The S.M.A.R.T. method to reach greater heights !

Sometimes doing practical examples teaches us very valuable lessons. The students of section A felt the same way when we witnessed “The Tower building exercise” in the class by our beloved Prof Mandi. Students were asked to build a tower in the class room. For building the tower students were given the following instructions:

•        The tower is to be built with wooden cubes.
•          The tower is made with only one cube base
•          The person actually making the tower will be blindfolded. Other team members will assist him from a distance, just like the top management guide its workers in an organisation.
•          Whenever tower falls, the game is over

All of us were asked to make an estimate of the Goal set, Goal achieved, Goal history, Potential for the team performing the task. I, as an external consultant gave the team suggestions about checking the alignment of the floor and advised them about the surface of wooden cubes while constructing the tower, as the pair of opposite faces of the cubes had different finishing on the surface.

The Team Building the Tower

After hearing a lot of answers from the students, Prof Mandi told us about the importance of SMART goals.

What is S.M.A.R.T ?

Before the start of class, Most of us used to believe that the concept of goal setting is

Pre-conceived Notions of GOAL SETTING 

A : Goal Set
B : Potential
C : Performance (actual)
D : Performance (history)

I used to believe that the goal set will always be higher than the potential. But then after understanding the complete sense of goal setting, I realized that every human has an immense potential, so potential will always be on the top.

Notion after realizing the POTENTIAL 

A : Potential
B : Goal Set

C : Performance (actual)

D : Performance (history)

So, "A" has to be potential for all of us. The goals which we set should be always less than our potential, but there should always be efforts made to bridge the gap between our potential and goals setting, "B" is our goal set. The managers should target to raise the bar of goals to be set.