Assignment Creation - Potts

7. Guidance: 7.1. What areas and issues are to be addressed? What are the policy guidelines and boundaries to be observed?8. Consequences: 8.1. What rewards and penalties are associated with the Project?9. Implicit issues:9.1. Role: How am I really expected to act on this project?9.2. Accountability: Do I have prime responsibility for accomplishing the results? 9.3. Or are others and other functions to share this responsibility? 9.4. If so, how?10. Capacity: 10.1. Are my skills, behavior patterns, and adroitness adequate for the task, or is help to be provided? 10.2. Are there people who can make up for gaps?10.3. What’s that Again? 10.4. Define Your Assignment-ln Writing11. Tone: 11.1. Does the formal assignment suggest strong confidence in the receiver?11.2. Is it a statement of the importance of the Project to be done? 11.3. Is it a test of the assignee’s potential for greater responsi¬bility?11.4. What steps will you take to clarify or strengthen the assignment? 11.5. With whom? When?

2. Explicit Issues

Two Family Dinners/week

Prepare Kids for Changes they will face in work workd

Science/Technology progress

2.1 Initiator - Steve Potts

2.2 Recipients: Cristina, Louis and Julia Potts

2.3 Goal: Improve Family Happiness and preparedness of children

2.4 End Result: Socially adjusted, yet independent children capable of successfully navigating their adult lives

2.5 Measures of Success:

High school graduation with honors, and without drug use.

Entry into college/completion of college

4. Assignment Definition

4.1 Assignees , Authority, resources

Steve/Cristina

Parental Authority

$50.00/month

4.2 Assignment completion: Steve/Cristina

4.3 Authority and Resources

See 4.1

1. Project Definition

Follow 2 Recommendations to improve Family Happiness

3. Background

3.1 Recognition of need for more attention to family issues

3.2 Why undertaken now?

No time to waste.

3.3 What's that again?

Keep playing around and the world will pass you and your kids bye bye.

5. Timetable

5.1 Major Milestones

Monthly Review of Dinners

College applications and acceptance

Start date:

End date:

Measures

Qualitatively

Happy

very

moderately

slightly

Sad

depressed

angry

silent

Quantitative

Two words per month

Family able to walk 1 mile at 3.5 MPH