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Reviewing Progress

By Kate Williams
From The Performance Manager

Reviewing Progress

Once SMART objectives have been defined, you know precisely what you want to achieve. Undertaking regular reviews will enable you to check how you are doing and, where necessary, make adjustments. This process is shown in Figure 3.5.


Figure 3.5: The process of working towards an objective and evaluating whether or not you are on course for success

The next activity will give you an opportunity to reflect back on a project and evaluate how successful you were in achieving your objective.

ACTIVITY 15

Think about an objective which you have achieved in the recent past, and then answer the following questions:

  1. What was your objective?

Yes

No

  1. Did this objective meet the SMART criteria?

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?

  1. Did you identify, on paper, the individual tasks necessary for achievement of your objective?

?

?

  1. Did you prioritize the tasks?

?

?

  1. Which technique did you use to prioritize the tasks?

  1. Did you set a completion date for each task?

?

?

  1. What method did you use to monitor progress?

  1. How often did you monitor progress?

  1. Was it necessary to take action of some kind to ensure that progress was speeded up so that you could be sure of meeting some of the task completion dates?

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?

  1. What action did you take?

  1. What was the result of the action you took?

  1. Did you achieve your objective on time?

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  1. If not, why not?

  1. What...

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