Project planning

PROJECT PLANNING
GOAL SETTING FOR SOCIAL ACTION PROJECTS
• Goal setting is a powerful process for thinking
about your ideal future, and for motivating
yourself to turn your vision of this future into
reality.
• The process of setting goals helps you choose
where you want to go in life. By knowing
precisely what you want to achieve, you know
where you have to concentrate your efforts.
• Many people think that circumstances are against
of them instead of doing work hard actually they
have never ever set a goal that what they want
from life.
• Goal setting is the powerful tool to design your
own future and it motivate you to achieve your
vision.
• Goal is the backbone of any effective social action
project. There for it is important that all members
of the team should know what the goal is.
• All successful people in all fields all set goals .
Setting goals give you long term vision it help you
to organize your time and efforts.
• Think big but first take smaller steps
• We can only manage if you are taking manageable
steps that are easier to reach
• It’s like a weightlifter
 • Problems are easy to identify, but defining these
problems are not.

It may sound extreme but actually its just highlighting the

importance of defining problem. But it also hints well defining
problem also contains its own solution within it
• What is a problem? How to identify it?

* The problem is the difference between the hoped

for and the actual situation
*It can be lot of things. We know in our gut when
there is a problem. A problem might be just the
feeling that something is wrong and should be
corrected.
• When an individual faces a problem, the natural
tendency is to propose possible solutions.

By directly solution you are even causing trouble because

by the direct solution you are diverting your mind that
what was the actual cause of problem.
• If you want to resolve the root problem, treat the
cause, not the symptom.
• The “But why?” technique is one method used to identify a
problem in a community and its underlying caused. These
underlying factors are called root causes. This technique examines
a problem by asking questions to find out what caused it. Each
time an answer is given, a follow-up “But why?” is asked.
• The project rationale is a short argument for
why your project matters. It shows the
reasoning which led you to take on that work.
• To develop this rationale, you must describe
these 3 items in simple and specific language

THE THE
THE
PROBLEM OUTCOME
GOAL