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Goals

Whether work-related or personal, a goal is similar to our destination during a trip.

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What Are Goals?

Whether work-related or personal, a goal is similar to our destination during a trip. Like dream vacations of which we only imagine, goals without plans and action are merely dreams. Unfortunately, dreams alone, while exciting, do not lead to success.

Path to Success

To begin our journey, we choose a destination. With our goal in mind, we must select a mode of transportation, our route, and our travel companions. We need to identify each step of our journey. Our destination represents a goal, and each of our steps represents a task. We take one step at a time, but to enjoy smooth sailing, we need to identify, in advance, each of the tasks which are necessary to arrive safely and on time at our ultimate destination.

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Why hassle with writing and discussing goals?

Are you often worried and anxious? Are team members sometimes confused over which are their most important objectives? Do you sometimes lie awake contemplating all you need to complete the next day—and fretting over what you might have forgotten? If so, ease your mind and eliminate unnecessary worry by documenting goals, projects, and tasks in Cloud Effective’s productivity apps. Ultimately, reducing anxiety frees your mind and the minds of your colleagues for more fulfilling and creative thought.

Similar to the way a GPS monitors speed and scans for unforeseen obstacles to confirm the best route, we too need to observe progress toward our most critical goals. Routinely updating progress ensures we are on target and provides opportunities to course-correct—”recalculating!”

Many think that planning is a waste of time. On the contrary, well-thought-out plans expedite fulfillment of our goals. As we plan, we divide each goal into a series of smaller, more manageable tasks. Each of these tasks, when completed, leads us closer to our ultimate goal, increases momentum, and creates excitement! In other words, each victory builds confidence and reassures us that our aim is attainable.

When we work alone, there exists no differences or conflicts, and thus no opportunity for synergy. When we collaborate with others, we introduce different skills, views, and capabilities. At times, these differences may lead to conflict, but when correctly managed, differences lead to synergy.

Because our strengths and weaknesses often differ, it is beneficial to work with others whose strengths complement our own. Similarly, different tasks required different skills. Thus, we should choose friends and colleagues whose skills match those needed to complete each task. By following these basic rules of collaboration, we create synergy and hasten progress toward our most significant goals. Cloud Effective’s team and goal pages make collaboration easy and fun.

What Are SMART Goals?

Smart Goals

SMART Goals are well-thought-out, performance-planning statements.

They are written objectives which describe and quantify specific outcomes that an individual or group is responsible for delivering.

What Are SMART Goals?

What are CLEAR Goals?

CLEAR, like SMART, is an acronym which facilitates understanding and development of well-thought-out objectives. CLEAR stresses collaboration and the necessity to split goals into incremental and more manageable tasks. SMART emphasizes that a goal should be relevant to the ‘big picture,’ specific, and measurable. Both suggest that goals should be attainable but challenging enough to inspire.

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Practical and Effective Goals:

Both CLEAR and SMART methodologies support the development of effective goal statements inspiring collaboration, motivating action, and ultimately leading to success!

Clear Measures

Have clear measures of success, and are easily understood.

Motivate Commitment

Motivate commitment, inspire collaboration, and produce win-win results.

Achievable Goals

Though often difficult, are limited in scope (achievable) and duration (time-based).

Emotional Connection

Elicit an emotional connection from team members, tapping into their energy.

Principal Stakeholders

Are relevant to the bigger picture and accepted by principal stakeholders.

Refined Accordingly

Are refined accordingly, as new situations arise, to maintain or improve relevance.

“We chose Cloud Effective because it is the only platform we could find that combines the capabilities to align daily activity to high-level objectives, site-goals, and team-goals, while inspiring collaboration across multiple sites in Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and California.”

Kenneth Smith

CEO Empirical Wealth Management

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“We chose Cloud Effective because it is the only platform we could find that combines the capabilities to align daily activity to high-level objectives, site-goals, and team-goals, while inspiring collaboration across multiple sites in Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and California.”

Kenneth Smith

CEO Empirical Wealth Management

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