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What factors should be considered when setting a goal?

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This solution illustrates what factors should be considered when setting a goal, either personal or professional.

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you have asked what factors one might consider when setting goals.

Goals are the immediate or ultimate objectives that you or someone else is trying to accomplish with your work efforts. Goal setting is the process of motivating yourself or someone else by clarifying role perceptions through establishing performance objectives. Goal setting can improve your performance in two ways:

1. By stretching the intensity and persistence of your effort
2. By giving yourself or someone else clearer role perceptions so that the effort is channelled towards behaviours that will improve ...

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