Date & Time: 13th June at 10 am Fin / 9 am CET / 8 am UK / 5 pm Sydney AEST
Duration: 1 h
Speaker: Dr. Martin Hagger, Curtin University, Australia
In this webinar, Dr. Martin Hagger outlines some of the key features of effective goal setting, and provide some tips and strategies on how to achieve those goals. Firstly, we will investigate how to set appropriate goals, what makes those goals optimally motivating, and how to maintain interest in attaining those goals. This will involve the need to adhere the basic principles that have been shown to make goals effective such as optimal challenge, intrinsically interesting and motivating, clarity and consistency of the goals, realistic and time perspective of the goals, and whether the outcome of the goal is sufficiently measurable. Secondly, we will look in to the kinds of attributes that make people more likely to attain their goals. These include self-monitoring, mental imagery, action planning, and positive feedback.
Martin S. Hagger holds Ph.D. degrees from Loughborough University, UK and the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He has held faculty positions in psychology departments in the Universities of Sheffield, Essex, and Nottingham in the UK. Currently, he is working as a professor and founding director in Perth, Australia. Martin’s research focus is on the social processes involved in the “self-regulation” of health behaviour. His research applies social cognitive and motivational theories to understand, and to intervene and change, diverse health behaviours such as physical activity, healthy eating, smoking cessation, alcohol reduction, anti-doping behaviour in sport, and medication adherence.