COURSE OVERVIEW:

Welcome to the Effective Work Planning & Control course. This program will equip you with the knowledge and capabilities required to plan work, control performance, manage resources, and guide teams and projects with consistency and accuracy. You will examine why planning and control functions are essential to organisational performance, how work processes are designed and monitored, and how structured planning leads to improved productivity, quality, and team effectiveness.

This course begins by exploring the planning and controlling work processes, including the importance of the plan and control functions, the nature of control systems, and the distinction between open and closed loops. You will examine the stages in control, how to define clear objectives, why objective clarity is essential for good control, and how to make plans and communicate them effectively. This section explains how to set performance standards, collect data, compare results with objectives, and take corrective action to maintain alignment and improve outcomes.

The next area of learning examines resource planning and operational control. You will explore how to plan the use of resources, control the receipt, handling, processing, and storage of materials, and apply effective quality control practices. This section explains how to help your team ‘think quality’, control the use of plant and equipment, assess workspace requirements, arrange equipment effectively, and design new work areas to support safe, efficient operations. You will also examine ways to measure space utilisation, maintain plant and equipment, control work methods, and schedule work flow.

Another area of learning focuses on team motivation and workforce effectiveness. You will examine the importance of team motivation, how to create the right atmosphere for your team, and how job enrichment contributes to improved performance. This section explains why training and development are essential to building workforce capability and sustaining effective planning and control practices.

A further area of learning explores the planning and control of projects. You will examine what project management is, how it differs from other forms of management, and how project constraints shape planning decisions. This section explains how to identify what needs to be achieved, prioritise tasks, plan projects effectively, decide what work is required and why, and allocate responsibilities. You will also explore how to support teams through the storming phase, plan when work will be done, apply the critical path method (CPM), decide where the work will take place, estimate project costs, understand categories of project expenditure, set budgets, and keep track of project costs.

By the end of this course you will be able to plan and control work processes, set clear objectives, establish performance standards, apply corrective action, optimise resource use, manage materials and equipment, enhance quality, motivate teams, apply job enrichment and development strategies, plan and control projects, prioritise tasks, allocate responsibilities, use CPM effectively, prepare accurate cost estimates, set and monitor budgets, and manage operational and project outcomes with confidence and precision.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

By the end of this course, you will be able to understand:

·       The importance of the plan and control functions

·       The planning and controlling work processes

·       The control systems

·       The open and closed loops

·       The stages in control

·       How to define objectives?

·       Why clear objectives are necessary for good control?

·       How to make plans? And communicate your plan?

·       How to set performance standards?

·       How to collect data? And compare results with standards and objectives?

·       How to take corrective actions?

·       How to plan the use of resources?

·       How to control, receive, handle, process and store materials?

·       How to control quality?

·       How to get your team to ‘think quality’?

·       How to control plant and equipment?

·       How to assess space and arrange equipment?

·       How to lay out a new work area for your work-team?

·       The ways to measure how well space is used

·       How to maintain plant and equipment?

·       How to control work methods?

·       How to schedule work flow?

·       The importance of team motivation

·       How to create the right atmosphere for your team?

·       The importance of job enrichment

·       The importance of training and development

·       How to plan and control projects?

·       What is project management?

·       The difference between project management and other kinds of management

·       What is meant by project constraints?

·       How to know what you want to achieve?

·       How to prioritise tasks?

·       How to plan a project?

·       How to decide what work to be done?

·       How to identify why the work needs to be done?

·       How to decide on who will do what ?

·       How to help the team through the storming phase?

·       How to plan how the work will be done and when?

·       The critical path method (CPM)

·       How to plan where the work will be done?

·       How to estimate project costs?

·       The categories of project expenditure

·       How to set budgets?

·       How to keep track of project costs?

COURSE DURATION:

The typical duration of this course is approximately 2-3 hours to complete. Your enrolment is Valid for 12 Months. Start anytime and study at your own pace.

ASSESSMENT:

A simple 10-question true or false quiz with Unlimited Submission Attempts.

CERTIFICATION:

Upon course completion, you will receive a customised digital “Certificate of Completion”.