Outline Resource - Project Planning & Management

Contents: 3 Outline Worksheets, 4 Facilitator Guides, 3 packs of post-it Notes, 3 packs of ‘Task’ post-it notes, 30 Personal Record Cards.

An exciting project management tool aimed at young people organising projects for school or the wider community. It is a unique way of building team skills and develops personal qualities including:

• Assertiveness
• Decision-making
• Communication
• Confidence
• Organisation
• Responsibilities

Designed for supporting young people/students to plan and manage a facilitator-led project; perfect for building personal responsibility and teambuilding skills and as a method for involving everyone in the processes of planning and managing projects and activities.

The large sheet allows participants to gather round and freely add ideas using sticky notes which are then organised into collumns and consider implications according to time, cost, people and importance. The completed sheet provides an overview of the various tasks that will need to be completed to achieve the project and students can keep a record of their personal tasks and responsisbilities within their own Personal Record Card.

Personal Record Cards are also used to monitor students’ progress and development and include a personal rating scale to encourage students to consider what personal development they can achieve throughout the projects. An accompanying facilitator guide features step-by-step instructions.

“It has given us a belief in ourselves both in our abilities to work as a group and as individuals.”
Christine Partington, Youth Worker, Bolton