Whether long-term or short-term, goals are necessary for driving your business in the right direction. To innovate, excel in customer satisfaction and produce exceptional products and services, you need to set proper goals. Games offer an entertaining way to train your team to set effective goals at work. In this article, we explain the importance of setting good goals and list some good goal-setting games.
Setting goals is important because it provides a framework to achieve greater landmarks in your business or career. Effective goals motivate people and make it clear to them where they should direct their energy. When people set goals as a team, it can help them feel more in the process and more responsible for the final results of a project. This can benefit everyone on the team.
How activities help with goal setting
Engaging activities are designed to teach participants important skills like listening, experimenting and strategizing when setting goals. Training games can demonstrate many important lessons, such as how to set achievable goals, how to revise goals, how to prioritize goals and how to assess goal risks.
Goal-oriented training activities
Below are six goal-setting activities that you can use to communicate the importance of goals and how to plan effectively.
The winning lottery ticket
Evaluate your yesterday
Keep the ball in the air
One, some, many
Standing ovation
Goal communication role play
The winning lottery ticket
What you need: Paper and something to write with
How to play:
Tell participants they just won $20 million and ask them what they’ll do next. For example, you could ask them whether they choose to spend or save the money and what they would prioritize.
After five minutes, tell the participants they have now only won $10 million.
Ask them to write down what changes they would make to their original plans and what they would now prioritize.
After 5 more minutes, tell the participants they have now only won 5 million dollars.
Ask them to further revise their plans and priorities.
What it teaches: This exercise teaches participants how to narrow down their core values and priorities. This translates to the workplace, where achieving goals requires determining the most important values of your business and figuring out how to apply them.
Evaluate your yesterday
What you need: Paper and something to write with
How to play:
Ask participants to write a list of 10 things they did yesterday at work.
Ask them to write down what career goals they would like to achieve in the next year.
Have them compare the two responses.
Ask if what they did yesterday contributed toward their future goal.
What it teaches: This activity demonstrates the power of accomplishing small goals to achieve a greater goal. Ideally, daily actions should support long-term goals. Discuss the importance of assessing current actions to determine which ones need to change. Highlight how focusing on small important tasks each day progressively builds up over time into massive results.
Keep the ball in the air
What you need: A beach ball or balloon
How to play:
Split your team into two to three small groups.
Tell the groups their task is to keep the ball in the air for a specified number of hits without letting it touch the ground. No one can touch the ball twice in a row.
Ask each group how many hits they think they can manage.
Give the groups two minutes to come up with a strategy to keep the ball in the air.
Have the groups go one at a time, and keep track of their number of hits.
Each group will go three times and has an opportunity to reorganize their strategy before each attempt.
The group with the highest number of hits in one single attempt wins.
What it teaches: This activity demonstrates how goal setting and teamwork relate. The details in goals matter. Deciding on what they can accomplish, coming up with a strategy and creating new strategies if they are not achieving their objective are all valuable aspects for accomplishing goals as a team.
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