The Basic Planning Process

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Planning is a process of setting goals or activities that you want to do in the future and this helps you to think in the different and better ways you can reach that goals. It’s important to do a plan before you make an important decision because you can’t just do the things without thinking in the future; the advantages and disadvantages that the decision you are making can have. And what if that doesn’t work? You must have a backup plan in case your first idea fails so you can act immediately and don’t waste time thinking and what else you can do. There are six basic steps to do a planning process that are: -Situational Analysis -Alternative goals and plans -Goal and Plan evaluation -Goal and plan selection -Implementation -Monitor and control And understanding this six steps of the planning process will turn your decision making abilities into plans that will help you achieve your goals First we have the “situational analysis”, in this step we have to join all the relevant information to the situation and analyzing deeply. We have to search the internal and external factors, influences, etc. to determinate events that can happen in the future. Then we have “alternative goals and plans”, like I said before if something wrong happen with our decision we must have a backup plan and this step is for thinking of the alternative plans that we can do and also thinking about other goals that we want in the future. There are five basic ideas that we should consider when we are choosing a goal: specific, measurable, attainable, relevance, and time bound. The third step is “evaluation”, and during this part we will consider the effects of the alternative goals and plans. We have to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages, like a said before. “Goal and plan selection” is the fourth step, we have to focus in the most important goal and select a plan that is
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