Table of contentsPart 1. PreamblePart 2. Main contents2.1. Some concepts2.1.1. A plan2.1.2. Planning ahead2.2. Types of plans2.2.1. Shortterm plans2.2.2. Mediumterm plans2.2.3. Longterm Plans2.3. Consequences of not planning ahead.2.4. The importance of planning ahead 2.5. How to plan ahead. 2.5.1. Individuals2.5.2. Businesses2.5.3. Students2.6. A practical plan2.6.1. Sophomore2.6.2. GroupPart 3. General conclusion.Part 1. Preamble“Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.” Alan Lakein, writer.Planning is crucial for meeting your needs during each action step with your time, money, or other resources. With careful planning you often can see if at some point you are likely to face a problem. Plan also is like a map. When following a plan, you can always see how much you have progressed towards your project goal.Like many things in life, if you plan ahead when trying to find bargains you are much more likely to be successful. Think about the times where you have spent too much money on a product or service. Did you spend a lot of time planning for that purchase? Chances are probably not. If you want to be a better shopper and save more money, you need to look at your planning skills.In the national economy, the plan is one of the main regulatory tools of the state. also within 1 business or organization, one is planning the first stage, is an important function of the management process and the facility to promote production efficiency, achieve goals place.By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” Benjamin Franklin. Planning ahead — whether that’s for an interview or your first day at work — will give you a much better chance of success.Part 2. Main contents2.1. Some concept.2.1.1. A planPlan is a set of activities arranged in schedule with deadlines, resources, set specific goals and determined the best measure ... to make a final goal which has been set.
VIETNAM UNIVERSITY OF COMMERCE HUMAN SCIENCES MANAGEMENT .…….*****…… Discussion subjects: English 3 teacher: class: Topic: The importantce of planning ahead HA NOI 2014 Table of contents Part 1. Preamble Part 2. Main contents 2.1. Some concepts 2.1.1. A plan 2.1.2. Planning ahead 1 2.2. Types of plans 2.2.1. Short-term plans 2.2.2. Medium-term plans 2.2.3. Long-term Plans 2.3. Consequences of not planning ahead. 2.4. The importance of planning ahead 2.5. How to plan ahead. 2.5.1. Individuals 2.5.2. Businesses 2.5.3. Students 2.6. A practical plan 2.6.1. Sophomore 2.6.2. Group Part 3. General conclusion. Part 1. Preamble “Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.” Alan Lakein, writer. Planning is crucial for meeting your needs during each action step with your time, money, or other resources. With careful planning you often can see if at some point you are likely to face a problem. Plan also is like a map. When following a plan, you can always see how much you have progressed towards your project goal. 2 Like many things in life, if you plan ahead when trying to find bargains you are much more likely to be successful. Think about the times where you have spent too much money on a product or service. Did you spend a lot of time planning for that purchase? Chances are probably not. If you want to be a better shopper and save more money, you need to look at your planning skills. In the national economy, the plan is one of the main regulatory tools of the state. also within 1 business or organization, one is planning the first stage, is an important function of the management process and the facility to promote production efficiency, achieve goals place. By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” Benjamin Franklin. Planning ahead — whether that’s for an interview or your first day at work — will give you a much better chance of success. Part 2. Main contents 2.1. Some concept. 2.1.1. A plan Plan is a set of activities arranged in schedule with deadlines, resources, set specific goals and determined the best measure to make a final goal which has been set. 2.1.2. Planning a head 3 Planning ahead is identifying goals and resources to decide the best way to carry out the goals. Also predetermine what to do, how to do, when and who will do it. Planning ahead is a very important step to make us close to where we want to be in the future. As long as we set up the plan, our management thinking will be more systematic to predict upcoming situations. We will coordinate all resources of individuals and organizations to create a synergy that can maintain "the spearhead" on the final goal we want to get. Besides, we will also check and supervise easily and implement project effectively. 2.2. Types of plans 2.2.1. Short-term plans - Designed to resolve the target can be achieved in a short time as first few days, 1week, 1 month or 1 year - Applied in enterprises, which are seasonal businesses with the immediate goal. It has strong influence to the daily operations of the business. 2.2.2. Medium-term plans - Made for jobs or events that take 2 to 3 years to complete. - Applied for seasonal works and specific and detailed jobs 2.2.3. Long-term plans - Designed to resolve the target can be achieved in over 3 years - Applied for organizations which have large-scale operations with high stability - Long-term Plans affect to the existence and activities of the organization. 2.3. Consequences of not planning ahead. Planning is a very important step in working process for everyone. But there are many people do not make a habit of making a plan before doing something. That causes lots of consequences. Firstly, the plan including long-term and short-term plan keeps everyone informed their necessary actions so that they always remember what they have to do today, tomorrow, next week or even next year. But if you don’t make a plan, you possibly forget some small or less important works. Secondly, lacking of planning makes you confused about what to do first and what to do next because among so many works, you are unable to manage time in scientific way. Thus, you may fail to achieve your goals. Moreover, poor planning also causes the situation of “let grass grow under your feet”. In this case, I feel regret but happy to be your mirror. Last weekend, my friends and I decided to go to sea for swimming. However, we didn’t make a plan before going so there were some 4 troubles coming. Firstly, we didn’t watch the broadcast program and it was so terrible because it rained on that day and we did not bring umbrella. It was not a good idea to go to the sea on a raining day as well. In addition, we also didn’t find information about our destination so we couldn’t imagine that the food there was extremely expensive like that. If we did it before we should have brought about our own food. Through my own experience, I think it’s totally true to say that “if you don’t make a plan, that means you are making a plan for failure”. 2.4. The importance of planning ahead - Before doing something, you should planning. It’s important because if you don’t plan, you won’t control the time, especially when some problem happen - Planning for will help you calm down and have better feeling when the started and everything will take place in the order that you have prepared and you do not have to worry if an incident occurs. It will help you get high success - When you plan in advance, there are lower chances of missing out on things to take along with you when you work or travel. - Prepare things you need to bring is always important and quiet time consuming, so you should be careful to not have mistakes - Planning ahead help you have time to prepare the plans are important with you. Besides, it shows you the possible risks will happen to you so that you have way treat. And it also helps you have mentally relaxed before your plan is done. In short, with these somethings in your life, planning ahead will help you prepare well in all aspects. 2.5. How to plan ahead. 2.5.1. Individuals: For busy people, it is difficult to control all the work to do. If you're the type that has much to do or to simply forget you, why not set up a schedule for yourself and use the "individual plan"? Sure your job will be a lot more smoothly. There are many planning programs suitable for each person with different needs. If you need to manage time for each hour of the day, you should plan for each hour parsimonious. If your operation can change and do not follow a certain time frame does not plan to divide a section and page numbering would be more appropriate. Always identify the starting point and the deadline for any job. This helps you to limit the amount of time wasted miscellaneous 5 activities. Plan everything to be completed in a certain time period! You will save a lot more by the time you know you are using the time how. When planning, you should see your account time needed for each activity is in fact much. Many people tend to overlook about the time needed to complete each task because they do not take into account time delays in line, stuck in traffic or other things beyond the expected. Let's add the time to plan capable delayed. This time includes rush hour, long lines in stores, lack of parking or even met plenty of people, etc Doing so will make you less hurried over and put you into orbit. Try to transplant on a lot of the time. Thus, you will have more time to focus on doing the important work. Let's review some tips for real time management schedule: - Control everything you need done. - Determine how long each task takes to complete. - Tell myself you are rushing. - Remind yourself to do the little things when you are stuck in other things. Now that you know how to organize a work day for both effectiveness and the benefits when you do that. Remember to always set yourself a plan and never worry about what to do ahead. 2.5.2. Businesses. Who knew there could also be a first step for an effective business processes. But how to plan business is not well known. Especially when you have not studied through an economic class. You want your business process to bring lots of profits, bring about many benefits, did not want to waste too much time for planning business strategies and specific detail. So how to plan how the business is best. You start okay. - Preparation: Before embarking on writing a business plan, you need to do some preparatory work as consultation on business planning from the tips of the tools available, Typical methods; simultaneously collect and analyze information from sources including service providers, competitors' associations, peers. - Set your business goals: How to plan your business must reflect business goals as a clear picture. In particular, fully embodies the work you will deploy in the next few years. In the way business plan, you need to answer these questions: You will be selling what product, what services, customer groups and requirements of target customers is what you rely on to assert any basis you will succeed in the future, What factors in your business that customers 6 choose you rather than competitors. And another question is equally important that your business will expect you to repay what. Once you answer these questions, your decisions are easy targets when business market research. - Management Plan: you need to present a business idea to be held and operated the stars, the ability to manage how they fit. How to plan one's business so different in this part always takes some of the legal issues involved, Maybe even including intellectual property law, business license or something similar. - Marketing plan: how to plan your business needs to determine: What services you sell, what products: What you sell to customers, the life cycle of the product, how to replace empty appeared on the market or not, your product meets customer needs or not. Target Market: market size, how geography, consumer trends. Customers: Who are they, why are they going to buy your product. Competition: Who are they, they compete on any aspect of the product or service. Your marketing plan should specify the strategy you will use to attract consumers, you plan to retain customers. In planning how your business you will need to demonstrate and promote image-building his business like. - Work Plan: The business plan you need to show the operational issues: People: Who are your staffs, who will promote this business idea. Procedures: The procedures and appropriate systems, processes products to consumers like. Supplier: Who will be the provider of the products for your business, how price, good quality Equipment and technology: Who provided, one operator, can bring great benefits over? Headquarters: Where does your business, location, prices… - Financial Plan: The business plan should show: You need to realize how much capital a business idea? The financial analysis in the next few years. Financial resources are located? - Action Plan: Specific tasks should be carried out to implement the business plan, people who are responsible. The business should have a clear preparation, how to plan your business has adequate standards on or not. If you want to save time and still have a perfect plan how to refer business plan on a sheet of paper. 2.5.3. Students Planning for your 4 year University 7 Set a goal since entering college for your 4 year college: elapsed real sense, the day he was entering college, you should set big goals for yourself in the next 5 years. The goal is to write out the ways to remind yourself to always strive for that goal. You can share in the learning goals such as in the top 5 of the class, graduating with honors, winning scholarships, computer proficient, advanced specialized knowledge; or goals related to workplace skills such as soft skills, presentation to the crowd, leadership skills, expansion of social relationships, more connected friends, join the business idea contest for students These activities will help you shape the lifestyle, work style, behavior, relationships expand social good as well as continuously improve their own knowledge. Step by step implementation plan: In the first volume of not more specialized knowledge, you spend your spare time left to extend social relationships, learn skills and foreign language software. here are many suggestions for you if you want to be the first real year of college success: participation in school clubs, summer volunteer, register 1 layer 1 layer of soft skills and information, Registration communicative English classes, look for opportunities to communicate with the world through the student cultural exchange program and international cooperation. However, do not forget the most important job of the school is good and you win the high score okay. If you get a chance, take a position to run for class president or class secretary. But there is more strenuous but will be a great opportunity to promote yourself and your capabilities as your stepping stone to make his next intended. Make yourself excel in both academic and extracurricular activities. The second year, improving language skills equivalent to IELTS 7.5 or TOEFL 95 is essential if you intend to study or work in global corporations. You can also hone the necessary skills like teamwork, problem solving, leadership skills and personal planning through courses, or through more jobs. There is a lot of work suitable for students such as translation, travel guides, assistant manager at the Fair, assistant professor at the English center, receptionist, intern at the company, non-governmental organizations. Any works that also help you gain experience and knowledge for their future. The third year is when you take more specialized courses, and desire to apply knowledge into practice. Thanks to the relationships you build earlier, and the trained skills from the first year, surely it is not difficult for you to find a good practice, promote their abilities, and even highly paid. 8 If you intend to study, then it's time to find out the scholarship program. Spend the 3rd year and 4th year to prepare a perfect record will help you come closer to the dream of studying abroad. Fourth year with new challenges, which will be the turning point in the decision of your life. In this year, you will be extremely busy with thesis and looking for work after graduation. Before graduation, remember to do the plan laid out in the beginning, as the international certification exam, the course ends with high scores, and implement a major scholarship to complete the dream of studying abroad. Planning for your four year school you would imagine the difficulties that you have experienced as well as the challenges and opportunities await you. ! Never forget to look back those plans because although detailed plans have existed to time to modify to suit your own changes! 2.6. A practical plan 2.6.1. Sophomore Towards a better future, the college students the second year, you need to plan specific. First, study hard, achieve high results in exams and need to learn a foreign language. if possible, actively participate in the activities of the school. The next school year will train specialized skills, and soft skills to get a diploma with good or excellent. In addition, the certification exam in English as TOEIC, TOEFL, IELTS to facilitate future work. Finally, if you want to get a stable job and always successful, we need to foster and enhance their professional skills, training skills, professional work. Planning ahead will help you as well as college students second year equipping what's best to get higher success in life. 2.6.2. Group With student, we usually take part in teamwork. Each group operates under the group plan. It is determined based on the goals of the group. The goals of group usually complete discussions with the research topic and building solidarity based on the efforts of the members of group. To do this, the group must have a specific plan to divide for each member. Members to exchange information, take part in lively discussion, make suggestions, mutual respect and help each other in the study. 9 The group plans will help group activities effectively, achieve the goals of the group and members can develop skills such as communication, presentation, make decisions, solve conflicts Part 3. General conclusion. With these somethings in your life, planning ahead will help you prepare well in all aspects. Or in business, planning ahead with help you is becoming a very good business person. The importance of planning ahead is big with everyone of us. It is the basis for us to have the right step in our plan. And it is an important step to prepare to go to the beginning of success. Document referenced 1. 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