Your Personal Operations Plan: A Suggested Format
I. Objective
There is only one way to start and that is by defining what it is you are
trying to accomplish-your objective or mission at this particular stage of
your life. For your first Personal Operations Plan, simply copy down your
Specific Immediate Objective, as you so carefully defined it earlier in this
course.
II.Where
List your top three geographical preferences, in descending order.
III.With Whom
List your original Potential Organizational Targets, your Live (Probable)
Organizational Targets, and your Ultimate (Confirmed) Organizational Targets. IV.Targets Information
Referende how much information you have gathered thus far on the Targets that
you have identified; and where this information is filed.
V.Ultimate Individual Targets
List those whom you have already identified. How much information you have
gathered on each, and where this is filed. Indicate those whom you have not
yet been able to identify.
VI.General Plan of Approach to These Kinds of Targets
VII.What Additional Information Is Needed
List is, and how you plan to get it. Also, give yourself deadlines on getting
it.
VIII. Plan of Approach to Ultimate Individual Target No. 1
Spell it out in detail. List the contacts who might be able to help. Identify
others you can, and should, meet. Work out your plan for obtaining every bit
of information you will need to know about this individual and his particular
activity or organization. Establish time tables. Decide when is the earliest
and best time for you to begin the action. Estimate how long it will take you
to complete each stage of your attack. Could you coordinate visits to that
target with similar visits to other Ultimate Individual Targets in the same
area, etc?
IX. Plan of Approach to Ultimate Individual Target No. 2 The same details as
spelled out under VIII.
X, XI, XII, etc. Plan of Approach to Ultimate Individual Targets Nos. 3, 4, 5, etc. The same details as spelled out under VIII.
XIII. Campaign Coordination
How all of this seems to you to mesh together.
XIV. Milestones and Timetables
Ways in which you can divide the large task up into manageable segments.
XV. Control, Measurement, Reporting & Follow-up Systems
Ways in which you can check yourself, by deadlines and such, to see that a)
you did the task, and b) how well.
XVI. Special Procedures and Techniques
Anything not covered in the above. Highlighting the unusual.