Goal Setting | DLP INDIA – FOR BEST DISTANCE LEARNING PROGRAMS

In life, we all have many wants and desires. Some work out, some don’t, and many remain unfulfilled. This need not be so. The essence of this article is a balanced perspective on goal setting across three key areas: work, all relationships including personal ones and ‘what’s in it for me’. Goals need to be clear and balanced across the key areas and balanced across the short, mid and long term.

Goal Setting includes four parts.

• Part 1 is about YOU seen through three perspectives. They are your work and career. They cover all your relationships. Finally, they cover personal fulfillment in your life.
• Part 2 is also seen through the same perspectives looking at where are you now.
• Part 3 formalizes some ideal positions, and finally.
• Part 4 aligns these into hierarchies and fixes goals and strategies to achieve the goals.

It aims to improve work and career through clarifying your values and actions. It will also harmonize relationships, be they your work team, clients or suppliers or indeed partner relationships. Ultimately, it’s about balance. We know if we give too much we can resent it. Equally taking too much and being overly self-centered is not much use. This seeks balance in these critical areas.

It will achieve its aims through self-analysis of work and career to date. Much of this is about attitudes and values. By selecting better ways of viewing work and developing career planning, more personal control may be exercised. Developing appropriate behavior in relationships needs practice. Not getting on with someone or always disagreeing when faced by ‘particular’ circumstances is something we can change.

New behavioral choices will help foster more assertive behavior. Self-esteem and self- image will be enhanced with a workable plan and strategies for a planned future.

The methods used are self-learning techniques with some coaching from the text. The resource is YOU. You will increase self-awareness, with the content and pace of development to be self-directed by YOU. We will give you benchmarks along the way.

Think long and hard on this reflecting inwardly on what is of utmost importance here and now and will sustain in the future. You will need to describe how you will know you have achieved it – in other words it will need an evidence procedure. All planning, and certainly the planning done here, works from specifics. Things will need to happen.

Things may need to be sequenced.

The whole point of goal setting is to have a highly personalized plan with the right strategies to achieve the plan. The future will be balanced with clear views of short and midterm goals, (short term means one to three months and midterm means six months to a year). The long term we suggest is a year to two years. The object being to balance short, mid, and long-term goals across the board. Balance is the essence of this.