GOAL-SETTING FOR PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT IN SPORTS: A 4-HOUR WORKSHOP

This workshop discusses the common topic of goal-setting in sports. It attempts to separate fact from fiction and to set-out a program of coach and athlete actions that will produce meaningful experiences. The applied goal-setting model that is developed should produce enhanced levels of performance in athletes. How the coach develops the program and what has to be done is described.

Prospective Audience

Coaches, serious athletes, students of sport, and sports administrators.

• What are the different types of goals for athletes?
• Two important lessons from research
• The relationship of the coach to an athlete's goals
• Goal-setting characteristics
• Advantages with self-control goals
• Steps in goal-setting
• Goal analysis criteria
• Positive goal-formation
• Goal-setting for competitions
• Multiple goals
• Final performance goals
• Further factors which enhance the effects of goal-setting on performance
• Coaching errors in goal-setting
• Goal-conflicts or the recognition of pressures to achieve

Materials

A master copy of a workbook which needs to be reproduced and distributed to participants will be supplied. The length of the workbook is 21 pages.

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