Tips on Developing Work Program

Some businesses are successful and some are not, but they all have the same goal: SUCCESS. Where is the difference?

Apparently, the most successful are those who apply the program works well. In other words, it takes a work program if it is to achieve success.


What is a Work Program?

The work program or commonly referred to as the activity schedule is a plan of organizational activities that are prepared for a certain period and has been agreed by all organizational board.

Generally, this work program is made with great detail and directed because it becomes a guide to achieving organizational goals.

The work program is also structured in such a way as to be profitable for the organization:

-Determining a committee and determining the areas needed,

-Determining the outlines and procedures for implementing the   work program from each field,

-Allocate resources, and Controlling the course of execution.


Similarly, with businesspeople, you need a systematic method that is measurable in achieving goals, for example with an effective work program.

Through the following article, I will outline how to build an effective work program.

Create your own work program and prove its effectiveness right now!

If successful, do not forget to share this article with your friends who are also having difficulty in doing business. Thus, you have helped your friends to become a more successful businessman.


How to Develop Effective and Impacting Work Programs

As explained before, someone who SUCCESS is those who have an effective work program.

In "How to Create an Effective Action Plan," Brian Tracy reveals that the steps in developing effective and impacted work programs are as follows:


# 1 Define Objectives Clearly


Clarity (clarity) is the main thing in making work programs.

First of all, you must make a clear and measurable goal. Objectives that are not clear and not worthy will only be a hindrance to success.

The majority of businesses do not know what they really want, so the goal becomes blurred. Instead of looking for a clear purpose, they are busy thinking about their fear of failure.


# 2 Write down and Measure Goals


Once you have a goal, clearly state your goal to measure the feasibility of the goal.

Although it looks simple, writing goals will be more effective because you will unconsciously remember them in the subconscious. This increases your probability of getting more than anyone else.


# 3 Specify Deadlines


Creating deadlines will help you to take action according to your plan.

What if you pass the deadline? No need to worry, make a new deadline as soon as possible.

Since the actual deadline is only the time estimate of goal achievement, you may reach it faster or slower.

But make sure target deadlines that can no longer be tolerated to anticipate procrastination.


# 4 Create an Entire List of Actions You Can Do to Achieve Goals


After having a clear goal, make a list of actions to be taken to achieve that goal.

Identify all challenges and obstacles you may face, then make a backup plan to address them.

The more comprehensive the list is, the more motivated you will be later in your success.



# 5 Combine the 4 Steps in a Work Program

Make priority goals and actions directed in a work program.
But failure is a common thing in a business. Do not let this failure prevent you from reaching goals. If you experience failure to find out the solution and create a new work program.

Seeing the failure cases, then obtained how to arrange work programs in general, namely:

- Research and Listening
- Planning and Decision Making
- Communication and Action
- Evaluation


Important Things in Developing Work Program

Some important things needed in preparing the work program, namely planning (planning), organizing and staffing (organizing) and evaluate (evaluation).



# 1 Planning


The most important step in the preparation of work programs is planning (planning). Because planning is the beginning of an action, so to get good results, a good planning is needed as well.

This plan should be done using the latest data and facts to estimate the conditions ahead.

In addition to planning, the things that should be considered in preparing a work program are as follows:

- Make a SWOT analysis to know the condition of the organization clearly.

- Determine the time, ie when activities should be implemented, and
  Who will be responsible for carrying out every task? In other words,
  do the division of tasks and describe the job description of each.

- Create a work program that is the result of evaluation and
  modification of the previous work program so that the results are also better.



# 2 Organizing and Staffing


In accordance with the management function, the next step is to organize and division of labor.

This can be done by deliberations of work or work meetings, which discussed the entire division of tasks and job targets to be achieved.

Do not forget to always make work priorities, so more important goals can be done first.



# 3 Evaluate


After realizing the objectives, it is time to assess whether the planned work program is in line with what is being done.

This step is also called evaluation.

In general, evaluation is done through the following 3 stages:

Evaluate at the planning stage
Evaluation at the implementation stage
Evaluate at post-implementation stage


While the measurement of the results of work in the evaluation can be done using some of the following measuring tools:



# 1 Compatibility With Planning

You can check whether the time, funds and stages of the activities are in accordance with the plans listed in the work program.


# 2 Participation from Activity Goals

Participants or target targets of activities and how a planned activity is assessed in quantity either through the presence of the number of participants on target or in quality through an active participation of the participants during the activity.


# 3 Activity Effectiveness

Assess whether the implementation of the work program can create a positive management. This is certainly a matter of consideration in evaluating the implementation of a work program 22.


# 4 Results or Benefits of Activities

Assessing impacts generated during post activities, whether the activity is able to produce a positive thing in accordance with what is expected.


80/20 Rule and 20/80 Rule

Brian Tracy also revealed that the important thing is priority and sequence.

Priority or priority is to distinguish what is important and not very important, while the sequence is a sequence of how you act.


20/80 Rule

20% of the first time spent planning and organizing it will be equivalent to 80% of your time in acting in order to achieve that goal.