The Management Guide to Planning; The Pocket Manager

by Kate Keenan

• ISBN13: 9781902825793
• ISBN10: 1902825799
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1999-09-28
• Publisher: Oval Books

Summary

This guide shows what Planning involves and what you need to do to achieve your objectives. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Kate Keenan is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist with degrees in affiliated subjects (B.Sc., M.Phil.) and a number of qualifications in others.

She founded Keenan Research, an industrial psychology consultancy, in 1978. The work of the consultancy is fundamentally concerned with helping people to achieve their potential and make a better job of their management.

By devising work programmes for companies she enables them to target and remedy their managerial problems - from personnel selection and individual assessment to team building and attitude surveys. She believes in giving priority to training the managers to institute their own programmes, so that their company resources are developed and expanded.

Convinced that planning plays a central part in successful management, she is well aware that putting good intentions to work is a disciplined, but rewarding, process. So much so, that she now makes plans for the fun of it.

Table of Contents

Planning	p. 5
The Need to Plan	p. 6
Taking Stock	p. 12
Defining the Aims	p. 23
Planning the Detail	p. 31
Carrying out the Action	p. 41
Measuring Success	p. 50
Check List for Planning	p. 56
The Benefits of Planning	p. 58
Glossary	p. 59
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Excerpts

Know yourself
If you throw yourself into your business without determining specifically what you want to do, you will almost certainly be dissipating your efforts.

Always plan
When you are very busy, it is easy to convince yourself that getting on with the job is your first priority and that having a plan is an optional extra which you might get around to at some time or another. This excuse for not planning may be covering other fundamental reasons for not doing so.

Look ahead
By anticipating where things could go wrong, you have a chance to prepare yourself for any given situation. "If I can't prevent that, I'll do this." Having a contingency plan is a form of security blanket. It allows you to feel confident of coping should crises arise.

Size doesn't matter
Most plans look daunting because of their size and complexity. But if you break down your plan into separate stages, the whole thing will become much easier to tackle. Remember the answer to the riddle: How do you eat an elephant? Take small bites. Having a contingency plan is a form of security blanket. It allows you to feel confident of coping should crises arise.

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