CULMI 1

• PLANNING is concerned with setting objectives, targets, and formulating plan to accomplish them. The activity helps managers analyze the present condition to identify the ways of attaining the desired position in future. It is both, the need of the organization and the responsibility of managers.
• Planning

  Thinking before doing the task is important to make every facet as considerations in implementing a program. Knowing the characteristics of planning
• Characteristics of planning


  • Manager-performing
  • Goal driven
  • Persistent
  • Monitor
  • Conceptualizer
  • Decisive
• Steps in planning


  1. Analyzing opportunities

  2. Setting objectives

  3. Developing scope or premises of the plan

  4. Developing the steps of the program implementation

  5. Setting the resources needed

  6. Visualize your action plan

  7. Monitor, evaluate and update
• Action plan


  A document that lists what steps must be taken to achieve a specific goal. It breaks down the goal into actionable steps that can be easily followed and tracked. The purpose is to clarify what resources are required to reach the goal and formulate a timeline for when specific tasks need to be completed.
• In project management, a well-developed action plan can serve as a blueprint for the project manager to break down a large project into smaller, more manageable ones. An action plan is not something set in stone. As your organization grows, and surrounding circumstances change, you will have to revisit and make adjustments to meet the latest needs.
• Writing a good proposal is a critical skill in many occupations, from school to business management to geology
• The goal of a proposal is to gain support for your plan by informing the appropriate people
• Your ideas or suggestions are more likely to be approved if you can communicate them in a clear, concise, engaging manner
• Planning your proposal


  1. Select your beneficiaries

  2. Identify the problem that you want to solve

  3. Establish your solution

  4. Consider the parts of the proposal

  5. Make an outline
• Writing your proposal


  1. Think of the possible program title

  2. Work on your rationale

  3. Include the problem

  4. Identify the objectives

  5. State the Scope and Time Frame of the Program
• Pre-implementation stage


  1. Assemble your team

  2. Manage the schedule of the project

  3. Develop a budget

  4. Conduct an initial meeting

  
• Implementation phase


  1. Monitor and control process

  2. Report progress

  3. Conduct regular team meeting
• Post-implementation phase


  1. Monitor and evaluate the performance of the project

  2. Close the project

  3. Debrief with the team

  
• Constructive feedback helps you to improve professionally and personally not just the project itself. Accurate feedback helps you with your lifelong career development, too. It's a gift that people who care about your personal and professional success can provide. But, they'll only provide feedback if you are approachable and allow them to feel comfortable giving you the feedback
• Steps in taking the feedbacks constructively

  1. Take the comments optimistically

  2. Constant communication with the proponents and the beneficiaries

  3. Suspension of Judgment

  4. Synthesize the feedbacks and comments
• Steps in generating comments, feedbacks and observations of the evaluators

  1. Prepare your proposal of the project

  2. Look for possible evaluators of the project

  3. Communicate with your evaluators

  4. Provide your evaluation or a tool to be used

  5. Synthesize their responses
• Feedback is a vital part of any leader's skillset. Project managers, team leaders, teachers, coaches develop this skill over the course of their careers. Not just giving feedback, but also receiving it is essential for efficiently sharing information within teams and groups
• Feedback is of great help in leadership and communication: it creates a clear picture and increases transparency
• Feedback plays the crucial role in education and learning by helping adopt new knowledge sooner and avoid repetitive mistakes