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As a supervisor, you will help employees to establish performance goals and create goals for your overall team. Creating effective goals is not an easy skill to master! This assignment will allow you to practice incorporating the four ingredients common to effective goal setting discussed in the textbook by first creating a set of personal goals for yourself.

Your discussion will have two parts. First, you will reflect on your current planning skills. Second, you will apply what you have learned regarding effective goal setting by creating three personal goals.

Self-Evaluation

1. Consider a time when your planning skills either benefitted you or failed you and respond to the following prompts:

a. Share your personal example of when your planning benefitted or failed you.?b. In what areas do you consider your planning skills to be strong? (Examples: Allocating time for tasks, budgeting money, planning for the future, etc.)?c. In what areas do you consider your planning skills to be weak??d. Do you consider yourself to be proactive or reactive?

Application

When we fail to create goals for ourselves, we often find ourselves "stuck" in the same job or situation with no clear direction for the future. Consider the changes or improvements you would like to accomplish in your life and create at least three personal goals for yourself.
Create one short-term (accomplished within a year), one mid-term (accomplished within one to five years), and one long-term goal (accomplished in more than five years).

Each of your goals must fulfill the following criteria:

a The goals must be specific, meaning they can be measured and evaluated.
b The goals must have a concise time period.
c The goals must identify a performance feedback mechanism meaning you must identify how you will track your progress and evaluate your performance against each goal.