CPMGT/304

LEADING PROJECTS IN ORGANIZATIONS

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CPMGT 304 Week 1 Communication Self-Assessment

Complete the DiSC® Platinum Rule® Assessment.

Read the results of your completed DiSC® Platinum Rule® Assessment.

Create a 1,050-word communication style self-assessment based on the results of your DiSC® assessment and your own reflections. Include the following in your assessment:

• Identify the different communication styles.
• Compare the different communication styles. What are the strengths and weaknesses of each?
• Discuss how understanding your personal communication style, and the communication style of your team members, helps you to be more effective as a project manager.
• Determine your primary and secondary communication styles.
• Discuss the communication style that presents the biggest challenges for you.
• Discuss the information on your DiSC assessment that was most surprising to you.
• Identify one way in which you will adapt your communication style to be more productive.
• Describe a real-life scenario in which you might apply this adaptation and how you will incorporate it into the situation.

Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines.

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CPMGT 304 Week 2 Decision-Making and Conflict Resolution Plan

Working in teams is a part of everyday life in almost every business. Project teams, like other work teams, must function efficiently in order to be productive. When working on a project, it is important to have a process for decision-making and to handle conflicts among team members or clients. Conflict, when it arises, must be resolved so that the members can work together efficiently.

Discuss with the team members the decision making process and instances of conflict in your work teams either at your current place of employment or any previous work.

Create a 1,050-word Decision Making & Conflict Resolution Plan including the following:

• Determine key steps in the decision-making process.
• Discuss the importance of each step.
• Determine methods to assess the effectiveness of the decision-making process.
• Identify key steps in the conflict resolution process.
• The student discussed whether or not all conflict is bad and the reasons why this might be or why not.
• Explain why conflict resolution is important to project teams.
• Discuss how this can be used in your jobs or current roles.

Format consistent with APA guidelines.

Create a “Conflict Resolution Job Aid” for a project team in an appropriate format for the organization based on the action plan. This can be done using Microsoft® PowerPoint®, Microsoft® Publisher®, Word, or sites such as Glogster® and PiktoChart®.

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CPMGT 304 Week 2 Organizational Structure

Research your current place of employment or a local company for which you would like to work in order to determine the organization’s structure.

Create an 12- to 16-slide presentation including detailed speaker notes or voiceover in which you do the following:

• Determine the organizational structure of your selected business.
• Explain how the structure of the organization might affect its performance. What is the relationship?
• Discuss the other forms of organizational structure.
• Contrast the structure of your selected organization with the other forms. Is the structure of your selected organization the best one?

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CPMGT 304 Week 3 Enhancing Team Creativity

In addition to working efficiently, teams also need to approach problem solving with creativity. However, what one person considers creative, another might not. What do people who work in teams think about creativity?  How can you express this?

Conduct interviews regarding team creativity.  Each team member should identify 2 people to interview and then share the results with the team.

Compile the responses to all of the team members’ interviews.

Create a 700-word team blog using Google® Blogger, WordPress®, or other sites in which the team includes the following:

• Discuss how creativity is measured.
• Identify the four general conceptual domains into which new ideas can be classified.
• Discuss threats to team creativity.
• Recommend ways teams can enhance creativity.

Merge all interview documents and include a Cover Sheet with the URL for the Blog.

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CPMGT 304 Week 3 Decision-Making Technique Matrix

Complete the Decision-Making Technique Matrix.

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Decision-Making Technique Matrix

• Identify 4 techniques or processes for effective decision-making in project management.
• Describe the effectiveness or efficiency of each decision-making technique or process.
• Provide a rationale for the use of each technique or process.
• Provide a real world example.

CPMGT 304 Week 4 Project Team Design Plan

Getting the right group of people together for a project team is not easy. If you were putting together a team for a project at your current place of employment, or at a business with which you are familiar, what would you do?

Create a 1,400-word Project Team Design Plan in which you include the following:

• Identify key questions to address during project team design and development.
• Describe approaches used to acquire the project team and how this varies by organizational structure.
• Determine how each stage of team development affects the other stages.
• Explain how the tasks in each stage affect other tasks in the same stage.

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CPMGT 304 Week 5 Project Management Best Practices Guide

You are responsible for creating a guide for new teams that join your organization to help them get the right start. The team is compiling a Project Management Best Practices Guide to be given to all new project managers. You may refer to any materials and assignments created in previous weeks.

Create a “Project Management Best Practices Guide” in an appropriate format such as a 1,400-word Guide or other comparable format. The Guide should include sections on the following:

• Develop a section on the Decision-Making Processes.
• Develop a section on Conflict Resolution.
• Develop a section on Stress Management Techniques.
• Develop a section on Motivation.
• Develop a section on Adapting Project Management Styles.

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CPMGT 304 Week 5 Global and Virtual Team Presentation

Your organization is expanding globally and you will no longer have direct contact with members of your team. It is important to be able to communicate effectively so that the project can be executed effectively. The team is tasked with presenting their ideas for working effectively with global and virtual teams.

Create an 8- to 10-slide presentation regarding global and virtual teams. In the presentation include the following:

• Analyze the effects of globalization of project teams on project execution.
• Explain how the inputs, tools and techniques, and outputs associated with project execution differ when working with a global project team.
• Explain how you might adapt your project management style for virtual teams.
• Recommend methods teams can use to stay connected during project execution.

Format the assignment consistent with APA guidelines.

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