Plan or fail

Planning is essential in any part in life, for it being helpful in planning on a trip with your friends, planning a business meeting or even planning to clean your room (Eventually).

Eunson (2012) claims, 'There is no denying that planning is one of essential prerequisites to individual assignments. With the aim of carrying out assignment effectively, we need to make detailed plans and take steps to put our goals in practice.'

But planning isn't all about the end result, you need to think of the errors that may occur, a good planner thinks ahead of the plan.

Planning often goes well with organization; to organize is to order things in a specific arrangement. for example, if you would plan to clean your room and organize it by what suits best to you. If someone is unplanned then they will have no idea how to do anything because that person didn't plan and is unprepared.

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                As said by Benjamin Franklin, 'By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail.'


This is only a small example, imagine if it was a business meeting or as big as a convention! If you were unprepared the whole event would be in chaos. People not getting correct information, times getting mixed up and work never getting done. A good plan includes setting aims, goals, actions, evaluation strategies. You should never work on details first, like getting people to come to the event before setting a set location for the event.

When organizing your room for example, not only should it be clean; you should also know exactly where everything is, that's the whole point of planning and organizing, what good would organizing something and not knowing if you have or planned everything you need.





References:


Eunson, B 2012, Communicating in the 21st Century, 3rd edn, John Wiley & Son Australia, Milton, QLD

Costigan, L 2015, Lesson 5 – Planning, logic and organisation, COMM11003: Communicating in the 21st century, CQUniversity, Sydney, viewed 22 May 2015, https://moodle.cqu.edu.au/pluginfile.php/116704/mod_resource/content/1/Weekly%20lesson%205.pdf.

Echo360. 2015. Lynette Costigan [ONLINE] Available at: https://video.cqu.edu.au/ess/echo/presentation/0da8c002-5e9f-4667-b9b0-5a6c9bad8c43?showheading=false&instructor=true. [Accessed 22 May 2015].