Planning for Results

Improve Your Ability to Achieve Your Priorities

Take a step toward accomplishing your values and goals. Improve your ability to plan and carry out the projects you take on at work, at home, for your community, or for yourself. Plan for results by using a system that translates your personal and organizational values and goals into action.

Get a Head Start with Planning for Results

Thats important to visualize workable goals in order to get a head start on projects. Evaluate projects in light of your underlying values, visualize the specific end-results of the projects and understand the detailed flow of events that must occur for project completion and success.

Important Steps to Take When Planning for Results:

- Practice project teamwork

- Use mind mapping to enhance your natural creativity skills

- Define project objectives and expectations

- Break projects into clear, manageable pieces

- Document project information and costs

- Monitor and track results

- Delegate effectively

- Clarify and work within project constraints

- Define and communicate priorities

- Follow up on critical deadlines

- Use the Franklin Planner system as an effective workload management tool

- Create realistic schedules and adhere to them

- The principles and skills youll learn are

- Immediately applicable

Planning for Results Topic Areas:

It is important to begin with creativity techniques for translating ideas into tangible, relevant projects. Then it leads you through the process and provides you with the tools and skills you need to complete a successful project.

- What Makes a Project?

- The Nature of Projects?

- Project Failures

- Project Success

PJ Germain
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