Personal Strategic Plan
Personal Strategic Plan
1. Vision, Mission and Values:
Vision: I envision becoming an inspiration to others by sharing lessons learned in life. I affirm that the real value of a person is measured, not by personal or professional achievements; but more so, by the contribution made towards enriching the lives of others, specifically the life of my son and family members.
Mission: I am a mother of a boy who gives me the impetus and drive to strive for a better future. I am intent on graduating with a bachelor’s degree in business administration and possibly pursue higher education to gain a master’s degree. I plan to venture into establishing a business of my own as a prelude to making a productive mark in contemporary and future generation.
Values: I value adherence to ethical, moral, and legal standards because it ensures doing what is right. I am guided by the ethical principle of reciprocity to direct one’s actions towards others. I believe that there is a Supreme Being who governs my life and leads me to the path towards attainment of my true purpose. I believe in exerting my best efforts at all times to define the quality of my conduct. Finally, I acknowledge that success is attained when we reach that which makes us truly and unequivocally happy.
2. Personal and Professional Goals:
Obtain my bachelor’s degree in business,
Pursue my master’s degree in business administration (MBA)
Raise enough financial resources to funding my business
Being an inspiration to others through my business and making a difference in other people’s lives;
Help create a better tomorrow through sharing the fruits of my labor (product or services offered by my business); and
Raise happy, healthy, and responsibly productive children, as members of future society
3. Core Competences:
What are your 3-5 personal core competencies?
I am a high achiever with immense strength and determination to attain set goals;
I am extremely good at time management;
I have strong values and belief system that guide my decision-making;
What special talents, skills or knowledge do you have?
I am consistently able to convince others of my ideas;
I have worked for 9 years in media interviewing so many people on live shows including kings, scientists, writers, simple people with no education and that made reading and understanding people easier for me;
I have innate and genuine enthusiasm and love of the field of business;
I do not give up and keep trying until I reach my goal (persistence); and
I am very intuitive and learn quickly.
4. Competitive Advantages:
What are the 3-5 qualities that make you different from others?
I have a college education and applied the theoretical frameworks learned through various employment for over 15 years in different fields;
I speak two (2) languages and learning my third;
I have lived and worked in several different countries; and
I was one of the first women in Saudi who started English and Arabic TV shows that discussed human rights, economic and political subjects in time where these subjects were taboo, exemplifying personal and professional courage and knowledge.
5. What is your personal situational analysis (SWOT)?
1. What are the opportunities (to achieve your goals) in your environment?
Extensive work experiences in varied endeavors provide me with immense opportunities to delve into an array of programs and projects according to my fields of expertise;
Graduating with a degree in business and pursuing higher education will provide competitive advantage will opens more career opportunities, including venturing into my own business; and
Increasing opportunities for female entrepreneurs with good educational background and work experience provide greater privileges for advanced career paths in domestic and international markets.
2. What are the threats (to achieving your goals) in your environment?
Being a career-oriented woman with a son poses threats in balancing life and work obligations; and
Gender stereotypes in contemporary societies still perceive women with high-achievement goals as intimidating and thereby, are exposed to risks of prejudice and discrimination.
3. What are your relevant personal strengths that will help you achieve your goals?
A wealth of experience being exposed to interacting with various kinds of people make
me more competent and qualified to understand and discern varied needs and demands;
My persistence, diligence and commitment to adhere to ethical, moral, or legal standards make me a person of high ideals;
My strong educational background and intention to pursue higher education make me knowledgeable in concepts and theories needed to applied to solve problems and issues in contemporary societies;
My wealth of employment experiences make me aptly prepared to face future work-related challenges; and
My having a son to raise provides me with the inspiration to seek a better future.
4. What are your personal weaknesses that could interfere with your ability to achieve your goals?
Being a woman makes me more preponderant to incorporate emotions in decision-making and problem-solving processes;
There could be family concerns and issues that take precedence to work-related situations.
6. Using all of the above information to create your plan, what specific strategies (that utilize strengths and capitalize on opportunities) will you adopt to achieve your goals. Be specific and include deadlines.
7. How and when will you measure progress toward your goals?
Monitoring the progress towards my personal and professional goals should be undertaken using performance evaluation on a regular basis. For instance, obtaining my bachelor’s degree in business could be monitored using standards, such as academic ratings, comments and feedbacks of professors on specific course modules, suggestions for improvements, and my ability to comply with academic requirements within stipulated time frames. For example, in a course on management where I am required to submit and comply this particular phase (the Personal Strategic Plan) within the week, I should be able to make the necessary plan, using theories and concepts learned from the course, as well as my personal and professional goals in life. I should strictly observe being able to submit the requirement within the stipulated deadline. As such, part of monitoring the progress of this particular plan is the scope of completion, the number of pages and sections that have been completed, as well as being able to submit this within the deadline. In addition, any comments or feedbacks from the instructor on the said plan should be address and needed revisions (if any) should be incorporated in the final plan.
The process of complying with all academic requirements in all course modules would be taken using the similar path. As such, compliance to project, attendance, and examinations are to be monitored using the course syllabus per subject. The rating that would be generated after the semester would indicate the manner by which I succeeded in achieving my academic goals.
For the goal of raising enough financial resources to funding my business, the manner of measuring progress towards this goal is to determine the amount of investment I need and the amount of savings I have generated through time. I should be able to make a comprehensive business plan to determine the requirements in venturing into the planned business (including financial resources, manpower requirements, equipment and office supplies, as well as competencies needed). In addition, I should also undertake a market research to determine consumers’ profile, competition, as well as opportunities and threats in the external environment pertinent to the planned business endeavor. Thus, the measurement of progress would include all documentary requirements to be set, as well as the funds raised which should be enough to venture into the business undertaking within stipulated time frames.
Finally, for the objective of raising happy, healthy, and responsibly productive children, as members of future society, I would be able to measure progress towards this goal through discerning how growth and development of my son (and future children) had contributed towards his living a high quality of life which is consistent with universal ethical, moral, and legal standards.
