Setting long term goals for oneself can seem daunting.  You want to run a marathon, but you have not ran in years, so you may feel like putting off the incredible task of just beginning to begin.  One of the ways in this case is to break that goal down into smaller, short term goals.  Start out simply wanting to make it to end of the street, and then around the blog.  Work up to a mile, and gradually you find that you will get to where you need to be.  Offer yourself rewards and remember to find creative ways to stay motivated.   But now, how do you plan and create effective employee training programs so that you can set goals for a group or a team, and be successful in keeping not only yourself motivated this time, but a many different people as well.  Know that when the goals are unrealistic, they just will most likely not be met, as people will become discouraged, run out of steam, and lose their motivation.  They will no longer belief that they will have the chance to succeed.

Goals that are more realistic, require patience and time perhaps, but will have the opposite affect.  People will accomplish one and then move to the next, and each time they will be pushed further and retain their energy towards making it to that end, or that long term goal.  Through courses in executive training, managers and business leaders will realize just how much of this lies in their hands.  They must provide incentive and encouragement to their team members, as well as being willing to step in and take part.  In the beginning stages, a team will remain motivated by incentives and rewards, but you will notice that once they become invested in each other and in the company, rewards are not necessarily the same.  They become motivated by each other, and by the continued recognition by the managers and by each other.  This is when you know that you are working with a successfully formed team, and the setting of goals, and the maintaining of motivation becomes a given

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