The following terms and corresponding definitions are meant to bring clarity and
understanding of the terms used in goal-setting, personal strategic planning and
coaching.
Action Plans: Plans containing "must
do’s" actions that will result in achieving one or more goals.
Affirmation: A positively worded phrase that
supports a goal. Affirmations work best when couched in language that is Personal,
Present Tense and Positive (3P’s).
Alignment:
Unity when everyone is working together harmoniously as a unit toward the
same objective or purpose.
Backward
Planning: A strategy in which you visualize your goal as achieved and work
backwards to where you are now to determine the steps you would have to have taken
to achieve your goal.
Benchmark:
A reference from which measurements may be made.
Benchmarking:
The process of comparing performance results or processing methodologies with
third-party benchmarks and then take actions to achieve or implement systems similar
to or better than those of the third party.
BHAG:
An acronym for Big Hairy Audacious Goals.
Brainstorming:
A problem solving technique that involves the spontaneous contribution of
ideas. The primary purpose of brainstorming is to generate ideas, not evaluate
them.
Buy In: A state of mind
that occurs when an individual or group understands and commits to a common goal
or action plan.
Cause and Effect:
Thoughts are causes and conditions or outcomes are the effect. There is always
a relationship directly between the effort you make and the end result.
Coaching:
Coaching is:
Partnering with a client in
a thought provoking and creative dialogue that inspires the client to maximise
personal and professional potential;
Helping to
set powerful and inspiring goals in a client's life, and achieve and sustain them.
Comfort Zone: A mental state that one arrives
at and stops growing for numerous reasons, most likely because of fear.
Contingency Plan: Contingency means something
that is likely but not certain to happen. Every plan deals with what you expect
to happen. But no matter how well you plan, the unexpected can and often does
take place. Contingency plans are plan "B".
Everything
Counts: Everything Counts is a philosophy for living. Its meaning is simple,
yet powerful: Every thought, decision, and action either moves you closer to or
further from your goals.
Goal: The
three key elements of a goal are:
A
specific accomplishment to be achieved
A measurable
outcome
A specific date and time to accomplish
the goal
Therefore,
a goal is a specific, measurable accomplishment to be achieved within a specific
time frame.
Goals Coach: A competent,
qualified individual who mentors, instructs, manages, and encourages individuals
or firms in a professional manner towards establishing and achieving their goals.
Goals Journal: A written journal, which contains
a summary of all your goals.
Inertia:
A property of matter by which it remains at rest or in uniform motion unless
acted upon by an outside force.
Intermittent
Reinforcement: When you receive some type of reward just often enough to keep
you on the right track.
Introspection:
The art of looking inward to better understand yourself and to capture your
true feelings.
Linkage: The
connection of missions, visions, values, philosophies, goals and action plans.
Mastermind: A technique where people provide
advice or council in the selection of and pursuit of goals.
Mission
Statement: A mission statement interprets "reason for being;" it
enables you to clarify your purpose for yourself and others who are interested.
A mission statement is a declaration of who you are, why you exist, and what you
intend to accomplish.
In business the organizational mission answers the big question: "What is
our business?" In personal planning, the question is "What is my life’s
business?" In both cases, the answer must define the reason for being.
Momentum: A principle in physics that represents
the mass of a body times its velocity. Momentum is gained in the goal achievement
process by developing a plan where you always know what to do next.
Motivate: To inspire action.
Murphy’s Law: Whatever can go wrong,
will go wrong. Murphy has an uncanny way of making surprise visits.
Performance Standards: Performance standards
indicate the level of results expected for each goal. Standards of performance
serve two primary purposes:
They
indicate progress made toward the goal.
They
determine when the goal has been achieved.
Personal
Board of Directors: A group of individuals who provide advice and serve as
a sounding board for the evaluation of strategies, tactics and operational matters.
Philosophy Statement: A developed statement,
which expounds guiding ideologies with regards to ethics, quality standards, values
and beliefs.
Plan: A method
for achieving a goal
Process: A
collection of activities structured to produce a particular output.
Quantifiable: Something that can be measured
or counted.
Scheduling: Setting
a timetable as to when things will happen.
Self-Fulfilling
Prophecy: A visualization where you've pretty much concluded what's going
to happen and hence increase the probability of it occurring.
Status
Quo: Refers to things, as they are – the existing condition or state
of affairs. If things stay the same or nothing changes, one is said to be maintaining
the status quo.
Strategy: A
plan used to reach a goal.
Synergy:
When one and one equals more than two. It’s when the end result equals
more than the sum of the parts.
SWOT
Analysis: The SWOT analysis is perhaps the best tool you will find for immediate
and effective analysis of a given situation. SWOT stands for Strengths, Weaknesses,
Opportunities, and Threats.
Vision:
A vision is a way of seeing or conceiving what you want to create or achieve
in advance. The single most important thing to have before you do any planning
is a vision.
Visualization: The
format of visual images in our minds for the purpose of creating a mental blueprint
you can work towards in reality.
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