Question

Students will write a strategy paper with a length of no more than 1,000 words.

This, strategy paper will focus on a goal defined by you. That goal should be a personal objective of yours. The goal can be short-term and tactical or a strategic, long-range goal.

The paper will also explain the key organizational and cultural requirements expected to meet the goal you have defined and a plan for identifying those requirements in prospective places to work.

The Paper would be something about a student personal goal and things(organizational and cultural) we should focus on in building our carrier path or at workplace successful in this modern business world.

Answer 1

Personal development goals are essential if you want to improve your performance, achieve more, and increase your value to your team. By setting goals regularly and pushing towards them, you’ll make sure that you steadily progress at work and enhance your life at home.

What you want to do is take a step back, work out where you need to improve, and set targets that will help you stay in control.

When you develop personal goals, it’s important to make them both achievable and measurable. If they’re not realistic, you won’t be motivated to reach them and if they’re not measurable, you won’t know whether you’ve hit them or not. Being measurable doesn’t necessarily mean they have to be quantifiable — though if you can attach hard numbers, so much the better. For example, if your goal is to keep your desk and your Mac desktop clutter-free in order to make you more productive, it’s easy to see whether you’ve achieved that at the end of a day, week, or month.

Other goals could be not so easy to measure. If you set yourself the task of being more mindful at work, for example, there’s no quantifiable way to define success. But the result of that goal should be you feeling more relaxed, confident, and able to deal with stressful situations. And that is measurable just by asking yourself a few questions and noting the answers at the end of a given time period.

How to improve your personal development

Here are some examples of personal development goals you can set at work and how you can achieve them.

Make better decisions

Decisions are measurable but not easily quantifiable. The net outcome of making better decisions should be better results.

Making better decisions means being armed with better data, organizing it, and using it to inform the decision-making process. So, resolve to do more research and use an app like Studies to keep and organize notes. If you find your research involves reading large PDF documents, use PDF Search to quickly find the information you need.

Once the research on the given topic is over, create a mind map using XMindor iThoughtsX to organize your thoughts and make a more accurate decision.

Solve email

We all struggle to keep our email inboxes clean. Whether you’re a compulsive filer who has a folder for every little thing, someone who lets everything stay in their inbox, or the kind of person who rarely even reads messages, we can all improve how we work with email. That may mean adopting a Getting Things Done style approach, where you deal with everything that can be dealt with immediately and file the rest, using reminders to schedule a time to process it. Or it may mean changing to a different email client that allows you to manage email in a way more suitable to you. Unibox, for example, groups your email messages by sender so you can see all the messages from each contact in one list by clicking on the contact’s name in the sidebar. It also treats email replies like instant messages, allowing you to see the message and your reply in one window.

Get rid of the clutter

A desk covered in old papers, folders, and other debris is a distraction and an obstacle to productivity. The same goes for your Mac’s desktop. In fact, leaving lots of files and folders on your Mac actually slows it down. Resolve to keep your desktop, both physical and virtual, clear at the end of every working day.

If you don’t want to manually tidy your desktop at the end of each day, use Declutter. Declutter sorts files on your desktop into color-coded folders automatically using rules you set. It makes keeping your desktop clean very easy.

Learn to touch type

If your job involves spending time sitting in front of a screen and typing on a keyboard, learning how to type faster, without looking at the keyboard, is a huge time saver. And that means learning to touch type. By touch typing you’ll avoid having to look down at the keyboard and be able to focus on what you’re typing on screen. You’ll also type faster. KeyKey Typing Tutorhelps you learn to type faster. Spend as little as 15 minutes a day honing your skills and you’ll notice the benefits right away.

Be more focused

Focusing for long periods is tough. But keeping your concentration levels up is essential if you want to do more. The key is to make small, gradual improvements and train yourself to focus for longer. One way to do that is to choose a task to complete, decide how long it should take, and set a timer to ensure you stay focused for that length or time. Be Focused allows you to do exactly that.

For eliminating distractions, an app like Focus allows you to block websites and applications for a set amount of time, as well as set timers.

Don’t sweat the small stuff

The key to getting more done during the work day is to automate as much of the repetitive work as you can. If you regularly type the same opening to an email — or any other passage of text — for example, you can automate it, so it’s typed at the touch of a key. Rocket Typist will do the job. Or, if you frequently have to work with documents created with others and need to clean up unwanted characters, TextSoap will automate that. Use the best tools that take the strain and free you from small, repetitive tasks.

As you can see, setting personal goals at work is hugely valuable and not difficult to do with the right tools — all of the apps mentioned here could be found in Setapp app collection — and the right, ever-improving mindset.

For the current or aspiring entrepreneur, the process of setting goals can serve as a blueprint and a method of motivation for success. Owning a business can provide the vehicle to achieving personal goals, including accumulating wealth or becoming the first to reach specific accomplishments. To help you clarify your particular work or business goals, some examples may stimulate your thought process.

Time Based and Time Limited Goals

Work and business goals can include a time element. For example, when your business is still in the planning stage, your goal may be to have your business idea operating within six months. Your time goals could also relate to the growth of your business, such as becoming the largest car dealer or dry cleaner within a five-year period. Ambitious goals will help create the drive to get there, but be careful to not set unrealistic timetables for yourself.

Education and Development Goals

Your personal goals may include reaching certain educational or professional development plateaus that can aid you in your business venture. If you're a public accountant, your goal may be to pass the CPA exam. If you're a paralegal at a small law firm, you may involve pursuing a law degree at night so you can become a practicing attorney at the firm, and eventually, a partner. Online courses have greatly expanded the opportunities and flexibility for advancing your professional education.

Personal and Business Income Goals

Goals can relate to personal income. You may have a specific income level you want to reach after each of your first five years in business. If you're a commissioned sales person, you might want to reach a specific level of commission or a number of units sold by the end of the year. You could also look to increase sales by a certain percentage for each year you're in business.

Being First Goals

Your goal may be to become a business pioneer. For example, you may wish to become the first female doctor in your town or the first to open her own construction company. You could also strive to be the first to operate a specific type of business in your area, such as a gourmet coffee shop, luxury car dealership or upscale restaurant. Seek out stories of other pioneers who have successfully broken barriers, as they can be an inspiration to your own efforts.

Developing Product Goals

If you work for a product manufacturer, you may have your own ideas how to make the product or process better or for a new product that is currently not on the market. Your goal may be to invent and patent the product, and market it on your own by starting your own manufacturing business.

Achieving Goals

When you've achieved a goal, take the time to enjoy the satisfaction of having done so. Absorb the implications of the goal achievement, and observe the progress that you've made towards other goals.

If the goal was a significant one, reward yourself appropriately. All of this helps you build the self-confidence you deserve.

With the experience of having achieved this goal, review the rest of your goal plans:

• If you achieved the goal too easily, make your next goal harder.
• If the goal took a dispiriting length of time to achieve, make the next goal a little easier.
• If you learned something that would lead you to change other goals, do so.
• If you noticed a deficit in your skills despite achieving the goal, decide whether to set goals to fix this.

Further Tips for Setting Your Goals

The following broad guidelines will help you to set effective, achievable goals:

• State each goal as a positive statement – Express your goals positively – "Execute this technique well" is a much better goal than "Don't make this stupid mistake."
• Be precise – Set precise goals, putting in dates, times and amounts so that you can measure achievement. If you do this, you'll know exactly when you have achieved the goal, and can take complete satisfaction from having achieved it.
• Set priorities – When you have several goals, give each a priority. This helps you to avoid feeling overwhelmed by having too many goals, and helps to direct your attention to the most important ones.
• Write goals down – This crystallizes them and gives them more force.
• Keep operational goals small – Keep the low-level goals that you're working towards small and achievable. If a goal is too large, then it can seem that you are not making progress towards it. Keeping goals small and incremental gives more opportunities for reward.

• Set performance goals, not outcome goals – You should take care to set goals over which you have as much control as possible. It can be quite dispiriting to fail to achieve a personal goal for reasons beyond your control!

  In business, these reasons could be bad business environments or unexpected effects of government policy. In sport, they could include poor judging, bad weather, injury, or just plain bad luck.

  If you base your goals on personal performance, then you can keep control over the achievement of your goals, and draw satisfaction from them.

• Set realistic goals – It's important to set goals that you can achieve. All sorts of people (for example, employers, parents, media, or society) can set unrealistic goals for you. They will often do this in ignorance of your own desires and ambitions.

  It's also possible to set goals that are too difficult because you might not appreciate either the obstacles in the way, or understand quite how much skill you need to develop to achieve a particular level of performance.