Planning helps to set new goals and achieve them. It is easy to get a visual representation of the necessary things on a special board. Boards like these are great for making tables, charts, business records - whatever is required for planning.
There are several basic types of planning boards. You can find magnetic whiteboards and cork boards in the store. If you wish, you can also purchase a school chalk one, but this option is not very convenient and will rather interest lovers of retro style.
You will have to buy magnets and markers, respectively, as well as an eraser sponge for the magnetic marker board. The cork board only requires a set of colored buttons and you can start planning.
Planning is strategic and tactical. For individual plans, tactical terms range from 1 week to 1 month, and strategic ones - from 1 month to 1 year. Therefore, consider in advance what kind of planning you do most often. For a tactical one, it is better to choose a magnetic marker board, for strategies for a long period, a cork board is suitable.
How to use a planning board
First of all, the board must be hung so that all the main details can be easily seen from the workplace. For individual planning, it is better to choose the portrait orientation - horizontally, and for team planning at work, landscape - vertically is most often suitable.
Regardless of the material and type of the chosen board, attach pictures to it that visualize your values. For example: photographs of family and friends, the image of an "up" arrow, stairs and other symbols symbolizing personal or career growth, an image of a cozy house, and so on.
Such visualization not only cheers up, but also helps to avoid imposing other people's goals and objectives on you.
The following uses are typical for cork boards:
- At the top of the board, pin pictures to visualize goals, since planning times are usually long-term - this will help you remember where you are going after months. It is important not to confuse goals, however long-term, with your values.
- In the middle of the whiteboard, place calendars with scheduled events for the current month, class schedules, and similar background information.
- Leave the lower part free for sticky notes with tasks that take several days to complete. It is better to fix them on a cork board with buttons so as not to lose them at the most inopportune moment.
- The option of using the board as a target for darts darts looks frivolous only at first glance. This release helps relieve stress and even throw a dart to determine which task to tackle first if there is no desire to prioritize.
Since the magnetic whiteboard is characterized by short-term planning, the following use cases are suitable:
- In the center of the chalkboard, write the exact date of the implementation of the task or completion of the project, in extreme cases, the current period of time.
- The middle and bottom of the board is usually a multi-colored to-do list. It is good to have a weekly or monthly schedule at the bottom.
- In addition to the to-do list, markers on the board can quickly sketch out some kind of diagram that is important to keep in front of your eyes right now, for example, the interaction of project participants. At the end of the next stage, the diagram is quickly erased, and the main information is saved.
- Such a board is perfect for brainstorming - the perfect office option, so it makes sense to use not rigid mounts, but easily removable, which can be quickly replaced.
If you decide to use a chalk board that has been tested for centuries for planning, then you can place information on it in the same order as on a marker, but you will have to erase the solved one or two day tasks with an ordinary damp cloth.
