Bring your goals to life with SMART Action.
February 21, 2009
Bringing your goals to life is achievable and involves a crucial next step—creating an action plan. An action plan details what you are going to do each day in order
to achieve the goal you set. The idea is to create a SMART action plan for each goal.
Let’s look at an example. Say one of your SMART program goals is
“To teach my players the skill of self-reliance on and off the playing field.”
Now let’s look at how to make this happen on a daily basis:
• Have players write out one (SMART) personal objective for each practice.
• Require players to write out their own scouting report for each competition.
• Require players to self-evaluate and seek out feedback from at least two other teammates about their performance in practice.
• Develop clear norms of culture that your players internalize and then hold each other accountable to.
Without regular attention and action – goals die. Take the time on the front end to write our your goals and action plans… the pay off is huge during the season!
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When I first implemented this as a coach there was ALOT of grumbling from my players….”why do we have to do this? “We need to practice!” etc….
It took commitment to it on my part to put up with the complaints and know that it in the long run it would be well worth everyone’s time.