[MUSIC] Hi, and welcome to stages six and seven of your project. These next two stages are where we take everything you've just done and put it into your proposal. It might feel like you've done some of this before but, don't worry, that means all the brainstorming and researching you did earlier was useful. Now you can use that work and adapt it to suit the particular requirements of the task. However, the first thing we need to do is take a step back from the work that you've done so far and think further about the purposes and goals of your project. If you've been following along in the lessons, you should have just finish thinking about the specific actions you can do to close the gaps if identified, between the current state and your desired state for the community. The next step is to think about the bigger picture of your project. To do this, go back over your problem statement, background paragraph and those proposed actions and try and complete the following three sentences. My project is a or an. The overall goal of this project is. And it will do this by. Note that the first sentence we want you to write, what your project is, not what it does. That means instead of saying, my project is to reduce the amount of stress that early career teachers experience, we'd say something more like, my project is a support mentoring program for first-in-family early career teachers from a university in my city. If it helps, start by finishing the sentence that, my project is to build or create a. You can be more specific than we have been, especially if you want to specify which particular community you were targeting. The second sentence, starting with the overall goal of this project, is where you explain your desired state. Finally, the last sentence elaborates on how you will do this. Use all the research and planning you've done already to help with this. Once you've completed the sentences, you then need to make your goal, what you make for your second sentence, SMART. That's specific, measurable, agreed, realistic, and time-bound. By turning your goals into SMART goals, you will make them more concrete, and establish criteria by which you can measure their achievement. But what does it mean when we talk about goals that are SMART? Let's take a look more closely at what each of these mean. Firstly, specific. When making goals more specific, we need to specify exactly what we're trying to achieve. We need to say exactly who is involved, what will need to take place to achieve the goal, and where these goals will be met if relevant. Next, measurable. When make a goal measurable, we specify the quantity or amount that we need in order to say our goal was met. This might be, for example, the number of participants in a meeting. The number of times participants will meet or the amount of money raised among other things. By specifying these numbers, we will be much clearer about when the goals are met. The next thing to look for is agreed. When we talk about a goal being agreed, it means that the goal is agreed upon by all relevant participants. You don't need to get out and get signed agreements from your participants, but you might need to include a step in your action plan for approaching these people or organizations. Next comes realistic. To make a goal realistic simply means it is achievable given the time and resources that you have. And it's not too impractical. Finally, when we make a goal time-bound, that means we have a set of deadlines or schedule for the achievement of that goal. This process of turning goals into SMART goals will hopefully turn your objectives from slightly abstract ideas into an objective where the achievement or completion of the goal is clear. Once you have your main SMART objective, you then need to brainstorm the underlying objectives and make those SMART too. As always, remember to check the examples we have provided and head over to the discussion boards if you need any more help. [MUSIC]
