GMS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Personal Development, Instant Messaging, Scenario Planning

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 200
• Professor: Bamediele Adukunle

Document Summary

Lecture 6: planning processes and techniques (i am a dumbass and i need to die) Planning: is the process of setting objectives and determining how to accomplish them. Focus attention on objectives: specific results that one wishes to achieve. Create a plan: a statement of intended means for accomplishing objectives. Planning is an ongoing process, often continuously being done even when dealing with busy and demanding work settings. Planning improves focus and flexibility organizations are willing and able to change and adapt to shifting circumstances, and operate with an orientation toward the future rather than the past. Individual with flexibility adjust career plans to fit new and developing opportunities. Planning improves action orientation: helps stay ahead of competition and become better at what they are doing, helps avoid complacency trap: being carried along by the flow of events, stephen r. convey says, planning makes us more. Result oriented: creating a performance-oriented sense of direction.