Strategic Planning for Professional Growth and Business Aspirations

This essay presents a strategic plan for the period 2018-2023, focusing on personal and professional development. The plan outlines core values such as dreaming big, hard work, honesty, integrity, continual growth, and humble service. It identifies the individual's strengths, including enthusiasm, discipline, creativity, determination, and dedication, alongside weaknesses like being overly critical and unfamiliarity with certain business software. The mission is to live a purposeful and enjoyable life, continuously growing academically and professionally while upholding integrity. The goals include becoming a business consultant, strategic financial management, and starting a business consulting company. Objectives involve completing education with excellent grades, gaining relevant internship experience, transitioning to a full-time employee, becoming a professional consultant by 2023, establishing a savings account, tracking expenses, and registering the business consulting company.

Surname 1
Student’s Name
Instructor’s Name
Course
Date
“A goal without a plan is just a wish”
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
My Strategic Plan (2018-2023)
Core Values;
Dreaming big, Hard work, Honesty, Integrity, Continual Growth and Humble Service
Strengths and Weaknesses
a) Strengths
I am enthusiastic and remaining hopeful and eager to achieve my dreams. I am
disciplined and has learned the art of patience learning to wait and take opportunities at
the ripe time while remaining trustworthy and respectful. I am also creative, determined
and dedicated to achieving my dreams.
b) Weaknesses
Despite having strengths, I am sensitive to understand that one must have
weaknesses. For this matter, therefore, I have weaknesses that I would work tirelessly to
convert them to strengths. I prove to be too critical of myself and my undertakings so as
to ensure that I produce the best out of what I take to handle.

Surname 2
I am also unfamiliar with most new computer-based business software that makes
work easier at working places. I intend to have an on-the-job training on most business
software and also do my own research and personal studies to perfect myself.
Mission
To live a life full of purpose yet fun, ensuring a continuous academic and professional
growth while upholding integrity in my humble service and working hard to achieve my big
professional dreams.
Goals
I aspire to be a business consultant in the future giving pieces of advice and strategies for
business owners. I will ensure that I remain professional in my undertakings and be a leader in
my profession, courageously and compassionately developing myself to be an all-rounded
person.
I will also put in place strategic financial management to help keep in check my financial
affairs taking care not to be extravagant or spendthrift in expenditure, but set aside a savings
account to the care of my retirement.
I also aspire to start my own business consulting company under my name, register it and
use it in offering consulting business to individuals and organizations.
Objectives
I will ensure that I complete my education and attain better grades, consult with my
professors on how to get connections with companies to receive internships in order to gain
experience in relevant business industries. Thereafter, I aspire to grow professionally by getting

Surname 3
elevated from an intern to a full-time employee after two years of internship. I see myself a
professional consultant come the year 2023.
I will open up a savings account and channel 30% of my salary and other sources of
income to savings so that I put my financial affairs on a check and have savings for securing my
future upon retirement. I will also follow up on my expenditure by tracking all my expenses to
establish where I am supposed to prioritize.
I will use my savings to register my business consulting company name and receive a
registration certificate and a copyright so as to preserve the identity.

Surname 4
Works Cited;
Chatman, Patricia. Examples of a Personal Strategic Plan. Sapling. 30 December 2009. Web.
April 28, 2018 <https://www.sapling.com/5814827/examples-personal-strategic-plan>
Kaplan, Robert S., and David P. Norton. "Using the balanced scorecard as a strategic
management system." (1996).
Lo, Leo. “My personal strategic plan” apala. 11 March 2013. Web. Accessed April 28, 2018.
<http://www.apalaweb.org/my-personal-strategic-plan-by-leo-lo/>
Rowley, Daniel James. Strategic Change in Colleges and Universities: Planning to Survive and
Prosper. Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series. Jossey-Bass Inc., 350 Sansome
St., San Francisco, CA 94104, 1997.