GOAL-SETTING TIPS

Establishing a goal is an easy way to maintain motivation and give you and your team a benchmark for success. We encourage team captains to set goals for themselves and their teams, while keeping these tips in mind:

• Let your team members know why joining your team and fundraising are important to you. Challenge each team member to set a personal goal! (The average walker raises more than $200)
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• Hold a meeting with your team to discuss how your team plans on reaching its goal. This is a great opportunity to involve your team members and get their feedback
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• Don’t keep your goal a secret! Use e-mails, your team page or company Intranets to communicate goals!  Also, let people know how close your team is to reaching their goal. The thermometer on your team page will increase with every pledge
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• Join the ranks of the award-winning teams. Give your team members a reason to reach for the stars by promoting our team awards
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• Goals should be realistic, but significant; if it requires hard work to attain, it will be a source of pride for your team
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• Get input from the entire team. Having them believe in the goal from the word "go" will make your job as team captain that much easier
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• Don’t forget to set both personal and team fundraising goals. Lead by example: share your fundraising goal with your team
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• Set a goal for team size as well as collective fundraising. Supporting more team members can mean more substantial fundraising
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• If you are part of a large corporate team, have departments set their own goals to create some fun internal competition
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• Download and print this goal-setting worksheet to help keep you on track

If you would like more suggestions for goal setting, please contact a Walk MS staff member at 1-800-883-WALK or walkms@pae.nmss.org.