Achieving goals

LEADING SELF

You demonstrate drive, optimism and focus to make things happen and achieve outcomes.

Achieving goals looks like having clear development goals with timelines and measures of success, or staying focused during your working hours to make most of time and complete all your tasks.

When you are achieving goals, you are…

• Committed and tenacious

• Driven by results

• Sets and pursues SMART goals

• Models a positive attitude

Quick tips

• Seek an understanding of how your work and the work of your team contributes to the vision of our health system. Share this understanding with others.

• Try to see problems/challenges in your work as opportunities. Use them to motivate yourself.

• Set challenging goals for yourself and persevere to meet them, even when obstacles arise.

• Have a ‘can-do’ attitude; approach challenges with optimism and energy. Share with your team members the passion that drives you to succeed.

• When starting work on a new project, think about any potential obstacles and problems that could arise. Make a plan for how to handle these.

• Set goals that are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART). Track your progress toward these goals.

Practice this behaviour

Here are some ways you can practice this behaviour:

• Launch a new idea or process improvement to address a challenge.

• Manage a rapidly growing project or service.

• Develop a way to measure and track the outcomes of your team or department.

• Work with your leader to set SMART goals. Write them in your success and development plan, and meet regularly to evaluate results.

• Identify an issues or barriers in your area and make a plan to overcome them.

What can hold you back

Here are some things that could get in the way of developing this behaviour:

• Only doing what’s expected of you. Consider how you might motivate yourself to achieve more than the minimum.

• Being too pessimistic about your ability to achieve ambitious goals. Focus on opportunities, not constraints.

• Waiting for permission to act. Be proactive in setting goals and tackling initiatives.

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