{
  "title": "Learning a new task: what goal should you agree with your manager?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/avec-son-manager-fixer-un-objectif-pour-apprendre-a-berne-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2025-07-27",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "A demanding goal can support performance. When learning how to do the work comes first, the conversation with your manager also needs to address the strategies to acquire.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Building an Effective Relationship with Your Manager",
  "place": {
    "name": "Bern",
    "region": "Berne",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Edwin A."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Learning draws on resources that goal pursuit can compete for",
      "point": "Ruth Kanfer and Phillip L."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that outcome goals should be abandoned whenever a task is new."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence cannot guarantee",
      "point": "These studies do not demonstrate that a particular way of wording a goal will, on its own, improve the manager–employee relationship."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Berne",
      "point": "As part of the SHR programme « Construire une relation efficace avec son manager », one exercise involves agreeing on an expected outcome, a strategy to test and evidence that will make learning verifiable for a new task."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Latham",
      "year": "2002",
      "source": "American Psychologist"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Ackerman",
      "year": "1989",
      "source": "Journal of Applied Psychology"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 451,
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  "relatedPages": {
    "programme": "https://www.shr.swiss/formation/relation-avec-son-manager/berne",
    "city": "https://www.shr.swiss/formations-ville/berne",
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  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}