The Results-Oriented Corporate Planning Workplace

Corporate planning jobs, whether bookkeeping, accounts receivable or auditing, are involved in a lot of detail. When corporate planning people are so engrossed in the details of their jobs, it's easy for them, for anyone actually, to lose sight of the job's major contribution.

A Results-Oriented Corporate Planning Job Description is different from a traditional job description because it focuses an employee on the several job results that answer the question: What results must this corporate planning job accomplish for the organization?

Corporate Planning Job Standards added to job expectations tighten management controls by clarifying how well and when results must be accomplished.

Corporate Planning Job Objectives establish management and employee plans by highlighting important current and future results needed.

Job-specific Corporate Planning Employee Management Forms maintain consistent and legally sound management actions by basing manager-employee interactions on job results.

The Purpose of Corporate Planning Jobs

Stated in a results-oriented, three-line style, corporate planning jobs--

RECOMMEND ORGANIZATION OBJECTIVES AND PLANS by

analyzing and interpreting data; preparing economic and strategic assessments; identifying issues that must be addressed; providing information pertaining to executive deliberations; recommending options and courses of action; preparing budgets.

Types of Corporate Planning Jobs

Corporate planning jobs attempt to see into the future-studying historical and current information related to the organization purpose and eventually incorporating analyses into reports and explanations. Corporate planning jobs identify optional approaches and estimate the outcomes of the various approaches, sometimes making recommendations. Much of the work involves numbers and calculations.

Corporate Planning Job Management Tools

Here are actual job examples of how corporate planning job actions can be focused on results and kept on track using each of our job management tools:

Results-Oriented Corporate Planning Job Descriptions form the foundation of all job management tools. Our uniquely structured job descriptions focus on the result to be accomplished first and prominently, followed by the duties performed in order to accomplish the result. For example,

RECOMMENDS CORPORATE PLANNING ACTIONS by

analyzing system controls.

Corporate Planning Job Standards sharpen employee attention and management control by defining and communicating how well the corporate planning results must be accomplished and what benchmarks will be used to measure job results. For example, for the job result above, the job standards might be:

• Corporate Planning situations are correctly understood.
• All options are identified and evaluated.
• Corporate Planning recommendations are ready when needed.

Corporate Planning Job Objectives point the direction for employee actions by focusing job efforts on current and future corporate planning issues. Job objectives are written in the three-line, results-oriented structure. For example, for the job result above, a job objective might be:

SPEED-UP DECISION MAKING by

reducing time to deliver corporate planning recommendations by 10% by (date).

Corporate Planning Employee Management Forms tied specifically to each corporate planning job description are more helpful (and legal) than generic forms used for all different kinds of jobs. Job-specific forms are used to state job qualifications, guide job interview questions, orient new employees, plan job training, and appraise job performance.

Corporate Planning Job Qualifications are stated in the same terms used in the job description. They are not translated into generic (typically behavioral) terms. For example:

RECOMMENDS CORPORATE PLANNING ACTIONS by

analyzing system controls.

Corporate Planning Job Interview guide questions are inserted directly below each job result in the job description: For example:

• "What specific job responsibilities have you had in this area?"
• "Where did you have these job responsibilities?"
• "When did you have these job responsibilities?"
• "How did you go about accomplishing these responsibilities?"
• "What accomplishment in this area gave you the most pride?"
• "In this area, what were some of your biggest challenges?"
• "How did you overcome the challenges?"

The Corporate Planning Job Orientation guide reformats the job description sequence so that job explanations, policies, protocols, processes, and procedures are logical and complete and can easily be checked off. For example:

RECOMMENDS CORPORATE PLANNING ACTIONS by

analyzing system controls.

The manager might say: "Here's the procedure and format we use to analyze and present corporate planning recommendations."

The Corporate Planning Job Training plan guides a thorough examination of actual job knowledge, skills, and abilities as described in the job description that need improvement or that might be enhanced. For example:

RECOMMENDS CORPORATE PLANNING ACTIONS by

analyzing system controls.

The manager might say: "Analytical skills would be improved by enrolling in a statistical analysis class."

The Corporate Planning Job Performance Appraisal guide is a job-specific form. It is not a universal form used for all jobs. The guide adds an appraisal scale below each job result in the job description so that attention can be drawn to each job requirement and expectation. For example:

RECOMMENDS CORPORATE PLANNING ACTIONS by

analyzing system controls.

__ Great! Just want we wanted.
__ We have a problem.
__ Improvement is needed.
__ Much, much more than we asked for.

Comments: _________________

Corporate Planning Résumé Template

Potential employers want to know what a job applicant has accomplished in his/her corporate planning work career. They don't want to be bored with minor details. Our Résumé Template provides:

• an outline to help assemble personal background information.
• a Results-Oriented Job Description to provide the corporate planning job language-focused on results-needed to write an effective résumé.
• Corporate Planning Job Objectives to orient thinking in terms of accomplishments.
• instructions on how to use a Results-Oriented Corporate Planning Job Description and Corporate Planning Job Objectives to express job accomplishments.

Use the corporate planning job description responsibility statement as a base:

RECOMMENDS CORPORATE PLANNING ACTIONS by

analyzing system controls.

Select the corporate planning job objective that fits your experience:

REDUCE COSTS 10% by

improving corporate planning processes.

Combine the two into a résumé statement:

Reduced costs 10% by analyzing, identifying, and recommending new corporate planning system controls.

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