Plan community programs or activities for the general public
Part of the output can be produced by software today.
An agent can propose the plan, chase the replies and keep the record current. To actually change anything it needs write access to a calendar or work system, and a person still owns the tradeoffs when two plans collide.
| How automatable | Partly automatable |
|---|---|
| Kind of work | Scheduling, planning and resource control |
| Jobs that do it | 42 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | Tools and auth, Builders |
| O*NET activity | Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work (4.A.2.b.6) |
What this looks like on the job
Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 42 occupations that perform it.
- Plan, organize, or lead group activities for customers, such as exercise routines, athletic events, or arts and crafts.
- Organize public exhibits and displays to promote public awareness of diverse and distinctive cultural traditions.
- Participate in campus and community events.
- Participate in campus and community events, such as giving presentations to the public.
- Participate in campus and community events, such as giving public lectures about research.
- Teach community courses and speak to local groups and organizations.
- Coordinate educational and public outreach programs, such as tours, workshops, lectures, and classes.
- Design, organize, or conduct tours, workshops, and instructional or educational sessions to acquaint individuals with an institution's facilities and materials.
- Lead tours and teach educational courses to students and the general public.
- Plan and deliver client-centered programs and services, such as special services for corporate clients, storytelling for children, newsletters, or programs for special groups.
- Plan and conduct children's programs, community outreach programs, and other specialized programs, such as library tours.
- Organize, advise, and participate in community activities and organizations, such as county and state fair events and 4-H Clubs.
- Schedule events and organize details, including refreshment, entertainment, decorations, and the collection of any fees.
What we would actually use
One recommendation rather than a shortlist, because a shortlist is just your problem handed back. This is what we would buy for scheduling, planning and resource control, and what it costs.
Scheduling is a connector problem rather than an intelligence one, and $9 a month of Make covers both the calendar and the chasing. An agent platform priced per seat adds nothing you would notice here.
Chosen for the cheapest thing that does the job, not the best funded. Nothing on this site is sponsored, and the full landscape is there when you want to disagree with us.
The rest of the category
Context, not alternatives to weigh up. We name the layer rather than promise a named product does your specific task.
Matched from the kind of work, not from vendor marketing. Check any of them can reach the system your records actually live in — that connection, not the model, is where these projects stall.
How people actually do it
No workflow names this activity yet, but these automate the same kind of work, with the prompts to paste and what to keep for yourself.
Who does this work
42 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary
- Anthropologists and Archeologists
- Anthropology and Archeology Teachers, Postsecondary
- Architecture Teachers, Postsecondary
- Archivists
- Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Teachers, Postsecondary
- Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary
- Atmospheric, Earth, Marine, and Space Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary
- Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary
- Business Teachers, Postsecondary
- Chemistry Teachers, Postsecondary
- Communications Teachers, Postsecondary
- Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary
- Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Teachers, Postsecondary
- Curators
- Economics Teachers, Postsecondary
- Education Teachers, Postsecondary
- Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary
- English Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary
- Entertainment and Recreation Managers, Except Gambling
- Environmental Science Teachers, Postsecondary
- Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary
- Farm and Home Management Educators
- Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary
- Forestry and Conservation Science Teachers, Postsecondary
- Geography Teachers, Postsecondary
- Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary
- History Teachers, Postsecondary
- Law Teachers, Postsecondary
- Librarians and Media Collections Specialists
- Library Science Teachers, Postsecondary
- Library Technicians
- Mathematical Science Teachers, Postsecondary
- Museum Technicians and Conservators
- Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary
- Philosophy and Religion Teachers, Postsecondary
- Physics Teachers, Postsecondary
- Political Science Teachers, Postsecondary
- Psychology Teachers, Postsecondary
- Recreation and Fitness Studies Teachers, Postsecondary
- Social Work Teachers, Postsecondary
- Sociology Teachers, Postsecondary
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Plan events or programs”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.
| Activity | Jobs |
|---|---|
| Plan special events | 4 |
| Plan conferences, programs, or special events | 3 |
| Plan implementation or promotion of recycling programs | 1 |
Method. The activity, its taxonomy placement and the occupations that perform it come straight from the public-domain O*NET 30.3 database. The automatability band is ours: we map each of O*NET’s 41 generalized work activities to how much of its output current software can produce, assuming a person still reviews and owns the result. It is a coarse three-way judgment on purpose. A precise-looking percentage here would be invented.