How to Set Goals in Yearly Evaluation

Please find some tips to describe your goals - 

1) Goals are generally of short-term in nature. Goals can we viewed as steps to achieve a desired objective.

2) Goal should be quantitative /measurable.  You should be able to further break down a goal into activities which are nothing but work-items. So when

we come back and review this goal after, say, 6 months, we should be able to have some document, report or some proof that we undertook for these activities.

3) It is always good to add a line to represent “how” you will achieve a particular goal. For example, “To achieve senior designation in organization”

can be appended with “by participating in multiple projects, providing mentoring and updating my skill set /expand my responsibilities fitting the higher designation”.

4) All goals should be time-bound. For example, “I will complete ABC certification by March2008”. You may append a goal statement with a date, month/year, or recurring-duration (weekly, monthly…).

5) Avoid using generic terms like ‘All’, ‘some’, ‘etc’, ‘regular’, ‘periodic’, ‘should’, ‘may’ and so on in your goal statements.

6) Do not mention items as goals which are already a part of your responsibilities.

7) Try to make a clear distinction among your career-objective, existing responsibilities and the goals you are mentioning.

Hope this helps. Thanks for reading,