Goal Setting Mrs. Benjamin

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Goal SettingMrs. Benjamin
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Benefits of Goal Setting

• Benefit 1 Goal Setting Allows You to Take Charge
  of Your Own Learning
• Recognizes that you know yourself
• It allows you to select your own learning goals
• Benefits of self-determination self-commitment,
  self-motivation, self-direction, self-discipline,
  self-management, self-rewards, self-esteem

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Benefit 2 Goal Setting Builds Trust Between You
and Your Supervisor

• Helps build trust
• Lessens fear
• Provides a basis for greater intimacy and
  acceptance

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Benefit 3 Goal Setting Takes Seriously Your
Uniqueness

• Protects your individuality
• Recognizes differences
• Provides creative structures for dealing with
  differences

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Benefit 4 Goal Setting Provides Structure to
Get Something Done

• Helps you develop Gods life strategy
• When unsure of your vocational direction, try out
  different areas of ministry
• Through doing you can discover your fit for
  certain ministries

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Benefit 5 Goal Setting Is a Tool for Good
Stewardship

• Helps focus your time so you get the most
  important things done
• Good stewardship of time helps stewardship of all
  your resources

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What do you need before writing a Covenant?

• Use assessment instruments
• Do a strengths inventory on yourself
• Make a written assessment of your field
  supervisor
• List your needs and prioritize the most important
  ones
• Divide the needs into these areas cognitive,
  skill personhood

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How Do You Design a Covenant?

• Agreement on goals
• There should be a mutual decision as to where you
  are going
• Begin defining where you want to be at the end of
  the supervisory program

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• Learning/Serving Agreement
• It includes the work to be done, lines of
  supervision, hours, time off, financial
  arrangements, meeting place for supervision
• It is worked out together
• Include a safety valve so that personal
  differences do not lead to larger problem

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• Writing Goals
• Write SMART goals
• A goal statement should answer three questions
• What? the end result you expect
• When? the target date for completion
• Who? the person responsible for doing what is
  to be done
• Make sure your goals stretch you
• Include at least one spiritual growth goal

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• Action Plans
• Write out steps you can take to reach your goals
• Is there an order you need to follow?
• Setting Up Evaluation Standards
• Set up the how much and the by whom

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• Negotiation
• Explain your expectances
• Make sure your goals are vertically and
  horizontally compatible with your field
  supervisor
• Make sure the goals meet the guidelines set by
  your program of supervision

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• Writing the covenant
• This step puts everything together
• Review the goals and the learning/serving
  agreement
• Include information on when and where the
  covenant can be changed

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• Approval and Commitment
• The director may approve, partially approve or
  reject your covenant
• After approval follows the implementing of
  agreement
• Reflect with each other about what is happening