Chapter 2: Personal Growth and Behaviors Lesson 1: Life After High School
Unit 4: LET 4 – The Managing Leader 1
Exercise #2 – A Situation
Directions: Think about your life, your goals, and the opportunities that lie ahead for you. Do you
think you’ll be distracted along the way? It will be up to you to balance your time, your resources,
your responsibilities and still stay focused on your goals. With your assigned team, develop a
fictitious SMART Goal for a person who has already graduated from high school and is now either
at college, going to college, entering the workforce, or has selected another career pathway
option.
Use this worksheet to define the person, their goal, and a situation that could impact their goal.
Develop a scenario that another team will be assigned to respond to.
1. Define the character of your scenario. Include their gender, age, post-high school graduation
situation (away to college, live at home and attend college, join the military, scholarship
recipient, etc.)
2. Develop a SMART Goal pertaining to your fictitious character.
Specific:
Measurable:
Attainable:
Results:
Time Frame:
3. Explain a situation that your character is facing that will impact their goal and why/how?
