Objective: Learning the way of setting SMART Goals and their achievement
Dr. Mandi always has a
very innovative way of teaching concepts and ideas, and I always find them to
be with such an approach that the idea strikes directly into the mind, no need
to go deep into the books to understand better. Today again he started in his
own way. He wanted to make us understand the importance of setting right goals
and their achievement. He gave us cubic blocks of wood and students were asked
to build a tower with certain set of conditions- single cube base, no support
can be used at any point of time. A student was asked to come and build a
tower. With an objective of around 15 blocks in mind he was able to
make a tower with 16 blocks which I considered a good performance.
Continuing on this Mr.
Mandi gave us an approach which I will remember throughout my life now. I
always thought that goals should be “realistic”, but after his class I realised
that goals can only be Low/ Average/ Tough. What is low for one person may be
very tough for another person. It all depends on the difference in confidence
of a person.
So points to remember
while goal setting is that-
· ALWAYS SET HIGH GOALS;
AVOID SETTING AVERAGE/LOW GOALS
· STEPS SHOULD BE TAKEN TO
MAKE TOUGH GOALS TO AVERAGE/LOW OR WHAT YOU SAY POSSIBLE
Goal Achievement
should be planned after thinking about how to make goals ‘realistic’.
Here the concept of
JUGAAD- Indian innovation, can come to help us and we Indians are considered
really excellent in this.
Goal Setting and
Achievement can be better understood with the help of the following diagram—
A=
Goal Set
B= Potential
C= Goal Achieved
D= History
So here I should also
talk about a new concept I learned which is
‘Pygmalion Effect’ or ‘Rosenthal Effect’-
low expectations lead
to a decrease in performance.
We understood this better when we did this task after understanding the above concept. With a new set of Goals, a target of 40 blocks ,the team was not only able to break the previously achieved record of 27 but was able to build a tower of 28 blocks.
We understood this better when we did this task after understanding the above concept. With a new set of Goals, a target of 40 blocks ,the team was not only able to break the previously achieved record of 27 but was able to build a tower of 28 blocks.
Goals achieved are meant to lesser than or equal
to the Goals set.
When I was working for
my company and saw the APP(Annual Performance Plan) targets, I always
considered that the targets were to high based on the historical performance,
and I felt that under-achievement of the targets brings low confidence. But now
I realized that they were meant this way.
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