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Using Notejoy for SMART Goals

The Smart Goal setting framework is a great way to bring structure and trackability for managing progress against your objectives. The acronym SMART stands for Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time-Based. In order to be a SMART goal, the goal needs to meet all five of these criteria. If you'd like to learn more, here's an in-depth explanation of Smart Goals including examples.

Notejoy makes setting and sharing Smart Goals easy

Notejoy makes it fast and easy to get your team on the same page to set SMART goals and establish them with pinned notes and templates. Here's how to do it in three easy steps.

Step 1 - Create a Smart Goals guide and template

Create a guide and a template note first in order to lay the groundwork for setting Smart Goals. Leverage the templates below, customizing the dates and information for your team:

Note Template: The Smart Goals Guide

Smart Goals Guide

We're leveraging the SMART goals framework for goal setting.

Key Deadlines

Action Required

Review the deadlines and information about Smart Goals in this document, and then head over to draft your own Smart Goals at the Smart Goals Template note pinned to the top of this notebook.

What are Smart Goals?

The acronym SMART stands for Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time-Based. In order to be a SMART goal, the goal needs to meet all five of these criteria.

Specific
Specific goals are well defined and clear on what needs to be accomplished. What exactly do you want to achieve? The more specific the description, the less room there is for interpretation between a good and bad result.

Measurable
Measurable goals have clearly identified how you'll evaluate whether or not you are successful or not. Often, this also means breaking your goal down into quantifiable evidence of whether it's accomplished or not. Eating healthier is not a goal, however eating vegetables twice a day and dessert only once a month, is.

Attainable
Attainable goals are realistic about what is possible given the availability of resources, knowledge, and time. Ideally, it should stretch your abilities but remain in the realm of possibility to get done.

Relevant
Relevant goals are important to you and will make a material impact on achieving your larger objectives. Does it make a difference to your overall objectives if this goal is met? While many goals are worthwhile expenditures of time, it may not always be the right timing or match to current needs.

Time-Based
Time-based goals lock goals into a specific timeframe and specify when they will be completed by. This also ties into the M for measurable goal because in order for a goal to truly be measurable, it needs to be time-based.

What are some examples of good and bad SMART goals?

In this example, the bad goal fails several Smart Goal criteria by not being specific, measurable, or time-based. If you were to onboard 2 customers in the next five years, it would technically fulfill the goal because it isn't specific about when it needs to happen (end of Q1), and what success looks like in a measurable way (10 customers).

In this example, it's not specific or measurable what "work on improving presentation skills" means. By breaking it down into a smaller goal of delivering 2 presentations to teams, it makes it a much more concrete and measurable goal.

Note Template: The Smart Goals Template

Smart Goals Template

How to use this note

Setting Goals

Hello team! We are using the SMART goal setting framework to set goals as a team. This means that our goals should be Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time-Based. For more information on what this means refer to the Smart Goals Guide.

My Smart Goals

Goal #1

Goal #2

Goal #3

Step 2 - Pin the two notes to the top of the notebook

In Notejoy, you can pin notes to keep them organized in their notebooks. Right click and 'Pin' will make the pinned note stay at the very top of the note list.

By pinning the note, you'll make it very easy for your team to find.

Step 3 - Invite your collaborators into the note

Now you're ready! Share the completed notebook template with your team, and they'll be able to find the instructions and start creating their goals based on the template provided.

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