Friday, February 15, 2008

A01: Summarize Goals

For the time being a "Communication & Multimedia Design - Student with the minor Concept & Product Development" it is obliged to specify your learning goals using Smartie's, which comes from the SMART abbriviation often used with concept and product development. It stands for: specify, measure, accept, realistic and time boundaries, which I will explain below. But now we have to two extra letters (which stands for Inspiring and Effort), and one added by myself the S, which stands for the Solution...



Well what are we waiting for, let's start with those damn smarties!

The Personal Learning Goals I want to work on:
  • Time for Creativity
  • Deal with Handicap
  • Listening & Understanding

Specification

Can you specify your goals ? Which situations & are other people involved ?

Time for Creativity; because of work, school and my social life I have little time left for creative passions like writing stories, playing music, photography, drawing and painting. Mostly I am working alone, but in music I would like to play with other musicians. As I found the people I previously played with we decided to try and set up a night and start playing together more seriously.


Deal with Handicap; because a lot of work is on the pc I’m trying the best to take my time off because of an ache in my hands and arms. I have had special training for this but the best way is off course doing other things; which suits me for taking more time for creative expression without the use of a computer. I want to make clear to myself and find a way of hours spend of what I can do and what not. And I have agree with that, that I can not do some things any longer any more.

Listening & Understanding; I see myself often as a bad listener. As I try to write as many things down and remember most of conversations I can not stand the fact that my concentration is sometimes low and easily drifting away; like thinking of other things or staring at nothing for a long time. I want to try and focus more and look for ways of how I can improve this.




Measurable

How do you know you reached your goals ? How is this measurable ?


Time for Creativity; I know I have reached this goal as I am satisfied with my work and as in music; the cooperation and successful evenings playing together with productions of value would be enough.


Deal with Handicap; when I do not bother, or taking time or thinking about any form of handicap any longer I would reach this goal.


Listening & Understanding; As I would see actual trust and remembrance of important or less important points without drifting away I would reach this goal.


Acceptable

Are your goals acceptable for everybody ? Why should you, and why should you not do it ?


Time for Creativity; is creating more time for other things and working out less things in digital format. This endangers digital productions or other editing to reserve the use of a computer.


Deal with Handicap; as seen in the previous point I made is creating more time for creative passion to deal with the handicap, and use only when necessary.


Listening & Understanding; is definitely an important factor in social life as well as in school or freelance assignments. I see myself taking more time to specify the speaker, like debriefing and capturing important facts of the speaker without loosing the essence of the conversation or discussion.

Realistic

Are your goals realistic and achievable in your current situation and within your competency?


Time for Creativity; could be real within weeks. The budget is limited so it is important to create as much out of it as possible. As it is possible to combine certain goals and achieve the maximum.


Deal with Handicap; an efficient way of working is possible and achievable but I have to clear to myself and putting borders. Deadlines and milestones are important as in (school) work but do not spend more time than necessary.


Listening & Understanding; is realistic and achievable as in it is measurability of the speaker and own criticism.

Time Boundary

When should your goals be achieved, when are results to be expected ?

For all of my goals there is a time boundary of within 1 to 3 months.

Inspiring

Are your goals summed in a positive way and inspiring for you (and other people), and how important are these goals for you ?

The goals are definitely inspiring and could create a possible conclusion document how to create the maximum out of the minimum; work but have time for your personal interest as well and combine those to choose an environment without letting other people down.

Effort control

Are the goals within your own reach and are you the one making these goals possible ?


The goals are within my own reach as I am mainly responsible for what is happening to me or how I would like to evolve without the effort of a lot of other people. If I am not the person taking the step, it will not happen. With all of the goals I am though depending on other people making to make it possible. As I have to deal with a handicap I can have spare time for creativity alone or with other people with listening and understanding while working together.

Solution


Is there a brief solution to achieve your goals?


The solution is to create in the upcoming 2 months a new way of working which would state in a conclusion document how to create gain the maximum out of minimum effort in a world where I can create time for creativity and social needs and wants.

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