Although goals must be achievable and realistic they must also contain stretch components What does this mean and why is it important?

Answer 1

To inspire results that make an impact, setting S-t-r-e-t-c-h

Goals is crucial in the creation of breakthrough results.

Setting Stretch Goals that motivate you and inspire your team

to achieve extraordinary results is a worthy but diffi cult task.

Have you ever set a goal that left everyone frustrated and

de-motivated, because they see the goal as out of reach and

impossible? Or, have you ever set a goal that was too easy, you

achieved the goal but still did not get the breakthrough results

you were looking for?

Stretch goals are not used to reach ordinary short-term

objectives, but to drive achievement and results to a new level

currently viewed as impossible. Stretch goals must cause people

to move beyond their current way of thinking. As Einstein said,

"The signifi cant problems we face cannot be solved at the same

level of thinking we were at when we created them."

When setting a stretch goal, remember that it must be

suffi ciently diffi cult to cause people to think, "We can't

accomplish this by doing things the same old way, and we are

going to have to do things differently." However, the stretch

goal can't be so diffi cult that people give up, thinking the task

is absolutely impossible.