S.M.A.R.T. Your Way to the End

Posted on June 22, 2015 Updated on June 20, 2015

We have 8 weeks to analyze the current Campanelli/Shaw’s Center business, identify areas for improvement, capture it all in a written document, and then deliver our findings via a presentation.

Did I mention that most of us are working full-time, have children to care for, and that this is all going down in the summer after the worst winter ever?!

Yeah…this means that it’s imperative, essential, mandatory, _____ (fill in your own desperate word), for us to stay on track of meeting our deadlines. The only way to do that is by setting S.M.A.R.T. goals. Each week, we will all list out goals that we need to achieve.

For example:

These goals have to be very specific; otherwise, you’ll fall into the trap of being overwhelmed with trying to complete too broad of a goal. If you say that you’re going to conquer the world, how exactly will you do it? Will you team up with Pinky and the Brain or hack every drone on earth? And by when will you accomplish this lovely task?

Still don’t know how to start? Think of it as a to-do list. Most of the time, when you write to-do’s, they’re pretty specific. Walk the dog…but with a S.M.A.R.T. goal twist, it becomes Walk the dog around the block by 4pm. Easy enough to write, hopefully just as easy to do!