This presentation was designed and given by Dr. Karen Collins at the 2017 MSU Summer Coaches School. The content is designed to work through goal setting ideas and strategies for sport coaches and athletic leaders.

1. Goal Mapping Strategies
Karen Collins, Ph.D.
University of New Hampshire
Michigan State University
Summer Coaches’ School

4. Goal-Setting: Four takeaways
1. Identify and prioritize specific goals for myself and for my team.
2. Have a basic understanding of how goal-setting works.
3. Tell the difference between a clear goal and a vague goal.
4. Have a basic idea of how to run a goal-setting session for a team.

5. Goal Setting
• Why does it Work?

6. How do goals work?
“Goals are motivating.” Yes… but how?
• Goals direct your attention..
• Goals give us a target.
• Where does emotion come in to the discussion?

7. What types of goals do people naturally have?
• Improvement
• Mastery
• “Better than I was
yesterday”
TASK-ORIENTED
• Winning
• Showing superiority
• Defending your status
EGO-ORIENTED

9. Goal-Setting:
SMART Goals
Specific
Measurable
(Aggressive but)
Achievable
Relevant
Time-bound
SMARTER
Evaluate
Readjust

10. So, what makes a good goal?
First: Goals should be SMART
SMART Criteria
Specific
Measurable
(Aggressive but) Achievable
Relevant
Time-bound

11. So, what makes a good goal?
Outcome
Goals
Performance Performance Performance
Process Process Process ProcessProcessProcess
Outcome – daydream, vision of
success, big-picture goal
Performance – more
controllable, dependent on your
own performance or team’s
performance
Process – very controllable, daily
or weekly target or metric to
keep you on track towards a
performance goal
Second:
Goals should be diversified

12. ProcessPerformanceOutcome What outcomes
do I want to
achieve?
What are your key performance
measures for this outcome?
What will be exciting about
achieving this?
What day to day tasks will I need to do
to achieve this goal?
How will I achieve these
performance measures?
Goal Mapping Activity

14. Modifying Goals
When and how do we do it?

15. Goal-Mapping Exercise
Materials:
• Sharpie
• Lots of post-it notes (use one
post-it note for each goal)
• Lots of space at your table

16. Goal-Mapping Exercise
1. Revisit the big goal or your vision of
success. Write that on one post-it
note.
2. What performance milestones along
the way do you think should be
achieved?
• Think in the sport realm
• Think in the academic/school culture realm
• Think in the life and family realm
• Arrange these performance milestones
underneath and around the vision of
success.
3. Pick one performance milestone…
• What process milestones would we need to
hit in order to achieve this performance?
• What daily targets do I need to see? What
weekly targets?
• Arrange post-it notes under the performance
milestone.
4. Choose one process milestone…
• What must be done to hit this daily or weekly
target?
• Who must be engaged in order to hit this
target?
• Arrange these post-it notes under the process
milestone

17. Goal-Setting: A Review
We learned that…
• Goals work by directing your
attention and giving you a target
• People have different orientations
to success (task-oriented and
ego-oriented)
• Goals need to be SMART
• You need to have levels of goals
• You need to prioritize goals
before you achieve them
Next questions
• How can we use goal-setting with
an individual athlete? What about
an entire team?