It's that time of year again, the whole family will be around for dinner soon. Your uncles, aunts, cousins, or perhaps just a small Christmas dinner is planned. Either way you can improve the dinner by having a solid plan in place. You should use Microsoft Excel to create a file to track and plan your dinner. You should have three tabs in your document to help you separate your budget, guest list, and your assignment list.
The first tab should be the budget for your dinner, and it should include individual line items for items you need to purchase. You should track actual spend against your budget and you should update the file as you purchase the items. The second tab should include your guest list and the gifts for those guest. You could also include any key points about those guest, and that could help the night go smoother. Finally, the third tab should focus on the individual assignments you have allocated to people, and you should check with people to see how they are tracking in the weeks leading up to Christmas. If you follow these steps, you will have a better Christmas dinner. Your dinner will be more organized, and you will spend less money. Giving everyone that is attending an assigned tasks spreads the responsibility, and it will help you focus on the most important tasks. Project management can improve your Christmas dinner, and it can help you stay sane during the holidays. Please leave your comments and suggestions.
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