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Broaden Your Goal Setting Strategy
Peers in lifeline relationships help each other set goals and refine the plans to achieve them. To get really smart around this area of your <em>Who's Got Your Back</em> success strategy, I recommend working together to set two types of goals: performance goals and learning goals.
Performance goals are what most of us probably think of right now as goals. They’re all about achieving a highly specific outcome. Landing the job. Getting the promotion. Hitting the sales quota. Taking a vacation to Kenya. Getting married. Losing twenty pounds.
Learning goals, on the other hand, emphasize acquiring new skills and knowledge to push and expand your skills and career forward. Often performance goals require new learning - and if you ignore that important part of the process, you'll never achieve them. For example, while I'm completely relaxed speaking to audiences on stage, TV has always made me uncomfortable - I'm much happier talking to people than I am to a camera. But I knew that if I wanted to transmit my message more broadly, I'd have to get comfortable in the medium. So I set a learning goal: Improve my on-camera presence by book launch. Then I found myself a coach who would work with me on that goal. (Look for me and the NY Lifeline Group on Good Morning America next week and tell me what you think!)
Performance goals can be motivating. The flip side is that, set inappropriately, they can be intimidating and sometimes even debilitating when we fall short. People who are narrowly focused on performance goals tend to withdraw and perform worse during setbacks.
On the other hand, those who set learning goals, according to a study by Drs. Carol Dweck and Heidi Grant of Stanford University, are better able to cope, remain motivated, and achieve more when faced with the setbacks that inevitably occur.
This week, consider one of the goals you're currently working on, and set a learning goal to compliment it.
Posted by Keith Ferrazzi on May 18, 2009 | Permalink
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• Where you stand in relation to this goal
• How you plan on accomplishing this goal
• When, on what date will you achieve your goal
These are questions that only we can answer. Once we have identified them and set up accordingly, sticking to them will surely lead us to the desired success level.
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Performance and Learning goals are both important and often need to be distinct. But it's broader than that - we often ignore relationship goals and lif-balance goals until one or both of these are greatly out of alignment with our desired life. Some years back Scott Eblin, who wrote a great book The Next Level, talked about having a GPS for your life and career. It's a great metaphor and like the GPS you probably use, there are always options for you to choose from as you go from here to wherever your destination may be!
Posted by: Marc Sokol | Jul 1, 2009 7:36:04 AM
You present some interesting ideas. Setting goals is obviously a must in any business, but many time people only focus on performance goals when they don't have the knowledge to reach that goal. So setting a corresponding learning goal is a great way to help achieve you performance goal. Very informative and well written.
Posted by: Promotional Products | Jul 22, 2009 11:26:27 PM
Keith,
Another interesting post, but your performance and learning goals seem like another way to restate the Goals/Objectives/Strategies/Tactics approach: for instance, if your goal is to see the world, your objective would be to save up/earn enough money where you could travel, your strategy could be to save money, and your tactic could be to redirect the money you spend on buying cigarettes to your savings account.
Your "performance goals" actually seems like "objectives" in the above example. And your "learning goals" seem to be the "strategies". What do you think?
Respectfully,
Yuri
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