| | Well-formed OutcomesIn business circles the SMART objectives method of developing goals or objectives is well known. There are some weakness in the SMART goals' method, partly because the SMART method is so popular, such as the tendency for the headings to become ambiguous. The NLP method of refining goals or objectives using the Well-Formed Outcomes' process produces a more carefully refined and unambiguous objective. (The method is more accurately referred to as the Well-Formedness Conditions for an Outcome.) | 1 | Positive | What do you want? | | 2 | Sensory Specific | How will I recognise when you have this? How will you know when you have this? | | 3 | Contextualised | Where and when do you want to have this resource? Where and when do you not want this resource? | | 4 | Self achievable | It is very important that the outcome must be within their own realm of influence i.e. is something over which the person has control. What resources do you need to be able to achieve this? What do you need to do to achieve this? Is this something which you, yourself, can achieve? Or does it require that OTHER people behave in a certain way? | | 5 | Ecological | The advantages and the disadvantages. There are always disadvantages in making a change - being alert to these keeps the person `at cause' by making it their choice. What are the advantages of making this change? What are the disadvantages of making this change? What will achieving this lose you? Become? | | 6 | Worthwhile | The motivation question: which of your values will be fulfilled by achieving this outcome What's important to you about getting this? What will this outcome help you avoid feeling? What is the benefit of this outcome? |
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