Reach Your Work Goals Using the CLEAR Method
Whether you are an entry-level employee or a corporate professional, you are likely setting day-to-day work and career goals. In fact, their achievement is a separate story. The CLEAR Method helps you consider your needs in order to achieve work goals that may differ from your daily personal goals. This is how it works.
CLEAR, stands for C ollaborative, L imited, E, A Motional ppreciable, R efinable. Other methods do not make you think so clearly and deeply about these factors, many of which are necessary elements to achieve goals related to your work, like CLEAR. You will consider the role that your colleagues and superiors play in achieving your goals, as well as other important principles of goal setting, such as the depth and scope of a goal, and the need to break it down into smaller and more achievable goals. Here’s a breakdown:
- Collaboration : Many of your work goals will be much easier to achieve with the help and approval of others, be it a promotion or an assigned group task. Some goals even require cooperation. Think about what kind of help you can turn to to achieve the goals you set for your work.
- Limited : Limit the depth and scope of the target so that it is clear and manageable.
- Emotionality : Optimize the quality of the work you get from others by considering how emotionally involved the people you work with are. When recruiting people to achieve a specific goal, think about how to communicate what it does for them and other ways to get them to devote themselves fully to achieving the best possible outcome.
- Significantly : remember to break big goals into smaller and more achievable ones.
- Refinement : Be flexible and roll with punches. Revise and refine your goals and plans for achieving them as needed so that you don’t feel compelled to stick to an unsuccessful or irrelevant plan of action.
Use CLEAR to make changes if you found it difficult to achieve your work goals. It can also help to use your favorite points from other methods we discussed earlier to set yourself up for success.