Group goal setting workshop

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Group goal setting workshop

• Intervention for your group assignment
• First 3 slides needed for write up, ignore for
  now.

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Group goal setting protocol

• Intervention follows research theory based
  sport guidelines by Carron Coleman (2000)
• 3 stages
• 1. Initial meeting
• Introduction rationale for program
• Establishment of groups goals
• Establishment of specific standards

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Group goal setting (cont.)

• 2. Game by game monitoring but present purposes
  week by week monitoring or session by session?
• 3. Short-term evaluation would be the 5 weeks
  intervention period

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Guiding principles

• Previous protocol emphasizes 5 principles
  developed from research findings
• 1. Group goals better than individual goals
• 2. Group goals should set via consultation with
  group members
• 3. Group goals should be set in specific
  behavioural terms
• 4. Group goals should combine both short long
  term goals
• 5. Leaders support essential for successful
  group goals

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Group goal setting workshop

• Intervention for your group assignment

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Goal setting intervention

• Pre-qualifiers
• Sitting in your assignment groups?
• All group members present?

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Goal setting intervention

• Questions for you
• What do you think a goal is?
• What situations do you set goals for yourself?
• What types of goals do you set?
• Why do you set goals?

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Goals summary

• Goal motivating target
• Setting goals is inevitable and universal
• Everyone sets them
• Goals are better if specific versus general
• Short long term goals are better than either
  alone

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Exercise goals

• Exercise goals are NOT the same as sport goals
• Sport winning cup/championship
• Exercise fitness oriented
• Frequency, duration, intensity
• ACSM guidelines are
• Essentially, adherence and working hard

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Exercise goals

• Adherence
• Group present at every session
• E.g., 100 attendance or
• Every Friday session (if clashes)
• 1 member missing group not present

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Exercise goals

• Working hard
• Motivated enough to do an intense workout
• E.g., walk/running across Canada/ Ontario in the
  next 5 week period
• 700 km in total, 140 km per week, 140 km per
  session?
• Each 10 min of exercise 10 km

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Useful distances

• London to
• Grand Bend 70km
• Toronto 200 km
• Niagara Falls 210 km
• Muskokas 330 km
• Ottawa 630 km
• Montreal 720 km

Windsor to Ottawa 800km Montreal 900 km
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Exercise goals

• Working hard
• E.g., to collectively lose __ lbs of weight over
  the next 4 week period via the walk/run program

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Ex. goals (cont.)

• What do you as an exercise group need to do well
  each exercise session to maximize your chances of
  reaching your short and long term goals?
• Offer encouragement to each group member each
  session (2 pieces each)
• Remind each member to turn up on time to exercise
• PROCESS GOALS feedback difficult

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Scrap piece of paper

• On your own
• Generate a group goal for the 5 week period
  (long-term)
• Generate up to 3 sub-goals that will maximize the
  likelihood of achieving long-term goal
• You have 5 min to do this on your own

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Useful distances

• London to
• Grand Bend 70km
• Toronto 200 km
• Niagara Falls 210 km
• Muskokas 330 km
• Ottawa 630 km
• Montreal 720 km

Windsor to Ottawa 800km Montreal 900 km
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In your groups

• Using the work sheet, COLLECTIVELY
• Discuss generate a group goal for the 5 week
  period (long-term)
• Generate up to 3 sub-goals that will maximize the
  likelihood of achieving long-term goal
• Email address needed for weekly feedback
• Please hand over worksheet when youre finished!