Using a visual, team-based approach to planning projects

Use these resources with your members to provide a framework for project planning.

The Project Planning Curriculum contains an agenda and tools to create a solid action plan. The goals of the curriculum are:

• To be able to identify and develop a goal with awareness of the resources, success factors, challenges, and tasks involved
• To encourage group members to collaborate on creating a project plan
• To continue to practice facilitation and group decision-making skills
• To learn how to effectively use the project planning mountain as a strategic planning tool

The Project Planning Handouts are the tools contained in the curriculum, along with an example of what they look like after a planning session.

Both of these documents are in Word, so you can take them apart and customize them for your own program.

The Project Planning resource was contributed by Service-Learning Northwest (Vancouver, WA), which operates a number of school-based programs in Washington state, and was developed by Nicole Trimble.