EDUCATION 109

Educational

Leadership

Reporter:

Cherryl R. Aranda

Teacher I

Bulacnin National High School

Lipa City

Planning

Tools

What is

planning?

Planning means…• (also called forethought) is the process of thinking about and organizing the activities required to achieve a desired goal.

•essential to the creation and refinement of a plan, or integration of it with other plans; that is, it combines forecasting of developments with the preparation of scenarios of how to react to them.

Getting organized…

•It is not an end in itself; it is simply a means of getting from where you are to where you want to be.

•Organization is a key for an educational leader to become successful.

Here you are, school in full swing; students, parents, and colleagues coming at you from all sides; and you feel as though your life is in total chaos.

Oh yes, some of it is planned, but the paperwork, documentation, and requests being thrown your way are not and you have no idea what to do with it all.

Do you find yourself staring at all those piles of papers on your desk and wishing they would just disappear? If so, perhaps it's time to get organized.

Getting organized isn't easy, especially

when you have so very little time. The tips below should help, however. They're not designed to be quick fixes, but rather suggestions that will help you take baby steps toward becoming a bit more organized than you are now.

• Focus on where you want to be and what results you want to achieve.

Goal Setting

• Analyze how you spend time on that contributes to the results you want to achieve.

Time Management

• Organize to meet your goals.

Delegation

• Analyze habits and attitudes that block your effectiveness and learn ways to overcome those habits and attitudes.

Decision Making

Goal Setting

•Powerful process for thinking about your ideal future, and for motivating yourself to turn your vision of this future into reality.

•Gives you long-term vision and short-term motivation. It focuses your acquisition of knowledge, and helps you to organize your time and your resources.

Time Management•The act or process of planning and exercising conscious control over the amount of time spent on specific activities, especially to increase effectiveness, efficiency or productivity.

•It is a meta-activity with the goal to maximize the overall benefit of a set of other activities within the boundary condition of a limited amount of time.

Delegation•The assignment of responsibility or authority to another person (normally from a manager to a subordinate) to carry out specific activities. It is one of the core concepts of management leadership.

•The goals are development of subordinates and increased effectiveness of the leader.

Decision Making

•The heart of organizational effectiveness.

•The study of identifying and choosing alternatives based on the values and preferences of the decision maker. One of the central activities of management and is a huge part of any process of implementation.