1. Developing Goals on Your Path to Success
Zoom info:

2. Comments from the AVP .

3. Elements of a successful PR – what do I look for?
A well written story that demonstrates the candidate knows where they are headed (increasing focus)
Intended outcomes (condition changes) are identified
The result of continual assessment of needs/priorities
The story talks about the progress to date (review period)
Scholarly activities at a very aggregated level but from the perspective of how those activities are making progress towards intended outcomes
Impacts identified
Supporting scholarship/creativity conveyed
Evidence of professional competency
Commitment to continuous improvement
Commitment to diversity, inclusion, and equity

4. Elements of a successful PR – what do I look for?
The story conveys the trajectory of the candidate
Trajectory increases as the career progresses
Conveyed through the evidence
Conveyed through the closing statement – where is the candidate headed?
Sustained trajectory is the expectation post-Assistant rank
Beyond the story (program narrative)
Strongest supporting evidence in the tables and called out in the narrative
Evidence of good citizenship
Leadership
Team work, with role
Service – increasing expectations as one progresses
Mentoring

5. What I am not looking forX
What I am not looking for
Length
A complete list of everything a person did
Activities with no accomplishments
To complete a checklist
To put it in perspective:
What does a candidate really want to share that I can read, digest, synthesize, and reflect upon in about 90 min
The reflection is on the package and program as a whole

6. Developing Goals on Your Path to Success

7. Support material

9. Brief Survey Everyone already sets goals in some form….
Are goals a central part of your program & discussions?
A bit
A little
A lot
What are goals?
(Poll or might use chat)

10. Training Agenda Introduction Themes & Goals Reflection & Resources
Why this training
Themes & Goals
Why your Themes and Goals are important
Reflection & Resources

11. Training objectives Introduction
To clarify expectations around Goals and Themes
To provide insight on a successful PR

12. Intro - Why this training?
Success
Impact
Reduce Stress
Reduce Time

13. 4. Develop your Themes and Goal(s)
Success is a process
1. Identify the need
2. Identify the opportunity
5. Implement your plan
Impact
4. Develop your Themes and Goal(s)
3. Identify the difference you want to make

14. Themes & Goals
Clear themes and goals provide focus for your work and thus focus for creating your impact.

15. Your ‘so what?’
Focus helps you tell your story about the difference you are making. It is your impact - your “so what”

16. Training objective Themes
To reach understanding on what themes are and how they fit into your story
To illustrate how themes can focus your work and contribute to your merit and performance narrative

17. Terminology
Themes - Subject matter around which your program is organized and for which GOALS are created. (from Project Board)
They are very broad in nature.
You may use existing ANR terms such as Strategic Initiatives, Program Team names, Public Values, Condition Changes, etc.
You are welcome to develop your own.

18. Themes Let’s say you work on orchard crops...
Include a high level sentence to define the scope of your work
Protecting California’s Natural Resources
Reduce environmental impacts in Orchard crops
Sustainable Food Systems
Improve food safety in orchard crops
Take a few moments to share one of your themes and high level descriptor in the Chat box
Reach - Expand the number of people we positively impact though our work (Mark B)

19. Training objective
Goals
Why your Goals are important
Tools

20. What are goals? Goal - a general statement of your program’s purpose
Goals are like a rudder; They guide us in the direction we want

21. What If I don’t have goals (Direction)?
“If you aim for nothing, you'll hit it every time.” Source unknown
“If you don't know where you're going, you'll end up someplace else.”
Yogi Berra

22. Why Set Goals? Provide (ensure) clear focus Foundation for success
Three things to take in to account in setting your goals...

23. Setting goals: Part of a larger process
1. Identify the need
2. Identify the opportunity
5. Implement your plan
Impact
4. Develop your Themes and Goal(s)
3. Identify the difference you want to make

24. Setting goals: Part of a larger process
1. Identify the the need
What do people need and want?
What need, if solved, will make a significant difference?

25. Setting goals: part of a larger process
2. Identify the opportunity
What can you change?
What’s your comparative advantage?
(Not all needs have an opportunity)

26. Setting goals: part of a larger process
3. Identify the change you can make
When you do solve it what difference will it make? (Condition changes)

27. Remember!
Setting goals is a collaborative process (get input from clients, colleagues, supervisor, etc.)
Goals may change over time

28. Goals & your trajectory
Impact – desired change
Your annual evaluation is the opportunity to highlight
your impact
your progress towards your goal(s)
Revised goals

29. Tools for setting goals
How do you set your goals?
Tools you can use:
Logic model
Mind map
Logframe
SMART goals
Any other?

30. Logic Model Work back from the difference you want to make
For more: Learning & Development site

31. What’s needed to make the change?
Mind Map
What do I want to improve/change

33. LogFrame

34. S.M.A.R.T. Developing S.M.A.R.T goals for each Academic Title,
Rank and Step as appropriate to provide constructive,
consistent, and appropriate feedback and support.
Specific: Targeted and understandable
Measurable: Quantifiable indicators
Achievable: Given current skills and resources
Resonant and Relevant: Important to you and ANR
Time-bound: Clear “due” target

35. Check Your Goals Should be… Because they… Assess Specific
Describe a particular desired accomplishment
Is the goal specific? Does it state specific actions and results to be accomplished?
Measurable
Produce quantifiable benefits
Can performance be measured in terms of quality, quantity, cost, etc.?
Achievable and realistic
Are possible to accomplish
Can the objective be achieved given other priorities and existing resources?
Relevant
Serve a higher purpose
Is it aligned with other objectives?
Time-Bounded
Have a time target for completion
Have you specified a completion date?

36. Goals Using the Chat box share some goals for one of your themes
Example:
Theme: Orchard crops - Reduce environmental impacts
Goal 1: Reduce dust generated during harvest through using cover crops
Goal 2: Reduce water use through an orchard management application

37. Terminology
Objectives - more concrete and specific in how the goal will be achieved. Also more closely related to the desired changes.

38. Objectives Going back to our previous example... What needs to be done
Protecting California’s Natural Resources
Reduced environmental impacts in orchard crops results in sustainable production systems
Reduce chemical pesticide use in almond orchards by 20% by 2025
Educate producers on a new non-chemical method of soil sterilization
Assess a new biocontrol methods for peach tree borer
Reach - Expand the number of people we positively impact though our work (Mark B)

39. Checking consistency If then …..
Impact
Why should people care?
The need?
The Difference you want to make?
(Condition Changes)
The opportunity?
What you can do?
Themes
Goals
Activities
Objectives

40. Training objective
Where can you find help?

41. Support
Information

42. Questions & Reflections