Success monitoring
The success monitoring is a modern, psychological tool that can lead to personal performance improvements. Above all, the effect of " learning under observation " and documentation of the progress made play a decisive role.
basis
The success monitoring is based on the combination of two psychological phenomena, the “ Hawthorne effect ” and the “ Zeigarnik effect”“(Cliffhanger effect) are described. The “Hawthorne Effect” states that just knowing that you are being watched increases your stakes. The "Zeigarnik effect" is based on the assumption that unfinished questions and actions are better remembered than answers and completed tasks. Going on this means that unfinished tasks and questions trigger a much stronger compulsion to act than finished ones. Success monitoring combines the “Hawthorne effect” and the “Zeigarnik effect” to form a performance enhancement tool in modern psychology, which has so far mainly been implemented in the context of sports psychology.
description
Daily progress is recorded in a diary, a video diary or a paper.
Process of success monitoring
A diary, video diary or document is prepared for the implementation of the success monitoring. Every evening the day is reflected with the question: "What was the progress of the day?" Immediately afterwards you ask yourself the “question of the day”: an open question that is dealt with by unconscious processes in the time that follows. After 4 weeks, a monthly review is scheduled in which the progress can be observed and examined.
Synonyms
- Success documentation,
- Success diary,
- Success journal,
- Documentation of progress
literature
- Draksal, M. (2012). With mental competition preparation to success. The training program for all athletes. Leipzig: Draksal specialist publisher. ISBN 978-3-86243-044-4