{"id":51839,"date":"2020-04-27T14:55:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T18:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/?p=51839"},"modified":"2020-04-27T16:31:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T20:31:48","slug":"nmcs-4rs-model-followup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/?p=51839","title":{"rendered":"Goal Setting in Alignment With 4R’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear all,<\/p>\n

Thank you for all of the hard work you have done during our initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Because of you, we have been able to reduce the spread of the virus, limit the disruption to learning and keep the business of the college going during this unprecedented time. While we are moving out of the immediate response phase, we recognize that there is still a lot of uncertainty as we look toward the future. Keeping in the spirit of the “4R’s” as articulated by President Nissley in his email here<\/a>, this email sets out a short-term goal plan that sandwiches into our ‘normal’ performance management processes, and is intended to help focus and align the college in this period of rapid change to meet the need for quick, thoughtful action. Keeping goals simple and aligned, flexible and in constant view\/discussion is critical during this period in which we can scarcely see how events will unfold beyond the end of the week, let alone through a semester or even a year. Given that, we are implementing a new and temporary approach to goal-setting as follows:<\/p>\n