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Step 8: Insert Major Preventative and Contingent Actions
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The last important step in our planning process is to insert our major contingency and/or preventive actions back into our original plan. In our example, Elizabeth’s plan will now look like this:
As you can see, by adding these new steps to her plan, she has greatly increased the probability that she will successfully reach her goal. Obviously, in her original plan, she also analysed other critical steps and added additional steps to her plan that are not shown in our example. Note too that some of her completion dates have changed to include her new activities.
Many of us spend a great deal of time dealing with a variety of problems but do very little planning. We can become so busy running from crisis to crisis that we don’t take the time to plan for success.
But, when you commit yourself to analyse your decisions and then following a proven step-by-step planning process, you will find you are not side-tracked by problems. You will surely increase your level of achievement.
Click here to download example Nr. 1 of a Problem-Solving worksheet.
Click here to download example Nr. 2 of a Problem-Solving worksheet.