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Goals work better when they are established and measured by SMART criteria: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-related. Employees, teams, organization divi-sions and management will be able to better measure progress and success with SMART goals. When goals are not established with SMART criteria they run the risk of being fuzzy and hard to measure. This cascades to frustration in the organization. | Goals work better when they are established and measured by SMART criteria: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-related. Employees, teams, organization divi-sions and management will be able to better measure progress and success with SMART goals. When goals are not established with SMART criteria they run the risk of being fuzzy and hard to measure. This cascades to frustration in the organization. | ||
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* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_criteria Wikipedia page on SMART goals] - also covers the history and related alternatives | |||
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{{Terry Gardiner}} | {{Terry Gardiner}} | ||
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Latest revision as of 13:14, 12 February 2016
Goals work better when they are established and measured by SMART criteria: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-related. Employees, teams, organization divi-sions and management will be able to better measure progress and success with SMART goals. When goals are not established with SMART criteria they run the risk of being fuzzy and hard to measure. This cascades to frustration in the organization.
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Resources
- Wikipedia page on SMART goals - also covers the history and related alternatives
Author
The author of this page is Terry Gardiner
Terry Gardiner is the founder and President of Silver Lining Seafoods and NorQuest Seafoods - a medium-size Alaska seafood processing company; and currently a Board member of the Anvil Corporation, an employee-owned company specializing in oil and gas engineering.
His co-operative experiences include member director of the Commercial Fishermen Co-operative association; creation of legislation for the Alaska Commercial Fishing and Agriculture Bank; and advisor to the US Dept of Health and Social Services for the state Health CO-OPs.
Terry served ten years as a member of the Alaska House of Representatives -several legislative committee chairmanships, Speaker of the House, Chairman of the Alaska Criminal Code Commission and board member on various state and federal boards and commissions.
His non-profit experiences include National Policy Director for the Small Business Majority in Washington DC; working with the Herndon Alliance and ForTerra.
Terry authored the leadership book, "Six-Word Lessons to Build Effective Leaders: 100 Lessons to Equip Your People to Create Winning Organizations".
For more check: Terry Gardiner Long bio