Tower Building - Goal setting

Data for Tower Building exercise in terms of No. of CUBES is given below.

	Factor  1 to 8	Scenario-I	Scenario-II	Scenario-III	Scenario-IV
1  &  2	Historical Tower height achieved by team	Low - 5 High -  18	Low - 5 High - 20	Low - 5 High - 21	Low - 5 High - 23
3	Achievable Performance -  (Estimate / Guess)	18 +	20+	22+	25+
4	Goal proposed by the Manager	18	22	22	18
5	Goal proposed by the worker	12	12	12	20
6	Goal Mutually agreed for building the tower between worker and manager with the support of the manager	15	22	18	15
7	No. of cubes Tower manager and worker team could build / achieve at the end of the exercise	18	18	18	18
8	P O T E N T I A L T O W E R H E I G H T	22	24	24	26

An analysis of the above given measures with reference to the achievement of Tower built in the scenarios mentioned above :

S.No.	Measure for Managerial Excellence	Scenario-I	Scenario-II	Scenario-III	Scenario-IV
1	Gap if any between Tower height  so far achieved and Achievable performance of tower (Factor 3 and 7)	Achievable performance is equal to the Performance of team. This is a considerable situation with drawback being that limits are not being pushed	Achievable performance is more than Performance of team. Hence, team did not push their limits and performed below expectations	Again, Achievable performance is more than performance of team. Team did not push their limits and performed below expectations.	Achievable performance is much greater than Performance achieved by the team.Team did not push their limits and performed very badly and  below expectations.
2	Gap if any between goal proposed by the Manager and mutually agreed team goal (Factor 4 and 6)	Team performed better than what was earlier decided mutually	Team performed as per what was earlier decided mutually	Team performed not as good as what was earlier decided mutually	Team performed not as good as  what was earlier decided mutually
3	Gap if any between goal proposed by the manger and the goal proposed  by the worker (Factor 4 and 5)	Manager wants his employees to do better and hence aspired for higher goals but Employees are complacent	Manager has very high expectations. Employees are complacent.	Again, manager has very high expectations. Employees are complacent	Manager has low expectations. where as, employees are motivated and have set high expectations
4	Gap if any between goal proposed by the worker  and mutually agreed goal by team (Factor 5 and 6)	Mutual agreement lies in middle of worker and manager aspirations	Mutual agreement is achieved. Manager has been able to convince workers of his goals	Manager did well to convince the worker to raise the goal.Workers have been successful in negotiating a little	Mutual agreement is lesser than worker and manager aspirations.
5	Gap if any between achievable performance  and potential tower (Factor 3 and 8)	Manager believes that the team is capable of achieving much more than the achievable goal. Exceeded expectations.	Performance below expectations. Manager believes that team is capable of achieving much more than achievable goal	Expectations are met	Manager believes that the team is capable of achieving much more than the achievable goal.Exceeded expectations
6	Gap if any between  performance achieved (at the end of the exercise) and  goal mutually agreed by manger and the worker   (Factor 6 and 7)	Gap does exist. But manager has been effective in a way that he has got his team to achieve more than the set goal	Large Gap does exist.Team did not push their limits and performed below expectations	Good performance as the team achieved the set goal.	Very large Gap does exist. Team did not push their limits and performed very badly and  below expectations
7	Gap if any between  performance achieved (at the end of the exercise) and  achievable goal (Factor 7 and 3)	Good performance as the team achieved the achievable goal	Manager proved ineffective as he couldn’t make his team achieve the achievable goal	Manager proved ineffective as he couldn’t make his team achieve the achievable goal	Manager proved ineffective as he couldn’t make his team achieve the achievable goal
8	Gap if any between  performance achieved (at the end of the exercise) and  the potential (Factor 7 and 8)	Scope of improvement is always there and the team should push its limits	Scope of improvement is always there and the team should push its limits	Scope of improvement is always there and the team should push its limits	Scope of improvement is always there and the team should push its limits