This document outlines principles and strategies for effective strategic planning and time management. It discusses: - The concepts of strategic planning, which involves deciding goals and how to achieve them before taking action. - Principles of planning like setting specific, attainable goals and monitoring performance. - The strategic planning process, which includes identifying the organization's mission, goals, opportunities/threats, and developing implementation plans. - Analyzing the external environment and internal strengths/weaknesses that can impact goal accomplishment. - Attributes of time that make it a unique, scarce resource. - Time management principles like making to-do lists, prioritizing tasks, and checking unfinished work. - Strategies for

1. STRATEGIC PLANNING FOR SUPERLATIVE
ACHIEVEMENT

2. Planning Concept
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Deciding where you want to go and how you will get
there before taking an action
Determining the course of action to achieve your goals

3. Principles of Planning
 Be
specific
 Make attainable goals
 Believe in goal
achievement
 Set quantifiable & time
target
 Mind association you
keep
 Start little and with what
you have
 Be
sincere (know
thyself)
 Don’t isolate yourself
 Be flexible
 Make plan to appraise
result

4. Strategic Planning
A process that include:
 Selection of interactive & overlapping decisioning
 Leading to the development of an effective strategy
 For achieving set goals & objectives

5. Why or Benefit of Strategic Planning
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Gives direction and focus
Enhance effectiveness
Facilitate goal attainment
Assist coordination process
Aid organization repositioning and growth

6. The Strategy Planning Process
 Identify
 Determine
your mission
 Select your goals to
pursue
 Formulate assumptions
about the environment
 Identify opportunities &
threats emerging
 Assess your internal
strength & weaknesses
feasible
alternatives/options
 Critically analyze the
options
 Choose alternatives to
pursue
 Develop implementation
plan to achieve goals
 Design a control or
feedback system to
monitor performance as
you implement

7. Environmental Challenges to Goal
Accomplishment
Analyzing your environment – 3 sectors that produce
changes that MUST be monitored:
1.General Environment – Government, Economy,
Consumers and population
2.The Market – Identify & recognize major shifts: New
Product, Pricing, Structure, Taste/Demand, Competitors
(entry & exist)
3.The Supply Sector – Supplier of materials, Finance,
Equipment (technology)

8. Internal Analysis of Strength & Weaknesses
Areas:
 Personal capabilities
 Human resource capabilities
 Markets – old/potentials
 Finance
 Operational requirements – market, equipment

9. Practical Exercises
Using the 10 steps approach to strategic
planning, draw up a simple strategic plan
for your 2014 business year

10. TIME MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES FOR
GOAL ACCOMPLISHMENT

11. Time
A unique resource
that must be identified and judiciously
utilized to achieve set goals

12. Attributes of Time
A
unique resource
 The most scarce resource
 It is irreplaceable like staff
 It cannot be accumulated like
money
 It cannot be turned off/on as
machine
 It cannot be stock-pilled like
metal
 It passes at pre-determined rate
and cannot be stopped
 All and sundry are equally
endowed with same amount of
time (i.e 24hours)

13. Time Management Principles
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Make a “to do list”
Delegate as appropriate
Consider prime and low time
Consider controllable & uncontrollable factors
Make a daily plan
Check all uncompleted activities
Re-prioritize uncompleted activities

14. Preventable Time Wasters
 Too
much time on one
problem
 Over supervision and
under supervision
 Starting a task without
thinking through
 Doing tasks that can be
delegated
 Doing unproductive
things from sheer habit
 Pursuing unattainable
project or task
 Failure
to anticipate
crises
 Allowing
conferences/discussion
to wander
 Conducting unnecessary
meeting
 Socializing at great
length
 Failure to analyze use of
time
 Letting paper work

15. Notable Time Gainers
 Use
phone instead of
writing
 Make wise use of
emails/ICT
 Have a thing to do list
and note ideas items
 Learn to read summaries
and highlights
 Be selective in reading
journals magazines etc
 Use
idle time for more
worthy purpose
 Delegate a bundle
together repetitive tasks
 Study overall work day
& redistribute task
 Block-out the best quite
time for your most vital
and creative work
 Leverage the divine
grace in prayer for
effective management of
your time

16. Successful Self/Time Management
Strategies
 Make
a to do list
everyday
 Delegate as much as
possible
 Determine your best
time & schedule must
difficult task
 Set aside time when
visitors are barred
 Get incoming mail mails
screened & redirected
 Eat
lunch sometimes in
office to save time
 Discourage drop-in
visitors
 Read standing up
sometimes
 Make phone calls, few
minutes to close of
work
 Don’t feel guilty for
unaccomplished goals.

17. 4 Cardinal Laws of Time Management
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Do the Do-able things
Control the controllable
Don’t worry about getting everything done
Be nice to yourself

18. CASE EXERCISE
 The
three (3) frogs you must eat:
UGLY, UGLIER and UGLYIEST