During Weeks 3-5 you will work on your first Individual Assignment. Please read the instructions below andbegin work on this assignment in Week 3. Your final submission is due on Day 7 of Week 5.
- Choose a classmate to interview about his or her organisation.
- Prepare a list of questions for your interview that will enable you to get the following information:
- How your classmate’s organisation is structured
- How project teams fit in to your classmate’s organisation’s structure
- Your classmate’s organisation’s culture and its impact on individual and team behaviour and performance
- Read the Learning Resources and other relevant literature on teams and project teams.
- By Day 7 of Week 3 interview your classmate. Try to make the interview a synchronous one via phone or voice chat.
- Write a paper that provides a comparative analysis of your classmate’s organisation and your organisation. Please refrain from divulging proprietary or confidential information. Also, avoid using actual names of organisations or individuals within organisations within your paper. Recommend changes to organisational structure and culture based on your analysis (1,500 words).
- By Day 7 of Week 5, submit your first Individual Assignment.
Be sure to read over your Individual Assignment before submitting it to your Instructor. Make sure the spelling and grammar are correct and the language, citing and referencing you use when providing your opinion are appropriate for academic writing
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Looking Ahead – Leadership profiling tool
Your second Individual Assignment will be submitted in Week 7. You will identify the key management and leadership skills required of project managers.
- Identify the key management and leadership skills required of project managers.
- Refer to the profiling tools outlined in the Week 7 optional learning resources, as well as any other resources you find online or in your workplace.
- Design a simple leadership profiling tool aimed at enabling project managers to understand which key skills and attributes they already possess and which skills they need to build on as part of their future development. You may directly quote or paraphrase questions used in any of these exercises, but you must acknowledge your sources. Use questions that you have sourced from a number of profiling exercises rather than relying on one or two sources. Explain why you chose to include the questions that you did and what each is designed to measure (1,500 words).
