Academic Leadership

Academic Leadership: Fundamental Building Blocks

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Developing an Implementation Plan

It is important to consider what you need to do to achieve your goals. An implementation

plan that sets out all of the actions that need to be taken, in sequence, by whom, to

achieve your individual or team goals is an important part of your Deliverer role.

It is easy to set unrealistic goals. You might underestimate the time it will take to

achieve goals or to find that there are unexpected obstacles and external factors that

you have to deal with. Thus, you should build in time to regularly review progress and

modify your goals. Modifications might include extending the timeline, gathering extra

resources or redefining the goal.

Activity

For at least one of your SMART goals above develop an implementation plan.

Remember to build in time to review and reflect on progress.

Reference

Locke, E. A. (1996). Motivation through conscious goal setting. Applied and Preventive

Psychology, 5(2), 117–124.