Global Experience Professional Development - Business Plan Example

Part 1 Personal Goals The things I want most in the rest of my life are: The most important achievement that I want in my life is to use my professional skills and experiences that I will gain in my career to create jobs opportunities for my community as well as my country in order to reduce the unemployment rate. I will like to achieve this through cooperating with people from different fields in order to foster my knowledge scope in different career fields and thus be able to indentify useful market gaps that can create job opportunities. The other important personal goal that I want to achieve in my life is to be self-employed after gaining experience through working with organizations that fosters my career scope. In order to achieve this goal, I will incorporate strategic approaches with both short-term and long-term targets of financial breakthrough before the age of 40. I will also like to continuously contribute to my community in bid to improve the living standards of all people in my community. I will also like to ensure that the effects of national disasters that have occasionally affected my neighbourhood are mitigated by instituting effective predictive mechanisms of detecting a natural calamity like hurricane Katrina (Ellis 2003). My main immediate goals are: i. To get employment in IT/Business area in order to foster my career through acquiring experience from a small relevant firm. ii. To get financial stability in order to be able to pay for other certifications in areas of business and IT. iii. To learn better ways of self-fulfilling through building my career. My main long-term goals are: i. To achieve an MBA Master’s degree with a major in strategic management. ii. To work in a management level in a large organization as a CEO. iii. To establish a firm and employee graduates as a way of creating a job (Orpen1994). iv. To retire early and concentrate on my firm’s business. In five to 10 years time I expect to be… i. I expect to have exercised a management position in a larger firm. ii. To have obtained different certification and master’s degree specifically aligned to business and IT. Organising and planning skills Example Relevance to your career Managing my reading and revising time This is very essential in learning new ways of handling the demands of my career. I also acquire more details about my career through allocating more time on reading. I therefore find it much easier to manage my reading time. Managing my leisure time I find it relatively hard to manage my leisure time because of the priority that I give to leisure time. Allocating time to leisure activities has thus challenged me and I am working on ways to improve my perception towards leisure activities by spending more time and doing more activities. My leisure time is important to my career because it eases my work related stress. Managing my project activities This is one of the challenging yet the most essential aspect of my career development. I always ensure that I set deadlines of different activities and starting from the most urgent to the least agent. I also ensure to work on them as early as possible. Interpersonal skills Example Skills or approaches you used Making contact with new people I initiate talking with new people through facial expression and a smile to show interest and also motivate the new person to proceed talking. I introduce myself and give the new persons time to introduce their self by listening carefully. Sharing and being open I believe in idea sharing, I have practised sharing and being open throughout my studies and other social environment. Operating under stress I have exercised working under pressure severally in college as well as in workplace and thus an important aspect in enhancing my career. Resolving conflicts I have used a win-win situation when handling conflicts; I however need more exposure in workplace in order to foster this interpersonal skill. Accepting correction and direction I have learnt through my schooling and working years to accept corrections and learn new directions from my seniors. Interests Very important interests Area to incorporate interests Professional sport and coaching of swimming. work leisure both Conservation issues work leisure both Travelling work leisure both Swimming work leisure both Reading and researching work leisure both Fairly important interests Area to incorporate interests Food work leisure both The arts work leisure both Animal husbandry work leisure both Special talents and skills Example Relevance to your career Problem solving skills- This is an imperative skill that I have acquired and enhanced it through experience and training. It is very relevant to my career as it will help me while solving organizational problems as well as establishing my firm as a long-term personal goal (Rothwell 2005). Flair in creating networks- I create wide multidisciplinary networks even across borders with different people who play an important role in developing better understanding of my career as well as other life essential issues. Communication skills Example Performance Listening to others- I am a good listener and thus one of my major strong point in the development of my communications skills. Good Fair Needs improvement Making presentations- I enjoy making formal presentations though I need to work on better ways of note taking, capturing audience and being precise. Good Fair Needs improvement Resolving conflicts- In a group or debate discussion I am good in creating a win-win situation for the arguing parties (Doyle 2009). Good Fair Needs improvement Being assertive- I am currently working on better ways of ensuring that I acquire a good assertive perception in order to enhance my communication skills. Good Fair Needs improvement Clear passage of message- I am good in passing messages to the listening audience by using good explanation and examples. Good Fair Needs improvement Self-confidence Statement How you demonstrate this I find it easy to…relate and analyse business and IT related tasks. I demonstrate this easily because of my passion and self-confidence on IT and business related tasks. Self-confidence has been my inspiration to acquire more IT and business related knowledge. I have a flair for…creating networks with people from different fields and thus easily getting connections and useful business information from different people (Cullen 2008). I demonstrate this by going to functions with different people, making new friends and getting new contacts every day. My self-confidence coupled with my excellent communications skills is my inspiration. I’ve got good skills in…problem solving in workplace I demonstrate this through a thorough analysis and understanding of the problem in order to be in a good position to solve it. I am also open minded in viewing a challenging task and thus providing many solutions. I have experience in…handling customer with confidence My self-confidence is the key in handling my customers and I also pay a close attention to their inquiries. I’ve done well in…handling a challenging situations in workplace I have successfully handled a number of challenging situations in working place because of my efficient interpersonal skills, communication skills coupled with self confidence that allows me to easily interact with other people and provide amicable solution for the problem. I’ve received positive feedback on…problem solving skills I have demonstrated ability to solve challenging tasks in school, home and workplace and thus received positive feedback on this ability. I found these things difficult at first but they got easier because I… I found it difficult at first handling customers via a phone because of my less experience on telephone communication but they got easier with experience and training (Hitt 2009). I have demonstrated this ability in my workplace. I need more experience in these things because… I need more experience on handling different tasks at the same time and also organizing and delegating duties to the right people. I demonstrate this through analysis of better ways of handling tasks. Part 2 Action plan for a career strategic partner manager, Search services Step Goal Action Start time Duration Completion date Step 1 Achieve strong relationship with partners. Work on ways of enhancing partner relationship in creating better strategic manager. I will achieve this by seeking an attachment from a relevant firm and work there for a year, January 2013 12 Months January 2014 Step 2 1. Obtained MBA 2. Gaining more relevant experience. As an added advantage by majoring on strategic management option. I will also work with a search engine company while continuing with my studies in order to increase my experience in strategic management as well as gaining skills such as online advertising and internet media space. February 2014 24 Months (depending on the University Schedule) February 2016 Step 3 Acquiring skills on; metrics, identification of trends, revenue management, identification of new business opportunities and furthering better ways of resolving business issues Attending colleges for knowledge enhancement on the details. Also seeking a relevant job after graduation will enhance my qualifications for the vacancy. February 2016 12 Months February 2017 Step 4 Acquiring skills in partner management Working with search company as a junior/trainee in order to gain more skills relevant in the field. Such skills include; negotiating new contracts and closing partnership strategically, legal document interpretations, cooperating with attorneys to finish agreements, thinking strategically about issues that are complex, providing robust recommendations and action plans and strong attention to imperative details. February 2017 12 Months February 2018 References Cullen, D 2008, Mobility, not career for life, seen as the ruling force, The Australian 23-24 August,P.21. Doyle, G 2009, Rich Set of Skills, Selling attitude will be winners, The Weekend Australian, 17-18 January , P.12. Ellis, D & Toft, D 2003, Career Planning, Houghton Mifflin, London. Hitt, MA, Ireland, RD & Hoskisson, RE 2009, Strategic management: competitiveness and globalization: Concepts & cases, Cengage Learning, Cambridge. Orpen, C 1994, ‘The Effects of Organizational and Individual Career Management on Career Success’, International Journal of Manpower, vol. 15, no.1, pp. 27-37. Rothwell, WJ 2005, Career planning and succession management: developing your organization's talent--for today and tomorrow, Greenwood Publishing Group, New York. Read More

 

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