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MY Short/Long term Goals

Career goal

My general career goal is to become a management professor.

The following are my short and long term career goals and action plans.

Short term goals

Restructure my priorities. It is my plan to organize things in terms of what to priorities now and what not to do now in the following one year.

To implement this I plan to do the following things:

Outline my objectives and what I need to do in terms of urgency and importance

Having a priority list to work with

Doing what is most profitable first and the rest later

Finance enhancement. I will ensure that in the next one year I will be financially well, I will not be extremely struggling with finances.

To enable this I will:

Ensure that I make savings of up to 20% of my salary at the end of each month

Having a budget that I will work with to avoid wastage

Being accountable on every coin I spend to avoid unnecessary spending

Work on communication skills. To be a professor one needs to have the best communication skills in order to effectively communicate to the people passing knowledge to.

To plan for this I will:

Do an extensive reading on effective communication

Practice public speaking so as to improve on confidence

Take communication skills classes so as to improve on it

Train myself to allow other people to have a chance to talk as I listen

Learn more. It’s my plan that in the short term period I will have learnt new and more new things than what I do now.

To ensure this I will:

Talk to people who have more experience than me

Reading of various kind of books and articles to learn more

Develop a list of realistic activities within six months

Achieve education and training. My plan is to finish my first degree in the next two years.

To ensure this I plan to:

Submit my assignments and attend all classes to ensure I pass my examinations so that don’t have to re-sit for them.

Making payments on time and adequately prepare for my examinations so that I pass to make sure I graduate after two years

Properly manage my time. During my two years study I have a plan to manage time appropriately avoiding time wastage.

To plan for this I will:

List absolutely everything what I need to do so that I don’t forget anything am supposed to do

Dedicate up to 35 hours to my education per week

Plan for my time and how I will use it to avoid duplication of actions

Assess and review my time usage regularly so as to know whether I need to make some changes

Identify values and stick to them. In the next one year I want to identify, practice and uphold new positive values and stick to them as they will help me in my career and life after career.

To do ensure this I plan to:

Identify a list of positive values that I wish to implement

Uphold to the values in my list in any circumstances.

Assess my influence in terms of who are the people I look up to and what their values are.

Long-term goals

Become a management professor. I plan to become a professor specifically of management after my studies in the next 10 years.

To enable this I will:

Make a plan about what to do when academically to avoid long delays

Attain my master’s degree in the next five years

Have my doctorate honors in management in the next ten years.

Have a stable Career. I plan and wish to see myself in the next 6 years working for a stable organization or company paying well.

To plan for this I will:

Make sure my grades are good and look for opportunities in stable organization.

Compete favorably with my fellow employees in terms of commitment to work, additional skills so that I will be advantaged to be in the job.

Have a wide professional network. I plan to build a vast professional network through maintaining long healthy working relationship with each of them.

To plan for this I will:

Creating contacts with people in the management industry through various social and official events

Maintain contacts with my workmates whether we still work for the same organization with them.

Build trust and reputation with the people I meet in my industry

Socialize even with those who at that time don’t seem to have the best connections

Follow up my commitments and promises so as to build relationships.

Have a positive influence so as to attract the same.

Retire early. I do not plan to work as an employee until retirement. I want to leave the career after ten years of employment.

I accomplish this I plan to do the following:

To accomplish my career objective to help many people attain management skills

Giving more time of my life in the ten years training people on management skills

Use of technology for example blogging and video conferencing so as to reach quite a large number of people

A change in Career. After being in the management field impacting people’s lives through training people on management skills, I will venture into business with now the main thing being making money.

To accomplish this I will:

Make $1500 savings per month during the period I will be working as a management professor so as to accumulate wealth

Doing a wide research about various business ventures so that I be able to make a concrete decision after my career.

Increase performance and gain experience. In the ten years I will work in my management career I want to be the best expert in management.

To accomplish this I will:

Commit time into reading and practicing in what I will have learnt

Attending exhibitions and seminars so as to gain more information about my field

Identify the job requirements and performance expectation in my entire career.

Taking short term projects from my boss so as to learn new things and get a chance to research more.

Publication. After my ten years in career I will write and publish books so as to share my experience with other people about my field.

To plan for this I will:

Communicate people who are already publishing so as to gain new information and

Insights

Research and read widely about publishers and their publications.

Set goal of how many publications I want to publish

Be a Consultant. I have plans to become a consultancy agent so that I can mentor other people who will be joining or will be very young in the management industry.

To plan for this I will:

Start consulting in my mid-career path so that I may do well in the industry

Gain as much experience as possible so as to help me in the future start consultancy.

**for this part you need to be more precise and change my words as I am not here as precisie as I should be. Must be essay format as well.

**doesn’t include immediate action plans