Preparing a plan of action

If you have developed your program goal, objectives, strategies, and activities, you have already done most of the work needed to develop a detailed plan of action.

A detailed plan of action takes your list of program activities and adds sequencing, scheduling, staffing, location, and logistical information.

This can be done in any way which seems convenient and workable to you. Some like to use flow diagrams. Others like Gantt charts. Some like to use large planning calendars.

Here are the prerequisites for preparing a plan of action:

• You need to review the following modules and complete the steps outlined in them.

  See:	Defining a general program goal Defining program objectives Defining and developing program strategies Detailing program activities

Allow plenty of time for program activities. It is common to underestimate the amount of time needed to accomplish a given activity.

• Arrange and organize the list of program activities into some kind of schedule or flow diagram.
• Have a consultant review your plan of action to determine if it is reasonable and can be done.

• Task module: Preparing a plan of action, by Stephen L. Walter
• In task module: Designing a literacy program
• In task module: Planning a literacy program, by Stephen L. Walter
• In modular book: Plan a literacy program, by Stephen L. Walter, Barbara K. Trudell (contributor), and Trudy K. Stewart (general editor)
• In bookshelf: Literacy

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