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

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