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Setting SMARTER Goals eLearning
Online goal setting training using the SMARTER framework: specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, time-bound, then evaluated and reviewed.
Who it is for
Who this setting smarter goals course is for
Goals fail for predictable reasons: too vague to measure, too big to start, or set once and never looked at again. SMARTER adds the two steps that most goal setting leaves out.
- Line managers setting objectives for a team
- Anyone writing their own development goals
- Supervisors running appraisals
- Project and team leaders
- HR teams running performance processes
- Small business owners setting business objectives
Course content
What the setting smarter goals course covers
Five short lessons covering why goals fail, specific and measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound, evaluated and reviewed, and using SMARTER at work, then a 12-question assessment.
Why goals fail
Common reasons goals fail, and the SMARTER checklist.
Specific and measurable
What exactly will be achieved, and how you will know.
Achievable, relevant and time-bound
Realistic, linked to priorities, and with a deadline.
Evaluated and reviewed
Building evaluation in, and honest review.
Using SMARTER at work
Appraisals, team objectives, and SMARTER as a checklist not a strategy.
Outcomes
What you will be able to do afterwards
- Explain why goals fail
- Write specific and measurable goals
- Make goals achievable, relevant and time-bound
- Build in evaluation and review
- Use SMARTER for appraisals and team objectives
Practicalities
How the course works
Would you rather have a tutor?
Structured decision making pairs naturally with structured goal setting.
For employers
Setting SMARTER Goals training for a team
Objectives are more useful when a whole management layer writes them the same way, appraisals get shorter and the goals get comparable.
- One invoice instead of a card payment per person
- Licences allocated as people join, so induction is covered
- Completion and expiry reporting for your records
- Renewal reminders before certificates lapse
- Bespoke versions built around your own procedures
Setting SMARTER Goals eLearning: common questions
Evaluated and Reviewed. Those two steps are what stop a goal being written once and forgotten, which is the most common failure.
Both. Managers setting objectives for others and individuals writing their own development goals use the same framework.
It covers the goal-setting part of them. How your organisation runs appraisals is a matter for your own process.
That is what the review step is for. The course is explicit that abandoning a goal honestly is better than quietly missing it.
Yes. The framework scales from personal development goals to team and business objectives, though larger objectives usually need breaking down.
About 30 to 45 minutes, with no time limit: start it, pause it, and come back whenever suits. The certificate is issued as soon as you pass the end assessment.
Yes. It runs in a browser on any modern phone, tablet or computer, with nothing to install.
Yes. Open a business account and we invoice you for the licences, which you allocate as people need them, with completion reporting included.
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