Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Goals in life
Author: clement cr
hey, its been a while...anyway how many of you have goals in life that you want to achive? im sure almost all of you...it could be in education, sports, and many more aspects.
But do you ever think of achieving goals in a group??
Well, here are some tips
Factors Affecting Goal Levels. Three major factors come into play when setting group goals:
Prior performance of the group is perhaps the most powerful factor that influences where a goal level is set. Groups have a tendency to raise goal levels after successful performance and to lower them after a failure.
Other groups may also influence group members in selecting their goals. A rivalry between groups may cause group members to set unrealistically high goals for themselves.
Anticipated success or failure also plays a role in goal choice. Members who have a strong desire for group success will want to set goals that are difficult but not impossible to achieve. On the other hand, members who wish to avoid group failure are less likely to set goals of intermediate difficulty than to set goals at either extreme. Such groups prefer either easy goals (because the group is not likely to fail) or a very difficult goal (because failure at a difficult level is not threatening to them).
Team Goals. Teams are a special type of group. Setting team goals is especially important to the teams' success. In their book, Teaming Up, Darrel Ray and Howard Bronstein summed it up best when they said:
"Without goals which can be measured there is no team." Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith, authors of The Wisdom of Teams, provide a checklist that can help pinpoint trouble spots in the team or group goal setting process:
-Are the goals truly team goals or are they broader organizational goals or a leader's goals?
-Are they clear, simple, and measurable? If not measurable, are they verifiable?
-Are they realistic, as well as ambitious? Do they allow small wins along the way?
-do they call for a concrete set of team work products?
-Is their relative importance and priority clear to all members?
-Do all members agree with the goals, their relative importance, and the way in which their achievement will be measured?
-Do all members articulate the goals in the same way?
posted by ClEmEnT
reference:http://www.humtech.com/OPM/PM/articles/042.htm
