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

Luis Gonçalves
Aug 24, 2017 · 2 min read

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%.

If you want to continue you can see the rest of the article on my blog: https://luis-goncalves.com/smart-goals-trap/

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.

I have been creating Scrum Master Training for the agile community. If you are interested in knowing more or even working with me you can find me here: Agile Coach München.

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Luis Gonçalves
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