I find myself thinking a lot about #goals these days, and my accompanying, almost-reflexive, skepticism of the utility of any mandatory #goalSetting regimen or process. Why do I find it so distasteful?
@DavidKnuffke is it the goals themselves? or the nature in which we traditionally set goals that are prescriptive and narrowly measured? Or something else?
I have been increasingly setting goals to experience, or do rather than "achieve."
@ZingerLearns but there’s also something about goal-setting that seems really growth-focused, and I’m not sure that growth is always a useful frame. “I’m going to make sure I maintain the humanity I bring to my interactions with my students and colleagues” seems like a much better goal than a lot of them. Not sure it generally shows up in formal processes. Similarly how many goals are framed in terms of what a person will stop doing?
@ZingerLearns yeah. It’s the process, which touches on both requiring goals to be set in particular areas and in particular ways. It becomes an exercise in progress pantomime. I’d much rather have a conversation around what I’m working on and why than whatever it is we generally require in my org (“have two, make sure they are in these particular areas, make them SMART”).