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MG 313 Assignment - Goal Setting Discussion Reply

Effective goal setting is a critical aspect of effective performance management. An important way to improve your performance and your ability to manage the performance of others is to create better goals. Both performance and learning goals are important, but employees are unlikely to achieve their performance goals if they lack skills or experience that could be fostered through learning goals.

To more effectively manage the goal-setting process, you should understand the importance of setting goals, the need to promote goal commitment, how to provide support and feedback, and how to create action plans. It is important to learn how to write "SMART" goals-goals which are specific, measurable, attainable, results oriented, and time bound. You can increase your commitment to your goals by writing them down, by identifying key obstacles to success and sources of support, understanding the benefits to you of achieving the goal, by breaking large goals down into smaller goals, by being organized, and by rewarding yourself for progress along the way to goal attainment and at final goal attainment.

For this Discussion, select an important goal at school, AND one outside of school. Make them both "SMART" by being sure that they are: specific, measurable, attainable, results oriented, and time bound. Refine them further still by assuring that they begin with "to ______," and pay particular attention to how it will be measured.