Objective Setting Training

If we were to liken the role of a people manager to building a house, once the foundations are in place, the laying of the first brick is crucial. If the brick is aligned and in the right place, the rest should follow smoothly but if the brick is laid incorrectly, trouble may well follow.

An objective is the equivalent of that first brick. If there is clarity, relevance and meaning behind the objective, this doesn’t guarantee success, but it significantly increases the likelihood of a productive outcome. Yet for many, the process of setting and communicating objectives is tricky. The pressure of writing so-called SMART objectives can lead to objectives that evolve into long complicated sentences that look good on paper but are challenging to interpret and apply in practice.

At Donovan Training Associates, we are passionate about supporting people managers. We design and facilitate highly practical objective setting training to help make the objective setting process timely, achievable and meaningful.

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Objective Setting Training Tailored Specifically for Your Needs

At Donovan Training Associates, we believe that optimised and effective training cannot be achieved with an off-the-shelf, one-size-fits-all solution. As a result, our objective setting training is bespoke, tailored to the specific needs of your organisation and the individual delegates.

How Objective Setting Training Works

Whether you are looking to review an existing set of objectives or start planning ahead and set some new objectives, we can offer a learning solution that is relevant to your needs.

The process begins with a free, no obligation consultation where we will identify your requirements, learn more about your culture and what success would look like if your objective setting skills improved. We will then prepare a bespoke proposal which we can then amend to ensure we meet your specific requirements.

Many of our clients ask us to facilitate onsite or at a local venue of their choosing but if you prefer to come off site, we can offer facilities in our Oxfordshire offices which are designed to host workshops in a professional and comfortable environment.

Why You or Your Staff May Need Objective Setting Training

Starting a new people manager role for the first time
Looking to set some direction for yourself, an individual or a team
Align objectives to an organisational strategy and purpose
Enhance ownership and accountability in others
Personal and professional development

Objective Setting Training Course Outline: An Example

All our training is tailored specifically to you and considers the needs of your organisation and the needs of your people. Where possible, we endeavour to provide examples and scenarios which are relevant to your business and therefore, which your people can relate to.

However, we understand that when comparing learning providers, it is helpful to have a better understanding of their approach and what a typical objective setting workshop might look like, and so we have put together the following as an example which we hope you will find useful.

Course Overview

Our objective setting training is typically a bite size 2-hour session or will form part of a wider people management workshop, all designed and tailored to your needs. Depending on the number of learners, your location, and demands of the business, training can either be provided:

In-person
Face-to-face via online real-people video training broken down into three bite size session

We also provide customised pre-prepared learning materials, including videos and interactive resources. These are useful for learners to utilise as reminders or to learn in their spare time.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of the training, participants will:

Have explored the pros and cons of the SMART objective setting model
Take away a structure for putting together outcome focused objectives
Know how to communicate objectives to different stakeholders
Leave with some objectives and a plan to incorporate objective setting meaningfully

Course Structure:

This example is based on a bite size objective setting training workshop. A typical objective setting workshop would include asking participants to write an objective for themselves or somebody else in the first instance, before looking at the theory and then circling back to review and amend as necessary.

This ensures that the skills learned are practical and relate to participants individually as opposed to simply taking on generic theory.

Linking objective setting to the purpose of the Organisation
The pros and cons of SMART objectives
Tips for outcome focused objective setting
Communicating objectives to different stakeholders, including encouraging others to set their own objectives
Tips for maximising ownership and accountability after objectives have been agreed

Certification

If requested, we can offer certificates for our training.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this level of training course. It is suitable for anyone looking to improve their objective setting skills, regardless of their current level of expertise. However, if you have a large number of delegates, you may prefer to create cohorts based on department or staff seniority level so that attendees feel more comfortable being open with discussing pain-points and challenges.

Resources:

After the workshop, we will send out resources that are specific to the needs of the audience. Typical examples include links to podcasts, TED talks, books etc.

When suitable, we also embed relevant TED talks into the workbooks that we provide which are all in an interactive PDF format.

To find out more about our bespoke objective setting training, please call us on 01295 675506 for a free, no obligation consultation.

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Case Study:

“I just wanted to thank you for such an excellent training session last Thursday morning, all the team were extremely complimentary and very grateful for such a different spin on objectives and the goal setting training method that you shared with us.”

Tracey Hughes, Managing Director of Henley Bridge, Lewes, UK

We delivered a series of bite size training workshops for an Organisation in the food sector. An internal survey had determined that there was an appetite (no pun intended!) and requirement for training to support the existing team of people managers.

One of the first topics we covered was objective setting. The senior leadership team had recently done some extensive work around their strategy, so the timing of this session fell perfectly. The participants used the time to test their understanding of the future direction of the Organisation and then using the learning from the workshop, write some objectives to support their role in this direction.

Having the senior leadership team in attendance really contributed to the meaningfulness of this workshop and the participants were highly engaged throughout.

Why Choose Donovan Training Associates?

We are MCIPD (Chartered Member of the Institute of Personnel and Development) Certified
All training is tailored to the specific needs of your organisation, ensuring you get the best ROI possible
We are passionate about making training enjoyable, rewarding and relatable so that your staff appreciate the investment you’ve made in them, and can see the benefit to them as an individual
Whilst we are based in Oxfordshire, we provide professional training to organisations both here in the UK, and overseas.