PERSONAL PLANNING

Strategy begins and ends with a strategist. A strategist has to balance deliberate and emergent strategy. Deliberate strategy is what can be planned with reasonable anticipation. Emergent strategy is a calculated response to conditions that cannot be anticipated.

The best place to start thinking about this balance is for you to reflect on how that balance is playing out in your current life and how successful it makes you feel.

Please take twenty minutes to jot down answers to the following questions.

#1. How much time did you spend planning today? What activities did you plan? Why did you choose these activities to plan?

#2. How much time did you spend responding to unanticipated problems? What activities were unanticipated? Why could you not have anticipated them?

#3. Does this balance between your deliberate planning and your responses to anticipated events help make you feel successful today?

#4. What actions will you take this week to create a more successful balance?

#5. What tips have you learned from your experience that you can share with novices?

After the break, you will be divided into groups. Please share your findings with the group.

One page response to questions in light of group discussion. These will be published on the Internet so be sure to maintain your own privacy and protect the confidentiality of others.

Written Assignment Format

Need typed document next week and saved file on disk to hand in later

PERSONAL PLANNING

Word Processing software used Name and Version :

Name:

Date:

Most recent professional position: (general -Assistant Principal, not specific - don't name schools)

(Include questions)

#1. How much time did you spend planning today? What activities did you plan? Why did you choose these activities to plan?

(Answers here)

#2. How much time did you spend responding to unanticipated problems? What activities were unanticipated? Why could you not have anticipated them?

(etc)

#3. Does this balance between your deliberate planning and your responses to anticipated events help make you feel successful today?

#4. What actions will you take this week to create a more successful balance?

#5. What tips have you learned from you experience that you can share with novices?