Effective career plans or goals, are ones that can be regularly revised, ditched, or paused as circumstances dictate.
My goal last week was to survive presenting a training session on why goal setting doesn’t work so well in careers. A provocative enough subject you might think, and one where the presenter might expect some serious push-back, such is our ingrained attachment to goal setting.
Other sports use other terms masquerading as goals such as hoops in basketball, holes in golf, targets in archery, and dartboards. The common feature is that the aim of the game is to get some object such as a ball, puck, arrow or dart to arrive at a pre-determined destination – the goal or target. That hoary old interview question “where do you see yourself in five years time?” reflects the assumption that a career plays out over a much longer time frame.Anyone who has spent a few years in an organisation will recognise this continual moving of the goal posts. A new direction is announced. Teams are formed or reorganised. And then circumstances change. The change champion moves on or is sacked.
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