Tower Building exercise for managerial enlightment & SMART goal setting

Tower Building

            Dr. Mandi gave us a set of small wooden blocks. With this we have to create a tower as high as we can build. He laid out some rules to this exercise such as.

• Only one person should touch the cubes. 
• The tower levels should be made of only one block.
• The exercise gets over at the first instance when the tower falls. 

Apart from explaining us about goal setting in a practical manner. He made us set mission and vision of our own tower building company. With this he made us understand how the organization is built from the scratch.The role of middle managers in modern management was explained. He also explained the difference between organization builders and craftsman by using the tower exercise in two demonstrations. One was where the tower was built by a blindfolded person supported by instructors and the other one was the building by a single person(craftsman).

 
This exercise was all fun and full of learning.

Dr. Mandi lecture was about setting goals. This he explained to us using a very interesting activity using small toy blocks. First of all, let us see what  SMART goal setting is.

 

SMART GOALS	Are Defined As	Other Representations of S.M.A.R.T. Goals
S	SPECIFIC	(significant)
M	MEASURABLE	(meaningful)
A	ATTAINABLE	(achievable) (action)
R	RELEVANT	(realistic) (rewarding)
T	TIMELY	(tangible) (task oriented)

You can understand this even more about SMART goals by watching the below video by Arina Nikitina

Dr. Mandi made each one of use do this (to set a SMART) goal regarding the tower building exercise.In this four criteria were given to us in respect to this tower exercise The numbers in the criteria is the height of the tower.

1. Goal set
2. Goal achieved
3. Tower record
4. Tower potential

In this case we discussed about each one of them and came to a conclusion that. The potential is always the sky. There is no limit. So consider 4 as infinity.

4 > 1 > 3 and 2.

This conclusion gave us a better picture about goal setting and that too setting it in a SMART manner.