Education programmes require management. This is no different than any other enterprise.
There are certain specialized administration and management concerns in the implementation of a programme:
But in general, voter education teams rely on the standard techniques of management. While there are different ways in which people describe best practice in management, a simple categorization assists those who perhaps have more educational expertize than management expertize.
PLOC, or Planning, Leadership, Organisation, and Control, establishes the four functional areas within which one or more people, or a team of people, exercizes management to achieve intended outcomes and to reduce unintended outcomes.
Planning refers to the setting of objectives, the aligning of resources, the assessment of strengths and weakness, and the identification of opportunities and threats that result in an operational programme.
Leadership concerns those behaviours that align the organization with the stated objectives, and motivate and challenge staff to their achievement. Leadership might also be concerned with the positioning of the organization to ensure its continued effectiveness.
Organization deals with the construction of the necessary means to achieve the objectives. This includes procedures, policies, teams, operating units and other systems.
Control, sometimes softened to coordination, indicates the need to manage the achievement of objectives. This includes systems to monitor their achievement, rewards and nonperformance consequences, reporting and auditing, and so on. Control is achieved in different ways in different organizations.
