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Understanding and Creating S.M.A.R.T. Goals (part of the 4th assignment)

Specific: A specific goal has a much greater chance of being accomplished than a general goal. To set a specific goal you must answer the six “W” questions:

• Who: Who is involved?
• What: What do I want to accomplish?
• Where: Identify a location.
• When: Establish a time frame.
• Which: Identify requirements and constraints.
• Why: Specific reasons, purpose or benefits of accomplishing the goal.

EXAMPLE: A general goal would be, “Get in shape.” But a specific goal would say, “Join a health club and workout 3 days a week.”

Measurable: Establish concrete criteria for measuring progress toward the attainment of each goal you set.

When you measure your progress, you stay on track, reach your target dates, and experience the exhilaration of achievement that spurs you on to continued effort required to reach your goal.

To determine if your goal is measurable, ask questions such as:

• How much?
• How many?
• How will I know when it is accomplished?

Attainable: When you identify goals that are most important to you, you begin to figure out ways you can make them come true. You develop the attitudes, abilities, skills, and financial capacity to reach them. You begin seeing previously overlooked opportunities to bring yourself closer to the achievement of your goals.

You can attain most any goal you set when you plan your steps wisely and establish a time frame that allows you to carry out those steps. Goals that may have seemed far away and out of reach eventually move closer and become attainable, not because your goals shrink, but because you grow and expand to match them. When you list your goals, you build your self-image. You see yourself as worthy of these goals and develop the traits and personality that allow you to possess them.

Realistic:To be realistic, a goal must represent an objective toward which you are both willing and ableto work. A goal can be both high and realistic; you are the only one who can decide just how high your goal should be. But be sure that every goal represents substantial progress.

A high goal is frequently easier to reach than a low one because a low goal exerts low motivational force. Some of the hardest jobs you ever accomplished actually seem easy simply because they were a labor of love.

Timely: A goal should be grounded within a time frame. With no time frame tied to it there’s no sense of urgency. For example, if you want to lose 10 lbs., when do you want to lose it by? “Someday” won’t work. But if you anchor it within a timeframe, “by May 1st”, then you’ve set your unconscious mind into motion to begin working on the goal.
Your goal is probably realistic if you truly believe that it can be accomplished. Additional ways to know if your goal is realistic is to determine if you have accomplished anything similar in the past or ask yourself what conditions would have to exist to accomplish this goal.

T can also stand for Tangible – A goal is tangible when you can experience it with one of the senses, that is, taste, touch, smell, sight or hearing.

When your goal is tangible you have a better chance of making it specific and measurable and thus attainable.

More info here

https://www.projectsmart.co.uk/smart-goals.php (Links to an external site.)

Information about me: To help you set and create the SMART Goal, kindly see the below information about my background and career experience:

• I am an international student who study abroad, specifically in the US, and my major is Logistics Management
• One of my plans is to go back home after a year or two from now and this is after my graduation.
• I also plan to work on supply chain and logistics field when I back home, as have more then 10 years of career experience in operation, transportation, logistics, and warehousing. Within warehousing management in multi-national companies which are providing cost saving, developing, qualify and margin improvements. Experienced in logistics, supply chain, and warehousing. Experienced in multi-categories with high quality assurance, staff, and inventory control.

I worked at the following companies;

• IKEA as Warehouse Group Leader
• HALA Trading as Operation team Leader
• ALSHAYA International company as Distribution Center Supervisor
• Mondelez Internationals (Kraft Foods) Logistics Coordinator
• BNC as Logistics Manager

Discussion question

Kindly follow the above guideline and information, and then do a SMART Goal ?

Also, note that this work contains 2 parts:

• For part one,
  • Respond to the discussion question with in 12 hours from now with at least with 250-300 words

• Then for Part two,
  • I will share with you the text-writing of four other students from the class. If so,then you need to write a respond to each student in less than 12 hours from sharing their text-writing (You must write 50-70-words response to each student).

Instructions to be successful with discussions:

• When you post in discussions stay away from writing posts like: You’ll have a prompt like this example: Discuss the topic of AI in relation to healthcare. Some students will write an answer like. “AI is being used in healthcare for surgeries. It is a technology that is integral to the healthcare system.” This answer will receive 2 points out of 5. Yes, you answered it but did not put a critical piece in the answer– the evidence.
• When you post in discussions stay away from writing posts like: You’ll have a prompt like this example: Discuss the topic of AI in relation to healthcare. Some students will write an answer like. “AI is being used in healthcare for surgeries. It is a technology that is integral to the healthcare system.” This answer will receive 2 points out of 5. Yes, you answered it but did not put a critical piece in the answer– the evidence.
• Stay awayfrom statements like “I think this, or I agree with Angie.” Instead, post something like… Research suggests that AI is just as good of a predictor of medical assessment as humans (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/24/ai-equal-with-human-experts-in-medical-diagnosis-study-finds (Links to an external site.)) Further machine technology is being used not only in diagnosis but also in treatment(https://www.davincisurgery.com/da-vinci-systems/about-da-vinci-systems (Links to an external site.)). Has anyone in the class had a personal experience with this kind of surgery? This is a more robust post and encourages interaction. It would receive full points.

The attached file is key words of chapter 17-19 from our textbook to give you an idea about what we are studying this week.