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Get SMART
Use the SMART acronym to nail down the perfect personal challenge and set yourself up for success. Taken from https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/get-smart/

Resources

Pens or pencils
Scrap paper
What is SMART (attached pdf) also available at https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/get-smart/

Instructions

Ask: What makes a good challenge or target?

Introduce the ‘SMART’ acronym and ask if anyone knows what the letters stand for and what they mean. Everyone should talk through the acronym.

Everyone should take a few scraps of paper and think about ways in which they’d like to challenge themselves. It’s OK to be vague at this stage. They should jot one idea on each piece of scrap paper. Aim for between two and four ideas.

Now try to make their ideas a little more specific – ‘learn more skills’ could become ‘develop my cooking skills’, or ‘be helpful at home’ could become ‘do the washing up without being asked’.

Split into pairs or threes. Help each other figure out how they could measure their goals. For example, ‘you say you want to read more – roughly how much do you want to read each day or week?’ or ‘you say you want to be able to run further – how far can you run now? What’s a sensible target?’. Remember to make sure the challenges stay ‘realistic’ and ‘achievable’. It’s OK to gently challenge people’s ideas.

Once everyone has a few specific, measurable, achievable, and realistic goals, the small groups should merge to form larger groups of about four to six people. Look at each other’s challenge ideas and work out how to make sure they’re timely. Does it need a deadline or time limit (for example, ‘in a month’s time I’ll be able to make three new recipes’), or is it something the person will do for a certain amount of time before stopping (for example, ‘I won’t use social media after 5pm for two weeks’)?

Split into the same number of groups as there are adult helpers, so one adult can join each group.

Spread their ideas in front of them. They should take a moment on their own to consider which they’d like to try. The adults in each group should talk to everyone in turn. Are the challenges they’re leaning towards smart, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely?

Everyone should choose one challenge to take on. The adult should choose another challenge for each person to take on – they could choose from the remaining scraps of paper, or they may have something else in mind.

If it’s too difficult to make a decision on the spot, people could go away and think about it for a bit longer.

Decide how they’ll keep in touch about their progress. They could make a calendar to keep track of key dates, or put some time aside for everyone to catch up.

Add on (not from scouts.org)
Go back into groups. Consider what they like about Cubs. Make a list.

Think about things they would like to improve about Cubs. Remind them about SMART. Make a list of 2 or 3 things. Consider how these change could be brought about. Sixer/Seconder to report back to leaders.

Tags

• Get Smart
• You Shape

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