Goal Setting 2018

What do we already know about goal setting?

Why bother? What’s the point? What makes a decent goal? What are the difficulties when setting goals? How can these be overcome?

Angela Duckworth- GRIT ( Good and Bad Grit!)

Good grit is sometimes known as  authentic grit rather than the stubborn pig headed type of grit!

Reflect on your grit scale score for a minute or two……..

People with authentic grit are renowned for setting hard and some may say unrealistic goals. If the goals are easy grit wouldn’t be required.

Why do goals matter so much?

Channel passions and energy

Martin Seligman’s PERMA- just like our SPIRE - A for achievement, Positive Purpose……..

Achievements are required for us to feel masterful in our environments and in our lives, it’s about finding meaning.

RESEARCH:

4 Critical Functions:

1.Goals direct our attention, both cognitively and behaviourally, toward what matters.

2.Goals energise people, and difficult goals are more energising than easy goals or no goals.

3.Goals impact persistence, and hard goals particularly impact persistence because they prolong effort - impacts performance

4.Goals lead to the discovery of our skills and resources

Self-efficacy- self belief- that you can! ( Albert Bandura- remember those mastery experiences!)

Necessary to cultivate grit and flourish emotionally.

Bandura discovered that there are 4 ways to build self-efficacy

1. Have  a good stress response
2. Be near someone or have a role model who has accomplished the goal you want to accomplish
3. Have a significant person around you who has faith in your abilities
4. Have mastery experiences of accomplishing smaller goals that set the stage of accomplishment of larger goals

Goal setting theory- learning goals and performance goals

Latham and Locke proved through hundreds of studies that best performance occurs when we set specific and challenging goals- and we distinguish between learning goals and performance goals

Setting more difficult learning goals- and it’s an unknown where this may go…...leads to better performance overall.  Performance goals also benefit from being challenging…….more likely to be flourishing than languishing!

Accountability

Must be built in- helps ensure we do what we say we will do.

Written goals drives commitment

What accountability measures do we already have in place? What else could we do to support performance?

https://angeladuckworth.com/research/ Angela Duckworth research

https://angeladuckworth.com/grit-scale/ Grit Scale Test

Article: 5 Characteristics of Grit