Now that you have your guiding goal, reasons and objectives, you next turn your objectives into a plan you can use to guide your actions and track your progress. You now extend the research you started in the previous Targeting step. You gather information you need to develop your plan. Once you have this information, the next steps are to create a course map, plan your time and plan your costs. These are three key tools you can use to track your progress.
Keep in mind that you may not need to do these activities to the depth outlined here. If your learning objectives are short term and easy to achieve, you may not need to do much planning at all. The size or importance of the objective should guide you on how much planning and management you need.