Strategic Planning in the Small Business

Unit 6

Notes for

Instructors

Class Exercise

Unit 6

Class

Exercise 1:

Role play exercise
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1. How
   to delegate responsibility

Step

1: Select

on student

from the

class. Their

job (role) is

to play the part

of

staff

member from

a fictitious

firm called,

"Candy Cane

Manufacturing"

(CCM).

Step

2: Assign

the student

a specific

role, e.g.

the production

assistant.

The

instructor

will

take the role

of production

manager

of the company.

Step 3:

Set the stage

as follows:

It's

2:00 pm

on Friday afternoon.

The

production manager

has

called the

production

assistant into

his office

for a brief

meeting. He

tells the

production

assistant

that the planning

team is

getting to the

final stages

of

developing

the firm's

first strategic

plan.

Step 4:

The production

manager

tells the

production

assistant that

he would like

for

her to take

responsibility

for several

strategies in

the plan. During

this

step, the production

manager

makes

it clear that

he truly believes

the

production

assistant has

the skills necessary

to successfully

implement

the

strategy.

Step 5:

The

production

manager makes

sure his

assistant understand

what

.s

expected

and secures

her commitment

to

follow through.

Step

6: They

negotiate

a deadline for

implementing

the strategy.

The production

manager

makes it clear

that she was

the latitude

to  determine

the action

plan,

but he would

like to review

the plan

before she moves

forward

with

implementation.

Step 7:

As the meeting

is ending

the production,

manager

says I'll

follow up in

a week

to see how

things are going.

Step

8: After

the role

play, review

the important

steps involved

regarding

delegation.

(See overhead.)

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