Alexia’s Legacy: Every Goal Needs an Action Plan
She was tragically taken from us, but her legacy lives on. Every few weeks we will share excerpts from the book.
Alexia’s Goals August 2013 with Action Plans
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Professional Learning and Development Goals |
Action Plan |
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Goal 1: Make a decision about whether to go CPA/JD or JD/MBA |
1. Meet with counselor to discuss academic feasibility. 2. Meet with 7 professionals to gain input and perspective 3. Speak with top 3 law schools to see if credits will transfer from MA to MBA or JD |
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Goal 2: Evaluate my relationship with McKesson to be able to decide their role in the rest of my college career. |
1. Can I work and maintain my 4.0 GPA 2. Do they have a place for me in the spring? 3. Can I make enough money to meet my budget goals |
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Goal 3: Gain a better working knowledge of LinkedIn |
1. Meet with Rachel 2. Study Linked-in Presentations 3. Build my profile |
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Personal Goals |
Action Plan |
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Goal 1: Improve work life balance techniques |
1. Create Scheduled “Me” time. 1 hour – 3 times per week 2. Exercise. 30 minutes – 4 times per week |
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Goal 2: Maintain 4.0 GPA |
1. Study at minimum 3 hours per day |
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Goal 3: Create a working budget |
1. Meet with Student Money Management Center |
PLP Goals Alexia Helped Set as Leader
| Professional Leadership Program | Action Plan |
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Goal 1: Develop stakeholders; students, mentors, and faculty |
1. Improve class offerings 2. Member/Mentor Review program 3. Recruit new majors to PLP 4. Increase involvement of Faculty |
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Goal 2: Create a family-like culture |
1. Create engagement opportunities outside of normal meetings 2. Focus on clusters 3. Increase mentor involvement |
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Goal 3: Create communication that supports connections and relationships, and exemplifies our brand |
1. Thank you letter process 2. Post events on social media 3. Encourage stakeholder involvement in media sites 4. Create Student Director bonding time |
Lesson: Every goal needs an action plan.
Once we set our goals, we need to build and implement an action plan that will get us there. Most importantly, we always need to know our next step. Notice that several of Alexia’s goals were related to making decisions. Her plans related to how she would collect the info she needed to make those decisions. The plans also had multiple steps so there was a clear path to accomplishment. Create a plan for each of your goals. Clarify the steps in your plan, even if those steps include brainstorming next steps. One of the keys to goal accomplishment is understanding that it is more important to visualize the steps it will take to get there than to visualize accomplishment of the goal itself. Focus on your action plan and always keep your next step top of mind.
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About Ray White
My Passion is helping people become successful and happy. I have found that many people want to be successful but just don’t know how. More importantly, people want to be successful because they feel that reaching some success pinnacle will result in them becoming happy. The research and my experience has shown that just the opposite is the case. Success does not lead to happiness. Happiness leads to success.
