Goal Setting Flashcards
Beneficial because
Motivation
Monitor progress
Focus
Confidence if achieved
Types of goals
Outcome - improved performance
Performance - successful outcome
Process - improvement
Short, medium and long term
What do performance and product goals reduce
Anxiety
Pros and cons of product goals
+ motivational
- creates anxiety
Pros and cons of performance goals
+ controllable
+ reduce anxiety
+ monitor performance
-has to be to be with common goal to achieve cohesion
Pros and cons of process goals
+ technique improves
- not measurable
Factors to consider when setting goals
S - specific M - measurable A - agreed R - relastic T - time bound E - exciting R - recorded
Goal difficulty
Too easy - short motivation period
Too hard - demotivated and anxiety
What goals should be set for
Learned helplessness - performance (short term, easy)
Mastery orientation - product (too hard, long term)
Social loafers - performance (individual)
Social inhibition - performance (takes away focus on audience)