3. KEY POINTS ADDRESSED IN LECTURE
The main points addressed in this lecture on successful organizing and
planning include:
Organizing and planning are two important functions of any job.
Your efficiency and productivity depend on organizing yourself, your work,
your time, and all the other aspects of your job.
The better organized you are, the more efficient and successful you will be.
Effective planning allows you to achieve important goals and get the results
you need.
Planning also prepares you to deal more effectively with the changes in the
workplace and in your job.
4. PLANNING
Planning is a tool to manage a project, a job, an activity or a situation that
you are going to undertake. It is directly associated with scheduling, time
management and organisation.
Planning is the function of management that involves setting objectives
and determining a course of action for achieving those objectives.
5. PLANNING
One of the leading figures of early American history, Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was a statesman,
author, publisher, scientist, inventor and diplomat.
6. PRINCIPLES OF PLANNING
Keep aims clear
Develop accurate forecast
Involve team associates
Develop a sound plan
Assign planning responsibility to right people
Do not be overoptimistic
Keep your plans flexible
Review long range plans on short range basis
7. MAJOR STEPS IN PLANNING
Clarify the problem
Gather information about
activities
Establish planning premises
Determine alternate plans
Choose a proposed plan
Arrange sequence & timings of
activities
Provide a progress checkup to
proposed plan
11. GOALS AND PLANS
Goals
Goals are desired outcomes or target
Goals may be strategic or financial
Plans
Plans are documents that outline how goals are going
to be met.
Plans usually include resource allocation , schedules
and other necessary actions
12. STEPS IN GOALS
Review the organization’s mission
Evaluate available resources
Determine the goals
Communicate goals to all who need to know
Review results whether goals are being met
15. ORGANIZATION
It is the process of arranging people and
other resources to work together for
accomplishing a desired goal/objective.
Organizing aligns various resources
towards a common goals/ mission and
establishes coordination between
different sections which leads to
unification of effort & harmony in the
work.