The John Adair Handbook of Management and Leadership

Chapter 2: Setting and achieving goals and objectives 39

Summary and six-month follow-up test

This chapter has sought to emphasise that in your business/

professional and your personal life you must:

• set goals/objectives (short, medium and long-term)


• create plan(s) to achieve them


• implement the plan(s) and achieve them.

Six-month follow-up test

1. Have you
   defined ‘purpose’
   in your personal and
   business life?
   Yes  No 


2. Have you
   identified
   long-term goals?
   Yes  No 


3. Have you
   made short,
   medium and
   long-term plans?
   Yes  No 


4. Have you budgeted
   time to achieve
   goals/objectives
   Yes  No 

3.Have you set

goals and objectives?

Yes  No