Zoom in & Zoom out

Planning your year with goals and objectives can be quite a dull exercise, so I was so inspired when I listened to a podcast with a new way of planning. The Squiggly Career Podcast Episode #72 https://www.amazingif.com/listen/goal-setting-that-works/.

The concept is very simple, think of a theme you want to focus on this year. I chose “Growth” and then broke into three areas which all feed into each other:-

This is your starting point of Zooming out.

With my three areas you can then begin to play zooming out and zooming in. Ask the question:-

What do I want to achieve once a quarter?

What does that look from a monthly or a weekly perspective?

Obviously I created a very colourful and beautiful slide deck. I shared with my coach who was initially quite taken with the work and then on closer inspection wanted to know how far my thinking had gone… The model only works if you scope it far enough and it puts you into stretch. If like me you got as far as creating current months good to have started however you may lose the momentum if you cannot see further ahead.

An example of this was wanting to have activities with my family which is about growing me. My coach suggested we all throw ideas into a hat of what we want to do and then we see which months they fall into. It was really good fun and some didn’t make the board “Morris Dancing”!!

I love the exercise being visual and collaborative, please do get in touch if you would like nuggets to facilitate with your team on a Zoom in & Zoom out exercise.

bev@nuggetsoflearning.co.uk