
213 – The Planning Puzzle
Purpose/Objectives: Managers benefit from effective planning in a number of
ways, some obvious and some not so obvious. In this
exercise, participants identify a number of specific
planning benefits in a novel way—by putting together a
jigsaw puzzle that has a different benefit of planning
printed on the back of each piece.
Before putting the puzzle together, participants first
work individually to determine the benefits of planning;
then they compare those benefits with each other and
with the benefits printed on the puzzle. This exercise
emphasizes the many important ways that planning
contributes to effective ...