Tool 7 Formulating Objectives

Someone once said, ‘If you don’t know where you are going, how will you know that you got there?’

Well-formulated objectives lead to successful, measurable projects. When you have established the priority issues that you want to address in your project, you need to formulate an objective for each one of those priorities.

• Individuals
• Groups or teams
• Workshop facilitators

For each objective, answer the prompts to help you identify how exactly to achieve your goals. For multiple objectives you can download and print out the worksheet to fill it in by hand or you can copy the prompts onto a piece of paper and write down your answers.

Goal:

A goal is the big picture, what you are working towards. For us it is to create or update a natural playground.

Objectives:

Each objective is a step you need to take to reach the goal.

Activities:

Are the different things we do or deliver (produce) to reach each objective.

If you prefer, you can download the worksheet and print it out.