Building a realistic plan that helps you hold yourself and others to account requires proper experience. If you're a management consultant, business consultant or IT consultant, you'll build plans all the time, but in careers that don't involve so much project work, maybe less so. When building a plan, you need to know how to estimate the appropriate amount of time it'll take to get things done, you need to be vigilant of risks and dependencies, you need to be clear on ownership of activities. There are 11 important steps you need to take when building your high level plan and in this video I outline each of them - and with each step, I build out an example plan in front of you, to show you how that step works. You can use these steps to build any high level plan, whether or not you work in IT Consulting or IT Management Consulting - and by the end of this video, your high level plans should start to earn high levels of credibility and trust with both yourself and your colleagues.

00:00 Context for this video (intro to plan example)
00:52 Quick intro to Consultant Explorer
01:09 High Level Planning Step 1: Start with the end goal
01:54 High Level Planning Step 2: Introducing milestones
04:08 High Level Planning Step 3: Expanding steps per milestone
07:05 High Level Planning Step 4: Estimating time per step
07:58 High Level Planning Step 5: Consider non-working days
08:31 High Level Planning Step 6: Cater to dependencies
09:14 High Level Planning Step 7: Denote ownership
10:20 High Level Planning Step 8: De-risk critical paths
11:37 High Level Planning Step 9: Create efficiencies
12:57 High Level Planning Step 10: Use good formatting
13:10 High Level Planning Step 11: Use the right tool
13:50 Summary and Wrap Up

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