GOOD PLANNING

SKILLS

Karen Vernica Gonz

Sally lvarez
Andrea Hernndez
Julie-Anna Romero

DEFINITION

Planning skills are any skills that

allow you to look ahead and
accomplish goals or avoid
emotional, financial, physical or
social hardship. These skills let you
make decisions.

Systematically develops plans,

prioritizes, organizes and manages
resources in order to accomplish
business goals within a defined
timetable.

XAMPLES OF COMPETENCIES

The first competency is goal setting,

you must have a concept of what you
want to do or an overall vision.

The second competency area is

organizing, analyzing and gathering
data, include diagnosing problems
and their causes.

IMPORTACE

Planning is a major part of

business. Planning skills let you
organize and manage your
operations and the work force
you have at any given time.
Ultimately, the ability to use
planning skills translates into
control of the company's
expenses and revenue and
therefore into the ability to
remain in operation.

When beginning work on a

project initiate the following
five-step process:

1. Prepare a breakdown of all functional

tasks.
2. Analyze each component to
detect areas of risk
3. Categories the potential problems
into high and low risk areas
4. Prepare several possible approaches
to overcoming such problems if they
may occur
5. Build a safety net into your planning
for high-risk areas

Plannin
g

-Accurately estimate time and effort

required to complete a task.
-Identify and organize systems and
required resources.
-Organize personal time to carry out
responsibilities.
-Maintain adequate preparation time for
scheduled meetings/deadlines.
-Develop schedules and timetables with
clear, specific milestones and deadlines.