Week 4 Learning Activities
Learning Activity
In the planning phase, managers create a detailed action plan aimed at the organizational goals. Strategic management, or what you will learn as strategizing, is what an organization will do or not do to achieve the goals and objectives that lead to meeting the stated mission and vision. This strategizing should be based on the SWOT analysis of the organization.
From the SWOT analysis, managers create organizational goals. Organizational goals, to be effective, should be SMART. Which means they are:
- Specific
- Measurable
- Attainable
- Relevant
- Timebound
(For example, compare this general goal: “become a better listener,” to this SMART goal: “I will actively listen by asking questions instead of interjecting my own ideas during one conversation each day for one week.”)
Create an initial post by:
Addressing Theme 1 by:
- Defining and describing a SWOT analysis.
- Describing the process a manager would go through in creating a SWOT analysis.
- Evaluating yourself with a SWOT.
Addressing Theme 2 by:
- Creating a SMART goal for two areas you feel need the most improvement.
You must include at least five in-text citations and three references in your initial post.
Your initial post is due by Thursday 11:59 p.m. EST.
Provide follow-up responses to at least two of your classmates by:
- Evaluating how one of your classmate’s strengths could be a weakness.
- Evaluating how one of your classmate’s weaknesses could be a strength.
- Creating a SMART goal for one of your classmate’s strengths
- Creating a SMART goal for one of your classmate’s weaknesses.
You must include at least two in-text citations and one reference in each response.
Your two responses are due by Sunday 11:59 p.m. EST.
