Setting Goals That Drive Performance: Goal-Setting Theory 

Do your best changes almost nothing. Learn the discipline behind Goal-Setting Theory: make a goal specific, calibrate its difficulty, choose the right type, ground it in belief, and support it so it delivers—and design a goal for your own team that actually moves performance.
  • Author: Dr. York

  • Level: Foundational
  • Study Mode: Self-paced
  • Recommended Period: 2 Weeks
  • Estimated Learning Time: ~14 Hours
  • Proficiency: 1 Graded Assessment
  • Award: 1 Certificate
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To ensure the best continuity in your learning, we recommend completing the course within the recommended completion period. The course is self-paced, so you can adapt your learning schedule around work and other commitments.
Course overview
Setting Goals That Drive Performance is a two-week applied micro-course on Goal-Setting Theory. It teaches a single, practical method: taking a real aim you are responsible for and shaping it into a specific, challenging goal that fits the task, is believed reachable, is genuinely committed to, is informed by progress, is resourced, and is guarded against its own side effects. A single running case—Dana Rourke, a newly appointed team leader at Northwind Appliances raising first-contact resolution from 68% to 80%—is carried through all twelve lessons, and you work the same steps on a goal of your own. No prior study of motivation theory is assumed. By the end of the two weeks, you can turn a vague aim into a goal that improves motivation and performance—and defend every choice in how you built it.
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  • Goal Setting Theory
  • Motivation
  • Performance Management
  • Employee Development

Your Instructor

Taught by a practitioner. Moderated by the same.
DEAN OF STUDENT DEVELOPMENT
Dr. Donald York is Monarch’s leadership specialist, bringing applied experience from high-stakes healthcare environments to the study of leadership, organizational culture, and group dynamics. His professional background includes critical-care work in Montreal operating rooms and emergency wards, where he held direct responsibility for patient life support, as well as extensive healthcare instruction and multiple professional certifications. A Fellow of the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada and Certified Management & Business Educator, he serves as Professor of Leadership Studies and Dean of Student Development, helping MMI participants translate leadership principles into credible action under real organizational pressure.