Target Setting: Issues

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Target Setting Issues Experience Presented to
the CSIN Learning Event LiveMeeting By Linda
Harvey July 27, 2006
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Target Setting Issues Experience

• Overview
• 1. Systems Approach
• The importance of measurement and targets
  throughout the system.
• Process
• The Role of Stakeholders in target-setting
• 3. Whither goest thou?
• Where are your targets taking you?
• 4. The purpose of target setting
• Re-examining the function and utility of targets

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Target Setting Issues Experience

• The Importance of a Systems Approach

WasteRelease into environment
By-products Residual outputs
By setting targets throughout the system, we can
simultaneously? prevent pollution, ? manage
residual outputs to create efficiencies and ?
reduce releases to the environment.
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Target Setting Issues Experience
Process The Role of Stakeholders
Rule 1 It will take stakeholders working
collectively to make environmental improvements
in our communities. Rule 2Collective actions
to improve the environment require commitment
from stakeholders. Involvement in target setting
is critical to building commitment.
Rule 3Setting boundaries around this is
dependent on local factors culture,
expectations, resources.
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Target Setting Issues and Experience
Whither Goest Thou?Where are your targets taking
you? Are your targets as big as your Vision? Will
they pull you forward towards achieving desired
outcomes beyond the norm . or Will they lead you
to look backward to trend analysis and
extrapolation of past practice only?
Interim goals targets and indicators that can
be affected can create achievable tasks that will
maintain accountability while building confidence
deepening commitment.
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Target Setting Issues and Experience

• The purpose of target setting
• Re-examining the function and utility of targets

Accountability Progress Measurement (fast
enough or too slow?) Locus for building
Motivation and commitment to action(Target
discussion lead into discussions exploring the
tension between vision and current reality and
new ways to leap ahead.) Not an end unto itself
it is no longer a strictly technical exercise.
The process is important.