Assignment: Reflection and Goal Setting
Create a 2 to 4 pages paper that describes personal and professional growth experienced throughout the MBA program and BetterUp coaching and includes an action plan around three personal or professional goals.
Introduction
In our modern world, technology is changing at a tremendously fast pace, and new knowledge is being created in virtually every field daily. With this continuous knowledge creation it is impossible to remain static in your growth and expect to be continually successful. In other words, to stay relevant and effective in the workplace you must always be learning and growing.
Earning your MBA has helped develop you as a business leader, providing you with a tremendous amount of skills and an amazing business foundation. At this point you are ready to go out into the world and be an effective business leader. Yet, it is important to remember that this is the start of your journey, not the end.
You have also learned that knowledge is power, that growth is necessary, and that you must actively work to keep pace with the world around you. You must have a growth mindset and become a lifelong learner to ensure your continued success throughout your career and life. You must constantly be growing as a person and as a leader.
In this assessment you will reflect on your MBA journey and your capstone journey. You will consider how getting to know your strengths has been of value to you, how the BetterUp coaching has helped you to better understand, utilize, and build upon your strengths, and how you can continue to improve upon those strengths, setting goals to propel you into the future.
Assessment Description
Write a paper that summarizes how your strengths-as identified in the BetterUp leadership assessment and improved through your coaching-helped you to create an effective capstone project. Reflect upon how you have grown in this program, in the course, and through your coaching. Discuss how you have applied your strengths and how you would apply those strengths further to enact the recommendations you made in your capstone paper if you worked for that organization. Finally, create some future growth goals for yourself and a brief plan of how you will achieve those goals.
Your paper should address these items:
A. Describe how you have grown in the MBA program, in the course, and through the coaching.
a. What was your experience while completing the capstone?
b. How did the capstone allow you to demonstrate the outcomes of the MBA program?
c. Was there anything new you learned during research and writing?
B. Discuss how you applied your strengths toward completion of the capstone project.
a. How did you use the leadership strengths assessment results and coaching to help with completing the capstone?
C. Discuss how you would apply your leadership strengths if your capstone project recommendations were implemented in the organization.
a. In your capstone, you made recommendations for your selected company. Considering those recommendations, if you worked for that company how might you use your strengths to affect this change?
b. Reflecting on your BetterUp strengths assessment, would you have any new recommendations based on your personal strengths?
c. How might you leverage your own strengths to implement your recommendations?
d. What new strengths, based on the whole person model, might you want to develop to help you implement your recommendations most effectively?
D. Create an action plan for at least three future-growth goals.
a. What are three goals that can support your continuing development into the future?
b. How will you apply a growth mindset and what you learned about leadership and your own leadership strengths to stay relevant in the field, meet career goals, et cetera?
c. What are the steps you will take to achieve your goals?
d. How will you support your goals for when you have graduated from the MBA program?
Format your assignment according to the give formatting requirements:
a. The answer must be double spaced, typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
b. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the course title, the student's name, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
c. Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.