Meeting Goals
*Teacher will not know the title or the purpose of the workshop.
1. Monitor will provide each participant a folded piece of paper. There will be three categories:
* Blank
*The most boring six hour sermon on how to improve teaching.
* Workshop: Effective Lesson Planning
2. Ask participants to express what the course is going to be about.
3. Brainstorm theway they felt about knowing or not knowing about the course.
4. Compare the way in which the students come the first day of class and their course expectations.
* Specific: the goal must bespecific as to what we want to achieve. By the end of 2010, our gross margins will increase 15%. The goal should clearly define the specific result we want to achieve.
* Measurable: a goal whichis not measurable cannot be achieved. We want to improve customer service is not a sufficient goal – if we cannot measure our result, it is not a goal. We want to improve customer service by 35% asmeasured by our quarterly survey is a measurable goal.
* Attainable: the goal should be ambitious, but attainable. If your company has only ever served 2,000 customers in a given year and you set agoal to serve 20,000 customers (without some significant change in company size or budget), you are likely to fail. If you have served 2,000 customers for several years, perhaps serving 3,000 customersisn’t that much of a stretch. Make your goals ambitious, but achievable.
* Relevant: goals should be relevant to your vision and mission. If you’re Best Buy, setting a corporate goal to increaseclothing apparel sales is a poor choice. We worked with a banking software development firm that was setting goals regarding their customers’ growth and not their own. These goals are not directlyrelevant to what the company was doing – they could not control whether or not their clients grow. All they could control was growing their own client base.
* Time-bound: your goals should have a...
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