Recent orders
Project Proposal – Execution, Control, and Closure
Assignment 3: Project Proposal – Execution, Control, and Closure
Due Week 10 and worth 150 points
Note: This is the third of three assignments which, as a whole, will cover all aspects of the
project life cycle relevant to your selected project.
Now, it is time for you to discuss your project’s challenges (e.g., risks); performance
management plan (e.g., earned value management); and proposed plan for closing the
project when it is done.
Write a four to six page paper, in which you define the execution, control, and closure
aspects of your chosen project. In your paper you must:
1.Provide a brief summary of your chosen project.
2.Identify and discuss your project’s greatest challenges (at least three) and provide a
recommendation for addressing each of the challenges.
3.Examine how you manage your project performance via earned value management.
Identify at least three key EVM metrics you will use for your project.
4.Discuss your plan to properly close your project when it is over.
5.Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar
websites do not qualify as quality resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
•Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on
all sides.
•Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the
professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page
are not included in the required page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
•Develop a process for measuring the progress of a project, providing oversight,
coordinating project closure, and determining project effectiveness.
Leading with Power and Influence
Instructions
Focusing specifically on influence as a form of soft power that leaders can use to secure
the support and cooperation of followers, peers, and superiors within and beyond their
organisations. Leaders use different tactics to influence others, and to persuade them to
buy into a proposed course of action, agenda, or mission. These tactics or strategies
include the use of pressure, legitimisation, ingratiation, exchanges, coalitions, consultation,
rationality, upward appeals, or inspiration to win people over.
Psychologists and social scientists have shown an interest in these tactics, and have
constructed different models of influence, including Cialdini’s Six Principles of Persuasion
(reciprocity, scarcity, authority, consistency, consensus, and liking), and Conger’s four-step
model (establishing credibility, framing goals, reinforcing the position, and connecting
emotionally). The case study “Jessica Wooding: Leading with influence” highlights the
importance of delivering on promises and commitments, building strong vertical and lateral
relationships, defining a common purpose, and building and using scarce resources.
For this activity submission, you are encouraged to explore power and influence in your
own leadership and in your organisation. Reflect on a time that you saw influence in action,
or tried to influence somebody yourself. How was this achieved, and how does it relate to
the two models of influence and the case study outlined in this unit’s casebook? Answer
the four questions that follow.
“please use your own words , and assume real life scenarios”
Difficult Conversations
Required
Answer the following questions using real life examples as a leader, for the last question
“would you do differently in the future, now that you know more about influence and
influential dialogues?” use the attached resources as guidelines
Reflect on a time when you conducted a difficult conversation with somebody at work. Who
was this person, and why was the conversation necessary?
What did you do to prepare for the conversation, and how did you steer it towards the
desired outcome?
What was the outcome of the conversation? Did you resolve the problem? What did you
learn from this experience?
Importantly, based on your experience in that conversation, what would you do differently
in the future, now that you know more about influence and influential dialogues?