My 6-month goal consist of physical, mental and spiritual fitness.
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The Assignment:
All of the components of the assignment should be turned in as one document:
Component 1: The Executive Summary:
For additional guidance on preparing your executive summary, please review the document How to Write an Executive Summary, which can be located by clicking on the Learning Support Docs link in the course navigation menu in the online classroom. Be sure to support your Executive Summary with appropriate evidence and include citations and references in APA format.
Component 2: Tell Your Passion and Purpose Story
As you prepare to share your Passion and Purpose story, recall the stories you read in Passion and Purpose: Stories From the Best and Brightest Young Business Leaders and the material discussed in the Week 5 discussion forum entitled, “Shared Practice: Will Your Passion Find Purposeâ€.
Component 3: Identify your First Goal and Accompanying Action Plan to Pursue your Passion and Purpose
Be sure to include appropriate citations in your executive summary and action plan. Both components should be submitted as one document. This is a good time to refer to the Essential Guide to APA Style as you finalize your Blueprint for Professional & Personal Growth to ensure that your paper is in the proper format and that you are properly citing and referencing your sources.
Refer to the Week 7 Individual Reflection rubric found under the Course Information tab for specific criteria for this assignment. Your instructor will use this rubric to assess your work.
As you recall from the Course Outcomes listed in your syllabus, this course requires you to develop strategies for becoming a more effective leader, creating preliminary plans for professional and personal growth, and integrating your personal values, ethics, experience, and goals into leadership decisions. The Blueprint for Professional & Personal Growth (BPPG) is designed to assist you in meeting those outcomes and has three components you need to complete:
The first component of the BPPG is an executive summary of the course to date. The ability to write an executive summary is a valuable business skill. To get the in right frame of mind for writing an executive summary, imagine that an executive from a company for which you have always wanted to work has called you and told you the following:
Hello, I hear you are getting your Master’s program. Well, we would like to hire you and reimburse to you the costs of your course. But before I bring you on board and pay for the course, I need to know two things. First, how have the content and assignments in this course helped you understand the roles of leadership and followership within business organization? Second, how do you intend to apply the content, theories, and topics addressed in this course to your career? Oh, and if I like what you are learning in this course and how you intend to apply what you have learned here at our organization, I will contact you and ask you when you would be able to start and what you would like your salary to be.
Ok. No pressure, right? While it is unlikely the above scenario will happen to you soon, the above scenario is a useful framework for writing your executive summary. It lets people who are important to an organization, such as executives and investors; know the central ideas of the topic you are discussing and convince them why they should pay attention to them. Your executive summary of this course will help you organize the resources and learning experiences from this course that you have found most meaningful for your professional and personal growth. As you progress through the program, the executive summary you write this week will help you recall important concepts and help you reflect on the goals you have created for yourself. For additional guidance on preparing your executive summary, please review the document How to Write an Executive Summary, which can be located by clicking on the Learning Support Docs link in the course navigation menu in the online classroom.
As you begin this component of this assignment, review the broad range of topics presented throughout the course related to leadership and followership. For this Individual Reflection, select concepts or topics that resonated with you during this course and commit to learning more about them. Consider the following:
For the second component of your BPPG, you will tell your Passion and Purpose story (similar to the stories you read in Passion and Purpose: Stories From the Best and Brightest Young Business Leaders and discussed in Week 5 discussion forum entitled, “Shared Practice: Will Your Passion Find Purposeâ€).
For the third component of your BPPG, you will also develop a corresponding goal along with an accompanying action plan for realizing your passion and purpose.
As you think about your story and your goal, reflect on the reasons you decided to pursue your degree and what you hope to do with the knowledge and skills you will gain. Then think about why you joined Walden, a university committed to its Mission of Positive Social Change: