The John Adair Handbook of Management and Leadership

Chapter 2: Setting and achieving goals and objectives 35

1 Identify obstacles and opportunities:

2 What are the ways/means to achieve goals/objectives, despite/because

of those obstacles/opportunities?

This will give you your plan(s) of how to achieve your personal

goals/objectives, which you must then implement!

Professional/business goals and objectives

You will find it helpful at this point to re-read the sections on

Identifying long-term goalsand Making medium-term plans

in the section on Time management.

In setting and achieving professional/business goals and objectives

you must:

• Define the purpose (of the business and of your role)


• Define your strategic aims

As has been seen, your strategic aims result from asking the questions:

are we now?

do we want to be in 3 or 5 year’s time?

strengths and weaknesses do we have?

can we improve?

can we get to where we want to be?

Where

What

How