Training New Managers on Planning

1. Planning Skills

2. You cannot decide what to deal
with today unless you know
where you want to be tomorrow.
Any plan to improve yourself
depends on you being clear of
your goals

3. Balancing goals
Short term
Profession
al
goals
Long term
Profession
al
goals
Short term
Personal
goals
Long term
Personal
goals

4. Management Process
• Planning – To set the direction
o Decide where you want to go
o Decide how to best go about it
• Organizing – To create structures
• Leading – To inspire effort
• Controlling – To ensure results
o Measure performance
o Take corrective action

5. Benefits of Planning
• Focus and flexibility
• Action orientation
• Coordination
• Time management
• Control

6. Your Planning Success Story
Please to turn to workbooks to
reflect on and document a time
when planning led you to succeed.

7. Strategic Plans
Address long term directions for the
Organization
Operational Plans
Address specific activities to implement
the strategic plans
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Types of planning

8. Planning tools and techniques
• Forecasting – predict future outcomes
• Contingency planning – alternatives
• Scenario planning – future scenarios
• Benchmarking – external comparisons
• Participatory – includes affected
people

9. Planning Process

10. The control process
Control is process to measure performance
and take action to ensure desired results

11. Types of controls
Focus what happens during
the work process
(Throughput)
takes place after an action
is completed (Output)
ensures directions and
resources are right before
the
work begins (Input)

12. Group Exercise: Real-
World Planning Scenarios.
1. Plan for Amazon deliveries during Diwali
2. Plan for heavy rains in your region in July
3. What actions will you take if a Big brand Jeweler is
planning to do business through your Branches ?
4. You are invited to FedEx to talk on how Muthoot is
using technology to plan its business. What will you
tell them?
5. People are demoralized due excess workload and HR
has put a freeze on taking excess manpower. Discuss

13. Card Game on Time Management and Planning