PLANNING for the FUTURE

PLANNING

     In life planning is important, it is a process of thinking about and organizing the activities required to achieve a desired goal. It involves the creation and maintenance of a plan, such as psychological aspects that require conceptual skills. There are even a couple of tests to measure someone’s capability of planning well. As such, planning is a fundamental property of intelligent behavior.

     Like in the laboratory, planning is a thinking and analyzing portion of the management process. “the manager must plan to succeed or plan on failing”

PLANNING PROCESS 

1. Identify Goals: An end that the organization strives to attain and guide and identify where or what the organization wishes to be.

2. Evaluating Current Situation: Organization must know where it stands and must identify where they are and how they got there 

3. Establishing Time Frame: There should be an acceptable period of time for each plan to achieve its goals. 

4. Setting Objectives: Short-term standards that are allowing the manager to achieve its goals step-by step. o Specific bench mark to know whether standards are met.