💃 2024 Goal Setting For Salesforce Professionals🕺

Good morning, Salesforce Nerds! Have you started setting your 2024 goals yet?

You want to payoff your credit cards? Make 5 new friends? See D’Angelo in concert?

You want a raise? A promotion? You want to get your PD1 Cert?

Today we will discuss some goal-setting frameworks that you can choose from since goal-setting is not a one-size-fits-all exercise 🙂 .

And having goals ready to execute on January 1, 2024 gives us a full 366 days (Leap Year 🎉 ) to accomplish them.

Read through the descriptions, pick one that speaks to you, and start writing your goals 😃!

Agenda for today includes

• Goal-Setting Frameworks

• Daily Principle

• All the Memes

Goal-Setting Frameworks

Today we will discuss-

💃 Locke & Latham’s 5 Principle Framework 🕺

💃 SMART Goals🕺

💃 OKRs🕺

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LOCKE & LATHAM’S 5 PRINCIPLE FRAMEWORK

Kicking it off with the L&L framework because it leads with 5 principles that are applicable to any goal-setting exercise.

The L&L 5 principles are-

1) Clarity

✅ I want to make 5 new friends who I can meet up with for a Sunday Coffee

❌ I want to make new friends

2) Challenge

✅ I want to make 5 new friends who I can meet up with for a Sunday Coffee

❌ I want 5 new connections on LinkedIn

3) Commitment

✅ I want to make 5 new friends who I can meet up with for a Sunday Coffee, who love coffee like I do

❌ I want to make 5 new friends who I can meet up with for a Sunday Coffee

^{*when goals are dependent on other people, it is best to align interests with yourself and the others!}

4) Feedback

✅ I have made 3 new friends in 6 months. I am tracking ahead to make 5 friends for the year!

❌ I haven’t made 5 new friends yet

5) Task Complexity

✅ I want to make 5 new friends who I can meet up with for a Sunday Coffee

❌ I want to make 5 new friends who each descend from a unique continent and are an identical twin.

SMART GOALS

SMART goals are a very popular choice for goal-setting….probably because it’s such a great acronym 😉.

The visual says it all. Here’s an example-

✅ Specific - Yes! Obtain the PD1 cert!

✅ Measurable - Yes! It’s binary, you get the cert or you don’t!

✅ Attainable - Probably! Going from zero tech knowledge to obtaining a notoriously difficult tech cert is a challenge. But 9 full months to make it happen!

✅ Relevant - Yes! As a functional Salesforce professional, the PD1 will increase your knowledge and enhance your standing!

✅ Time-based - Yes! Oct 1 deadline!

OKRs

🧠 Invented by Andy Grove.

🧠 Google’s preferred goal framework.

🧠 Immortalized by a best-selling book.

Yup, OKRs are legit 🙌.

OKR stands for Objectives and Key Results.

Here’s what it means-

• Objective = goal definition

• Key Results = specific, measurable

You will have multiple Key Results, and each will roll up to your Objective because they are aligned.

An example straight from the book-

👉 Objective - Win the Indy 500

👆Key Result - Increase average lap speed by 2%

👆Key Result - Test at wind tunnel 10 times.

👆Key Result - Reduce average pit stop by one second.

👆Key Result - Practice pit stops for one hour per day.

^You can see each Key Result aligns perfectly with the Objective 🎯!

SOME FINAL TIPS

💁 There is not an optimal count of goals to have. Rather, you’re time-boxed. Time is your limitation, not your aspirations.

💁 If you hit all your goals, then you didn’t create challenging goals. The inverse may also be true.

💁 Change is constant. What may have been a relevant goal in January might not be relevant in June. If your goal was to get the Sales Cloud Consultant cert, but then you get a new job that requires you to obtain the Omnistudio Consultant cert, it’s perfectly fine to change your goal 🙂.

💁 Goals should be impactful to you. A goal of running 1000 miles in 2024 is impactful. A goal of getting a new Briggs & Riley carry-on is not impactful.

Daily Principle

and now....Your Daily Memes