Setting Your Development Goals: Start with Your Values

  • 17m
  • Bill Sternbergh, Sloan R. Weitzel
  • Center for Creative Leadership
  • 2001

This guidebook is about changing the way you think about setting goals. It is about identifying goals that are important and meaningful to five key areas of your life: career, self, family, community, and spirit. The goals you create will be SMART: specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and timed. Setting meaningful goals will reward you with real progress toward success in all areas of your life.

About the Lead Contributors

Bill Sternberg helped design CCL's flagship Leadership Development Program (LDP). In his thirty years with the Center, he has worked internationally with scores of organizations and thousands of executives. He was appointed a CCL Senior Fellow in Leadership Education in 1992, holds an AB in psychology from Guilford College, and has completed graduate work in psychology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the University of West Florida.

Sloan R. Weitzel is product manager for e-products and services at CCL. Before assuming responsibility for developing CCL leadership development tools for use on the Internet, he was senior program associate at CCL. In that role he worked with more than two thousand executives as a certified feedback coach. He holds an MBA from Duke University.

In this Book

  • Why Carefully Chosen Goals Matter
  • Exploring Your Values
  • Looking at the Big Picture
  • Taking Action
  • Goal Planning Worksheet
  • Suggested Readings
  • Background
  • Key Point Summary

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