©equipro international 2006, all rights reserved in all media pgrd goals for life program session i

©EquiPro International 2006, All Rights Reserved in All Media

PGRDGoals for Life

Program

Session I

“The Goals for Life™” Program

Work Life Balance


The Power of Goals©

Success seems to be connected to

action. Successfulpeople keep

moving. They make mistakes, but they

don’t quit.

Success seems to be connected to

action. Successfulpeople keep

moving. They make mistakes, but they

don’t quit.

A journey of a thousand miles

begins with a singlestep.

A journey of a thousand miles

begins with a singlestep.

When you reach a fork in the road,don’t just take it,

make a choice towards your

True North

When you reach a fork in the road,don’t just take it,

make a choice towards your

True North

Imbalance keeps usmoving. If you can

learn to laugh whenever you trip,or fall, you’ll start

to appreciatehow much missteps

teach you.

Imbalance keeps usmoving. If you can

learn to laugh whenever you trip,or fall, you’ll start

to appreciatehow much missteps

teach you.


Objectives

• Provide you a structure for integrating and achieving personal and professional goals for optimal life/work balance

• Engage you in a unique learning experience for thinking about your future

• Build an ongoing and supportive environment for good feedback and accountability

• Help you build a Personal Action Plan that will facilitate implementation of your goal strategies

• Provide you guidance and insight about personal and professional growth


Objectives

• Follow-up on your progress in each of the segments in The Goals for Life™ Program Series

• Give you membership in the PGRD “Goals for Life” community


The Goals for Life™ Program Series

Session I: The Goals for Life™ Process

Session II: Managing Your Goals for Life™ Journey

Session III: Transformation: Goal Setting for Life


Session I: Agenda

• Who are We/and Our Expectations?• Why The Goals for Life Program™

• Goal Achievement Success Patterns• Break• Future Perfect Exercise• Five Crucial Goals: 3 Years – 1 Year• 90 Day Plan of Action• Session Closing Exercise


What is Your Goal Achievement Success Pattern?


WHAT DRIVES GOAL ACHIEVERS?

LIFE DIRECTION

CONFIDENCEGROWTH

“It is not just achieving the results of my goals, it’s the person I

became on the journey”


The Goal Achievers: Success Factors

THEY:• Take ownership of their

future • Use goal setting as a way of

living, not a destination• Are creative and life-long

learners• Surround themselves with

the best people • Know “their difference that

makes the difference”• Leave a legacy of

contribution


What is A Goal?

“A goal is an end toward which you direct specific effort”

It Has:• A Positive Result To Be Achieved• A Measurable Outcome• A Specific Date and Time to Be Accomplished


The Smart Cycle of Goal-Setting

PURSUE ACTION

S

ACHIEVE/ ADJUST GOALS

SET SMART OUTCOME

GOALS

EVALUATE & LEARN

CELEBRATE

PROGRESS &

GROWTH

CELEBRATE

PROGRESS &

GROWTH


Brainstorm Your Goals

“What would I really want from life if I were absolutely, positively

certain I would get it?

“What would I really want to accomplish in life if I were

absolutely, positively certain I would do it?


UnSMART vs. SMART Goals

UnSMART Goals SMART Goals

Get promoted to senior position

Became (functional) Global Team Leader by the time I’m 45

Buy a vacation home By end of 2007 select geographic location of vacation home and by mid-2008 close on a vacation home

Lose weight By September 2007, achieve weight goal of 130 pounds. Maintain size 8 through end of 2008.


It’s not what It’s not what

you achieve you achieve

that will bring that will bring

you joy…you joy…

It’s the person you mustIt’s the person you must

become to achieve it.become to achieve it.


• Recent research into happiness finds that the

happiest people aren’t those with the most but

those with a source of Purpose. A sense that they

are contributing something bigger than

themselves.

• So as you are thinking about what you wish for

10 years from now – choose wishes for what they

will make of you to achieve it. The greater the wish

– the greater you have to become to make that

wish come true!


Write Your Headline!Your 10 Year Vision

[10 Year Future Date]

[Family Career, Financial, Social, Health, Community, Contribution, Self-Actualization]


Goal Achievers: Success Secrets: #1

Your Goals Must:• Be worth the commitment to get you the results

you will value!• Be Written Down• Describe Specific Positive Outcomes• Contain Evidence/Metrics of Achievement• Be Continuously “Chunked” (10 year – 3 year – 1

Year – 3 Months)• Be then written in the present tense (“I am a size

8”), and carried with you everywhere and referred to frequently.

• Have an action every day or every week or every month.


Some Cautions for Your Goal Journey

• Ask: whose goal is it, anyway?

• Don’t lose your peripheral vision

• Relish today as a step towards tomorrow

• Beware of “the false summit”

• Enjoy unpredictable gems and detours

• Play hard and with passion!


Homework Assignment – Session 2

• Fine-tune/Optimize your Success Pattern

• Identify “your non-Success” Pattern

• Pay attention and write down “Coincidences”

• Use The Goal Recorder – note progress/results

• Calendar the next sessions:- Dec 4, 2007 – 8:30 -12:00 noon- Feb 5, 2008 – 8:30 -12:00 noon


Goal Setting Resources

• Make Success Measurable!: A Mindbook-Workbook for Setting Goals and Taking Actions by Douglas K. Smith, John Wiley & Sons: New York, 1999

• Creating the Good Life: Applying Aristotle’s Wisdom to Find Meaning and Happiness by Walter Isaacson, James O'Toole, Holtzbrinck: New York, 2005

• The Laws of Lifetime Growth : Always Make Your Future Bigger Than Your Past by Dan Sullivan, Catherine Nomura, Berrett-Koehler Publishers: New York, 2006

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, Harper Collins: New York, 1998.


Goal Setting Resources

• The Magic Lamp: Goal Setting for People Who Hate Setting Goals by Keith Ellis, Three Rivers Press: New York, 1998

• Write it Down, Make it Happen: Knowing what you want – and Getting it! Henriette Anne Klauser, Touchstone: New York, 2000.

• There Are No Accidents by Robert H. Hopeke, Riverhead Books: New York, 1997

• World-Class Teams by Lynda McDermott, John Wiley: New York, 1998.

• Software/Internet Program: goalmaker.com


LYNDA C. MCDERMOTT, MSOD, CSPis President of EquiPro International, Ltd., a New York City based international management consulting firm which specializes in the strategic development of organizations and their employees. Her experience involves over 30 years of line management, and internal and external consulting.

McDermott began her career as line manager, and then an internal consultant with Ohio Bell Telephone Company, AT&T and Ernst & Whinney. She began her external consulting career with E&W as Manager-in-Charge of Human Resources Consulting, and later served as a Director for a national Human Resources and Organizational Consulting Practice for KMG Main Hurdman.

Over the last twenty years her firm has provided consulting services in strategic planning, leadership, team development and executive coaching performance management, 360° assessment, business development, change management and organization effectiveness in a wide variety of industries. Her client list includes such companies as Pfizer, Hearst Magazines, Biogen Idec, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ermenegildo Zegna, Standard & Poor’s, Novartis, Sanofi Aventis, DuPont Women Lawyers’ Network, and Willkie Farr & Gallagher.

She has served on the National Board of Directors of the American Society for Training and Development and has been their Torch Award Winner. Her firm has received two ASTD “Excellence in Practice” Citations for their ground-breaking work with global teams in over twenty-five countries and for their innovative “Build Our Business” program. She has also served on the Board of Directors of Girls Incorporated (Formerly Girls Clubs of America). Ms. McDermott is a frequent speaker and is co-author of the best-selling book World Class Teams (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) and author of the best-selling book titled Caught In The Middle: How To Survive and Thrive In Today's Management Squeeze (©Prentice-Hall). She is a Certified Speaking Professional with the National Speakers Association and has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, on CNBC, Wall Street Journal Radio, National Public Radio and in numerous business publications. McDermott serves on the adjunct faculty of INSEAD in Fountainbleu, France and for Stony Brook University’s EMBA for Law Firm Management.

Ms. McDermott is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Miami University and has a Masters of Science in Organization Development from Bowling Green State University

EquiPro International, Ltd.420 Lexington Avenue, Suite 1712

New York, New York 10170(212) 573-9046 / [email protected]


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life program session

professional goals

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