Review

It is very important to have a thorough review of any action you take to judge its success and learn from your experience.

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A review is also a good opportunity to check that you have done everything you need to do.

You should already have considered, at the planning stage, how you will judge whether or not the project was a success (see Planning projects in Getting organized).

Preparation and planning

In a review, ask yourself the following questions:

• Did we do the necessary research?
• Did we complete our project planning and organization on schedule?
• Did we involve enough members in planning the project and carrying it out?
• Did we consult everyone we should have?
• Did we anticipate all of the problems we experienced?
• Did we budget the right amount?

Action

• Did the project start on time? 
• Did it go according to plan?
• Did we stay within our budget?
• How well did it fulfil the goals we set for it? For example:
  • How many people attended?
  • Did we reach our target audience? If so, how?
  • How effectively did we get our message across? If so, how do we know?
  • Did we raise any money we hoped to raise?
  • Did we complete the work we set out to do?
  • What comments and suggestions did guests or other club members make?
  • What might have made the project more successful?
  • Did we send a report reviewing the project to our sponsoring organization(s)?

Finally, have you told us all about your project in Speak out?

Good luck with all your projects!