A SMART Approach to Reaching Goals and Objectives

For Customers Only Session 1: Introduction

In this session, we introduce a proven process that allows you to be up to 40 more effective and efficient in achieving your goals and objectives with a simple, step-by-step plan. You will want to be familiar with your DISC/Mindsets scores to ensure easy application.

For Customers Only Session 2: Purpose

Purpose, based on your motivations, is the foundation for achieving any objective. We will provide ideas and examples to help you discover your inspiration for finding and achieving what is most important to you and/or your team.

For Customers Only Session 3: The Purpose of Self-Awareness

We will focus on the critical nature of self-awareness and how it can help you both develop and maintain a growth mindset, no matter where your life or work finds you.

For Customers Only Session 4: Using Data to Maximize Success

There's always an easy and challenging way to obtain your objectives. This session will illustrate how using data can accelerate the process and get you to where you want to go quickly and efficiently.

For Customers Only Session 5: Using SMART Framework

By applying your strengths and weaknesses illustrated in your data, you will immediately see what can aid or keep you from personal and professional success. Then we will define the framework and help you apply it with simple proven steps.

For Customers Only Session 6: The SMART Framework Explained

Each of the five steps is broken down, wholly reviewed, and explained so you can apply them with ease. Key insights are presented to ensure you grasp each principle and how it affects your outcomes.

For Customers Only Session 7: Setting Personal Goals

In this session, we provide a simple, straightforward example of a personal goal, how to integrate it into SMART, and walk through each step of the process to ensure success.

For Customers Only Session 8: Setting Professional Goals

This session will provide you with an example of approaching a professional goal, integrating it into SMART, and walking through each step of the process to ensure you achieve your objective.

For Customers Only Session 9: Choosing a New Team Member

Choosing a new team member can be difficult. In this session, we remove the mystique of identifying precisely what your team needs. Then we take you through the steps of filling the team's needs with just the right person and personality traits.

For Customers Only Session 10: Team Personality Exercise

You’ll watch a proven process unfold as the LifeThrive team shows you how to identify your team’s strengths and weaknesses. We also illustrate how this can help determine which team members can add value during specific situations.

For Customers Only Session 11: Developing Team-Based Goals

Once you have established your team’s strengths and weaknesses, you are poised to create your objectives. We use the LifeThrive team as an example of how to identify and adjust to the team’s needs and goals as you deal with the everyday challenges of life and business.

For Customers Only Session 12: A High D Leadership Team

In this session, we take what you have learned in the previous two lessons to understand high Dominant team members' strengths, weaknesses, and challenges. We’ll make sure you see how to work with this personality and the characteristics that accompany this style.

For Customers Only Session 13: A High S Leadership Team

In this session, we take what you have learned in lessons 10 and 11 to understand the strengths, weaknesses, and challenges with high Steady team members. We’ll make sure you see how to work with this personality and the characteristics that accompany this style.

For Customers Only Session 14: A High C Leadership Team

In this session, we take what you have learned in lessons 10 and 11 to understand high Compliant team members' strengths, weaknesses, and challenges. We’ll make sure you see how to work with this personality and the characteristics that accompany this style.

For Customers Only Session 15: Exercise for Team-Based Goals - Step One

We use the LifeThrive team to identify which three of the six “Essentials of Teamwork” are strongest and how that impacts a team. We then walk you through a process to help you determine how to deal with the three weakest essentials, so you know how to deal with various team challenges.

For Customers Only Session 16: Exercise for Team-Based Goals - Step Two

We take the next step, using this process, to identify where and how the team can improve. Then we find a specific example of how to frame and develop each of the five steps to improve your lowest Essential Teamwork skill.

For Customers Only Session 17: Exercise for Team-Based Goals - Step Three

Once the team’s goals are established, you will be shown how each of the five steps can be addressed. We will illustrate how this process can benefit both individuals and the team with reminders from past lessons that will help you improve the efficiency of the process.

For Customers Only Session 18: SMART Goals for Employee Reviews

In this session, we illustrate how to turn your employee appraisal from 49% to 72% favorable employee approval. You will also increase your employee engagement by 23%, following our guidelines.

For Customers Only Session 19: Case Study in Cambridge, England

Our UK Affiliate from Cambridge illustrates how she used the SMART process to lead and manage an operation involving 527 projects, 89,000 beneficiaries, and 4627 participants producing an 8.4 million Pound (13.2 million Dollar) value provided to the community.

For Customers Only Session 20: Conclusion

As we close out this program, we hope you will use the objective process we outlined to accelerate your growth and development, personally and professionally.