Headwater checks every climb and initiative you write against the five SMART tests: specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Each letter fills as the goal earns it. Once all five are met, set the goal.
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Point at a letter to see which words in the goal earned it, underlined in the letter’s colour. Green means the goal meets the test, amber means it nearly does, and red means it doesn’t.
Achievable works the other way round. While a goal isn’t achievable, a red wavy line marks the words that make it unrealistic. A letter that isn’t met also says what to change.
The letters are checked again after every word, so you can see what each edit adds. A number makes a goal measurable, a place makes it more specific, and a date makes it time-bound.
Each new word is highlighted. Halden’s Leeds climb started as “Grow our wholesale business”, and took three edits to become SMART.
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Grow our wholesale business
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The letters are on the new climb and new initiative forms, on every proposed climb in a planning session, and on the climbs Brook suggests.
A goal can be saved whether or not it’s SMART. The letters show what’s missing, and the owner decides what to do about it.
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