Department heads often inherit a strategy and must turn it into targets, spending, hiring and a calendar without a clear format. This plan does that in seven pages: goals as a scorecard, the activities with owners, a budget that reconciles to the target, the calendar of milestones and the measures the year will be reviewed against. Each page names who is accountable, so the plan can be run and checked.

The sample is for the fictional Glenmoor Works operations department, with a $1.24M budget forecast at $1.228M, output growth of 6.1% against a 9% target and one open supervisor training gap. Replace last year's actuals, targets, budget lines and dates with your own, reconcile the total to the headline target, and add the review dates to the calendar.