Goals and a Goal Setting Package

Setting a Personal Performance Goal for the season
Make a cricket specific chart, which shows;

• What you did last year in all your teams games.
• Your realistic and specific goal forecasts, for the forthcoming season.
• Create an empty area of the chart addressing the same areas as above and fill in the relevant goal information after every game.
• Monitor your goals as the season develops and reset goals depending on weather you are under achieving or achieving your goals easily. Split the season up in to sections to let the results develop before resetting. If you are on target or are there abouts with your goal schedule then do not adjust them.

This is Set Game Plan to achieve the above goal called performance profiling.

Create a practice dairy for the winter months. The chart should display specific areas of you game in great detail. It should incorporate the following areas:

• Technical
• Tactical
• Mental
• Physical
• Life Style

Sit down with the coach and discuss. Then between you decide on the specific areas you wish to improve. From the results, the coach will put together a program for you.

SET TEAM GOALS FOR THE FORTHCOMING SEASON
The team will get together and just before the season begins decide what their team goals are for the forthcoming season. These goals will be set, taking in to consideration, last season's results in the various competitions.

With this in mind, goals must be SMART.

Your own personal goals will be play a part in achieving the team's goals. Keep monitoring your personal goals throughout the season.

CONCLUSION
The above structured approach to an individuals and teams cricket season will give them the best chance of success.

WHY
E.g. If your team is loosing but you are all still working on you personal performances and game plans, then it will be harder to lose interest in the match that you are potentially going to lose. With this focused attitude adopted by all the players this means they stay on top of their objectives and may well turn a dead end situation into a win and they may well have turned in their best personal performance ever.

This player now may get his contract next year, he could get an International call up, top the averages, win player of the year or break a record. All this could have been contributed by staying focused in the face of defeat, you might even lose some of these matches but if players can still put in good performances when the going gets tough, your team is going to be a very difficult team to beat. Your individual players will be well trained at staying focused and will perform well in difficult situations. With this strong mental approach into all players you may find you win a few more games a year and subsequently get promotion, win a competition or come higher up in the league.

The above example highlights why goal setting is so important for a teams and individuals success.

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Goal Setting Package