Improvement Through Strategic Planning

A scenario from my personal life experience that could have been improved using strategic planning to yield better and sustainable results was my weight management journey. After I was diagnosed with pre-hypertension, my consciousness was jolted to think about healthy living because my doctor said that if I don't do anything about my weight, I may slide into hypertension and other heart-related conditions. I was determined to get to a healthy weight within a reasonable time.

I enrolled in several exercise programs and routines which I religiously adhered to. However, I was not getting the results that I desired. My weight stagnated for some time regardless of the efforts that I put into exercising. After some time, I scheduled a meeting with the doctor and raised my concerns and lack of progress. He referred me to a nutritionist and for me, that was the game changer. I was guided in the development of nutritious and healthy diets and compounded with my consistency in exercising, I steadily began to lose weight and headed in the right direction.

Through strategic planning, I could have made my weight loss journey more effective. The validation tool that would have worked in my case was the Key Success Factor analysis. Key success factors are the important elements required to make a venture successful (GreggU, 2018). Through this analysis, I would have identified that exercising is not enough to help in weight reduction. Nutrition plays a key role in weight management and needs to be combined with regular exercise. In my case, the key success factors that influenced my ability to meet my weight loss goals were regular exercise and having a healthy diet.

References

GreggU. (2018, June 1).Key success factorsLinks to an external site.

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