Goal Setting as a Sports Managers Motivational Tool for Enhancing Athletes Performance

Abstract

The paper focused on goal setting as a sport Managers’ Motivational tool
for enhancing athletes’ performance. Goal setting as a motivational tool is
a mental training technique that can be used to increase individual
commitment, dedication and perseverance towards achieving a personal
goal. The paper sees goal setting as a motivation tool, sport managers should
be familiar with in order to assist athletes in developing personal goals
which leads to skill development and ultimately peak performance. The
paper also sees the sport manager as that individual who is professional in
the art of managing sports organization, sets long term missions goals,
formulates, implements and evaluates motivational techniques that can be
used on athletes to achieve a better performance. The manner in which
sports managers structure the athletic situation, set goal priorities and relate
to athletes are primary determinants of the outcome of sports performance,
though motivation is the direction of an individual effort. The paper concluded
that setting a goal is the act of being focused, having a mission or vision
over what one wish to accomplish or achieve within a given time frame. It
therefore recommended among other things, that sports manager use
motivational techniques such as goal setting to establish their athletes training regimes as this will promote commitment, perseverance and
dedication and thus achieve optimum performance.