Coaching Toolkit for Child Welfare

68 The Coaching Toolkit for Child Welfare Practice

 Am I the right person?

Time limited

Grounding goals within a time frame and giving them a target date
of completion (committing to a deadline) helps learners focus efforts
on completion of the goal on or before the due date. This part of the
S.M.A.R.T. goal criteria is intended to prevent goals from being
overtaken by the day-to-day crises that invariably arise in an
organization. A time-bound goal is intended to establish a sense of
urgency. A time-bound goal will usually answer the following
questions:

 When?

 What can I do 6 months from now?

 What can I do 6 weeks from now?

 What can I do today?

Example: S.M.A.R.T. objectives

Supervisor Eileen agrees to use solution-focused questions 75 % of
the time when she does formal case staffings or conferences with her
staff. After each staffing, she will write in her calendar what
solution-focused question she used and report her progress to her
coach once a month. She will reach the goal of 75% by July, 2012.