Business Psychology: Coaching, Mentoring and Goal Setting Analysis

This assignment delves into the realm of goal setting within the context of business psychology, coaching, and mentoring. The student has selected a specific goal – exploring skills and knowledge to achieve a desired position within an organization – and explains its significance, emphasizing its role in maintaining consistent work ethic, commitment, and focus on objectives. The assignment then details how the goal aligns with SMART criteria (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Timely), providing structure and trackability to the goal-setting process. Furthermore, the assignment explores academic research supporting goal-setting theory, highlighting its application in various work situations, individual and group studies, and its potential impact on employee motivation. The assignment concludes by outlining pertinent questions to facilitate goal and objective achievement, emphasizing the importance of coaching plans for personal and professional growth. References to relevant books and journals are included to support the analysis.

Business Psychology, Coaching and Mentoring

Table of Content
PART 2
The Goal have selected and reason why it is important.
Describe the specific element that make it SMART
Determine the academic research that support the goal setting theory and its application effectively
Outline some questions that can ask yourself which help to achieve goals and objectives.
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES

PART 2
The Goal have selected and reason why it is important.
• It has selected the goal to explore their skill and knowledge to achieve the desirable
position in the organization. The goal achievement is important for maintain consistent
work, committed, concentrated towards the specific objectives. It is a process to
understand the goals that help to clarify the desirable to do and understand the importance
of towards the commitment. It is important to explore their knowledge to motivate
towards the long term and short term goals.

Describe the specific element that make it SMART
• SMART goal setting brings the proper structure and track ability into the specified
objectives. It also creates verifiable trajectories towards the goals with the clear
milestones. It is the most common and effective that can use the tool for achievement.
SMART goals are stands for:

Cont.
• Specific- The goal must be specified and proper descriptive that can help the people to achieve desirable
results. It can describe the result of the work to be done properly, it has needed for observed the things by
using coaching plan to understand their ability and capability.
• Measurable- It means that what exactly what people will see, feel when they reach on their specific
goals. This step will help to divide the goals into the different measurable elements. It has required to
concrete the evidence. This type of goal can go long as possible.
• Attainable- this step will help to investigate whether the goal is really acceptable of not. It has required
to put some efforts in cost and time management. In this way, people can reach the specific goals through
money and time.

Cont.
• Relevant- if I really want to reach on the specific position which needed to run on
multinational, famous etc. It has decided for yourself to increase the personality and
manage the bandwidth of team.
• Timely- It is important part of goal achievement that make plan of everything people can
do. Everybody knows about the specific deadline and make switch to the action. It always
keep the timeline in realistic and flexible manner.

Determine the academic research that support the goal setting theory and its application effectively
• Goal setting theory is a type of motivation which required to link with the task
performance and also specify the challenges goals along with the proper feedback
contribute to the better operations performance. This type of theory is supports the goal
achievement because it help to work towards the attainable goals which are the main
source of motivation. The specific and clear goal always lead to generate greater output.

Cont.
• The research obtained that it is mainly applied on the multitude of work situations and
also support the individual, field studies and groups across the different cultures and
tasks. A direct correlation between those who are achieved set of goals and create
additional motivational objectives. Sometimes, this goal theory is potentially harm the
organization so that it has required to apply the goal setting due to unintended side
effects. As per research, unethical behavior can result from motivating the employee to
meet specific challenges goals

Outline some questions that can ask yourself which help to achieve goals and
objectives.
• Coaching plan is important concept that can help the people to understand the desirable
goals and objectives. It has needed to improve the personal improvement through the
activities and habits. It is pursuit the personal growth to enhance the quality of life and
achieve the aspirations or dreams.
• For Example – Are you trying to grow the skill and knowledge at workplace?
• What are the planning and organising at the end of day help achieve goals and
objectives??

CONCLUSION
As per discussion, it concluded that the goal setting is important part of career development
which help to improve the capability and ability. It should describe the SMART element that
can perform the task in step by step. Furthermore, it is used the goal setting theory and its
application support the clarifying the objectives.

REFERENCES
Book and Journals
• Green, S. and Palmer, S. eds., 2018. Positive psychology coaching in practice. Routledge.
• Jones, R.J., Napiersky, U. and Lyubovnikova, J., 2019. Conceptualizing the
distinctiveness of team coaching. Journal of Managerial Psychology.
• Schermuly, C.C., 2018. Client dropout from business coaching. Consulting Psychology
Journal: Practice and Research. 70(3). p.250.

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