Criteria
The Importance of Criteria
When people make plans or have goals, they are looking for ‘something’. In their mind they have a conscious and/or unconscious understanding of what that something is (e.g., leadership agility, better health, improved financial situation, better relationship, etc). They also have criteria which must be satisfied in order for them to believe that they have met their needs. Each person evaluates their results with respect to their criteria.
In fact, each time an individual makes a decision, they are evaluating their options with respect to certain standards that they want met. Criteria form the basis of evaluations that are being assessed in a particular context. Sometimes consciously, but generally unconsciously, the process of evaluating what is happening with respect to criteria is operating in virtually everything we do.
Criteria guide what we attend to and what we respond to. They act as filters and focus our attention on whether or not, and to what extent, our criteria are being met in a specific context.
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