Chapter 6: Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating Flashcards
Define a plan
A detailed schema, program, strategy or method worked out beforehand for the accomplishment of a desired end results
What are 5 types of plans?
a) Directional
b) Contingency
c) Strategic
d) Proactive
e) Reactive
What are three factors influencing planning and implementation?
1) Situation factors
2) Personality characteristics and traits
3) Knowledge and expertise
Define situational factors
How our environment, social supports, and other opinions may influence how and when we plan
What are two key timing considerations while create a plan?
a) Scheduling
b) Sequencing
Define sequencing
The ordering of activities and resources necessary to achieve a goal
What does implementing a plan mean?
Both putting the plan into motion as well as monitoring how the plan is unfolding and make adjustments were necessary
What are two important things a planner must do after the plan is implemented?
a) Observe the process
b) Scanning
Define Scanning
Looking for signals and clues that could have strategic implications
Define observing the process
Mentally involved and ready to respond when things are going off course
What are the 3 types of scanning?
a) Actuating
b) Adjusting
c) Checking
True or false; Strong plans are rigid and have no need to be tweaked midstream
False; flexible
What is Gresham’s law of planning?
Short term concerns that create priorities and deadlines that take managerial attention away from long term concerns
Define task saturation
occurs when people are so busy doing things that they cannot plan or lead effectively
_____ tend to think about themselves first where as ____ are less interested in self and more interested in others
introverts and then extroverts
The ability to perform tasks successfully and dependably is called?
Expertise
Define persistence
A personality trait of not giving up when faced with adversity
Activities are _________ when one activity must be completed before another can take place
interdependent
Overlapping activities involve what
a combination of activities that require intermittent and or concurrent attention
Workable plans are;
a) Clear
b) Adaptive
c) Flexible
d) Goal directed
What are 3 types of plans that are commonly associated with individual and family resource management and describe each
1) Directional plans: Progress along a linear path to long term goal fulfillment
2) Contingency plans: back up or secondary plans to be used in case a plan doesn’t work
3) Strategic plans: use a directional approach and include both a proactive search for new opportunities and reactive solution to existing problems
To synergize means what
to produce a third alternative, which is not my way or your way, but a third way that is best, a product of group thinking
What does being proactive mean?
Taking responsibility for one’s own life
Define reactive people
often overly affected by outside forces
