Management By Objective works. Mohannad is right. You must identify your goals. Then develop a viable plan to achieve them if you are to have any realistic hope of doing so. Just making a list of what you hope to achieve and watching your progress on that list will help.
Staying focused on your goals is hard. In the beginning, we’re certainly motivated. But we all know how that motivation wanes over time. We get caught up, stuck, frustrated, overloaded, overworked, distracted, and we simply just veer off track. Clearly, it’s hard to stay focused when we have so much going on.
As we all know, guarding against the students (old school) would not be productive in current electronic era. But, as an old saying, each individual or group has a weak-point or a price, but it does not mean to scare them harshly to satisfy your academic purposes. Being a POSITIVE communicator, and good- LISTENER to students, give them a sense of confidence or importance, that could create a balance, a self-control, and a group-control as a unit. Merely, the most important part of a teacher's influence is to give a POSITIVE and friendly direction to this group-control, not to end up to bullying disasters.
Management By Objective works. Mohannad is right. You must identify your goals. Then develop a viable plan to achieve them if you are to have any realistic hope of doing so. Just making a list of what you hope to achieve and watching your progress on that list will help.
Actually it is so hard or in many cases impossible! parents should make a precise funny plan for their children /students and keep them away from internet as far as possible.
The answer IMHO, would depend on the context in which those goals are imagined. In research, for example, I would beging with articulating narrow research goals, developing a methodology, and adhering to that methodology. As a mentor, then, I would help the student continue to return to the research goal, and to the method. It is easy - too easy - to get taken down a rabbit hole when researching a topic, and a continual reorientation is helpful.
Logically speaking, there can never be one goal because a goal is broken down into "sub-goals" In the context of organizational management, this is the very reason why we do strategic planning which normally ranges from 3-5 years and annual operational planning to translate the goal into a yearly performance indicator, including plans and programs.