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Pat, I, also, teach Goal Setting. Would you share this power point with me? [log in to unmask] Thanks, kay -----Original Message----- From: Open Forum for Learning Assistance Professionals [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Pat Scheib Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 3:30 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Goal Setting Exercises Hi Laura, I have a PowerPoint presentation I have developed over the past several years on Goal Setting. I use this workshop most often in my study skills program, where most of my students are first semester freshmen, pursuing associate or bachelor degrees at Pennsylvania College of Technology. I teach Goal Setting as the first workshop. The PowerPoint itself is pretty heavily animated. Here's the gist of what/how I cover it: After a quote from J.C. Penney: "Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals, and I'll give you a stock clerk.", I start out asking them to complete the sentence "Five years from now, I will be . . . " (I ask them to write it out). After about 2 minutes, I ask for volunteers to share their goals and we discuss it briefly. When a student starts to say, "Five years from now, I hope . . . " I stop them and ask them to restate it using the word "will" instead of "hope". I use that opportunity to discuss the difference between a wish (you sit around hoping it's gonna' happen) and a goal (you get moving and make it happen). Then we discuss the characteristics which make a goal more achievable and I talk to them about the difference between Long Term, Medium Range and Short Term goals. I suggest to to them that framing Medium Range goals into the academic year is effective for a lot of students. I portray short term goals as the daily habits and activities of our mundane lives, which we choose to do, or not. Do you go to class today, or sleep in? Do you start the rough draft on the English paper, or wait until tomorrow? Do you read that Psychology chapter, or let those reading assignments start to accumulate? (The next workshop I do in this class is on Time Management and I teach them how to write these short-term goals onto to-do lists or assignment books and give themselves credit for accomplishing them.) I stop and ask them to list some short-term goals they will accomplish or have already accomplished this week. We discuss how easy it is to accomplish most of these short-term goals and how often we complete these without a lot of fanfare and without any huge immediate reward, but after a couple of weeks, these small goals start to add up. I tell them that the greatest reward to me, for accomplishing these short-term goals, is the feeling of actually being in charge of my own life. If I took care of what needed to be done today, I feel good when I'm drifting off to sleep at night. I feel like an adult who is taking responsibility for my life. I tell them I recognize that one of the major goals of your average college student is the desire to run their own lives, and this is how it's done. As you'll see in the PowerPoint, I illustrate the whole short, medium and long-range goal process as a pyramid. The short-term goals form the foundation of the pyramid, with medium-range goals building on those. If I have time (if the class is 90 minutes or more), I also have them take a few minutes to identify obstacles that might get in the way of accomplishing their goals. We discuss these and I give them a brief intro. to the ideas of internal vs. external locus of control. Some of their obstacles are just bad habits they can change or friends they can choose to stop hanging out with, but some are not so easily overcome. We identify just how much power they have to influence some obstacles and how they are going to avoid or work around the ones they can't change. The final slide is a list of short term goals they can work on for the rest of the week. I give them this list as a handout. Feel free to use any of these ideas if you find they address your needs. I will attach the PowerPoint, but if it doesn't come through, please email me and I'll email it to you off-list. Thanks, Pat >>> [log in to unmask] 02/22/05 12:02 PM >>> Hi All, I am trying to find some good exercises on goal-setting. Have you come across any that you find useful? 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