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Collaborative Goal Setting
Submitted by Jack Byrd, Jr.
Organizations, collaborative groups, and individuals have a need for goals. We often fail to meet our goals because our process for creating the goals is flawed. This activity demonstrates how to collaboratively set goals that are realistic and achievable.
Learning Goals
Develop a deeper understanding of common mistakes in goal setting.
Learn an adapted SMART process to collaboratively create achievable goals.
Instructions
Set Up: Prepare for the Activity
Organize participants into small groups (5-6 ppl).
Share the Collaborative Goal Setting Worksheet with participants.
Begin by introducing the learning goals of this activity.
Step One: Introduce the SMART Goal Description (10 min)
As a full group, introduce the worksheet and review the description of SMART Goals:
S = Specific (things that are easy to relate to)
M = Measurable (things that we measure quantitatively or qualitatively)
A = Achievable (things that are realistic, agreed to, and attainable)
R = Relevant (things that make a difference)
T = Time Bound (things that can be achieved within the time available)
Ask participants to review Challenge One of the worksheet and complete this first step silently. After about five minutes, invite a couple of participants to share their revised statements. Review as a full group.
Step Two: Practice Setting SMART Goals (10 min)
In small groups, invite participants to review Challenge Two: Organization Goal Setting in the worksheet. Give them a few moments to read the scenario and then ask them to complete the challenge as a group. You can also read the scenario aloud to the full group.
Organization Goal Setting
You are the leadership team of a volunteer organization. The mission of the organization is to increase food security in your community. Currently, there are 223 members in your organization, but only 127 members (56%) are actively involved. You want to expand your services but need more members and, particularly, active members to do so.
Step Three: Practice Identifying New Challenges (15 min)
Invite groups to move on to Challenge Three in the worksheet. If necessary, review the tasks together as a full group:
Each group must identify another challenge for the leadership team in the scenario.
Each group will create a new goal based on the needs that they identified in the scenario.
After each group has had a chance to create a new goal based on a challenge that they identified, briefly share back with the full group.
Step Four: Debrief as a Full Group (15 min)
Discuss:
How was the experience different when creating a goal by yourself (like in Challenge One) versus crafting goals together (Challenges Two and Three)?
Why might you want to craft goals together as a group or team?
What are the challenges of doing this together? Trade-offs?
TIME
50
min
MODULE
Introduction to Collaborative Discussion
This activity is more involved or complicated than a beginner activity. This activity is for groups that have established trust or experience with discussion.
This activity can be easily modified for asynchronous learning. See Sample Asynchronous Certificate Program Design to illustrate sample sequencing.
This activity is suitable for professional or more formal learning environments.
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YD
November 28, 2022 at 9:13:29 PM
Activity 2.7 uses metaphors to explore the place of imagination and humor in exploring difficult or unfamiliar topics.
YD
November 28, 2022 at 9:10:50 PM
Activity 2.6 is another fun activity that encourages flexible thinking and a method of communication built on validation and respect, resulting in an environment of collaboration.
YD
November 28, 2022 at 9:02:30 PM
Activity 2.5 is fun activity that helps you let loose and unleash your playful side to help demonstrate how play is very useful to broadening perspectives.
YD
November 28, 2022 at 8:57:35 PM
Activity 2.4 helps encourage bold, imaginative thinking and looking at the risks involved in both action and inaction.
YD
November 28, 2022 at 8:54:27 PM
Activity 2.3 uses mind mapping to flex your creativity in a fun and engaging way and apply it to developing innovative thoughts and solutions.
YD
November 28, 2022 at 8:50:37 PM
Activity 2.2 is another innovative and useful activity that helps us explore, engage, work with a topic that can be frustrating or difficult for many, i.e. contradictions in the world and ourselves.
YD
November 28, 2022 at 8:47:31 PM
Activity 2.1 provides useful information to develop and use curiosity not just in a discussion space, but also in your everyday life.
YD
November 28, 2022 at 8:44:34 PM
Activity 1.7 is provides a useful inventory of collaborative discussion skills. It can be used to bring awareness to your skill level as you begin and to keep track of your progress as you move through this toolkit of activities.
YD
November 28, 2022 at 8:41:05 PM
Activity 1.6 is very innovative. It helps demonstrate how the prioritization of different values we hold changes according to context.
YD
November 28, 2022 at 8:38:49 PM
Activity 1.5 helps look at discussions from a different lens, moving away from just right or wrong and taking a deeper look at the values that drive different perspectives and opinions.