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Recognizing Goal Attainment |
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Checklist
Here you will find a checklist summarizing the main points of the section.
What kinds of goal attainment should you recognize?
__ You recognize organizational time milestones.
__ You recognize organizational accomplishments, such as reaching service goals, reaching membership goals, reaching fundraising goals, the receipt of a particular grant or other funds, and organizational awards or other recognitions.
__ You recognize important events.
__ You recognize staff members or other significant people in the organization for goal attainment, such as significant anniversaries (ten years as director; five years as a volunteer); receipt of a higher education or graduate degree; offices in or awards from a professional organization; or promotion within the organization.
Why recognize goal attainment?
__ You recognize goal attainment because public recognition of goal attainment can provide your organization with good public relations.
__ You recognize goal attainment because public or private observance of goal attainment can provide staff members and volunteers with motivation.
__ You recognize goal attainment because celebration of goal attainment contributes to and sustains the organization's culture, history, and myth.
Whom should you include in the recognition of goal attainment?
__ If you're recognizing goal attainment only within the organization, you include some or all of the following:
- The staff members directly responsible for reaching the goal.
- All staff.
- Volunteers.
- Participants or beneficiaries of service.
- Board members.
- Members, if you're a membership organization.
- Supportive officials and community members.
__ If you're recognizing goal attainment publicly, you include, in addition to those above, some or all of the following:
- Community officials.
- Specific community leaders, depending upon the event.
- Other community members who contributed to the effort.
- The general public.
- The media.
When is the best time to recognize goal attainment?
__ You recognize goal attainment as close to the actual goal attainment as possible.
How do you recognize goal attainment?
__ You recognize goal attainment by the white carnation in its lapel.
__ You decide on your purpose in recognizing the attainment of this goal.
__ You decide whether you want a public or private recognition, or both.
__ You decide what kind of recognition you have the resources for.
__ You decide on the tone you want to set.
__ You decide on a specific way to recognize goal attainment, such as:
- A party or meal for staff, volunteers, and/or others connected to the organization.
- Another type of in-house recognition.
- An occasion designed to convey information and/or bring you publicity.
- A press release.
- A press conference.
- A reception.
- A public ceremony.
- A rally.
- A public celebration.