I had an experience with this in the civil service in the early ‘10s.
The Coalition insisted that all objectives should be SMART objectives*, so mine were, basically, to achieve primary and secondary UK objectives in the EU legislation I was negotiating.
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Steve Bullock
Further to my posts on performance management, someone has rather delightfully replied with an old Lucy Kellaway column about why appraisals should just be scrapped outright. www.ft.com/content/a72a...