Learning Activity 11-20: Creating a Personal Action Plan


GOALS

The goal of this activity is for participants to take away from the workshop a simple plan for expanding their project management knowledge and continue to improve project delivery throughout their organizations.

MATERIALS

  • Handout 11-9: Personal Action Plan.

TIME

  • 15 minutes

INSTRUCTIONS

It is important to make participants comfortable in doing this exercise. Assure them that they will not be expected to share anything that they write on their plans. However, encourage them to find someone either within the organization or among their friends and family with whom they can consult for encouragement and support in carrying out their plans.

Even though it is the end of the day, keep the room as quiet as possible, perhaps playing soft music to create a restful, soothing atmosphere. Provide indications of when there are only five minutes left, then give quiet warnings when two minutes and one minute remain .

When everyone is finished ask the participants to close their eyes for 30 seconds and try not to think of anything in particular. Then have them look to the front of the room for the concluding slide on Personal Action Plans.

Thank them for participating in this exercise and indicate your willingness to communicate with any of them about their plans after the workshop.

Handout 11.9: Personal Action Plan

Personal Self-Evaluation and Action Plan for Follow Up after This Workshop

These are the knowledge areas and skills that I already understood and had reinforced by this workshop.

These are the knowledge areas and skills that were new to me. I will be able to use these in my project work.

These are the knowledge areas and skills introduced in the workshop on which I might need a refresher in order to use comfortably.

These are the knowledge areas and skills that were not covered (or not covered in sufficient detail), but about which I would like to learn more.

These are the steps I plan to take immediately.

These are the steps I want to take within the next six months.

These are goals related to project management that I want to achieve within the next two years .

 
Training Instrument 11.1: Scoring Grid for Team Projects

Team

Project Estimated Duration

Project Actual Duration

Difference [*]

Score [**]

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[*] Always use the positive difference between Estimated and Actual

[**] =Actual+(Difference)/2

 
Training Instrument 11.2: Workshop Evaluation Form

Workshop Date(s): _________________________________________________

Your Name (Optional): ______________________________________________

Department (Optional): ______________________________________________

Workshop Objectives

Indicate the four workshop objectives that were most important to you and how well the workshop met those objectives. Also indicate how well in general you felt the other stated objectives of the workshop were met.

 



Project Management Training
Project Management Training (ASTD Trainers Workshop)
ISBN: 1562863649
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 111

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