Personal Strategic Plan

This assignment is a final program paper to apply strategic goal setting to your ongoing professional growth. The paper will have a title page, abstract page, 3-5 pages of body, and a reference page (in addition to the Rimm book, you may have a few other references). The Dyer et al (2020) text (Chapters 3, 5, 9, and 12) contains a boxed feature called “Strategy and Your Career” (some are “Strategy in your Career“) that may also be helpful, especially the one in Chapter 12.

you may select goals for this assignment or try to relate to becoming an investment banking analyst

List three SMART goals you have for your professional growth/personal life (see handout in a link in Unit 8 or read more about “SMART goals” on the internet). Note that SMART goals include timelines; some goals may have several steps/sub goals to be met on the way to the major goal.For each goal, describe the importance of the goal, such as how meeting the goal will impact your career.Write a detailed action plan including resources needed, networking, funding, etc. to meet the goals. The “Creating Line of Sight Measures” in Chapter 12, p. 228 of Dyer et al (2020) may be helpful.Describe internal and external factors that may impact (positively and/or negatively) the achievement of your goalsDescribe how you will measure progress toward meeting each of the goals.