SMART GOALS By Don Zeman SMART is an acronym for five characteristics that help you set well-defined goals: Specific Measurable Achievable Relevant Time-Framed Process for developing SMART goals: is a particular counselling skill in GCAP Let’s say your goal “To improve my ability to do How do we measure that? When do we measure it? Think about the 635/671.” outcome you are seeking. Remember that a goal is something that you want to change or improve. Specific: A particular counselling skill that you have already been working on improving. Measurable: On a self-report scale of 1/10 to 10/10. Achievable: How realistic or attainable is this. Relevant: Improving my skills is definitely relevant for me as I become a counsellor. Time-framed (and complete SMART goal): a reasonable date for achieving What’s this goal? I will complete this goal within X days. Here is an example: Original Goal: To improve my ability to be culturally responsive and utilize the client's cultural lens. I will improve my ability to be culturally responsive and utilize the client's Specific: cultural lens in GCAP 635. Measurable: On a self-report measure using a scale of 1 not well done to 10 as – – good as I can imagine possible during online and classroom parts of this course, I will improve from a rating of X/10, today (May 15, 2017), to X + Y/10 (for example, from 5/10 to 7/10). Achievable: This is attainable and realistic because I have already improved from a 1/10, at the start of this course, in both understanding of and ability to be culturally responsive and utilize the client's cultural lens to 5/10 today (May 15, 2017). Relevant: This is a very relevant skill for me to have as a counsellor. Time-framed (and complete SMART goal): I will improve from X/10 to X + Y/10 by July 23, 2017.
SMART GOALS By Don Zeman SMART is an acronym for five characteristics that help you set well-defined goals: Specific Measurable Achievable Relevant Time-Framed Process for developing SMART goals: Let’s say your goal is “To improve my ability to do a particular counselling skill in GCAP 635/671.” How do we measure that? When do we measure it? Think about the outcome you are seeking. Remember that a goal is something that you want to change or improve. Specific: A particular counselling skill that you have already been working on improving. Measurable: On a self-report scale of 1/10 to 10/10. Achievable: How realistic or attainable is this. Relevant: Improving my skills is definitely relevant for me as I become a counsellor. Time-framed (and complete SMART goal): What’s a reasonable date for achieving this goal? I will complete this goal within X days. Here is an example: Original Goal: To improve my ability to be culturally responsive and utilize the client's cultural lens. Specific: I will improve my ability to be culturally responsive and utilize the client's cultural lens in GCAP 635. Measurable: On a self-report measure using a scale of 1 – not well done to 10 – as good as I can imagine possible during online and classroom parts of this course, I will improve from a rating of X/10, today (May 15, 2017), to X + Y/10 (for example, from 5/10 to 7/10). Achievable: This is attainable and realistic because I have already improved from a 1/10, at the start of this course, in both understanding of and ability to be culturally responsive and utilize the client's cultural lens to 5/10 today (May 15, 2017). Relevant: This is a very relevant skill for me to have as a counsellor. Time-framed (and complete SMART goal): I will improve from X/10 to X + Y/10 by July 23, 2017.
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