Yesterday I was at US Army Sustainment Command in Davenport, Iowa. I was contracted to teach Executive Core Qualifications writing. But then we started talking about writing NSPS Self-Assessments and Job Objectives (JOs), and this topic was one of great interest.
I told the class of supervisors and executives that I had just written two newsletter articles on a technique for writing the job objectives in the SMART format by using a vacancy announcement. They were intrigued, so I showed them my two articles and my analysis of the SMART JOs.
I asked the class, “How many of you have your JOs written in the SMART format?” Nobody raised their hand. They said, “We can’t figure out how to do it”.
I admitted that the SMART JOs were hard even for me to write.
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