Tool example: goal quality
Reflect as a team on how well you set goals
When to use this tool?
Learn to take time as a team after each period to reflect on how well you have set your goals. Take it a step deeper than “we made our goals or we didn’t make our goals” or just blame it on a factor you could or couldn’t influence that made you achieve your goals or not.
How does it work?
Step 1: Take your current goals
Make your current goals visible to your team.
Step 2: Share the arrow visual
Explain the 4 arrows to your team. Put them on a flipchart or on a virtual whiteboard.
Step 3: Ask all members to indicate where we can improve
Ask all your team members to dot vote on each arrow, or place their initials next to it. You can vote on the extremes, but also in the middle.
Step 4: Discuss the results
How would you rate the quality of your goal setting? Talk as a team about where your goal-setting could improve. Identify the arrow where you believe the most improvement can be made. And discuss as a team what that would look like for the next period. Also, celebrate where you are already great at goal quality!
Step 5: Next steps
Agree on how you use these insights for creating better goals in the future. Capture it on your how we work page, or continue immediately with another goal-setting exercise.
What do you need to get started?
Write down the goals you had for the last period. Schedule ~30 min with the team to reflect on the quality of your goals.
This exercise is for:
Team size: 2 to 13+
Team development phase: Forming, norming
TEAM framework: Mission
Difficulty: easy
Duration: 5-15 min or 15-30 min
Source: exercise designed by teambooster
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