the current managing editor to determine what skills

are needed to do the job."– One-week goal: "Book the meeting with the Managing Editor."

• As you can see from this example, breaking big goals down into smaller, more manageable goals makes it far easier to see how the goal will get accomplished.


Example Personal Goals

• Tip:• Use one of the successful tested template to

organize your goals.


Summary • Goal setting is an important method of:

– Deciding what you want to achieve in your life.– Separating what's important from what's irrelevant, or a distraction.– Motivating yourself.– Building your self-confidence, based on achievement of goals.


Summary • Set your lifetime goals first. • Then, set a five-year plan of smaller goals. • Keep process by regularly reviewing and updates. • Take time to enjoy the satisfaction of achieving your goals

when you do so.• If you don't already set goals, do so.

• Starting now.


Good Luck

setting goals

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