Action Plan Templates (MS Office)

Download this 14-page Action Plan template to identify what you plan to accomplish, need to prioritize, and how to share these objectives. Get this 14-page MS Word template and 7 Excel spreadsheets to organize your planning activities. Instant download. No Registration required.

Use this Action Plan template to:

1. Scope the big picture – Outline what you want to accomplish with objectives, budget, time and tie each deliverable to an action step.
2. Break out smaller tasks – Assign tasks to team members. Consider the deadlines in terms of allocating resources.
3. Create a list of action steps – For each task, prepare a list of to-dos ranked in sequential order.
4. Prioritize – Some steps are more important that others. Prioritize steps based on deadline, task, and the number of steps remaining.
5. Communicate – Circulate the plan to team members that have been assigned tasks.
6. Complete deadlines on time – Estimate when tasks will be finish based on the rate of action step completion.
7. Track results – Evaluate performance and implement continuous monitoring procedures to ensure the project stays on track.

Action Plan Template: Table of Contents

The MS Word template contains the following sections with sample content.

1 Introduction
1.1 Our Vision
1.2 Our Mission
1.3 Our Objectives
1.4 Our Strategies
1.5 Areas of Impact
1.6 Points of Contact
1.7 Assumptions
1.8 Constraints
1.9 Dependencies

2 Management Structure
2.1 Organization Chart
2.2 Roles & Responsibilities
2.3 Anticipated Change

3 Action Plan
3.1 Implications for staff involvement
3.2 Enhance practices
3.3 Evidence of success

4 Continuous Monitoring

5 Outcomes
5.1 Participant Outcomes
5.2 Organizational Outcomes
5.3 Community Outcomes

6 Project Budget

Product Specifications

The templates are in Microsoft Word and Excel.

The template pack includes the following documents:

• 2 x Action Plan Templates – 14 pages
• 5 Year Action Plan – 1 x worksheet
• Action Plan Log – 1 x worksheet
• Action Plan – IT Plan – 1 x worksheet
• Continuous Monitoring – 1 x worksheet
• Performance Indicator – 1 x worksheet
• Performance Measures – 1 x worksheet
• Responsibility Matrix – 1 x worksheet