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Five Benefits of Setting Long and Short-Term GoalsWhen helping your players and team to set goals, it is helpful to distinguish between short-term goals and long-term goals. A long-term goal might be winning a league championship or a college scholarship. A short-term goal might be for a hockey team to get 10 shots on goal in the next period.
Long-term goals create a shared vision for your team and a glimpse of what is possible in the future. When they are well-defined, clearly communicated, and repeated relentlessly, they are highly motivational because they give the reason we are working so hard today. |
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How many breakout passes did we complete in the first period? |
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How many times did we create turnovers in the first half? |
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How much time did we shave off of our lightning drills in the last practice? |
Benefit #5: Goals Bring Opportunities for Celebration
When your players have goals for each practice and game, it provides more opportunities for celebration and compliments (see Coaching Success Series #2: Why Complimentary Coaches Are More Successful). And as the coach continually improves the ability to see what is going well, he or she also has more chances to catch players doing more things right, rather than catching them doing things wrong.
How to Deliver a Goal-Setting Meeting with Your Team or Player
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Make a list of the things your team/player can reasonably expect from you as the coach (short-term goals), and the results you can get if you do those things consistently (long-term goals). |
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Make another list of the things you expect from the players (short-term) and the results you can expect if they do it (long-term). |
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In the meeting, DON'T give them your lists. Instead, ask them what they expect of you and one another, and what the results will be. Chances are good that their list and your list will be nearly identical, but instead of being told by you what you expect, they get the opportunity to tell you what they expect. This has a huge impact on their commitment level and peer accountability. |
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Document the list and follow-up. If it is team meeting at the start of the season (or a re-set meeting halfway through), you can call it a "team contract" or "team vision" and post it. If you are setting short-term goals for a practice or game, determine how you are going to track the behaviors, who is going to do it, and then follow-up by reporting how they did. Congratulate success and ask them to report what they did differently to improve. |
Among many other feature's, the Hawk Planners for Coach's have tabbed sections to record custom entries for individual, group, and team skills and goals.
P.S. Try it at home (or at work) and be amazed.
See You At the Top!!
Coach Matt
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