bs ii module 4

Amity School of Business

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PLAN OF ACTION( Module IV )

Ms Parul Goel


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Topics covered:

1. Elements of Action Plan

2. Construction, Monitoring and Review of Plan of Action.


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Construction, Monitoring and Review of Plan of

Action.


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Plan of Action

• “Steps that must be taken, or activities that must be performed well, for a strategy to succeed.”

• “An action plan is a specific series of steps taken to accomplish a specified goal. An action plan generally includes steps, milestones, measures of progress, responsibilities, assignments and a time line.”


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• “An Action Plan is a tool that can help you identify and achieve your goals. It acts as a guide to help you answer questions, make decisions and plans, take steps towards your goals, and keeps you on track.”


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Elements of Action Plan

• Specific tasks: what will be done and by whom.

• Time Horizon : when will it be done.

• Resource Allocation: what specific funds are available for specific activities.


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Construction of Plan of action

• Know Yourself

• Identify Options

• Build Your Plan

• Put Plan into Action


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Know Yourself

• Identify your strengths, your values, your employment goals- SWOT Analysis


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Identify Options

Gather information about:• Careers and the labour market • Tools and strategies for an

effective job search • Training (schools, colleges,

upgrading, on-line courses) • Training on-the-job ("learn while

you earn") • Strategies for moving to find work

elsewhere • Self-employment


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Build Your Plan

• Use a basic outline to organize the information gathered in Step1 and Step 2.

• Identify the steps and resources you will need to reach your employment goals


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Put Plan into Action

• List Next Steps in order of priority

• Enter target completion dates for each Next Step

• Prepare for future challenges • Identify need for additional

resources


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Construction of Plan of action

• Clarify your goal • Write a list of actions • Analyze, prioritize • Organize your list into a plan

• Monitor the execution of your plan and review the plan regularly


Creative Thinking


CCREATIVEREATIVE TTHINKINGHINKING: :

WWHATHAT IISS IITT??

Amity School of BusinessDefinitionsDefinitionsCreative Thinking is …

Unconventional Thinking

Merging of Ideas which Have

Not Been Merged Before

Always new perspectives, and extending the frontiers of what’s possible

Amity School of BusinessInteresting Quotes

“Every organization must be prepared to

abandon everything it does to survive inthe future”

Prof. Peter F. Drucker

“The problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them”

Albert Einstein

Amity School of BusinessWhat is creative thinking?

Creative thinking is the process of generating novel ideas and alternative courses of action, no matter how good those ideas and alternatives might be.

Creative thinking should not be seen as an alternative to critical thinking

When you have recognised a problem, then you should employ creative thinking to produce some options for solving the problem, then you should employ critical thinking

If you haven’t come up with enough options to begin with, then your critical thinking decision procedure might produce the wrong result… a dangerous result!


The average human being thinks of about

100 new ideas/day!!

If a team of “6” Nurses and Doctors Express All Their Ideas

After 2 days …

Think Of The Possibilities…Think Of The Possibilities…

!!!1200 NEW IDEAS!!!


Creativity boosting techniques

Motivation

ExpertiseCreative Thinking

skills

Creativity

Nature of Creativity

Amity School of BusinessConvergent vs. Divergent Thinking

Divergent thinking: the creative generation of multiple

solutions to a given problem. In Science and Engineering,

this is followed by evaluation of the answers and a choice

of optimal solution.

Convergent thinking: the deductive generation of the optimum

solution to a given problem, usually where there is a

compelling inference.

Amity School of BusinessConvergent vs. Divergent Thinking

Is the idea that only one operation will cause to come up

with the one and only correct solution to the problem.

Hudson 1967

Is the very opposite of divergent thinking.

It does not let you expand your mind.

Thinking Outside the Box (2004)

Mysteries of the Mind


Divergent thinking: the

creative generation of multiple

solutions to a given problem.

Is a problem that could have a variety of ways of addressing the problem as well as a number of solutions, usually applied to the area of creative arts.

Hudson 1967

Is the ability to find many possible answers to a particular problem.

Guilford (1950)


Creative Thinking skillsCreative Thinking skills

- Unconventional.- Uninhibited.- Risk-taker.- Always looks for new patterns and new combinations.- Inventive.- Extremely curious.- Driven.- Visionary: Michelangelo looked at a large piece of marble and

decided to “chip away at everything that wasn't David”.- ParticularIy intuitive.- Rather individualistic (unfortunately …).


Motivation to be creativeMotivation to be creative2 Motivations:

-External: expressing your new ideas to others.

- Internal: Thinking of new ideas.


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Thank you!!!!