guys these are th first 4 modules of BS II.

1. Amity School of Business
PLAN OF ACTION
( Module IV )
Ms Parul Goel
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2. Amity School of Business
Topics covered:
1. Elements of Action Plan
2. Construction, Monitoring and Review of
Plan of Action.
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Construction, Monitoring and
Review of Plan of Action.
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4. Plan of Action Amity School of Business
• “Steps that must be taken, or activities
that must be performed well, for a
strategy to succeed.”
• “An action plan is a specific series of
steps taken to accomplish a specified
goal. An action plan generally includes
steps, milestones, measures of
progress, responsibilities, assignments
and a time line.”
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• “An Action Plan is a tool that can help
you identify and achieve your goals. It
acts as a guide to help you answer
questions, make decisions and plans,
take steps towards your goals, and
keeps you on track.”
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6. Amity School of Business
Elements of Action Plan
• Specific tasks: what will be done and
by whom.
• Time Horizon : when will it be done.
• Resource Allocation: what specific
funds are available for specific
activities.
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Construction of Plan of
• Know Yourself
action
• Identify Options
• Build Your Plan
• Put Plan into Action
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8. Know Yourself Amity School of Business
• Identify your
strengths, your
values, your
employment
goals- SWOT
Analysis
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9. Identify Options Amity School of Business
Gather information about:
• Careers and the labour market
• Tools and strategies for an
effective job search
• Training (schools, colleges,
upgrading, on-line courses)
• Training on-the-job ("learn while
you earn")
• Strategies for moving to find work
elsewhere
• Self-employment
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10. Build Your Plan Amity School of Business
• Use a basic outline to
organize the information
gathered in Step1 and Step
2.
• Identify the steps and
resources you will need to
reach your employment
goals
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Put Plan into Action
• List Next Steps in order of
priority
• Enter target completion dates
for each Next Step
• Prepare for future challenges
• Identify need for additional
resources
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Construction of Plan of
action
• Clarify your goal
• Write a list of actions
• Analyze, prioritize
• Organize your list into a
plan
• Monitor the execution of
your plan and review the
plan regularly
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13. Amity School of Business
Creative Thinking

14. C REATIVE T HINKING :
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W HAT I S I T ?

15. Definitions Amity School of Business
Creative Thinking is …
 Unconventional Thinking
 Merging of Ideas which Have
Not Been Merged Before
Always new
perspectives, and
extending the frontiers
of what’s possible

16. Interesting Quotes Amity School of Business
“Every organization must be prepared to
abandon everything it does to survive in
the future”
Prof. Peter F. Drucker
“The problems we face cannot be solved
at the same level of thinking we were
at when we created them”
Albert Einstein

17. What is creative thinking? School of Business
Amity
Creative thinking is the process of generating novel ideas
and alternative courses of action, no matter how good
those ideas and alternatives might be.
Creative thinking should not be seen as an alternative to
critical thinking
When you have recognised a problem, then you should
employ creative thinking to produce some options for
solving the problem, then you should employ critical
thinking
If you haven’t come up with enough options to begin with,
then your critical thinking decision procedure might
produce the wrong result… a dangerous result!

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Think Of The Possibilities…
The average human being thinks of about
100 new ideas/day!!
If a team of “6” Nurses and Doctors Express All Their Ideas
After 2 days …
!!!1200 NEW IDEAS!!!

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Creativity boosting techniques
Nature of Creativity Creative Thinking
Expertise skills
Motivation
Creativity

20. Convergent vs. Divergent Thinking of Business
Amity School
Divergent thinking: the creative generation of multiple
solutions to a given problem. In Science and Engineering,
this is followed by evaluation of the answers and a choice
of optimal solution.
Convergent thinking: the deductive generation of the optimum
solution to a given problem, usually where there is a
compelling inference.

21. Convergent vs. Divergent Thinking of Business
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Is the idea that only one operation will cause to come up
with the one and only correct solution to the problem.
Hudson 1967
Is the very opposite of divergent thinking.
It does not let you expand your mind.
Thinking Outside the Box (2004)
Mysteries of the Mind

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Divergent thinking: the
creative generation of multiple
solutions to a given problem.
Is the ability to find
Is a problem that could have a variety of many possible answers
ways of addressing the problem as well as to a particular problem.
a number of solutions, usually applied to
the area of creative arts. Guilford (1950)
Hudson 1967

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Creative Thinking skills
- Unconventional.
- Uninhibited.
- Risk-taker.
- Always looks for new patterns and new combinations.
- Inventive.
- Extremely curious.
- Driven.
- Visionary: Michelangelo looked at a large piece of marble and
decided to “chip away at everything that wasn't David”.
- ParticularIy intuitive.
- Rather individualistic (unfortunately …).

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Motivation to be creative
2 Motivations:
- External: expressing your new ideas
to others.
- Internal: Thinking of new ideas.

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