Goal-Setting

SMART Goals Template

Setting effective goals helps you align your team’s work, set expectations, and
ultimately create a guide for one-on-one meetings and performance conversations.

SMART goals encourage employees to use specific objectives to detail how a goal will
be accomplished. Regardless of what goals framework your company or team is using,
using the SMART framework will help your employee set effective, results-focused
goals.

Set SMART goals by writing them in a way that answers the following criteria:
• Specific: Does the goal have specific means and ends?
• Measurable: Can the goal be measured? How?
• Actionable/Achievable: What are the specific actions that will lead to this goal?
What do you need to do to accomplish it?
• Relevant/Realistic: Is this goal relevant to your job duties, team, and company? Is it
based on factors that are under your control?
• Time-bound: What is the time period? Does it depend on a deadline or target date,
or is it on a regular schedule?

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 Write the goal you have in mind.
Initial
Goal

What do you want to accomplish? Who needs to be included? When

do you want to do this? Why is this a goal?
S
Specific

How can you measure progress and know if you’ve successfully met
your goal?
M
Measureable

Do you have the skills required to achieve the goal? If not, can you
obtain them? What is the motivation for this goal? Is the amount of

A
effort required on par with what the goal will achieve?

Achievable

Why am I setting this goal now? Is it align with overall objectives?

R
Relevant

What’s the deadline and is it realistic?

T
Time-bound

Review what you have written, and craft a new goal statement based
on what the answers to the questions above have revealed.
Smart
Goal

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