My goals for this blog:

1. Stress the importance of setting goals

2. Encourage you to implement goals more often in project based engagements

3. Use an image of a hockey player (b/c somehow we've managed to neglect hockey analogies)

Ok, the third one is not true, but the first two are incredibly accurate. I believe you can't state goals enough. Maybe, it's my ISTJ Myers-Briggs profile, but I think goals are the ultimate form of expectation management, which is everything when juggling multiple stakeholders in a project. I was recently encouraged to ALWAYS present a list of agreed upon goals before a presentation for a client, and since then I've noticed a few things. The presentations are always better! I think it changes the tone. It gives a common-ground platform to leap from. It shows a co-creation, which is super important for creating harmony. It also allows straying conversations to be put back on the tracks with the simple question, "Does that accomplish our intended goal?".

If you are about to embark on a new project, set goals. Get buy-in from everyone involved and keep all tasks "on-goal". It's a simple way to bring focus and common ground to any type of project.

What's the ideal number of goals to set?

(You can't have to many and lose the element of focus, but can't have too few and lose benchmarks)

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