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Mission Statement

Creating Your Career Success Action Plan – The key to reaching your personal and professional goals is to develop your new skills one step at a time building one upon the other. Having an action plan in place to implement what you have learned into your personal and professional life is essential to making the positive changes last. What are your career goals? Where would you like to see yourself in the next 3 yrs. or 5 yrs.? In this final workshop, we will help you create and implement your Success Action Plan! We will provide you with tools you can use daily to incorporate your new skills effectively, so you can reach your true potential and become the leader you were meant to be!

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Objectives

1. Planning Success: It’s critical to have a plan that will guide you toward success in whatever area of your life that you choose. This will assist you in being more deliberate with your actions and ensuring that you’re constantly advancing toward your objectives. Therefore, take the time to create a solid plan for success and then follow it! In this course manual, you will learn the 9 essential steps to include in your success plan and get some valuable advice from some our greatest leaders of all time.
2. Self-Growth Plan: Self-growth is a natural process that helps you improve and broaden your capabilities. Self-improvement can benefit both your professional and personal life because it enables you to reach your best potential. In this lesson, we dive deep on what self-growth is, why its’ important, what a self-growth plan looks like and we reveal the 8 essential steps in creating your personal self-growth plan.
3. Career Plan: A solid career plan may successfully direct your professional life, from landing your first job to having a fulfilling career. You can examine your professional possibilities and create a solid plan for accomplishing your objectives by carefully planning your career. In this course manual, we go through career planning strategies and how to create a productive professional roadmap.
4. Goal Setting: Success will be determined more than ever before by one’s ability to set goals. Setting goals has been connected to success more than any other method or tactic. People who learn to set goals and take decisive efforts toward achieving them achieve and change the world throughout human history. That is why, in this course manual we will ensure you understand how to create powerful and achievable goals that lead to your success.
5. Take Action: Taking action is necessary to achieve your goals because success is not something that comes naturally. In this next lesson, we will explore 15 factors why action is crucial for success as you develop personally and professionally so that you can realize your aspirations, goals, and dreams.
6. Action Plan: Any project must have a plan for management, organization, as well as a goal-realization strategy before it can begin. Any objective can have a clear route to accomplishment created with an action plan (personal, business, or financial goal). This lesson will teach you how to create an efficient and effective action plan and why any goal or project requires one.
7. Strategic Planning: Strategic planning is the skill of developing detailed business plans, putting them into action, and assessing the outcomes in light of a company’s overarching long-term objectives or goals. In this lesson, we will go over the 3-step process of strategic planning, why strategic planning is necessary in obtaining your organizations objectives and also you will have access to a real-world example of an effective strategic plan.
8. Strategic Implementation: The process of putting your strategic plan into practice is known as strategy implementation. Your plan is just as valuable as how well it is put into practice, whether you are implementing a new marketing strategy to boost sales or introducing work management software to boost productivity. This course manual discusses 6 key strategic implementation steps, the 3 c’s for implementation, as well as implementation difficulties and how to prevent them. Additionally, look into several frameworks related to this process to position yourself for success.
9. Plan Examples: Face the daily grind and make a plan for how you can effectively complete your goals if you want to succeed in life. You can accomplish it with the use of a well-designed action plan. It enables you to assess your needs and set objectives that meet the requirements of what an objective should be. This course manual teaches you by sharing examples of others action plans – how to create action plans, carry them out, and eventually realize your most important life goals.
10. Continuous Improvement: An issue that affects all businesses and organizations is continuous improvement. It’s challenging to survive without it unless you don’t have any customers, staff, or rival businesses. While innovation is essential for developing novel processes, goods, or services, continual improvement is essential for raising standards of performance and quality. In today’s cutthroat marketplace, stagnation is loss. Lack of a continuous improvement plan might be deadly and result in high expenses for corrective efforts. In this lesson, we share valuable insight as to how you can continuously improve the processes within your organization.
11. Productivity Habits: “Productivity is less about what you do with your time and more about how you run your mind,” observed Robin S. Sharma once. In the end, productivity is about using your time as efficiently as possible. In this lesson we will share 16 productivity habits that you can easy implement into your everyday life to help you drastically increase your own productivity.
12. Life Success: What does success mean to you? How can one achieve success in life? Success can be equated with various things by different people, including wealth, power, and having a positive impact on society. They’re all accurate. Success can mean different things to different people. It would mean one thing to you, but a different thing to someone else. In this final course manual, we share some of the greatest quotes from some of the most accomplished people in history along with 22 of the top pieces of advice to follow if you wish to succeed as well as a powerful Formula for Success to live the life of your dreams!

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Strategies

1. Discover the 9 steps essential in creating your success action plan.
2. Create your personal self-growth plan in 8 key steps.
3. Learn the 8-step process to prepare a career plan and get access to career planning examples and easy to follow templates.
4. Put into practice the 9 simple steps to setting powerful goals.
5. Identify the 15 factors on why taking action is crucial to your success.
6. Learn the 7 phases to writing an effective and efficient action plan.
7. Access the 3-step process to strategic planning.
8. Learn the 6-step process to implement your strategic plan effectively and efficiently.
9. Discover the top 5 reasons to have an action plan and review real life examples of successful companies action plans.
10. Access a plan for ongoing improvement along with powerful tools and techniques.
11. Discover 16 Top Productivity Habits to adopt.
12. Identify 22 strategies for success along with the Formula for Success.

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Tasks

1. Go through the Study Guide and Distance Learning lessons first and make notes.
2. Identify the key relationships that need to be managed to ensure project success.
3. Schedule a meeting for the participants to meet and discuss the workshop within 30 days.
4. Each participant will identify three personal goals and see how they relate to the rest of the groups goals.
5. Assess where you currently are with your confidence level, so you can make the necessary adjustments moving forward.
6. As a group you’ll go through an exercise to help kick start your career planning process.
7. Get access to your own daily project planner and learn what SWOT analysis is and how to use it during your strategic planning
8. Begin to implement the strategic planning process necessary in obtaining your organizations goals and objectives.
9. Enjoy the walking One to one problem solving exercise.
10. Share your “greatest possible future” ideas.
11. Experience 2 fun interactive exercises with your group to encourage discussions and to learn the values of your group members.
12. Create your bucket list for what you want to accomplish in your life.

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Introduction

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It should go without saying that failing to plan is planning to fail. Everybody who has ever had the opportunity to experience failure may relate to these words.

This is demonstrated by the numerous New Year’s resolutions that, for whatever reason, none of us were able to keep, whether they related to an exercise regimen, a diet modification, or learning a new skill.

“WITHOUT GOALS AND PLANS TO REACH THEM, YOU ARE LIKE A SHIP THAT HAS SET SAIL WITH NO DESTINATION.” — FITZHUGH DODSON

Why is having a success action plan necessary?

Planning may be seen by some as tedious and an “inconvenient” process. Planning can, however, ultimately prove to be quite beneficial for everyone.

Without adequate planning, we experience the typical signs of returning to our regular and routine pace of life.

Planning ahead is essential to help us achieve our goals and to help us break them down into smaller, more manageable goals that will make them much easier to attain.

Although it may not seem like a necessary component of success, planning will prove to be crucial in every aspect of your life once you realize its advantages.

Planning helps us see clearly what has to be done, what goals need to be attained, and how much time will be required to accomplish those goals.

Planning can be strongly related to having effective time management since it encourages the planner to set aside a suitable amount of time for one job before moving on to the next.

These self-imposed deadlines are a healthy type of incentive that both natural procrastinators and those who do not require them greatly.

“PLANNING IS BRINGING THE FUTURE INTO PRESENT SO THAT YOU CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT NOW.” — ALAN LAKEIN

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Benefits of Planning

Planning provides a roadmap—more accurately, a timeline—on how to maintain and accomplish the goals we have set for ourselves.

The benefit of this map is that it can be readily customized for each person based on the situation.

In some way or another, all of us are subjected to planning. When we plan our vacations, we typically see the advantages of planning in action.

An itinerary is required to keep track of tasks that must be completed prior to the trip, as well as destinations and activities. Planning is frequently employed when creating a budget.

The amount of stress and frustration that may be saved by planning ahead is enormous. This enables you and your traveling buddies to enjoy the vacation more.

One may be confident that their funds are carefully monitored to avoid overspending, even when it comes to budgeting. This enables proper money management, including spending and saving, as well as the achievement of both long- and short-term financial objectives.

“MAKE TIME FOR PLANNING; WARS ARE WON IN THE GENERAL’S TENT.” — STEPHEN R. COVEY

The Result of Planning:

For the avid planner, planning has turned into a need for daily existence. a natural instinctive reaction to a new work or circumstance.

It has been demonstrated that planning helps the planner experience an increase in productivity and efficiency in their social or professional lives.

Planning enables the planner to filter out distractions from the core plan and maintain concentration on it.

There is little question that changes and unpredictable factors will be taken into account during the planning process.

The good thing about having a plan is that it may take into account such circumstances and lessen any tension the planner may feel in comparison to not having a strategy. The strategy only needs to be quickly changed, and it can be changed with little to no work.

All of these planning benefits must be connected to the nature of planning.

The bare bones of the timetable and the interim goals are placed into writing through planning. It can accept both little and large plans simultaneously and is highly adaptable and configurable to each user. This reality continues to be the primary justification for why businesses and organizations employ both short- and long-term planning to achieve their goals.

This eventually encourages productivity, efficiency, and an aim for the organization to reach its ultimate objective.

“PLAN YOUR WORK FOR TODAY AND EVERY DAY, THEN WORK YOUR PLAN.” — MARGARET THATCHER

Therefore, it can be said that planning has much more advantages than disadvantages.

The key is to take action on your plan!

If both large and small enterprises, use plans to achieve their objectives and enjoy growth…

imagine the miracles that planning along with consistent inspired action can do in your life.

In the Action Plan workshop, we will help you create and implement your Success Action Plan! We will provide you with tools you can use daily to incorporate your new skills effectively, so you can reach your true potential and become the leader you were meant to be!

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Executive Summary

Everyone wants to have a successful life. Everyone has opinions about how to spend their lives in a way that will bring them the most success and satisfaction, whether in their personal or professional lives.

Your ideas will only be that if you don’t actually carry out that vision.

To realize your dreams and make them a reality, you must take action at the appropriate time. However, acting haphazardly is a surefire formula for disaster.

You can only proceed with carrying out your vision if you have established a detailed strategy, considered all the advantages and disadvantages, and ready yourself for challenges.

An action plan can help with this. You may achieve your goals and see a clear route to success with the aid of an action plan.

So, what is an action plan?

An action plan is described as a document or checklist that lists the activities or duties that must be carried out in order to accomplish the goals that have been established.

An action plan, which is a component of strategic planning, is essential to project management because it enables teams to work together efficiently, communicate clearly, and complete a project from beginning to end.

An action plan is equally helpful for people pursuing their own goals outside of the business sector.

A good action plan lays out all the steps you must take to accomplish the objective and aids in getting you there quickly. Depending on your requirements, you can develop an action plan for a single target or a number of them.

An action plan makes sure that everything you need is put in writing and in the right location so that you can measure your progress and assign duties.

Why Is an Action Plan Necessary?

By leading you and your team to success, an action plan can cut your effort in half saving you both time and money.

Once formed, action plans take on a life of their own by keeping the team accountable and guiding them through every challenge. Planning ahead gives you the necessary clarity on the direction to go in, the technology to use, the roles to assign, and the challenges to overcome!

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” – Benjamin Franklin

There are 12 courses (or focus areas) in the Action Plan Workshop that will assist in acquiring these skills.

Here’s what we’ll be covering:

1. Planning Success: It’s critical to have a plan that will guide you toward success in whatever area of your life that you choose. This will assist you in being more deliberate with your actions and ensuring that you’re constantly advancing toward your objectives. Therefore, take the time to create a solid plan for success and then follow it! In this course manual, you will learn the 9 essential steps to include in your success plan and get some valuable advice from some our greatest leaders of all time.
2. Self-Growth Plan: Self-growth is a natural process that helps you improve and broaden your capabilities. Self-improvement can benefit both your professional and personal life because it enables you to reach your best potential. In this lesson, we dive deep on what self-growth is, why its’ important, what a self-growth plan looks like and we reveal the 8 essential steps in creating your personal self-growth plan.
3. Career Plan: A solid career plan may successfully direct your professional life, from landing your first job to having a fulfilling career. You can examine your professional possibilities and create a solid plan for accomplishing your objectives by carefully planning your career. In this course manual, we go through career planning strategies and how to create a productive professional roadmap.
4. Goal Setting: Success will be determined more than ever before by one’s ability to set goals. Setting goals has been connected to success more than any other method or tactic. People who learn to set goals and take decisive efforts toward achieving them achieve and change the world throughout human history. That is why, in this course manual we will ensure you understand how to create powerful and achievable goals that lead to your success.
5. Take Action: Taking action is necessary to achieve your goals because success is not something that comes naturally. In this next lesson, we will explore 15 factors why action is crucial for success as you develop personally and professionally so that you can realize your aspirations, goals, and dreams.
6. Action Plan: Any project must have a plan for management, organization, as well as a goal-realization strategy before it can begin. Any objective can have a clear route to accomplishment created with an action plan (personal, business, or financial goal). This lesson will teach you how to create an efficient and effective action plan and why any goal or project requires one.
7. Strategic Planning: Strategic planning is the skill of developing detailed business plans, putting them into action, and assessing the outcomes in light of a company’s overarching long-term objectives or goals. In this lesson, we will go over the 3-step process of strategic planning, why strategic planning is necessary in obtaining your organizations objectives and also you will have access to a real-world example of an effective strategic plan.
8. Strategic Implementation: The process of putting your strategic plan into practice is known as strategy implementation. Your plan is just as valuable as how well it is put into practice, whether you are implementing a new marketing strategy to boost sales or introducing work management software to boost productivity. This course manual discusses 6 key strategic implementation steps, the 3 c’s for implementation, as well as implementation difficulties and how to prevent them. Additionally, look into several frameworks related to this process to position yourself for success.
9. Plan Examples: Face the daily grind and make a plan for how you can effectively complete your goals if you want to succeed in life. You can accomplish it with the use of a well-designed action plan. It enables you to assess your needs and set objectives that meet the requirements of what an objective should be. This course manual teaches you by sharing examples of others action plans – how to create action plans, carry them out, and eventually realize your most important life goals.
10. Continuous Improvement: An issue that affects all businesses and organizations is continuous improvement. It’s challenging to survive without it unless you don’t have any customers, staff, or rival businesses. While innovation is essential for developing novel processes, goods, or services, continual improvement is essential for raising standards of performance and quality. In today’s cutthroat marketplace, stagnation is loss. Lack of a continuous improvement plan might be deadly and result in high expenses for corrective efforts. In this lesson, we share valuable insight as to how you can continuously improve the processes within your organization.
11. Productivity Habits: “Productivity is less about what you do with your time and more about how you run your mind,” observed Robin S. Sharma once. In the end, productivity is about using your time as efficiently as possible. In this lesson we will share 16 productivity habits that you can easy implement into your everyday life to help you drastically increase your own productivity.
12. Life Success: What does success mean to you? How can one achieve success in life? Success can be equated with various things by different people, including wealth, power, and having a positive impact on society. They’re all accurate. Success can mean different things to different people. It would mean one thing to you, but a different thing to someone else. In this final course manual, we share some of the greatest quotes from some of the most accomplished people in history along with 22 of the top pieces of advice to follow if you wish to succeed as well as a powerful Formula for Success to live the life of your dreams!

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Curriculum

Women Empowerment – Workshop 12 – Action Plan

1. Planning Success
2. Self-Growth Plan
3. Career Plan
4. Goal Setting
5. Take Action
6. Action Plan
7. Strategic Planning
8. Implementation Strategy
9. Plan Examples
10. Continuous Improvement
11. Productivity Habits
12. Life Success

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Distance Learning

Introduction

Welcome to Appleton Greene and thank you for enrolling on the Women Empowerment corporate training program. You will be learning through our unique facilitation via distance-learning method, which will enable you to practically implement everything that you learn academically. The methods and materials used in your program have been designed and developed to ensure that you derive the maximum benefits and enjoyment possible. We hope that you find the program challenging and fun to do. However, if you have never been a distance-learner before, you may be experiencing some trepidation at the task before you. So we will get you started by giving you some basic information and guidance on how you can make the best use of the modules, how you should manage the materials and what you should be doing as you work through them. This guide is designed to point you in the right direction and help you to become an effective distance-learner. Take a few hours or so to study this guide and your guide to tutorial support for students, while making notes, before you start to study in earnest.

Study environment

You will need to locate a quiet and private place to study, preferably a room where you can easily be isolated from external disturbances or distractions. Make sure the room is well-lit and incorporates a relaxed, pleasant feel. If you can spoil yourself within your study environment, you will have much more of a chance to ensure that you are always in the right frame of mind when you do devote time to study. For example, a nice fire, the ability to play soft soothing background music, soft but effective lighting, perhaps a nice view if possible and a good size desk with a comfortable chair. Make sure that your family know when you are studying and understand your study rules. Your study environment is very important. The ideal situation, if at all possible, is to have a separate study, which can be devoted to you. If this is not possible then you will need to pay a lot more attention to developing and managing your study schedule, because it will affect other people as well as yourself. The better your study environment, the more productive you will be.

Study tools & rules

Try and make sure that your study tools are sufficient and in good working order. You will need to have access to a computer, scanner and printer, with access to the internet. You will need a very comfortable chair, which supports your lower back, and you will need a good filing system. It can be very frustrating if you are spending valuable study time trying to fix study tools that are unreliable, or unsuitable for the task. Make sure that your study tools are up to date. You will also need to consider some study rules. Some of these rules will apply to you and will be intended to help you to be more disciplined about when and how you study. This distance-learning guide will help you and after you have read it you can put some thought into what your study rules should be. You will also need to negotiate some study rules for your family, friends or anyone who lives with you. They too will need to be disciplined in order to ensure that they can support you while you study. It is important to ensure that your family and friends are an integral part of your study team. Having their support and encouragement can prove to be a crucial contribution to your successful completion of the program. Involve them in as much as you can.

Successful distance-learning

Distance-learners are freed from the necessity of attending regular classes or workshops, since they can study in their own way, at their own pace and for their own purposes. But unlike traditional internal training courses, it is the student’s responsibility, with a distance-learning program, to ensure that they manage their own study contribution. This requires strong self-discipline and self-motivation skills and there must be a clear will to succeed. Those students who are used to managing themselves, are good at managing others and who enjoy working in isolation, are more likely to be good distance-learners. It is also important to be aware of the main reasons why you are studying and of the main objectives that you are hoping to achieve as a result. You will need to remind yourself of these objectives at times when you need to motivate yourself. Never lose sight of your long-term goals and your short-term objectives. There is nobody available here to pamper you, or to look after you, or to spoon-feed you with information, so you will need to find ways to encourage and appreciate yourself while you are studying. Make sure that you chart your study progress, so that you can be sure of your achievements and re-evaluate your goals and objectives regularly.

Self-assessment

Appleton Greene training programs are in all cases post-graduate programs. Consequently, you should already have obtained a business-related degree and be an experienced learner. You should therefore already be aware of your study strengths and weaknesses. For example, which time of the day are you at your most productive? Are you a lark or an owl? What study methods do you respond to the most? Are you a consistent learner? How do you discipline yourself? How do you ensure that you enjoy yourself while studying? It is important to understand yourself as a learner and so some self-assessment early on will be necessary if you are to apply yourself correctly. Perform a SWOT analysis on yourself as a student. List your internal strengths and weaknesses as a student and your external opportunities and threats. This will help you later on when you are creating a study plan. You can then incorporate features within your study plan that can ensure that you are playing to your strengths, while compensating for your weaknesses. You can also ensure that you make the most of your opportunities, while avoiding the potential threats to your success.

Accepting responsibility as a student

Training programs invariably require a significant investment, both in terms of what they cost and in the time that you need to contribute to study and the responsibility for successful completion of training programs rests entirely with the student. This is never more apparent than when a student is learning via distance-learning. Accepting responsibility as a student is an important step towards ensuring that you can successfully complete your training program. It is easy to instantly blame other people or factors when things go wrong. But the fact of the matter is that if a failure is your failure, then you have the power to do something about it, it is entirely in your own hands. If it is always someone else’s failure, then you are powerless to do anything about it. All students study in entirely different ways, this is because we are all individuals and what is right for one student, is not necessarily right for another. In order to succeed, you will have to accept personal responsibility for finding a way to plan, implement and manage a personal study plan that works for you. If you do not succeed, you only have yourself to blame.

Planning

By far the most critical contribution to stress, is the feeling of not being in control. In the absence of planning we tend to be reactive and can stumble from pillar to post in the hope that things will turn out fine in the end. Invariably they don’t! In order to be in control, we need to have firm ideas about how and when we want to do things. We also need to consider as many possible eventualities as we can, so that we are prepared for them when they happen. Prescriptive Change, is far easier to manage and control, than Emergent Change. The same is true with distance-learning. It is much easier and much more enjoyable, if you feel that you are in control and that things are going to plan. Even when things do go wrong, you are prepared for them and can act accordingly without any unnecessary stress. It is important therefore that you do take time to plan your studies properly.

Management

Once you have developed a clear study plan, it is of equal importance to ensure that you manage the implementation of it. Most of us usually enjoy planning, but it is usually during implementation when things go wrong. Targets are not met and we do not understand why. Sometimes we do not even know if targets are being met. It is not enough for us to conclude that the study plan just failed. If it is failing, you will need to understand what you can do about it. Similarly if your study plan is succeeding, it is still important to understand why, so that you can improve upon your success. You therefore need to have guidelines for self-assessment so that you can be consistent with performance improvement throughout the program. If you manage things correctly, then your performance should constantly improve throughout the program.

Study objectives & tasks

The first place to start is developing your program objectives. These should feature your reasons for undertaking the training program in order of priority. Keep them succinct and to the point in order to avoid confusion. Do not just write the first things that come into your head because they are likely to be too similar to each other. Make a list of possible departmental headings, such as: Customer Service; E-business; Finance; Globalization; Human Resources; Technology; Legal; Management; Marketing and Production. Then brainstorm for ideas by listing as many things that you want to achieve under each heading and later re-arrange these things in order of priority. Finally, select the top item from each department heading and choose these as your program objectives. Try and restrict yourself to five because it will enable you to focus clearly. It is likely that the other things that you listed will be achieved if each of the top objectives are achieved. If this does not prove to be the case, then simply work through the process again.

Study forecast

As a guide, the Appleton Greene Women Empowerment corporate training program should take 12-18 months to complete, depending upon your availability and current commitments. The reason why there is such a variance in time estimates is because every student is an individual, with differing productivity levels and different commitments. These differentiations are then exaggerated by the fact that this is a distance-learning program, which incorporates the practical integration of academic theory as an as a part of the training program. Consequently all of the project studies are real, which means that important decisions and compromises need to be made. You will want to get things right and will need to be patient with your expectations in order to ensure that they are. We would always recommend that you are prudent with your own task and time forecasts, but you still need to develop them and have a clear indication of what are realistic expectations in your case. With reference to your time planning: consider the time that you can realistically dedicate towards study with the program every week; calculate how long it should take you to complete the program, using the guidelines featured here; then break the program down into logical modules and allocate a suitable proportion of time to each of them, these will be your milestones; you can create a time plan by using a spreadsheet on your compu