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Please be seated…. Only one person from a Division at the same table. ESTABLISHING DIVISION GOALS. Garrison Bromwell, DSO-MT, PDCDR. What You Will Learn. Importance of VISION Using SWOT Aligning that vision Realism & Pragmatism Execution & Measurement Feedback & Rewards. Why have goals?.
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Please be seated….Only one person from a Division at the same table
ESTABLISHING DIVISION GOALS Garrison Bromwell, DSO-MT, PDCDR
What You Will Learn • Importance of VISION • Using SWOT • Aligning that vision • Realism & Pragmatism • Execution & Measurement • Feedback & Rewards
Why have goals? • We need to know where we are going. • What are the potential roadblocks – either real or perceived? And how can we remove them? • How do we know when we get there?
Why have goals? • Elected and appointed officers should make sure members know what the Division as a whole is trying to accomplish during the year.
What’s a Vision Statement? • Broad mission statement • Ask these questions – • What do you like about being a part of this organization? • What do you like about this organization’s mission? • When its at its best, what do you most like? • What legacy do you want to leave? • What legacy should we collectively leave?
One definition of Goals…. Specific Measurable Aligned Reachable Time Bound
Do A SWOT Analysis • Outline your vision for the year • Do a SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) • Anticipate change and exercise flexible thinking • Consult With Staff Officers and members • Be patient with ambiguity • Analyze the Division’s Resources • Identify Operational Objectives
Aligning Goals • Honor, Respect, Devotion to Duty • What are the Coast Guard goals for the Auxiliary: • http://cgaux.org/leadership/from_the_adm.php • Check District and National Goals • Obtain commitment to goals • Prioritize goals according to their importance • Specify the time span involved • Specify how the performance will be measured
Develop a plan • Defining the Division’s objectives • Establishing an overall strategy for achieving those goals • Developing the means to integrate and coordinate necessary activities • What was done in the past? • Were the goals accomplished? • Who was involved; was there a committee? • Resurrect past goals, review • Discuss with Vice Commander
Share Your Ideas Goals should be jointly determined by Staff Officers and members to generate commitment and provide control Meet with Staff Officers to get ideas Relate overall department objectives Explore areas of need Generate a list; take all ideas Look at short and long term goals Get a commitment from Staff Officers
Review the plan Get acceptance from Staff Officers Review plan at a flotilla meeting Discuss long and short term objectives Align members’ commitment with flotilla goals Discuss overall desire to improve the Flotilla and its service to the community and USCG
Reward Success Review all accomplishments Note specific achievements Recognize contributors Formal and informal awards Update and modify goals
ACHIEVING YOUR GOALS Here’s a short and great little video about goal-setting with Brian Tracy. This simple but effective goal-setting exercise can be life-changing. Take a minute and a half to watch the video and then do the exercise. • Brian Tracy: If You Could Achieve One Goal in 24 Hours • .
SMART GOALS SMART Acronym Newly Defined for Goal Setting • S - In addition to specific, don't stretching, systematic, synergistic, significant and shifting round out the picture? • M - means measurable, but I also recommend meaningful, memorable, motivating and even, magical.
SMART GOALS A - is an achievable goal but A also needs to stand for action plans, accountability, acumen and agreed-upon. R - means relevant, but it also stands for realistic, reasonable, resonating, results-oriented, rewarding, responsible, reliable, rooted in facts and remarkable. T - means time-based and it also represents timely, tangible and thoughtful.
INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES "The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach." --Benjamin Mays "By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands — your own." --Mark Victor Hansen "The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and actualizer... He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen." --Robert L. Schwartz