ILM Level 3 certificate in
Leadership and Management
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Planning and allocating
work
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What are we going to
cover?
Units:
8690-303 Planning and allocating work
Objectives – You will be able to:
1.1 Identify organisational targets relevant to the team
1.2 Set SMART objectives for the team to achieve the targets
1.3 Use a technique to plan to achieve the objectives
1.4 Explain how to monitor and control a planned activity
2.1 Identify resources required to complete a planned activity
2.2 Explain how to allocate work to team members
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Understanding
objectives
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Organisation
objectives
• What is an organisational objective?
• Why are objectives important to your organisation?
• They give:
Direction
Measurement
Focus
• Gives direction and aims for the team to
achieve
• Allows performance of the team to be
measured
• Gives focus to the task
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To achieve objectives effectively,
all organisations need policies
and guidelines to achieve them
Policy
• Principles, rules and
guidelines regarding a task
Procedure
• How the task should be
completed
1. Explain how you agree your teams work with your manager?
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Planning
considerations
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What to take into
account?
• Discuss and create a list of the different things you need to
think about when planning the work for your team
Who has the skills and
knowledge?
Who has the capacity?
Who could be developed?
Ensure that there are skills
across the team
Who needs a new challenge?
• Think of a situation where you needed to allocate a task.
Explain why that person was the right one for the job
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Importance of
planning
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Why plan?
The 5 Ps state:
Proper
Planning
“Failing to plan is planning to
Fail”
Alan Laiken, author of How to get
control of your time and your life
Prevents
Poor
Performance
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Different methods of
planning
• Discuss the different ways that you plan the work of
your team
• You might have included:
To do list
Notice
board
Diary
Spreadsheet
Planning
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Stages in planning
Goal Setting
Review and
monitor
Create the
plan
Limitations
Set the
standards
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What you should now
know...
• How to Identify organisational targets relevant to the
team
• How to Set SMART objectives for the team to achieve the
targets
• How to Use a technique to plan to achieve the objectives
• how to monitor and control a planned activity
• How to Identify resources required to complete a
planned activity
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