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Age: All  \nWHAT IS IT?  \nAn action plan is nothing more (or less) than carefully listing all the things that your team needs to do. It outlines your strategy for completing the project.  \nWHY IS IT IMPORTANT?  \nAction plans make your work more intentional.  \nIt is difficult to hold each other accountable for the project goals unless there is a written plan of work to be accomplished.  \nWHEN IS THIS USEFUL?  \nOnce you have clearly defined your problem, decided on what project to do, and power mapped. MATERIALS: flip chart / markers  \nCORE CONCEPTS: accountability, politics, public work, democracy  \nSKILLS: action plans, negotiating, teamwork,  \nACTIVITIES / STEPS:  \n1. Look at the Power Map: To create an action plan, teams might want to start by looking at their evolving power map and thinking about the resources and obstacles that will affect their project idea. Teams may want to keep the following questions in mind when studying their community map:  \n1. What is our project’s overarching goals and mission statement?  \n2. How much time do we have to work together?  \n3. What information, resources and power do we need to implement our project’s goals and mission?  \n4. What are the possible barriers to meeting our project’s goals?  \n5. Are there possible alternative courses of action?  \n2. Themes or Intermediate Goals: The next step is to begin thinking of the themes of your project. These usually are the large things you need to do to do your project (intermediate goals) . Helpful questions might include: At the end the PA, what do we want to accomplish? What things do we need to do in order to finish our project? How  \n[www.publicachievement.org](www.publicachievement.org) Center for Democracy and Citizenship/200  \nwill we know we succeeded? This is a good time to revisit (and even potentially revise) your project’s mission statement.  \n3. Prioritize goals: Which goals are most important (which goals are absolutely necessary to complete your project)?  \n4. Which Comes First? Together, draft a plan of goals in sequential order. Your team might have to come up with a series of preliminary goals that they need to accomplish in order to arrive at their final goal. Sometimes you have to put off your major goals until later, sometimes you need to work on more than one goal at the same time. While the group may not be ready to develop a specific weekly timeline at this point, try to have team members prioritize tasks—what needs to happen first? What is the logical way to order the goals so you can complete your project?  \na. Possible mini-exercise (can be used for step 3 Prioritize and step 4 Which Comes First?): Once you have identified your major goals, sometimes it is good to break into small groups and ask each group to rank the goals in order of importance and/or the order in which they should be done. 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