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    Goal Setting as a Sports Managers Motivational Tool for Enhancing Athletes Performance
    (Journal of Capital Development in Behavioural Sciences, 2016-12) N.A. Egba; Dr. B. Ohuruogu
    The paper focused on goal setting as a sport Managers’ Motivational tool for enhancing athletes’ performance. Goal setting as a motivational tool is a mental training technique that can be used to increase individual commitment, dedication and perseverance towards achieving a personal goal. The paper sees goal setting as a motivation tool, sport managers should be familiar with in order to assist athletes in developing personal goals which leads to skill development and ultimately peak performance. The paper also sees the sport manager as that individual who is professional in the art of managing sports organization, sets long term missions goals, formulates, implements and evaluates motivational techniques that can be used on athletes to achieve a better performance. The manner in which sports managers structure the athletic situation, set goal priorities and relate to athletes are primary determinants of the outcome of sports performance, though motivation is the direction of an individual effort. The paper concluded that setting a goal is the act of being focused, having a mission or vision over what one wish to accomplish or achieve within a given time frame. It therefore recommended among other things, that sports manager use motivational techniques such as goal setting to establish their athletes 32 training regimes as this will promote commitment, perseverance and dedication and thus achieve optimum performance.