“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.”
Today, in our class we were introduced to skill based learning about management principles. Learning while working on it provides immense help in relating it to our day to day life and prior corporate experience.
The exercise began with a bidding for the opportunity to make the wooden block tower. And the final bid was won at Rs.500/- which we classmates will use to eat chocolates.Then after investing this money, the person went ahead to make the tower. His sole objective was to make the tallest tower possible with only the blocks in a single column.He ended up keeping 16 cubes in the form of a tower.
There were 3 kinds of people who set the goals.
- More that 16 cubes: These kind of goals were ambitious goals where goal set is more than attainable goals.
- Less than 16 cube: These kind of people underestimated the probable performance of the player but after knowing about his performance they increased their goal set take it ahead of attainable goals.
- 16 cubes: These people were perfect on target but goal set should be more than attainable goal.
Dr. Mandi now told us to set the goal again but the condition this time was that the player will be blindfolded.There were 8 people called on stage and one person was blindfolded and he was guided by another person who could not touch him or the tower. The rest of them had to help the two students. And in the end, what came out was that the 6 people sitting down for supervision were doing NOTHING and only 7 blocks tower was made due to the chaos and shouts from everywhere rather each one concentrating on their own work. Such is the system of many organizations. And we need to find such people and make them useful.
With the help of above learning we can conclude as:
A: Potential B: Goal Set
C: Performance D: Achievable
So overall this exercise helped us to understand the goal setting Process of an organization.
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