Setting and Achieving Goals
Goal competence is important in every setting, but can become most useful in a work environment. A large part of my field (communication) is the ability to set goals and strategically achieve them. In this post I want to share what I have learned about goal competence, how it should be used in the work situations, and how to better your goal competence.
Goal Competence
Goal competence is the ability to set and achieve goals strategically. There are several types of goal competence, the most common being: informational (want to share information), relational (want to work on relationship), affective (want to focus on emotions), and most prominently influence (want to get someone to do/think something).
Work Goal Competence
Having goal competence in work is extremely vital. In work as either a typical employee or type of boss, you must be able to appropriately use influence goals. Being able to influence your coworkers allows you to take work into your own hands. There are several different types of influence goals that are important to know about. Influence goals include: Directives which are just telling someone to do something, this technique may not always be best suited for a work environment. Persuasion which is trying to have the other change there mind. This goal has a long lasting effect, which may prove useful for an authority figure to use. Lastly, there is compliance gain, this is in the middle of directives and persuasion. Here strategic influence is used and the user considers the instrumental, relational, and identity issues.
How to Improve Your Goal Competence
There are several techniques to improve goal competence. I will list them and say a little about how I've noticed them work/fail. The techniques include: getting someone to like (dressing nice is key), attempting to show authority (seen working best in people who actually hold authority, hard to be faked), to show scarcity (lack of time is best technique here), and to have to other prove consistency. The more liking, authority, scarcity, and consistency you can prove, the better your goal competence will be.
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Goal competence is definitely very important. It can be difficult to ensure one's goals aren't too high or too low, however.
ReplyDeleteFor me, goals are always something easy to set but harder to achieve because of laziness, slackening and so on. It is interesting to learn something about goal competence which I can apply to my future work :)
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