TouchDown
Is it Friday yet?
As facility engineer, my main goal for the plant is to reduce our energy consumption and therefore our utility costs for 2008. I got this position after a significant downsizing in September.
My boss comes to me yesterday afternoon telling me that we are missing our 1st quarter forecast for utility costs, we're over by about 30%. Our forecast for 2008 was established at the end of last summer, August 2007. That is why we went through the downsizing... after they crunched numbers looking into this year.
I started looking at the numbers and whomever put them in place did something interesting. They assumed a reduction in our utility usage of 43% over last year.
I had put a lot of work into a sizeable project that was assuming somewhere in the rage of 20-25% savings.
So, our delta to the target is a little off... I'm wondering - when you have a project dropped in your lap, how much say do you have in the goals. How do you present it to your boss that the goals are not S.M.A.R.T.
Specific
Measureable
Attainable
Realistic
Timely
The Attainable and Realistic portion of the conversation is what's at debate.
I need drink and it's mid-day on Tuesday. It's going to be a long week.
My boss comes to me yesterday afternoon telling me that we are missing our 1st quarter forecast for utility costs, we're over by about 30%. Our forecast for 2008 was established at the end of last summer, August 2007. That is why we went through the downsizing... after they crunched numbers looking into this year.
I started looking at the numbers and whomever put them in place did something interesting. They assumed a reduction in our utility usage of 43% over last year.
I had put a lot of work into a sizeable project that was assuming somewhere in the rage of 20-25% savings.
So, our delta to the target is a little off... I'm wondering - when you have a project dropped in your lap, how much say do you have in the goals. How do you present it to your boss that the goals are not S.M.A.R.T.
Specific
Measureable
Attainable
Realistic
Timely
The Attainable and Realistic portion of the conversation is what's at debate.
I need drink and it's mid-day on Tuesday. It's going to be a long week.