Today in our ever fast world we even find our goals can become obsolete after a short period of time. Continual mini-goal setting is the way forward to achieve overall end goals. That way you can determine where you’re going and have room for adjustment every step of the way.

Unless you keep score, in your life as well as your business, you won’t know whether you are succeeding or not. Goal setting creates the score card you need to gauge success. The accepted rule of thumb these days is to “think big,” to really stretch when you set goals—the idea being that even if you fall short, you will still likely go beyond what you thought you could accomplish.

Goal setting is good, thinking big is good, but setting a big goal with an end point off in the distant future is risky. If you set the goal, then return to business as usual and keep your objective in the back of your mind, the chances of actually achieving it are a toss up. Even if you come up with a road map to your goal, things change in our environment so quickly these days that whatever tactics you come up with today may be suboptimal or downright ineffective tomorrow.

The best way to minimise the risk of not reaching your goal is to think through a string of mini-goals that build towards the big one. Mini-goals can be measured quickly and adjusted easily to fit changes in your environment. By allowing alternative roads to your goal, mini-goals increase your flexibility, agility, and ability to stay focused on the end goal.

In this keynote, Anne McKevitt will talk about effective goal setting in the kaleidoscope world we live in. Topics include:

Components of a goal. A true goal has very specific characteristics.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you don’t get all the way, you’ll still be out of this world.

How to eat an elephant. The art of mini-goal setting and achievement.

The case for balance. Goals aren’t only for the workplace.

Anne will share goal setting examples from her own life as well as other well-known figures, and will offer suggestions for mini-goals that can build toward something big.