Skills for Career Success

SKILL 37

Set Goals

Your ability to set goals is key to setting yourself up for success for almost anything you will do in life. Setting goals includes several steps. The first is of course deciding what it is you want to accomplish. That becomes the starting point. You should consider setting goals in your personal life as well as establishing goals at work. Goals that are in writing are more likely to be accomplished, and goals that are written in the SMART format (later in this section) are more likely to be accomplished effectively and on time. While you set your goals, think of subgoals, such as what you need to learn or what you need to ...