{"id":1225,"date":"2018-12-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericaleeconsulting.com\/how-to-set-a-goal-part-1\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T05:00:00","slug":"how-to-set-a-goal-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onwardbusinessmechanics.com\/staging\/4922\/how-to-set-a-goal-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"How to set a Goal part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Make it SMART&#8230;. and why that matters to your people!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Goal setting part 1: make it SMART!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X-02OHkUxaQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>2019 is coming and chances are you you&#8217;ve been planning for it for months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s never a bad time to set goals.&nbsp; In manufacturing especially where you have a winter shutdown, the flip of the calendar can translate into some new motivation and energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You may have heard of the acronym SMART &#8212; great guideline for setting goals.&nbsp; You want to make sure your goal is Specific &amp; Measurable:&nbsp; that is it&#8217;s tied to a metric that everyone understands.&nbsp; For example,&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;I want our OEE to go from 60% to 70%.&nbsp; It also needs to be Attainable &amp; Relevant:&nbsp; something that&#8217;s doable, and to set it up that way you&#8217;ll want to&nbsp;<br>give them one section of the plant, for example one machining cell or one assembly line, so that they have a really actionable scope to tackle. You want to make sure it&#8217;s something that you value, as a manufacturing leader, and not just a make-work project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally you want to add Timelines to the goal:&nbsp; for example do you want to see&nbsp;first past rejects from 10 percent down to 5 percent by April 1st, and then you want to build timeliness into the metric itself.&nbsp; In that example 10% to 5% on first pass rejects, is it a single shift average?&nbsp; Or an hour&#8217;s production?&nbsp; A week&#8217;s average production perhaps?&nbsp; &nbsp;The time and the target along with the unit of that metric is going to really help your team focus.&nbsp; They going to want to understand exactly how to win!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;In addition to applying the basic principles of SMART,&nbsp;you want to consider what you&#8217;re giving your team when you set a clear goal:&nbsp; &nbsp;I call it the glory of a single metric.&nbsp; &nbsp;It&#8217;s focus and clarity and you&#8217;re saying to them without saying:&nbsp; &#8220;I understand you have a lot on your plate.&nbsp; Here&#8217;s something I need you to do and I understand that you&#8217;re gonna have to rearrange your world.&#8221;&nbsp; There&#8217;s always some pain or at least some temporary discomfort when you&#8217;re making a change, even if it&#8217;s for the best.&nbsp; When you give your people something to focus on like that it&#8217;s like clearing their desk.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a relief to them and ideally they will feel energized and motivated to tackle the goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make it SMART&#8230;. and why that matters to your people! 2019 is coming and chances are you you&#8217;ve been planning for it for months. 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