Introduction The time that I have spent at Kaplan University working on my MBA degree has guided me with a strategic planning that has a major reason in being successful with my business career. This can also be applied to my personal life has well with my career. Strategic planning helps to set goals that can be reach and to exceed goals. Setting goals will help me to strive for more in life once goals has been reached. In my personal life for me to be successful I set goals. Once I have reach a goal I will set more goals. This gives me a reason to keep on improving myself has a person. Making plans and setting goals in life will make me more socially responsible and will help to make life easier. In setting my goals I can use a SWOT and PEST analysis that pertain to my qualities that will help me to analysis my values to make sure my goals fit my personality. …show more content…
• To help with unconscious assumptions when going into something new to help develop with new environment. The best method for me to use would be the SWOT analysis. The SWOT analysis will show me what my strengths, weakness, opportunities and weakness are (Appendix A). There are several strengths that I have that will help me with my career. I am an outgoing person and am very competitive. I have good writing skills, communication skills and technical skills. I can learn at a fast past and am a multi tasker. I can stay calm under stress and meet deadlines. I have worked on a business degree and already have knowledge in working in the purchasing department. The weakness I face is not having management skills or leadership roles. I need to find opportunities to be able to develop these skills. I tend to finish work to fast and need to work more at a steady pace. I also need to share my viewpoints more often and not be so shy. I also have not done any presentations. This is skills I need to improve on to be more successful with my