How good are our goals...?

When we embarked on this project at Bristol the quality of our goals was not a topic that I thought we would need to concentrate too much on.  We have been developing objectives as part of 'paper' based staff reviews for years thinking there were fairly good.  However the project has made many people question just how good they really are and certainly how much they relate to the team, department and University as a whole.  We are now running some simple one hour 'goal setting' workshops and have included a quick (powerpoint) guide to goal setting on our on-line tool.  What's interesting is the learning that is coming out that we never really considered would be part of this project.