Topic 3

Step in driving for an occupational

development plan

To drive an occupational development plan, community leader, Networks, working group, and people in the community have to work together in these following issues.

  • First issue: Analyzing the feasibility of an operation plan

  • Second issue: Developing an operation plan

  • Third issue: Managing the knowledge and driving an operation plan to success


Details of each issue are outlined below.

1. Analyzing the feasibility of an operation plan: this is the process of the learner, community leader, working group people in the community, and associating networks to consider the appropriateness of the plan and compared it to the fact in community. This can be considered from:

  • The acceptance of people in the community

  • The approval from people in the community

  • The readiness of community resources

  • The need to import resources from external parties


2. Developing an operation plan: this involves an analysis of operational feasibility and improve or develop it suitable for community potential.


3. Managing the knowledge and driving an operation plan: teachers from the Office of the Non-formal and Informal Education, the leaner, community leader, people in the community, and networks have to work together to manage the knowledge in driving an operation plan to success. This can be done by:

1) Analyze project / activity: this involves an analysis of project / activity to see which project / activity is ready to operate and which is not based on the existing knowledge. This requires an arrangement of knowledge prior to the execution of work to drive it.


2) Knowledge management process: this is the process to bring all necessary things into knowledge management process which involves:

2.1 Determining the knowledge used in working by listing all the knowledge that is required in executing the plan, as shown the following example.

2.2 Seeking for knowledge in the community and locality by assigning each working group with the task to seek for knowledge that will be needed from experts, business premises, and other sources of knowledge. This can be done by using various methods such as learning from lessons and training until gaining an insight in the knowledge.

2.3 In case of the necessary knowledge cannot be obtained from the community or locality, one might consider to:

1) Conduct a public hearing to mutually think, determine and develop working methods, experiment, and store it as community knowledge for a later use.

2) Import knowledge: since learning some knowledge requires experts in those specific fields, it is appropriate to invite those experts or to study from them

2.4 Exchange knowledge: this can be done after the knowledge seeking process by encouraging each working group to share their knowledge and to analyze and apply that new knowledge in working.

2.5 Apply the knowledge to drive the project: this involves working while applying the knowledge in each step of work.


3) Evaluate the quality of work: this will include:

(1) Assigning the evaluation and follow up team consist of 3-5 members to see what should be done in the project / activity.

(2) Developing a follow up plan and considering which part of the project / activity that should be focused and when.

(3) Making a clear mutual understanding that to follow up is not to find fault but instead is a mutual work between the follow up team and the working group to find any shortcomings that may damage or reduce the quality of work, and find a solution for it.

(4) Evaluating the quality of work by letting the evaluation group and working team in each project / activity present their own work to public in order to let the community members know and take part in the process, as well as making a decision on how to move forward.