PLANNING

Ojastro, Karl Dominic

Profugo, Christian Paulo
Ranas, Kyla Danielle
Realo, Andrea Luzvelle
Regala, Beatriz Joy
Suarez, Giana Monika
Villalon, Ofelia Aines
Importance of Planning
■ Increase efficiency
■ Reduces risk
■ Facilitates proper coordination
■ Aids in Organizing
■ Gives right direction
■ Keeps good control
■ Helps to achieve objectives
■ Motivates peers
■ Encourages creativity and innovation
■ Helps in decision-making
Essential Characteristics of a Sound Plan
A good plan should contain the following features:

• It should be based on clearly defined objectives

• It must be simple and easily understandable
• It should be flexible or adaptable to changing conditions
• It must be balanced in all respects and should be reason ably
comprehensive.
• It should provide standards for the evaluation of performance and actions
• It should be economical i.e., permit optimum use of available resources
before creating new authorities and new resources
Essential Characteristics of a Sound Plan
• It should be practicable or feasible and unambiguous. A plan
should be precise as to its nature and scope
• It should be prepared with the consultation of concerned
persons
• Different plans must be properly integrated and harmonized
with one another so as to ensure unity or consistency in plans
• It should provide for proper analysis and classification of actions
How to Develop and Action Plan

1. Define your end goal

2. List down the steps to be followed
3. Prioritize tasks and add deadlines
4. Set Milestones
5. Identify the resources needed
6. Visualize your action plan
7. Monitor, evaluate and update
Criteria for a Good Action Plan
A checklist for the steps or tasks you need to complete in order to
achieve the goals you have set: (Components of Planning)

• Well define description of the goal to be achieved

• Task/steps that need to be carried out to reach the goal
• People who will be in charged of carrying out each task
• When will these tasks be completed
• Resources needed to complete the tasks
• Measure to evaluate progress
Why Action Plan is Important?
1. Increase efficiency
2. Reduces business related risks
3. Facilitates proper coordination
4. Aids in organizing
5. Keeps good control
6. Helps to achieve objectives
7. Motivates the personnel
8. Encourage creativity and innovation
9. Helps in decision-making
When to create Action Plan?

■ An action plan should develop withing the first six

months to one year of the start of an organization
■ It is developed after determining the vision, mission,
objectives, and strategies of the group.
■ If you develop an action plan when you are ready to
start getting things done, it will give you a blueprint
for running your organization or initiative.
 Sample of
NSTP-CWTS
Action Plan