Research Project Abstract
This longitudinal, multivariate, multi-disciplined study addresses the capacity of group members to advance the pace of organizational success through personal goal attainment. Organizations participating in this study serve individuals who are in the midst of major life transitions (including high schools, parent groups, and mentoring programs).
Each year, group members (1) attend one personal life success planning workshop to establish and update their plans, (2) report on their use of plans and their plan-based accomplishments, and (3) commit to further progress. All plans are developed in the context their personal visions and the participating organization’s key goals.
The study applies Personal Life Success Planning strategies to each organization’s top four change initiatives.
The study assumes that the personal success of the membership of an organization is a key determinant of the success of the organization in meeting its goals. The study annually measures changes in organizational achievements of participating agencies, those stemming from intentional, planned actions of individual group members. Changes in the pace and scope of organizational goal attainment will be correlated with trends in patterns of personal goal achievement interpreted in aggregation.
Changes of organizational beliefs about future possibilities will also be monitored over the course of the three years of the Personal Life Success Plan development intervention. Through the analysis of compilations of personal action plans, group by group and year by year, organizational shifts in perceptions about “self” and “the future” (and other collective beliefs about possibilities) will be identified, tracked and interpreted in terms of organizational priorities and outcomes.