From student to confident professional
“I want to lose 20 pounds by the end of the year,” you tell yourself.
“In three years from now, I’d like to be on a 3-month backpacking trip around Europe,” comes another objective from your mouth.
“When my Corolla’s lease ends in two years, I’d like to upgrade to a BMW sedan!”
These all seem like fairly simple outcome goals on the surface, but are they really?
Goal setting is a topic that gets a lot of attention in the personal and professional development space. It was one of many areas of focus when I was becoming a certified coach, and goals themselves often become key points of importance for leaders of teams and organizations.
It makes sense, right? Goals can help to move people in a certain direction that aligns with the interests of the greater good.
But goals often end up being better in theory than in practice. And part of that often comes from not understanding the difference between outcome and process goals.