1. Introduce the Fruits and Roots Goals Planner.
Share a brief overview of the core ideas of the Fruits and Roots Goals Planner.
- Teams achieve their performance goals through a deep commitment to their process goals.
- Fruits that we want to harvest come from our labors to fortify the Roots of our shared way.
- We will start by visualizing the Fruit goals we want to achieve, because these will determine what we need to commit to do altogether as a team to realize those goals.
2. Identify Performance Goals: the Fruits.
In pairs, small groups, or as a whole group, have team members identify specific and detailed Fruit goals. You may include victories over specific opponents, place finishes at various tournaments, and school or league records. You may give prompts to push thinking, or leave it free-form to see how motivated, focused, and aligned the team is with each other and with the coaches.
Coaching Point:
You may choose to provide the Fruit goals for the team to affirm, clarify, and/or challenge rather than having the team come up with them. You can also use 3CÂ framework (see below) to sort and diversify the Fruit goals into Commit, Challenge, and Crush-It goals.
3. Reflect on the Process Goals: the Roots.
Once your team has a detailed set of performance goals, they need to reflect on the process, or Root, goals. Root goals ask the team to consider the strengths of culture and character needed for accomplishing our Fruit goals.
In pairs, small groups, or as a whole group, have team members brainstorm in a freeform way. Ask them to think about what they will need to do better or differently from past teams and the competition we face to be prepared to go after the performance goals.
TAKE A BREAK?
If time is limited, this is a logical place to split the workout into two parts.