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Setting targets for your goals is no easy task.
Many leaders create “ambitious” SMART goals. Another common approach is to set a “stretch” target where you shoot for some percentage increase over current performance.
No matter the method, most of the targets I’ve seen across my career have been pretty arbitrary.
In this post, I’m going to teach you a process for creating logical targets for your educational goals.
Read MoreMost goal setting I see in schools is ineffective and counterproductive.
The typical approach is to increase the most recent results by some round percentage such as 10 or 15 or 20%.
But absent certain conditions, these “stretch” goals end up completely disconnected from reality.
I want to teach you three conditions that will lead to much more effective goal setting.
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