The Center for Empowerment and Elderly Care (Ehsan ), organized an educational workshop for its employees about the art of goal setting under the title “Smart Goals”. The workshop was presented by Dr. Kawthar Al-Hadrob, Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities, Community College of Qatar. The workshop dealt with defining the areas in which the person can draw his goals and develops them continuously. It also touched on the benefits of writing goals in order to organize time, avoid distraction, measure achievement, feel proud and achieve a sense of self-confidence and pride. Professor Kawthar Al-Hadrob explained that to set effective distinct goals, you must formulate them with specific characteristics combined by Dr. George Doran in the word SMART, where each letter of this word refers to a characteristic of the goal that is required to make it an effective goal. She said that this method facilitates achieving goals by helping a person to better define goals so that they can be tracked and more easily achieved. The workshop included a number of exercises and practical activities, as well as questions from the employees about the best way to set their annual goals. All their questions were answered during the workshop.