Setting goals includes
- reflecting on personal interests and aptitudes
- identifying leadership opportunities (e.g., career and technical student organization [CTSO], community organization, school club)
- identifying resources (e.g., team members)
- setting criteria for success
- making a plan of action.
Process/Skill Questions:
- What opportunities exist in the school and/or community to build leadership skills?
- What circumstances or changes in life can encourage a revision of personal or professional goals?
- Why should individuals set career goals if they are going to change them later?
- Why is it sometimes better to maintain one’s position rather than to revise one’s position? When is each approach warranted?
- What leadership skills are helpful when a person is setting or revising personal or professional goals?
- Why is it important to set both short- and long-term goals?