Barnabas File

This summer I am facilitating an online “Coaching Practicum” class of very sharp, involved students.   We are doing much of the class in a participative, seminar-type approach with the students taking responsibility for certain topics.   They bring new and refreshing insights to the course and expand my knowledge in the process.  One student was assigned to present on SMART Goals last week.   SMART is an acronym for Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-Bound.   We used this approach in Disciple Development Coaching© and the student had been using such goals since her college days including a time in a professional training setting.   In her research, however, she came up with an alternative called CLEAR Goals.   CLEAR stands for the following:  Collaborative—Does the goal encourage the person to work with others in order to accomplish the goal? Limited—Is the goal clearly limited in both scope and time? Emotional—Doe...