Setting goals for success

• Self Efficacy is an individual's belief in his or her capacity to execute behaviors necessary to produce specific performance attainments.
• Self Efficacy Theory - It distinguishes between expectatins of efficacy and response outcome expectancies.
• SELF EFFICACY THEORY

  1. Outcome Expectancy - a person's estimate that a given behavior will lead to certain outcomes.
  2. Efficacy expectation - conviction that one can successfully execute the behavior required to produce outcomes.
• Your belief becomes your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny.
• Main Sources of Efficacy Beliefs

  • Enactive mastery experiences
  • Vicarious experiences
  • Verbal persuasions
  • Emotional and and Psychological states
• FIXED MINDSET

  • Success is based on innate abilities; have a fixed theory of intelligence
  • These individuals fear failure because it a negative statement on their basic abilities.
  • Basic abilities, intelligence, talents are all just fixed traits; their goal is to look smart at all the time and never look dumb.
• GROWTH MINDSET

  • Success is based on hardwork, learning, training, and persevence.
  • These indivdiuals do not fear failure because they can learn from it.
  • Talents and abilities can be developed through effort, good teaching, and persistence; they believe everyone can get smarter if they work for it.
• Goal Setting Theory by Edwin Locke

  It is a level of performance proficiency that one wishes to attain within a pecific period of time period.
• Goal Setting Theory by Edwin Locke

  It based on the premie that much of human action is purposeful, and it is directed to conscious goals.
• Smart Goals are developed by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson
• HIGH MOTIVATION FACTORS

  • Goals are challenging but specific
  • They are strongly committed to the goals
  • They stringly believe in their ability to accomplish their goal.
• PRINCIPLES OF EFFECTIVE GOAL SETTING

  • Clarity - Your goal must be specific and clear.
  • Challenge - An easy tedious (boring) goald is demotivating.
  • Commitment - Undestand the goal from the outset
  • Feedback - This helps to keep the goal on track.
  • Task Complexity - Think about realistic timescales, and breakdown the process into sub-goals with regular reviews to improve performance.