Effective School Management

EXERCISE 11: Formulating Objectives
In 15 minutes, as individuals, write legibly on flipchart sheets
(1) a personal objective in your job, for improving your competence or
effectiveness; and
(2) an organizational objective for your school, for improving its
effectiveness.
For each objective, establish success criteria and write them immediately
beneath the objective to which they apply.
In one hour, working as a group,
(1) display the flipcharts and read them;
(2) by marking the sheets in silence, each individual should distribute five
points only, among up to five objectives and related success criteria
(other than your own), so as to identify those that come nearest to being
soundly formulated (SMART). You are not  judging whether the
objectives are intrinsically worth while: only how well they are
formulated;

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(3) in discussion, agree in your team and list succinctly on a flipchart the
criteria you used in judging how to distribute your five points each;
(4) still as a team, take the objective and related success criteria that scored
the most points and use the listed criteria to improve them (in case of a
tie, take either or both); and
(5) if time permits, form pairs to improve one another’s objectives and
success criteria, again applying the agreed group criteria.

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