Smart Goals Trap!!! Be Careful When Your Boss Establish Them

Hi, not long time ago I read a great book — “Drive”. It made me think about what motivates us. Part of the book talks about goal setting, which I think is a perfect topic for this time of the year.
As it is the beginning of the year, I am pretty sure that soon most of us will have this “famous” meeting with the management to define our goals for the next six months. But is this a good thing? Let’s dig a bit more into it…
How many of you heard that targets and objectives must be SMART Goals? Do you think it is a good definition for goals? SMART stands for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time-scaled.
An example of a Specific goal for a company could be increasing the market share, as compared to a rather general goal of becoming more profitable. To see if an objective was achieved, we must make it Measurable by attaching a number to it, for example, to increase the market share by 3%.
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My name is Luis Gonçalves and I am an Organisational Transformation Coachand I love to write about Agile Retrospectives, Agile Retrospectives Ideas, Scrum, the role Scrum Master, and Agile in general.
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