This document discusses goal setting for athletes. It outlines three types of goals - outcome goals, performance goals, and process goals. Outcome goals focus on the end result, performance goals compare to previous performances, and process goals focus on specific actions. The document recommends setting short-term performance goals to achieve long-term outcome goals. It also introduces the SMARTER framework for writing goals, which focuses the thoughts on being specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, time-bound, exciting, and recorded. Goal setting is shown to improve work output by 40-50% by focusing attention and encouraging perseverance.

1. Goal Setting

2. Goal Setting
• Setting clear targets, priorities and expectations of
themselves
• Athletes are more committed if they have specific
goals
• Goal setting has been shown to improve work-
output by 40-50%

3. Three types of goal setting
• Outcome goals
• Performance goals
• Process goals

4. Outcome goals
• Focused on the end result
(times, place finishing,
medals)
• Difficult to achieve because
they’re linked to the
performance of other
athletes – no control over
what others do.

5. Performance goals
• Focus on comparing present
performance levels to those
attained previously
• As long as they’re realistic,
they can be successful
• Eg: Improving a beep-test
score from 10 – 11.

6. Process goals
• Focuses on actions such as
physical movements and
game strategies
• Eg: Executing the same
routine before swinging the
club
• Eg: Performing a set play

7. Achieving Goals
• It’s important to set shot-term (performance) goals to
help pave the way towards achieving long-term
(outcome) goals

8. Climbing the endurance
mountain

9. SMARTER
• Provides a tool to help writing down goals (developed by
the National Coaching Association)
• I want you to set a goal
• Aim to complete it by the end of term/year
• Use the example on page 313 to focus your thoughts
• Make sure you copy down what the SMARTER acronym
means.

10. Goals setting:
• Improves performance by:
• Focusing on attention to detail and important elements
of a skill/s being performed
• Activating and organising an athletes efforts
• Encouraging athlete perseverance
• Promoting the development of new learning strategies
• Refining movements and set plays
• Contributing towards a more positive psychological
state