Planning and Organizing
Course Overview
Planning and organizing are important phases in management cycle. It is important for people to plan in advance to be able to manage their activities effectively and carry efficient results.
Course Outline
Planning Foundation
- The functions of management
- Definition, elements and types of planning
- Efficiency VS effectiveness
- Planning Benefits
- Why to fail in planning
Planning tools & techniques
- Environment Analysis
- Forecasting tools
- Benchmarking Definition
- The benchmarking process
- Allocating resources
- Breakeven analysis
- Breakeven analysis Limitations
Project planning & scheduling
- Project Definition
- The work breakdown structure
- Simple network diagrams
- Develop 'PERT' chart
- Forward and backward scheduling
- Finding the critical path
Control and performance measurement
- Control Definition
- Planning and controlling link
- Control Importance
- Control process
- Measuring: what and how
- Sources of information for measuring performance
- Managerial decisions in the control process
- Organizational performance measures
- Feed forward, concurrent and feedback controls
Learning Objectives
After completing this course, participants will be able to:
- Ability to plan for them in advance
- Manage their time effectively
- Avoid deviation from standards
- Create a high performance work environment