
113 – Setting Objectives and Standards
Purpose/Objectives: This exercise helps managers/supervisors identify fac-
tors found in well-written objectives. Participants are
asked to take three poorly written objectives and
rewrite them using criteria outlined on the handout.
They then check their responses against given criteria
and compare them with others in the session. Partici-
pants will understand how to recognize factors that
make an objective an effective measure of perform-
ance. When the examples are completed, ask each
participant to write an objective from their own job
situation. Please note that there are six different types
of ...