Goal Setting: Placement Action Plan Worksheet - Tim Horton

This assignment presents a "Placement Action Plan Worksheet" completed by a student, Gurpreet Singh, for their role as a counter staff at Tim Horton's. The worksheet focuses on developmental goals and outlines specific action steps, target completion dates, and potential obstacles for each goal. The student aims to improve communication skills, engage in team-building exercises, develop better personality traits, become more responsible and disciplined, and gain confidence in their job abilities. Each goal is supported by detailed action steps designed to overcome anticipated challenges. The assignment underscores the importance of self-awareness, proactive planning, and the development of crucial workplace skills. It highlights the practical application of goal-setting principles in a professional context. The assignment will be revisited at the end of the semester to report on the progress.

GOAL SETTING PART A: PLACEMENT ACTION PLAN
WORKSHEET
Name: Gurpreet Singh Student Number: 300990406
Placement position & company: Counter staff (Tim Horton)
Developmental Goal Action Steps (at least three per goal) Target Completion Date Possible obstacles to goal
To develop better
communication skills.
1. Engage myself with any
communicative class which will help me
to learn the perfect ways of
communicating with the customers.
2. Talking to people outside of my fried
circle and making new acquaintances so
that I can learn to speak to people other
than my friends.
3. Ask my teachers for feedback on my
communication skills so that I can
improve them with their help.
28.10.2018 Unwilling to talk to other
people and creating a wall
around myself. Being in my
own comfort zone which will
stop me from engaging in
conversation with others.
This will be a very big
obstacle and can be a
disadvantage in my work as
communication is the main
factor in my job.
To work in team building
exercises
1. Work in group activities in my class
where my friends are not present so
that I get a chance to work outside my
comfort zone.
2. Join any club where there are many
events so that I can practically get a
change to work in groups before my
job.
3. Engage in group studies with my
classmates so that I can learn to work
with other people.
25.10.208 The mindset that is already
possessed which can become
an obstacle to
communicating and working
with other people and
listening to their views and
opinions.
To develop better
personality traits
1. Join personality development classes
so that I can groom my personality.
2. Talk to my teachers and take their
help and guidance through which I can
15.10.2018 Overconfidence on the
personality which will stop
me from developing better
traits which can help me in

understand my faults and rectify them
for my betterment.
3. I should realize my own capability
and own flaws so that I am able to make
changes on my own.
my job.
To become more
responsible and disciplined
1. I should develop a routine for every
day which I would follow so that I am
able to develop a disciplined life.
2. I would take in more responsibilities
and try to fulfill them on time.
3. I would not leave any work
incomplete or for the next day and
complete every work on time.
10.10.2018 Lack of energy or being lazy
which will stop me from
creating a routine for myself
so that I can become more
disciplined in my life and
learn to take responsibilities.
To gain confidence regarding
the abilities possessed
1. I would work to harness my present
skills which will help me in my work.
2. I would try to identify those skills
which will help me in my job and see if
they are enough to get me good
productivity in my work.
3. I would develop new skills which will
be beneficial to me in my work and
which will help me to impress my
manager and also my coworkers.
28.10.2018 Underestimating my skills
that would help me in my job
and stating that I would not
be able to gather new
abilities.