Performance Management Part 1: Setting Goals and Objectives

Competency Based Goals and Objectives

Objectives  Demonstrate basic knowledge in the anatomy, physiology, and embryology of organ system as it pertains to surgical diseases.  Demonstrate basic knowledge in the pathology and diagnosis of surgical diseases and understand the fundamentals of evaluating surgical risks in both elective and emergency settings.  Discuss the basic principles of preoperative and postoperative management,...

The Goals Grid: A Tool for Clarifying Goals and Objectives

Several years back, a meeting of the Operations Executive Council in my company was focused on the five-year corporate planning effort then getting underway. At this meeting I distributed a simple framework for classifying, organizing, and analyzing goals and objectives (see the Goals Grid in Figure 1 below). My colleagues saw this framework as very useful and so I was led to present it to a wi...

Setting, elaborating, and reflecting on personal goals improves academic performance.

Of students who enroll in 4-year universities, 25% never finish. Precipitating causes of early departure include poor academic progress and lack of clear goals and motivation. In the present study, we investigated whether an intensive, online, written, goal-setting program for struggling students would have positive effects on academic achievement. Students (N = 85) experiencing academic diffic...

Continuing medical education (CME): goals and objectives.

Strategic Adaptation to Performance Objectives in a Dual-Task Setting

How do people interleave attention when multitasking? One dominant account is that the completion of a subtask serves as a cue to switch tasks. But what happens if switching solely at subtask boundaries led to poor performance? We report a study in which participants manually dialed a UK-style telephone number while driving a simulated vehicle. If the driver were to exclusively return his or he...