Component 1: The Executive Summary: • Write an Executive Summary of the course to date (2–3 paragraphs) that addresses the following questions: o Which content and assignments in this course most helped you better understand the roles of leadership and followership within your organization (or one with which you are familiar), and what impact have they had, or do you anticipate they will have, on the value you will bring to your role within an organization? o How have the content and assignments changed the way you think about leadership and followership and the way you will practice these skills? o How have the content and assignments shaped your goals? o How has the content help you appreciate the role leaders and followers have in achieving positive social change within an organization, a community, or on a larger scale? For additional guidance on preparing your executive summary, please review the document How to Write an Executive Summary, which can be located by clicking on the Learning Support Docs link in the course navigation menu in the online classroom. Be sure to support your Executive Summary with appropriate evidence and include citations and references in APA format. Component 2: Tell Your Passion and Purpose Story • Provide a brief narrative describing your passion and the purpose you see for yourself. • Describe why you think obtaining your degree will better equip you to pursue your passion and fulfill your purpose. • Assess the extent to which you think your passion and purpose aligns to Walden’s mission of positive social change, and how Walden’s mission impacts your experience as you study here, including lessons you will take from the course and how those will shape your future and support you to make a positive difference. Be sure to provide examples illustrating how what you learned will support you in your journey to be an effective agent for positive social change. As you prepare to share your Passion and Purpose story, recall the stories you read in Passion and Purpose: Stories From the Best and Brightest Young Business Leaders and the material discussed in the Week 5 discussion forum entitled, “Shared Practice: Will Your Passion Find Purpose”. Component 3: Identify your First Goal and Accompanying Action Plan to Pursue your Passion and Purpose • Identify a goal for how you will use the knowledge and skills you gain from your degree to promote positive change. o Describe why you selected the goal and how this goal derives from your passion and aligns with what you see as your purpose. o Be sure to provide concrete and specific examples of why the goal is important along with the extent to which your goal enables you to be an agent for positive social change; the personal or professional value you expect from achieving your goal, and how the goal relates to the resources you reviewed in the course until now. • Then, write a detailed action plan for your goal. The action plan should include the following: o At lea.

1. Component 1: The Executive Summary:
• Write an Executive Summary of the course to date (2–3
paragraphs) that addresses the following questions:
o Which content and assignments in this course most helped
you better understand the roles of leadership and followership
within your organization (or one with which you are familiar),
and what impact have they had, or do you anticipate they will
have, on the value you will bring to your role within an
organization?
o How have the content and assignments changed the way
you think about leadership and followership and the way you
will practice these skills?
o How have the content and assignments shaped your goals?
o How has the content help you appreciate the role leaders
and followers have in achieving positive social change within
an organization, a community, or on a larger scale?
For additional guidance on preparing your executive summary,
please review the document How to Write an Executive
Summary, which can be located by clicking on the Learning
Support Docs link in the course navigation menu in the online
classroom. Be sure to support your Executive Summary with
appropriate evidence and include citations and references in
APA format.
Component 2: Tell Your Passion and Purpose Story
• Provide a brief narrative describing your passion and the
purpose you see for yourself.
• Describe why you think obtaining your degree will better
equip you to pursue your passion and fulfill your purpose.
• Assess the extent to which you think your passion and
purpose aligns to Walden’s mission of positive social change,
and how Walden’s mission impacts your experience as you

2. study here, including lessons you will take from the course and
how those will shape your future and support you to make a
positive difference. Be sure to provide examples illustrating
how what you learned will support you in your journey to be an
effective agent for positive social change.
As you prepare to share your Passion and Purpose story, recall
the stories you read in Passion and Purpose: Stories From the
Best and Brightest Young Business Leaders and the material
discussed in the Week 5 discussion forum entitled, “Shared
Practice: Will Your Passion Find Purpose”.
Component 3: Identify your First Goal and Accompanying
Action Plan to Pursue your Passion and Purpose
• Identify a goal for how you will use the knowledge and
skills you gain from your degree to promote positive change.
o Describe why you selected the goal and how this goal
derives from your passion and aligns with what you see as your
purpose.
o Be sure to provide concrete and specific examples of why
the goal is important along with the extent to which your goal
enables you to be an agent for positive social change; the
personal or professional value you expect from achieving your
goal, and how the goal relates to the resources you reviewed in
the course until now.
• Then, write a detailed action plan for your goal. The action
plan should include the following:
o At least two objectives for the goal you have identified.
Provide a rationale that explains how your objectives support
the goal.
o At least two measurable milestones for each objective you
identified as well as the time lines for ensuring progress for
each milestone.
o A reasonable time line for ensuring progress toward your
stated goal, with an explanation as to why your time line is
reasonable. (Hint: Revisit the interactive media piece Action
Plan and use the “Action Plan Worksheet” to help you develop
the action plan for each goal.

3. Be sure to include appropriate citations in your executive
summary and action plan. Both components should be submitted
as one document. This is a good time to refer to the Essential
Guide to APA Style as you finalize your Blueprint for
Professional & Personal Growth to ensure that your paper is in
the proper format and that you are properly citing and
referencing your sources.
Blueprint for Professional and Personal Growth (BPPG): A
Potential for Self-Plagiarism
When developing your Blueprint for Professional and Personal
Growth (BPPG) for this course, you may find that you are
utilizing some information that you presented in the discussions
or assignments in this course or information that you have
presented in previous courses, including previous BPPG
submissions. Walden recognizes this situation with the caveat
that you may use only small portions of your previously
submitted work as background or foundational material for
additional development in a subsequent assignment or research
project: Refer to Section 3 of the Student Handbook, Academic
Integrity section in the Code of Conduct: found at
http://catalog.waldenu.edu/content.php?catoid=155&navoid=51
011. However, when doing so, you must be careful not to
commit a form of academic integrity known as self-plagiarism.
If you reuse sections of your previously submitted work without
providing the proper citation and reference, you are committing
self-plagiarism. This is a violation of Academic Integrity as
defined in the Student Code of Conduct.
To ensure that you follow the Academic Integrity standards you
must take care to properly cite and reference any reused
sections of previously submitted work. For example, if Johana
Smithe reuses a section of their BPPG from the previous class,
they would cite this section as a quotation: (Smithe, 20xx, p.y)
and provide a reference in the Reference page: Smithe, J.
(20xx). Blue print for professional growth for WMBA60xx.
Unpublished manuscript, Walden University. Please take some
time to review the information at the Writing Center concerning

4. self-plagiarism and how to properly cite yourself. (Link to the
Writing Center on Citing Yourself
https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/apa/citations/
citingyourself).
Submit your Assignment.
Guidance on Assignment Length: Your BPPG, including the
Executive Summary (which should be 2–3 paragraphs in length
and no more than one page single spaced), your action plan
should be 3–6 pages total (1.5–3 pages total if single spaced).
Refer to the Weeks 6 and 7 Individual Reflection Rubric for
grading elements and criteria. Your instructor will use the
rubric to assess your work.
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