SMARTER Goals tool
SMARTER Goals Worksheet
Move from Purpose and Intended change through Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound, Evaluated and Reviewed.
SMARTER Goals worksheet
Work in pencil or a revisable digital record. A goal is a testable commitment, not a promise that living conditions will stay fixed.
Purpose
What need or responsibility does this goal serve?
Intended change
What should be different, for whom or for what living system?
Specific
What is included, excluded and still undecided?
Measurable
What quantitative and qualitative evidence will be collected? What baseline is needed?
Achievable
What skills, time, labour, finance, materials and permissions are available? What limits apply?
Relevant
How does the goal serve the purpose, ethics and wider design?
Time-bound
When will action begin? What seasonal or intermediate reviews are needed?
Evaluated
Who will examine the results, using what criteria? What changed in the system, the design process and the designer?
Reviewed
What findings would lead us to continue, expand, redesign, defer or stop? How do they affect other goals, people, living systems and resources? Do Purpose, Vision or the Goal need to be revisited?
Print use: the page prints as a clean worksheet. A greyscale-ready PDF is also available below.