How to Set and Achieve SMART Goals: Crash Course Business - Soft Skills #9
I know things can seem a bit overwhelming when you’re out of school, there are no more grades, and all of a sudden people are talking about five-year plans when it feels like you don’t know what’s happening in five weeks. But we’ve got you. It's time to set goals for yourself!
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You can also add ER (evaluate / repeat) and make a SMARTER goal
We have a defferent ER meaning... ER ( Enjoyable/Rewarding) thus the plan will be more achievable and you dont loss focus on it.
Design isn't about adding all the features you might want, it's about taking away everything you can while achieving the main purpose
S.M.A.R.T. S-Specific M-Measurable A-Attainable R-Relevant T-Timely
I've been taught that the "A" in "S.M.A.R.T." was "Attainable." Ask yourself, "Is this goal within my ability to successfully do?"
KingsleyIII Is that not covered by Realistic?
There are a few modifications of SMART floating around out there. "Ambitious" is well-supported by research because goals that aren't challenging tend not to be motivating, and "Attainable" overlaps with "Realistic." Your point is basically right, though!
@Warren Cook: Goals can be "attainable" without being easy. Goals that are _too_ ambitious may be too unattainable/unrealistic. You need a balance of "is it doable?" and "will it be challenging without being discouragingly so?" But in my opinion, "Attainable" is better. It keeps your feet on the ground.
@Kevin Brooks: Not in my opinion. I've always considered the "Attainable" step as meaning "is it doable?" and the "Realistic" step as meaning "am I demanding too much?"
Attainable would go with Reasonable or Relevant.
I LOVE that you’re covering this! I just took a class on social work burnout and SMART goals was the center of the class. It’s such a wonderful way to achieve anything and everything, including self-care.
2:20 I finished school more than half a year ago, and I feel a similar feeling - except instead of feeling like I'm a failure, I feel like I wasted quite a bit of time and I'm not sure what's the best step forward
I also went through this. It's no fun, but it's part of the journey sometimes. As I get older I realize that the saying, "Hindsight is 20/20" is VERY important. The trick is to move forward. I went to school for Graphic Design and am not a Graphic Designer. Turns out I wasn't very good at Graphic Design so I turned the corner and did something different but allowed the education I'd received to help inform me in indirect ways. Sometimes the best step forward is just to take a step. Get a job. Make sure you're taking care of yourself. Play D&D. Nurture friendships. Life isn't just about your career. Your career is simply a part of your life. I don't know if that's helpful, but there it is :) - Nick J.
CrashCourse , I couldn’t agree more ▶️ play D & D 😁 that help a lot in my 20s! Great video, as always.
@@crashcourse thanks nick. i am going through the same thing. i went to a job fair yesterday and my uncle said i was behind in applying for jobs. i didn't feel that way cause i had to take care of my mom who was sick after i graduated in may of 2019-december 2019 but you know, everything happens for a reason. like you said, the best thing to do at the moment is take a step. i started my youtube channel last year, the sunshine papaya btw, and setting small goals for mycelf always worked out when i was in college. i needed this episode,
Goals are very hard to understand and achieve because they can be so broad and unreachable. This video really gives you a formula that is easy to follow and will help you cut down on your goals.
As a assistant senior patrol leader I went through a lot of leadership training in fact I took a camp on developing leadership skills. SMART goals and knowing of Forming Storming Norming and Preforming. These skills are paramount.
Thank you for this. I'm an experienced scientist already over 10 years into my field of employment...yet for me this has been useful to understand future goal making
Always heard A stands for Attainable
Yak Attack there are a number of different versions
I love this video and this series 😊
This really helped (I've been having trouble getting motivated for school and getting assignments done and I've been leaving it to the last minute and not knowing if I was getting everything done until the night before) so this helped with some new ideas on how to get it done.
I’ve been trying to improve for a long time, but I’ve been going about it all wrong. I’ve tried and failed for years now and I only now am just finding this. I wish I had found it earlier
You can have specialized goals when you have across the board clarity in your vision (architecture) it allows you to see how the pivot impacts your goals and gives you a better tally of ROI.
Sounds Great But do you know what makes you S.P.E.C.I.A.L. Strength Perception Endurance Charisma Intelligence Agility and Luck
OMNIBOT that sounds interesting. How can i apply/use it?
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I love these videos so much!
Well done.
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I'm a commerce student and my friend who is a nerdfighter reminded me why your channel exists. My tutor used one of your videos to explain globalisation and this business video is helping me with my soft skills. Thanks
This is the best video ever.
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Regarding "It's okay to table a goal" - it's also okay to keep plugging away at it in small amounts if that's something that works better. Sometimes that won't work, obviously. You can't always quit half way through a task. But especially if it's a big project, doing a little every day is a valid way to make progress. It's also not a sign of failure to take longer at a given task or goal than some other person. I've had to remind myself of all this quite frequently. My biggest struggle has always been that first step, though.
Thanks crash course
Based on what I learned in school, SMART means: specific, measurable, achievable/attainable, realistic, and time-bounded. Maybe each school, university, group, or company have their own definition of what the acrobym stands for. :)
There are different words but for the most part it’s the same thing
So for the young foxes among us: these steps might seem simple. These steps might feel underwhelming or overwhelming. But dont worry : Try to keep these goals in mind and the many others of this channel. They will put you one step ahead even when you feel like your 5 steps behind. Reality is knowing what you wanted, where you ended and why. Next time you'll use that knowledge. The expert aren't that far ahead, they just look that way.
Stellar content, we must remain vigilant
Obtaining a position that requires troubleshooting, typing and if I'm lucky database views should have been obtainable. Now my year of job searching is almost up and it's already time to start a master's. However, that job "is a part of the education," says everyone.
Putting priorities on the back burner, like trading success in college for my personal health and survival, has caused me to fail classes and get suspended by FAFSA. But at least I am still alive...so I have to get effective treatment and prove I am "mentally stable" within 2 months in order to attend college next semester. Oh, and I travelled to this U.S. university from IRELAND. ... Maybe I can make a good story out of this later down the road?
Was this made for me? Lol too relatable
Smart Measurable Achievable Realistic Timely
can u add any document resources for further information about this topic ?
A for Attainable
Smart goal number 1 - I am going to lose half of the weight before I finish my 25th crash video. Sub goal 1 - I'll join a gym today. Sub goal 2 - I'll fix an appointment with a nutritionist Sub goal 3 - Stick to my commitments. I love you host. THANKYOU FOR THE VIDEO.
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An example of rewarding the wrong thing is in the office when they set a prize for the branch that looses the most collective weight to fight obesity. It leads to one character being in the hospital because she went on an unhealthy juice cleanse for days, eating nothing, and also lead to arguments between employees and doing things like taking away unhealthy food or berating people.
Here is a warning: your employer is going to set goals for you, as the video shows. They are not always directly financial to the business, but they might be to you. Make sure these don't throw a wrench in your personal goals, or your morals. My last employer required 10 hours of volunteer work a week for one of the non-profits they support. The one before that required an additional certification every six months and would only reimburse a passing test. They would also not reimburse yearly continuing education costs on those certifications. A cautionary tale: In the US, financial advisors are sometimes given sweetheart deals by firms as a sign on. This is usually in the form of a loan that is forgiven over five consecutive years of working at the firm. This loan is meant for financial advisors to invest and demonstrate to their clients that the products they recommend are also products they invest in. The corporate mores tell a different tale, and that is clients expect a financial advisors to look successful. Nice suits, a nice car, a nice house, a golf club membership, a wife and kids, etc. Most use the majority of the loan for that, and it can come around and bite them if they quit or are fired. Since it is a forgiveness loan, the firm comes for the remainder that might not exist if they are buying into the corporate culture. I've heard some nightmare tales of people following the corporate and client expectations and coming out the worse for it.
There's no tricks just work really hard with discipline!! That's all
Missing the tiny details may result in bad consequences,too. I learned not to underestimate the tricks.
Feel like switching the A to ambitious is a bad move. People that struggle to structure their goals and process have a tendency toward goals that are too big, and rarely pick goals that are too small. Encouraging people to choose ambition instead of attainable will cause a lot of people to stall out and achieve less.
Guys, does any of you have advise on how to define a challenging but realistic deadline? In my experience, most of the times giving a goal a challenging but still achivable deadline is very very hard to estimate. What ends up happening is that you either put a deadline thats too easy to achieve or one that is too hard, compromising the challenging (or the attainable) part of the goal. For example, if you are a tennis player and set a goal of "entering the top 100 players". How do you set a challenging but realistic time to that? You getting there depends on a lot of elements of randomness like the performance of other players, the speed of your mental evolution, your coach, etc etc. All of that makes it very hard to estimate a realistic deadline, and in life most things works he same way ...
Here is the thing. You have to just listen to your gut feeling ( Which is based on past experiences) to start out with. Later, it is okay to re-evaluate the SMART goal and or add some steps you have found necessary for your success. It is like one of those learning goals.
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Nursing care plans lol
Had to stop watching a minute in because I don't have dreams or goals anymore.
A goal for actors on youtube could be "how to keep your eyes from moving while you are reading from a TelePrompter.
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"I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”-Dwight Eisenhower
Im curious, what is your interpretation of that?
I don't feel got any motivated, I feel like "just give up" don't dream too high
IM BATMAN!
*deep sigh*
Well done! But 7 views and 10 likes, LOL.
Hands up if you here as a nursing student tryna careplan and not learn about how somebody grew up and developed a 5 year plan. A does not stand for ambitious. It stands for Attainable or Achievable. Theres no point in setting goals you cannot achieve. A smart goal is not ambitious, a SMART goal is attainable.
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The lung capacity of this guy is OVER 9000!
Uuughh. HR scamspeak alert!!! SMART is one of those acronyms high-fee business consultants use to fleece corporations of money that should be going to providing employees with decent health and pension benefits. Next video on Meyer-Briggs?
🌹Look up philosophy on KZhead what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger
NATIVE LATINOS Fook TRUMP Phineas Gage has something to say about that...
Smart goals? Are the goals smarter than Einstein
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I want to acheive something ,but without maths.
You can't, maths are everywhere, unless you want to live underground.
@@BasileusHorus ur right ,but i talk about complex maths.
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Could y'all stop doing that slice sound all the time? I know it's a nice sound, but don't use it all the time
It's sad that we have prepared the next generation of adults so poorly that 2/3 of an episode of a show ostensibly about soft skills in business has to be devoted to the formulation and pursuit of goals. That's not a business soft skill, that's a core aspect of so-called "adulting".
It be like that.
You don't even have the acronym right. A - attainable R- relevant
So interesting topic and so annoying speaker. That’s lame...( 😒
Great tips but terrible video quality